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Following discussions with Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, US President Obama has altered his schedule and will attend the United Nations Convention on ...
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Cooler North American temperatures in 2008 resulted from a strong natural effect, and the overall warming trend that has been observed since 1970 is likely to resume, according to scientists at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and CIRES (Cooperative Institute for ...
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The US Department of Energy has selected three new projects with a total value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. DOE’s investment of up to $979 million, including funds from the American Recovery and ...
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Smith Electric Vehicles received an order from J Sainsbury Plc for 51 Edison Electric vans. In June, Sainsbury announced it would buy another 50 electric vans, but did not specify the vendor at the time. ( Earlier post .) Smith also won the fleet management contract, renewable annually, to ...
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Seambiotic , a developer and grower of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel industries using flue gas from electric power plants, has signed a license agreement and a joint venture agreement with Yantai Hairong Electricity Technology Ltd. and Penglai Weiyuan Science & ...
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate the construction and operation of pilot, demonstration, and commercial scale facilities. The projects selected are to ...
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Architectures of FeFe (left) and NiFe (right) hydrogenases in the reduced active state and schematic representation of the structure of the bio-inspired H 2 -evolving nickel catalyst grafted on a carbon nanotube (Middle). Source: Le Goff et al., Science . Click to enlarge.
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China domestic sales of SAIC-GM JVs and milestones. GM and SAIC JVs have sold more than 6.3 million vehicles inside China. They are growing their presence outside mainland China with the launch of an investment joint venture in Hong Kong and a new joint venture for the production ...
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Hyundai has updated its i30 range for 2010, and is making its Intelligent Stop & Go technology (ISG) ( earlier post ) available as an option on all i30 models with manual transmission, giving improvements in fuel economy of up to 10 percent on the hatchback and 14 percent on the Estate. ...
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The world’s leading heavy-duty vehicle and engine manufacturing companies are urging the close cooperation between policy makers in Europe, the United States and Japan to develop practical and effective fuel-efficiency measurement metrics, methodologies and regulations which would then be ...
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Greenhouse gas emissions in the US economy, 2008. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. Total US greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2% below the 2007 total, according to the just-released report by the US Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United ...
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Global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has analyzed carbon emissions from 2000 to 2008 and concluded that the world’s “carbon emissions budget”, or ability to emit carbon dioxide while still maintaining a “fair chance” of limiting average global ...
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MIT researchers are proposing a novel electricity generation process using natural gas and solid oxide fuel cells at high electrical efficiency (74%HHV) with zero atmospheric emissions. A paper on their work is in press in the Journal of Power Sources .
The system suggested by ...
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Omnitek Engineering Corporation has been granted a license from the government of Peru to perform diesel-to-natural-gas conversions in the country. The conversions will be performed under a Productores de Equipos Completos, PEC, (Complete Equipment Producers) license.
In March the ...
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Mobility Choice, a new project of the Institute for Analysis of Global Security (IAGS), released its 10-point Blueprint for Mobility Choice outlining a market-oriented approach to expanding competition among transportation modes for the purpose of reducing oil’s strategic value.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency will award a $739,500 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant to Foss Maritime Company, Environmental Solutions Worldwide (ESW) and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA), which are partnering to test a pollution-reducing device on two Foss tugs, ...
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The ECOresearch Network at MODUL University Vienna has released the latest edition of its interactive “ Media Watch on Climate Change ” to aggregate, track and visualize environmental Web coverage from news media sites, blogs, environmental organizations and the Fortune 1000 ...
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PHEV/EV Models 2010-2012 by Battery Chemistry. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge.
According to a new report from Pike Research, a rapidly growing global market for electrified vehicles—particularly plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles—will create a Li-ion ...
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Jakarta Globe . Sasol and the Indonesian government have signed a preliminary agreement to study the viability of developing a coal-to-liquids facility project in Indonesia, with estimated project cost of more than $10 billion. If the project goes forward, Sasol said it may produce ...
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Amyris Biotechnologies, Inc. intends to acquire a 40% stake in the Boa Vista mill, an ethanol-producing mill owned and operated by the São Martinho Group, one of the largest and most efficient sugar and ethanol producers in Brazil. The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce ...
