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UF/IFAS researchers develop new sorghum cultivars that could produce up 10.5 kL ethanol per hectare

Green Car Congress

There, they processed the crop and collected the sugar-rich juice from the stems, which could be directly fermented to fuel ethanol. Results show a sugar concentration in the juice ranging from 140 to 170g/L, which were almost completely converted into ethanol by yeast. EtOH/L at enzyme concentrations of 11.5FPU/gDW. Sagues, Marco T.

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Scientists engineer sugarcane to produce lipids for biodiesel, more sugar for ethanol; ARPA-E project PETROSS

Green Car Congress

Using a juicer, the researchers extracted about 90% of the sugar and 60% of the oil from the plant; the juice was fermented to produce ethanol and later treated with organic solvents to recover the oil. The paper analyzes the project’s first genetically modified sugarcane varieties. Haibo Huang, Robert A. Moreau, Michael J. 2017.03.003.

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Maserati launches new tri-motor GranCabrio Folgore convertible that goes 0-100 km/h in 2.8 sec

Baua Electric

Maserati GranCabrio Folgore specs and delivery date Like its GranTurismo sibling, the GranCabrio sits atop Maserati’s proprietary 800V Atlantis architecture, which was built using a blank slate approach started in 2017. seconds but loses some juice down the straightaway, going 0-200 km/h in 9.1 It houses a 92.5

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Raejean & Tessie’s photographic EV road trip

Electric Auto Association

Tessie” is what I call my Tesla Model S 90-D, and since her birth in 2017, she has been a faithful companion. The juice there was so sweet and quick. Tessie hopes that our trip will help EV drivers understand that they need not worry about finding charging juice no matter how far away from home they travel. Thank you, Elon!

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Gin and Jellyfish? You Might Be at a Bar in Singapore.

Baua Electric

In those strait-laced colonial days, it was improper for women to imbibe in public, so a bartender formulated a cocktail that looked like fruit juice. In the cocktail world, Singapore almost inevitably evokes the pink, gin-based, grenadine-spiked Singapore Sling , a drink born in 1915 at the stylish Long Bar at the Raffles Hotel.

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How One Bad Manny Can P**s Away Your Brand

Creative Greenius

It worked fine for six years, first in charging the electric Rav4 and then starting in 2017 our two new electric Chevy Bolts. He tested our breakers and NEMA outlet and all were working and providing juice. Then at the end of September it went dead and couldn’t be turned back on.

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It’s 2010 – Are YOU Ready for The Greenius Decade?

Creative Greenius

By 2020 Torrance, having closed down the ExxonMobil refinery in 2017 will proudly declare it has reached carbon neutral status. We need more juice than that to get things done in the Greenius Decade and I know precisely where to get it. Money talks and money motivates.

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