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The 25 Best Restaurants in Austin Right Now

Baua Electric

The standout is the suadero, in which brisket is plucked from the pot, still dripping with juices, sliced into thick slabs and then loaded into fresh, two-bite tortillas with plenty of cilantro and onion. These tacos demand to be eaten immediately, messily and with the understanding that you’ll be ordering three more. Fair question.

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Amyris to Partner with Three Sugar and Ethanol Producers in Brazil for Manufacture of Renewable Chemicals and Fuels

Green Car Congress

Under the agreement with Guarani, a subsidiary of the French sugar group Tereos, the parties will investigate the feasibility of developing an optimal economical model using Amyris technology to produce cane-derived diesel fuel from molasses rather than from traditional sugar cane juice.

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

Green Car Congress

The LCFS requires oil producers, importers and other fuel providers gradually to reduce, on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, the carbon intensity (CI) of their transportation fuel mix (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) by from 0.25% in 2011 to 10% by 2020. Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ for the corn ethanol, down to 10.64

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011. So while my car is powering the great city during the day how will I have juice to drive home at the end of the day? Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans.

Grid 28
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Opinion: Stop Subsidizing Electric Vehicle Programs

The Truth About Cars

Your author would argue that the juice simply isn’t worth the squeeze. government has been funding the cause since 2011 and the current investments look like a colossal waste of money. Left-leaning Politico reported last month that the Congress and the Biden administration decided in 2021 to spend $7.5

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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