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Ascend Energy and Atrex Energy demo tubular SOFC electric ATV, fueled by natural gas

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The project was supported by a $146,283 Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) from the California Energy Commission. Atrex Energy has worked on research and development of a commercially viable power generator utilizing Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) since 2000. Ascend worked with Tructronics Inc., Atrex Energy. Tripled power density.

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Avantium Building YXY Pilot Plant for Furanics Biofuels and Materials

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Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. The Intel marketing department they estimated that sales [of microprocessors] might total only 2000 chips a year. You’re crazy.” But word went out.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The United States must reduce its global warming pollution emissions at least 80 percent below 2000 levels by 2050 to avoid some of the worst effects of global warming. a third-party vendor has successfully run auctions on behalf of federal or state agencies at low cost. The Stringency of the Cap.

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