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Aeromexico flying commercial route with 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel

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Aeromexico is using a 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced from camelina using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, on flights on its Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams joined IBM in San Jose, Calif., He was an active member of the IEEE Magnetics Society and received its 2007 Johnson Storage Device Technology Award. He had earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. Mason Lamar Williams III. Codeveloper of the Williams-Comstock formula.

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) created the California Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. 505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. Electric vehicles components.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

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What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? edit ] EAA The Electric Auto Association ( EAA ) was formed in 1967 in San Jose, California. Our goal: Get car makers to build Bettah PHEVs than we can convert ourselves. Its all about the Fuel Source! Yet they are still far from adoption.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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San Jose, Calif., Hoff and his group developed a multiplexed approach to conversion in which a single converter is shared by the transmit and receive channels. Editor’s note: Hoff retired from Teklicon in 2007. The project was given the internal moniker “4004.” And I know that I was where the action was.”.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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First of all he’s already gone where I want to go by installing solar, back in 2007. Convert your Prius to a plug-in hybrid and rock the world. Felix Kramer, CalCars.org, at Plug In 2008 in San Jose / photo by Creative Greenius (c) 2008. ELECTRIC CARS ARE A CORE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE - NO PLUG? NO PURCHASE!

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Establishing dealer network.

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