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Why a Fiat 500e driver got a Honda Clarity Fuel Cell as his next green car: low cost

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When marketing executive Chris Baccus leased a 2015 Fiat 500e three years ago, he intended to keep his 2007 BMW 335i as a "fun car," and use the electric Fiat just for commuting. Part of his interest in the Fiat, he admitted, came from an article about a group of race-car enthusiasts who.

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Sandia team boosts hydrogen production activity by molybdenum disulfide four-fold; low-cost catalyst for solar-driven water splitting

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Jeffrey Brinker (2015) ā€œUnderstanding catalysis in a multiphasic two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenideā€ Nature Communications 6, Article number: 8311 doi: 10.1038/ncomms9311. Chou, Na Sai, Ping Lu, Eric N. Coker, Sheng Liu, Kateryna Artyushkova, Ting S. Luk, Bryan Kaehr & C.

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Li-ion sulfur polymer battery shows high energy density as well as safety

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—Agostini & Hassoun (2015). The resulting Li x Sn-C/GPS-Li 2 S 8 /S-C lithium-ion sulfur cell is characterized by a high safety level, due to the polymer configuration and the absence of lithium metal anode, and expected low cost. —Agostini & Hassoun (2015). 1 at an average voltage of 1.8?V,

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BioMara researchers identify two strains of marine algae with dry-weight oil content >50%

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The principal aim of this study was to identify a suite of model strains for large scale/low cost biotech purposes such as biodiesel, biogas and added-value nutraceutical feeds. The focus was on strains capable of good growth at seawater salinity, with somewhat low nitrate and phosphate levels and no CO 2 supplementation.

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NEC, NEC TOKIN and Tohoku University develop spin-Seebeck thermoelectric device w/ 10x better conversion efficiency

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NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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$10-Trillion Investment Needed To Avoid Massive Oil Price Spike Says OPEC

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The OPEC published its World Oil Outlook 2015 (WOO) in late December, which struck a much more pessimistic note on the state of oil markets than in the past. But as a result of the collapse in prices, the industry has slashed spending across the board and ā€œ investment decisions for only 8 billion barrels were made in 2015.

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How Automotive Dealerships Can Save Money with Battery Energy Storage

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A 2015 conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , which used the first generation Nissan Leaf, revealed that ā€œpower fade does not have a significant impact on an EV’s drivability performance, even with substantial levels of fade down to 30% remaining power capacity.