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This off-grid island will switch from diesel to tidal energy [video]

Baua Electric

Other planned tidal power projects planned by San Bernardino Ocean Power Corporation are in San Antonio Island, also in Northern Samar, and Calintaan Island in Matnog, Sorsogon. Plus, it’s free to use and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and share your phone number with them. Get started here. –ad*

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Scuderi Split-Cycle Engine Consortium targeting direct-injection diesel, natural gas development

Green Car Congress

The newly formed Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) Engine Consortium is having its first meeting at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas on 23 January. For that reason, we’ve always wanted to have the engine simulated and then installed in a large vehicle like a truck or a bus. —Stephen Scuderi.

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Proterra to provide three battery-electric transit buses to Worcester Regional Transit Authority as part of clean fuels grant

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The transit authority will use the grant money to replace three of its twelve old diesel buses with Proterra’s all-electric BE-35 35-foot transit buses. San Antonio, Texas; Tallahassee, Fla. Regional Transit Authority (WRTA) was recently awarded a $4.4-million Earlier post.). and Seneca, S.C.

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CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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CSIRO’s contributions will improve understanding of how sCO 2 power plants can enable lower and zero emission technology solutions, and how those plants might be used in remote mining and community locations as a low-cost alternative to diesel fuel power generation. Operational start-up is anticipated next year.

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SwRI opens new high-horsepower dynamometer facility to service marine, rail and petroleum industries

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All cells accommodate engines that use a variety of fuels, including natural gas, diesel and biodiesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), dimethyl ether (DME) or Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquid fuels. SwRI established a separate locomotive engine facility in 1990 in a San Antonio railyard to facilitate work on engines installed in locomotives.

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SwRI launches Particle Sensor Performance and Durability consortium

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched a cooperative research consortium—the Particle Sensor Performance and Durability (PSPD) consortium—to investigate the performance and durability of particle sensors designed for onboard diagnostics and diesel engine emissions control.

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CleanFUEL USA and Ferrellgas Working Together on Propane Refueling Network in US

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The companies expect to break ground on the first Dallas-Fort Worth station in the third quarter of 2010, which will be followed with projects in Austin, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Indianapolis, Lake Charles, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix, San Antonio and St. Tony Dale, Ferrellgas national director of engine fuels/Autogas.

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