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Volkswagen fueling car carriers with fuel derived from used cooking oil; GoodFuels BFO

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen Group Logistics will be using certified fuel from vegetable residues for certain new car shipments via marine routes. This way, we reuse waste oil in an environmentally compatible way. The two ships, which are both 180 meters long, are each powered by a MAN marine diesel with more than 19,000 PS (14,220 kW).

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

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Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts. In the effort to mitigate climate change, eliminating waste in power consumption is the low-hanging fruit, and these semiconductors are the way we’ll harvest it. Marine Corps. Radar : The U.S.

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