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Diamond Green Diesel to boost renewable diesel capacity to 1.2B gallons/year; $1.45B expansion project

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Next, these fats are processed into renewable diesel by: Hydrotreating: Using high pressure hydrogen to remove the oxygen (which is converted to water). Companies such as Darling Ingredients provide restaurants, grocers and other food service establishments with storage tanks or bins to store used fryer oil.

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Enterprise Holdings North American Rental Car Shuttle Bus Fleet to Use B5 or B20

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The company will immediately convert buses in nine markets to 20% biodiesel (B20) as a first step toward the company's goal of converting its entire bus fleet to B20 over the next five years.

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Flash Drive: 2022 Toyota Tundra

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I was even able to spin the tires with the hybrid during my test drives of the all-new 2022 Tundra at a Toyota media event in San Antonio. The Tundra hybrid has a regenerative braking system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy, and stores it in the battery. versus 583 lbl-ft., Smooth Performer.

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Flash Drive: 2023 Toyota Sequoia

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The Sequoia Hybrid has a regenerative braking system that converts kinetic energy into electric energy, and stores it in the 1.87 Built in San Antonio, Texas, at the same assembly plant as the all-new 2022 Tundra pickup, Toyota will be getting the third-generation Sequoia to dealers in late summer 2022.

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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This is another important milestone for the Texas Clean Energy Project, coming on the heels of last month’s power purchase announcement with CPS Energy in San Antonio. Ultimately, some 99% of the injected CO 2 can be permanently stored (i.e. The additional syngas produced will be converted to NH 3 using the Haber process.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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His passion for the field led him from New York City’s used electronics stores to elite university laboratories, through the intense early years of the microprocessor revolution and the tumult of the video game industry, and ultimately to his job today: high-tech private eye.

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