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Based on Tamiya's little model of a walking giraffe, the Electric Giraffe is a 17 foot tall robotic giraffe that borrows this toy's walking mechanism. The giraffe uses a small 12 horsepower engine burning propane gas to charge system batteries...
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At the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, Calif., Lantronix, Inc. announced the winners of its annual Wireless Design Contest. The contest challenges engineers, students and hobbyists to develop a creative and practical wireless product using Lantronix's...
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The Visica 2 Treatment System is a premier product for the management and treatment of fibroadenomas. The Visica 2 ICE Probes deliver therapeutic freezing temperatures to targeted tissue to ablate or localize tissue. It is a minimally invasive procedure...
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Current research in the area of biofuels includes a major R&D program with Solix Biofuels and the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab to develop photobioreactors for the mass production of algae as a biodiesel feedstock. Designing and building a Photobioreactor...
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The vision of Solix Biofuels is to unlock the complex secrets of one of the simplest organisms on Earth, microalgae, to create a commercially viable biofuel that will play a vital role in solving climate change and petroleum scarcity, without competing...
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Colorado State's EECL is actively working with Envirofit International to design low cost, high performance cookstoves for the developing world. Indoor air pollution from cookstoves causes over 1.5 million premature deaths each year. Through support...
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The Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State University has a 15 year history in developing products which improve engine efficiency and reduce harmful emissions from engines as small as 1 hp to as large as 2500 hp. As the quest for...
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A major source of outdoor air pollution is carbureted two-stroke engines, which power 100 million "two-wheelers" (e.g. motorcycles, scooters) and "three-wheelers" (e.g. tricycles, "tuk-tuks") across Southeast Asia. Nathan...
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Envirofit is clearing the air and saving fuel in the Philippines by retrofitting dirty two-stroke engines with clean, fuel-efficient direct injection technology. (644 Views, 0 Comments)
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Dr. Bryan Willson, Director of Colorado State University's Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory, discusses their work with two co-located partners. Spirae's InteGrid laboratory ranks among the world’s most advanced centers for test and development...
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Research at the Energy and Engines Conversion Laboratory at Colorado State University focuses on Fuels, Energy Conversion, and Energy Distribution. Applications are concentrated in transportation, air quality, indoor air quality, village energy systems...
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Other biodegradable plastics utilize expensive, limited, food feedstocks and costly biological production processes. Novomer re-uses carbon dioxide as a major input in a low-cost, precision-quality, chemical process that produces a class of uniform polymers...
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The aliphatic polycarbonates created by Cornell chemist Geoffrey Coates are safe and strong enough to be used in medical implants and devices. They're also used as extremely effective binders for the creation of non-oxide ceramics, which are often...
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Polypropylene carbonate (PPC), is a polycarbonate plastic material, a copolymer of carbon dioxide and propylene oxide. In the ceramics industry, polypropylene carbonate and polyethylene carbonate are used as sacrificial binders, especially alumina and...
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Scientists at Novomer have unlocked catalytic pathways that transform simple, abundant feedstocks like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide into high-performance polymers and fine chemicals. (516 Views, 0 Comments)