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Hydrogen Trains, Upgrading A Water Heater, Cheap Solar — CleanTechnica Top 20

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Hydrogen trains in California, the various tech options on the market when upgrading your water heater, and the US […]. Another week has flown by and we’ve got another roundup of our top (most popular) stories of the week. This past week, the interest (and content) was all over the map, as it was last week.

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Cruise to Suspend All Driverless Operations After California Pulled the Plug

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Cruise was already in hot water with California authorities after a string of high-profile incidents, and now the company is suspending all operations to regroup and rebuild public trust. The company made an announcement on X, saying, “The most important thing for us right now is to take steps to rebuild public trust.

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Electrolyzer company Verdagy closes $25M funding round led by TDK Ventures

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Syndicate members represent leaders in a wide range of industries focused on the use of green hydrogen and renewable energy for deep decarbonization, and include (in alphabetical order) BHP Ventures, Doral Energy Tech Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Orbia Ventures, Shell Ventures, and Temasek.

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Pasha, Port of LA and California ARB partner on $26.6M Green Omni Terminal demo project; emerging zero and near-zero emission tech

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million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The project is part of the California Climate Investments, which use proceeds from the state’s cap-and-trade auctions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing a variety of additional benefits to California communities.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. To meet such targets, it’ll be necessary to build, and build fast.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

Cars That Think

As someone living in California, I immediately flashed on all the oil pumpjacks I pass on the drive from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, so he didn’t have to convince me that the infrastructure exists. There are 2.6 million idle wells, Gregory continued, “with an average depth 5000 feet.”

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Volkswagen Taos SUV to use new version of the turbocharged EA211 engine that powers Jetta

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liters and offers a number of high-tech features designed to improve fuel economy. A map-controlled cooling module that warms the engine more quickly than the existing EA211 for efficiency and can control water flow in different parts of the engine. Taos teaser image. This process has been localized in the North American Region.

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