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Urgent: Assemblymember Chris Holden Trying to Kill California’s 100% Renewable Climate Bill, #ChangeTheClimate, #SB100

Creative Greenius

SB 100 (De Leon) – California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. SB 100 accelerates the existing renewable energy targets to 60 percent RPS by 2030, and requires retail energy sellers to plan, model, and invest over the next 28 years to reach the 100% clean, zero carbon, and renewable energy target.

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ICCT study concludes no technical barriers to use of higher blends of ethanol

Green Car Congress

A team at the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has released a paper assessing technical barriers to the use of higher blends of ethanol. The others are: Petroleum and Renewable Fuels Supply Chain , Stillwater Associates LLC. Phase separation of water and ethanol from gasoline. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

Green Car Congress

With the high heat generated by the process, reforming hydrocarbon fuels—liquid or gaseous, fossil or renewable—to extract the necessary hydrogen can be accomplished within the fuel cell, eliminating the need for an external reformer. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

Green Car Congress

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks. Rentech, Inc. ,

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The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A. Meanwhile our long term drought, now its its third year with no end in sight, means less available water to fight the fires with.

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

Creative Greenius

In Manhattan Beach I’ve been watching the four committees of the ETF present their recommendations for the city council on water, waste, building and climate change. The EPN has been around since 2001 and to be honest, I should have gotten involved with them a long time ago. Geoff Dolan, City Manager of Manhattan Beach.

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GM: Let's Hash Out Open Plug-In Car Standards

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

As we’ve noted before , a lower-power version of it was published back in 2001, specifying charging hardware interface and coupler system. Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.] Artificial Moore’s Law for Cleantech: Renewable Standards, by Steps : [.]

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