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Juiced unveils new folding e-bike that may be the fastest and most powerful ever

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Juiced Bikes has never shied away from offering riders more speed and power. And with today’s unveiling of its new Juiced JetCurrent Pro, the brand is offering up more speed and power than ever in a brand new e-bike form factor. When I first got into e-bikes back in 2010 or so, Juiced was already rolling around as a leading brand.

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Energy-Efficient One-Pot Process for Conversion of Biomass to HMF

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A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences reports the production of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) from monosaccharide (fructose and glucose), polysaccharide (inulin) and the Jerusalem artichoke juice by a simple one-pot reaction including hydrolysis and dehydration using solid acid under mild conditions. —Yang et al.

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IH2 technology licensed to India-based SunLight Fuels; liquid hydrocarbon fuels from bagasse

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The plant will be designed with the potential to convert 500 tonnes/day of dry bagasse into approximately 150 tonnes/day of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuel. Bagasse is the fibrous residue remaining after the extraction of juice from the crushed stalks of sugarcane. CRI has been granted exclusive worldwide licensing rights.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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AC Propulsion cofounder Wally Rippel converted a Volkswagen microbus into an electric vehicle while he was still a student at Caltech. In the 1990s, batteries had far less capacity than they do today, and for the small community of EV users, the prospect of running out of juice and becoming stranded was very real.

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

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The plant was originally fueled by coal but was converted to natural gas in 2010. After the sugarcane has been crushed, the cane juice is filtered, treated with calcium hydroxide, decanted, and then sent to sugar production. Nameplate capacity is 50 million gallons per year of denatured ethanol.

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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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The inverter converts alternating current to direct current when charging the vehicle and back the other way when sending power into the grid. The inverter converts alternating current to direct current when charging the vehicle and back the other way when sending power into the grid. This is good for the grid.

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27 November 2009 - In First "Plug-in Arizona" Outing to Nogales, AZ, " the "Spirit" Made the News with Nogales International

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Nogales, Arizona Friday, November 27, 2009 Nogales International United States Census 2010 Electric hybrid ‘car of the future’ visits Nogales area By Denise HolleyPublished Friday, November 27, 2009 10:03 AM MST Retired Sgt. Now he’s on a new mission to convert America to plug-in cars. Army in Washington, D.C.,

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