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GM recycles water bottles to make part for Chevy Equinox, coat insulation for the homeless, air filters

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General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles.

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@MayorOfLA Is Ready! Garcetti Comes Out Gunning For Gas – Scattergood, Haynes & Harbor Power Plants To Stop Shoving Pollution Down Citizens Throats, Calls For Shutdown Of Aliso Canyon. #MerchantsOfDoubt In Fossil Fuel Industry Argue For More Climate Destruction

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City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. Chevron, one of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters , has been regularly fined for dumping toxic waste into the air we breathe.

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Start-up Working with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. to Micro-Produce Ethanol With Discarded Beer Yeast

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E-Fuel, the developer of a home ethanol system—the Efuel100 MicroFueler —and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its brewing process. On average, Sierra Nevada resells 1.6

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DOE awards $3.9M to 13 projects using high performance computing in manufacturing; Ford, LanzaTech

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7AC Technologies will partner with NREL to improve air conditioning technologies in a project titled “Modeling water vapor transport at liquid/membrane interfaces for applications in liquid desiccant air conditioners.”. Arconic, Inc.

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E-Fuel Introduces Production Model of Home Ethanol System

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The size and weight reduction is due to several design improvements to the core ethanol conversion column that is now capable of processing various organic waste material, as well as cellulosic and algae feedstocks. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co discards 1.6 One example is the “beer slurry” discarded from breweries.

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52% of GM facilities worldwide are landfill-free

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General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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A precise amount of ground biomass is fed into a moving tray; at the first heating and processing stage, the function is to drive off entrapped water, and to perform the first step of de-hydration of the biomass while mechanically compacting it for more effective heat transfer at later stages of processing. Depending on the temperature (300