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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We went to the SCAQMD hearing out in Diamond Bar last Friday, February 6, 2015, to testify on the big, new storage tanks Phillips 66 wants to build in Wilmington at its refinery so they can receive more of the super explosive, super dirty crude from the Bakkens.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Honda has released more than 200 channels of Honda Smart Home US (HSH US ) ( earlier post ) energy and water consumption data—down to a one-minute resolution—covering the six-month period April-September 2015. The home is also designed to be three times more water-efficient than a typical US home.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

FEV is developing a water injection system for internal combustion engines using condensate from exhaust gases, the “Extended Direct Condensate Injection” system. If water injection is used in addition to homogeneous lean combustion, an efficiency gain of 4.5% in the region of the minimum specific fuel consumption is achieved.

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MARCH 22, 2013

Ford has reduced the average amount of water used to make each of its vehicles by 8.5% between 2011 and 2012—putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of 4 cubic meters per vehicle globally by 2015. billion gallons, or about 62%. billion gallons, or about 62%.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Bosch is now more broadly commercializing its water injection system for turbocharged engines ( earlier post ). Bosch currently supplies water injection parts for the BMW M4 GTS—the first production vehicle to feature a water injection system. Water injection can also boost power by up to 5%, Bosch says.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

In addition to the kinetic colliding jet injectors, Nostrum will showcase a direct in-cylinder water injector and intake track water injector, plus its dilute combustion system, the “Nostrum Cycle”, at Engine Expo – Novi 2015. LTG and LHU model codes), high-flow, K-DI fuel injector at the SEMA Show 2015. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 20, 2014

Benthic, a global geosciences company, broke its own water depth record using the Portable Remotely Operated Drill unit 3 (PROD3) seabed drill. PROD is a fully self-contained, remotely operated seabed drilling and geotechnical testing system, capable of operating in water depths to 3000m and investigating subsea bed depths in excess of 130m.

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JUNE 14, 2022

The first discovery was made by Equinor in 2013, followed by additional discoveries in 2015, 2016 and 2020. The Bay du Nord discovery is at a water depth of approximately 1170 meters whilst the new discoveries are at approx. 650 water depth. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Advanced Gasoline Engine Development Team at Hyundai Motor Company report on the effects of water direct injection on a gasoline engine under high-load conditions in a paper in the International Journal of Engine Research. The test engine was a 1.6-L

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Auger was Shell’s first deep-water tension-leg platform. —Marvin Odum.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

In its first smart gas meter contract in China, Saft will supply around 500,000 Li-SOCl 2 cells over the next four years to one of the country’s top five smart gas meter OEMs and around 500,000 Li-SOCl 2 cells to the leading water meter OEM in China over the next six months. The water meters will be fitted with AA-size Li-SOCl 2 cells.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

With an estimated peak production of 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, Vito is the company’s first deep-water platform in the GoM to employ a simplified, cost-efficient host design. Vito is Shell’s 13 th deep-water host in the Gulf of Mexico. The Vito development is owned by Shell Offshore Inc.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. In addition to the 2015 Honda Fit, the plant will begin production late this year of an all-new compact SUV. million units.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Water usage per engine will be among the lowest at any Ford manufacturing facility worldwide, delivering an anticipated annual saving of 17.5

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AUGUST 12, 2016

This water-in-salt electrolyte lithium battery recently achieved an energy density of 200 Wh/kg, said Dr. Chunsheng Wang at UMD, adding that the DOE had sought 150 Wh/kg, or double that of a traditional aqueous Li-ion battery. “ Earlier post.) The UMD-ARL team won the Invention of Year of UMD in 2016 for the technology. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 20, 2021

Due to the increased water inflow to the drainage systems of the mine and in accordance with safety procedures and applicable law, the company partially suspended operations at the mine. Axonometric diagram of the Taimyrsky mine in 2015. From Bylkov and Leonov (2015). Mt of nickel and 2.4 Mt copper from Oktyabrsky. 2015.04.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Toyota Motor continues to lay the foundation for the introduction of its production fuel cell hybrid vehicle in 2015; the company began work on fuel cell technology in 1992. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 24, 2015

The US Department of Energy announced 94 2015 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase 2 Release 1 Awards , including three Office of Science projects focusing on hydrogen production from electrolysis and hydrogen systems supporting fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Giner, Inc.

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Hualong One is CNNC’s Generation III pressurized water reactor with complete independent intellectual property rights, developed and designed by the corporation on the basis of more than 30 years of nuclear power research, design, manufacturing, construction and operation experiences. in-containment refuelling water storage tank.

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MARCH 17, 2015

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (Australia) have developed a highly efficient electrode for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water-splitting that has the potential to be scaled up for industrial production of hydrogen. water electrolysis at large current. water electrolysis at large current.

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Dr. Jochem Heizmann, said that it was planned to offer vehicles with an electrified powertrain from 2014/2015. A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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MARCH 27, 2022

Launched in 2015, ResponsibleSteel sets global standards for sustainability performance and promotes the certification of steel chain companies through a network of independent certification bodies. Water Stewardship. ArcelorMittal Tubarão. Labor Rights. Human Rights. Local Communities. Stakeholder Engagement and Communication.

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MAY 6, 2014

FCA also plans to consolidate its small gasoline engine lineup with a new family to be launched in 2015. FCA will start the global roll out of a new small gasoline engine family in 2015 which incorporates these new and emerging technologies. Variable flow water pump and electric auxiliary water pump. MultiAir valvetrain.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Researchers at Rice have demonstrated an efficient new way to use solar energy for water splitting. a) Plasmonic photocathode for solar water splitting, consisting of plasmonic nanoparticles in direct contact with water, p-NiO x as an electron blocking layer, and aluminum as the electrode material. (b) Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

A common practice to suppress hydrogen evolution in aqueous electrochemistry is to adjust the alkalinity, so that the water reduction potential shifts downward to allow the use of anode materials otherwise prohibited under neutral or acidic conditions. What’s most important about our work is the breakthrough made at the fundamental level.

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015—16% of all deaths worldwide—three times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined and 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

miles (6 kilometers) east of Turbot-1 and was drilled in 5,928 feet (1,807 meters) of water by the Noble Tom Madden. ExxonMobil and its key contractors have spent more than $480 million with more than 800 Guyanese vendors since 2015. It is located approximately 3.7 Earlier Stabroek block discoveries. Source: ExxonMobil.

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JANUARY 9, 2016

of the energy consumed for the reported water electrolysis. Wei Liu, Yong Cui, Xu Du, Zhe Zhang, Zisheng Chaob and Yulin Deng (2015) “High efficiency hydrogen evolution from native biomass electrolysis” Energy Environ. The electric energy consumption can be as low as 0.69 kWh per normal cubic meter of H 2 (Nm −3 H 2 ) at 0.2

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Daimler and The Linde Group are partnering with oil and gas companies TOTAL, OMV, Avia and Hoyer this year to build 20 new hydrogen fueling stations in Germany, with 13 to be completed by the end of 2015. Daimler and Linde are each investing around €10 million for ten fueling stations each. Earlier post.). ( Earlier post.)

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MARCH 18, 2014

liter EA288 diesel engine will power the 2015 Golf, Beetle, Beetle Convertible, Passat, and Jetta, all of which are set to arrive in dealer showrooms in the second half of 2014. With the small circuit, the water warms up very quickly. Unlike many air coolers, this is not cooled by ambient air, but by water. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. The treatment of GTL-derived effluents is complex and challenging.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) and Gong, H. Sileghem, L., Wallner, T., and Verhelst, S. Sileghem, L., Wallner, T.,

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JULY 18, 2015

Findings by MIT researchers could help advance the commercialization of supercritical water technology for the desulfurization and upgrading of high-sulfur crude oil into high-value, cleaner fuels such as gasoline without using hydrogen—a major change in refining technology that would reduce costs, energy use, and CO 2 emissions.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The well was drilled in 6,030 feet (1,838 meters) of water and is located approximately 11 miles (18 kilometers) northwest of the Liza field. The well was drilled in 4,793 feet (1,461 meters) of water and is located approximately 42 miles (68 kilometers) southeast of the Liza field. The Stabroek block is 6.6

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