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MultiSchIBZ consortium developing SOFC APU for marine use

Green Car Congress

A consortium led by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems GmbH is developing a solid-oxide fuel cell system as an alternative power generation on ships. A fuel gas generator converts the fossil fuel into a hydrogen-rich gas for operating the fuel cells. Creation and alignment of legal bases for the application of technology in ships.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Lucid Air Touring AWD

Clean Fleet Report

Charging is also through motor regeneration that when coasting or braking converts kinetic energy into electric energy and returns it to the battery. Acceleration is beyond what can be safely and legally used on the local roads and freeway we traversed, but the precision of the handling was also evident. Lucid says one is coming soon.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. We Promote PHEV Conversion Programs: First CalCars in 2004, then a number of aftermarket companies, have converted over 200 cars — at first most were for fleets, but more and more are going to individual owners.

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New Study Finds Flaw in Carbon Accounting for Bioenergy, Another Contends That Indirect Land Use Change Emissions for Biofuels Will Be Up To Twice Direct Land Use Change Emissions

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Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

That morning, a Maine Marine Patrol officer, Nathan Stillwell, set off in search of the missing vessel. We hear who you are The methods of automated speech recognition, which converts speech into text, can be adapted to perform the more sophisticated task of speaker recognition, which some practitioners refer to as voiceprinting.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

Cars That Think

Steven Cherry: There's a process in legal cases, especially lawsuits, that involves an incredibly tedious process of finding and extracting information from sometimes enormous masses of data that by law, the other side has to provide. So yes, these are very much real-world use cases. And that's also an area that's near and dear to my heart.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I said I would consider it, but that I was really hoping to establish a precedent, legally speaking, beyond Torrance. I’ve heard from a wide variety of people – people who don’t have solar “Oh the marine layer and the May/June Gloom…”. I want it to be all of California. And this is boring. I want it to go away.

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