The Unused Energy All Around Us: How Rejected Energy Can Help Us Go Green

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:30:39 +0000

DALL·E 2023-01-06 A house that recovers heat from flushed water image by AI tool DALL-eChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.

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Cute Hyundai Autonomous Robots Now Doing Last-Mile Deliveries

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:30:17 +0000

Robots come in all shapes and sizes, and we are getting a greater variety of autonomous vehicles year after year — or even month after month — as well. They are slipping into more and more locations, and rather than taking over cities in a big explosive way, are performing more services incrementally. I recently […]

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Johns Hopkins: 1st Global Estimates for Road Transportation GHG Leveraging AI & Satellite Images

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 11:10:19 +0000

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the transportation sector accounts for approximately 27% of all greenhouse gas emissions annually in the United States, and emissions from road transportation — driven by carbon-creating internal combustion vehicles — account for a large majority of that. For years, researchers have tried to measure these emissions more closely, but […]

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Deep Learning Underlies Geographic Dataset Used in Hurricane Response

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 04:43:27 +0000

As Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Puerto Rico on Sept. 18, 2022, some areas of the island were inundated with nearly 30 inches of rain, and power to hundreds of thousands of homes was knocked out. Only 10 days later, Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 storm and one of the […]

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Soaking Up The Sun With Artificial Intelligence

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 02:53:59 +0000

The sun continuously transmits trillions of watts of energy to the Earth. It will be doing so for billions more years. Yet, we have only just begun tapping into that abundant, renewable source of energy at affordable cost. Solar absorbers are a material used to convert this energy into heat or electricity. Maria Chan, a […]

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Predicting Battery Lifetimes With Machine Learning

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 09 May 2022 11:00:59 +0000

Technique could reduce costs of battery development. Article courtesy of Argonne National Laboratory. By Jared Sagoff Imagine a psychic telling your parents, on the day you were born, how long you would live. A similar experience is possible for battery chemists who are using new computational models to calculate battery lifetimes based on as little as […]

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Successful Startup Buzz Solutions Automates Assessment Of Power Industry Drone Inspections

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 11:00:25 +0000

Drone inspecting transmission lineBuzz Solutions is a successful cleantech startup that automates analysis of drone inspection images for the power industry on its platform-as-a-service.

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Buzz Solutions Takes Out 50% Of Grid Inspection Image Effort & Duration

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:00:24 +0000

Drone inspects transmission towerThe data volumes are staggering, the need to inspect them is increasing significantly, and there aren’t enough people to do the work. Enter Buzz Solutions. They save 50% of image assessment time today, and are trending to 80% of effort savings.

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