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Junkyard Find: 2007 Mini Cooper S

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That means I refuse to play the marketers' clever games with the Nissan LEAF, smart fortwo, Volkswagen up! The MSRP for the regular 2007 Mini Cooper was $18,050, while the hot-rod Cooper S version listed at $21,850 (those prices come to $27,673 and $33,498 in 2024 dollars). New for 2007 was this 1.6-liter department. department.

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Next Hydrogen, Black & Veatch sign MoU to develop large-scale integrated green hydrogen solutions

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Next Hydrogen will combine its technology and electrolysis expertise with Black & Veatch’s market leadership in large-scale industrial engineering solutions to target broad applications worldwide for industrial and transportation customers. Founded in 2007, Next Hydrogen is a designer and manufacturer of electrolyzers.

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LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

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In a 2007 paper presented at the XI International Conference on Innovations in the Ferro Alloy Industry (Infacon XI), a team from the US EPA, the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT), and SINTEF Materials and Chemistry (Lindstad et al. Any CO emitted to the atmosphere is assumed to be converted to CO 2 within days afterwards.

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SK invests in Fulcrum BioEnergy to accelerate production of low-carbon fuel from waste

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Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. aims to make an inroad into the Korean bioenergy market with SK Ecoplant, another SK group company, as a potential partner. was joined in the investment with a Korean private equity fund.

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Emerging Fuels Technology introduces Maxx Jet and Maxx Diesel synthetic fuels

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The process is ideally configured to pair with EFT’s Fischer-Tropsch technology to provide a scalable, sustainable path for converting Fischer Tropsch syncrude into very high yields of high-quality jet fuel and diesel fuel products. Maxx Jet technology was recently used to make jet fuel from CO 2 for the Air Force in partnership with Twelve.

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Study: Bio-Based Plastics Could Ultimately Replace Up to 90% of Total Global Consumption of Plastics in 2007

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Replacement of up to 90% (270 Mt) of the total global consumption of plastics in 2007 with bio-based plastics is ultimately technically possible, according to new study by authors at Utrecht University, commissioned by the associations European Bioplastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE). Mt in 2007 to 2.33

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Toyota continues prepare the market for fuel cell vehicle in 2015

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From March 2006 he was engaged in Plug-in Hybrid vehicle planning and development, and, in 2007, became planning and development leader for the Prius Plug-in project. For a full-scale market launch in 2015, the cost of the fuel cell system will be 95% lower than that of the 2008 Toyota FCHV-adv, Tanaka said. (A

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