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Pozna? orders 25 Solaris hydrogen buses

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already owns 58 electric Solaris buses, which account for nearly 20% of its fleet. The hydrogen-powered Solaris buses will also feature a relatively small Solaris High Power traction battery, to support the fuel cell when the demand for electricity increases. The drive unit will be a central electric motor.

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ALBERO project seeks to enable safe transport for EVs and more on ro-ro ferries

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Electric vehicles are booming, with more than a million on German roads as of this year. These included numerous plug-in hybrids and purely electric-powered cars with built-in lithium-ion batteries, which complicated firefighting efforts. There were around 4,000 vehicles on board. This requires new safety procedures on board.

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Wärtsilä to provide FEED for liquefied synthetic methane plant

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The FEED will be booked by Wärtsilä in Q3, 2023. It will have a capacity of 200 MW and will convert green electricity into hydrogen and sustainable LSM. The plant is to be built by Koppö Energia Oy, a joint venture company between Germany’s Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund and CPC Finland Oy, in Kristinestad, Finland.

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More than half of transit buses in the US were powered by alternative fuels and advanced technologies in 2018

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Natural gas and diesel hybrid drivetrains have replaced the greatest share of diesel buses followed by biodiesel and “other” buses, which include hydrogen, electric, and propane. Source: American Public Transportation Association, 2019 Public Transportation Fact Book, Washington, DC, April 2019, Figure 14.

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Aker Solutions awarded subsea gas compression contract for Jansz-Io

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Aker Solutions has been awarded a major contract from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd to provide a subsea gas compression system for the Jansz-Io field, offshore Western Australia. The company has booked around NOK 7 billion (US$812 million) as order intake in the second quarter of 2021 related to this contract. Earlier post.)

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Former president of Shell Oil calls for aggressive action on alternative fuels to break oil monopoly on transportation

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Fuel Freedom is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to opening the fuel market to allow alternative fuels such as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity fairly to compete with gasoline at the pump. Since writing the book, economic growth has been “ stunted ”, and China’s growth reduced. It’s inevitable.

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Engineered E. coli could make carbohydrates, renewable fuel, from CO2

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Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. The bacteria grew under gas pressure and generated formic acid from the CO 2 , said Dr. Sargent. We wanted to try this in the lab.”.

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