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T&E finds city e-truck charging could cut road freight emissions by 22% in 10 years; requires €28B for charging infrastructure

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The EU could slash truck carbon pollution by more than a fifth (22%) in a decade by requiring its main cities to have electric truck charging infrastructure, according to a new study released by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). Electric trucks are clean, cheaper to run and available today.

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BMW H2 BS

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Terry Tamminen, Arnold's green guru, showed up at the Santa Monica AltCar Show in a BMW Hydrogen 7. But of course he's been hydrogen's biggest booster, despite its inefficiencies and impracticalities. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600.

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California Energy Commission Adopts $176M Green Transportation Plan

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Vehicles are the major contributor to global warming pollution. In its newly adopted Investment Plan, the Energy Commission proposes to expand the use of low carbon fuels and cleaner vehicles that are available today and open up the market for the more exotic technologies that are required in the future.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. The components can be combined to model a large variety of new or existing fuel blends.

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DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

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Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms. Algae cultures tend to be relatively dilute, and the energy requirement to remove water from the cultures can be a significant portion of the energy balance.

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IEA report calls for no investment in new fossil fuel supply and end to sales of ICE cars by 2035

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Most of the global reductions in CO 2 emissions between now and 2030 in the net zero pathway come from technologies readily available today. Progress in the areas of advanced batteries, electrolyzers for hydrogen, and direct air capture and storage can be particularly impactful. million a year.

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Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

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This will help eliminate the expensive hydrotreatment processes downstream in the petroleum refineries, and reduce combustion-related air pollutants, the researchers noted. These waste hemicellulose sugars are among the most inexpensive biomass feedstocks that are available today, they noted. hydrocycloaddition).

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