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Traveling Finnish sauna touring US to use Neste renewable diesel on the West Coast

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Throughout 2017, a fully-functional Finnish sauna on wheels will travel 12,000 miles across the US. Neste’s low-carbon drop-in renewable diesel called Neste MY Renewable Diesel will be used to fuel the truck carrying the sauna while traveling along the UUS West Coast. Neste invites all to visit the sauna at the tour stops.

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United becomes first airline to fly with Split Scimitar Winglets; up to 2% reduction in fuel consumption

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United flight 1273 on Tuesday took off from the airline’s Houston hub and flew to Los Angeles. The savings from the Split Scimitar Winglets will contribute to United’s overall fuel-savings initiative to reduce its fuel costs by $1 billion by 2017.

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DOE awarding $19.4M to 22 advanced vehicle technologies projects; Mercedes-Benz, GM Li-S battery projects

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Two projects will research, develop, and use integrated computation materials engineering (ICME) techniques to develop low cost carbon fiber from a variety of feedstocks and precursors that can be used to make carbon fiber with less energy and lower cost. University of Houston. ICME Low Cost Carbon Fiber (Area of Interest 2).

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UK, Iran team develops new materials to improve enhanced oil recovery

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Welch Professor of Chemistry and a professor of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice University (Houston USA), and the Sêr Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment at Swansea. Barron is the Charles W. This research was carried out with support from the Robert A. Goshtasp Cheraghian, Sajad Kiani, Nashaat N. 7b01675.

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Electrify America releases $300M Cycle 2 national ZEV investment plan; metro charging, autonomous charging, renewable generation

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These metro areas are expected to account for more than 50% of expected battery electric vehicles (BEVs) in operation outside California through 2022 (Navigant, 2017). Bridgeport (CT) for the New York City market. Metro DCFC stations will be placed in retail locations and are intended to serve EV drivers in their daily fueling needs.

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G2X Energy and EMRE sign methanol to gasoline technology license and license option agreements; plans for $1.3B natural gas to gasoline plant

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The shape-selective catalyst limits hydrocarbon synthesis to 10 carbons—i.e., The shape-selective catalyst limits the synthesis reactions to 10 carbons—the result is sulfur free gasoline with a typical 92 Research Octane Number. gasoline range. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge.

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UH team develops new, highly efficient and durable OER catalyst for water splitting

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Researchers at the University of Houston have developed a catalyst—composed of easily available, low-cost materials and operating far more efficiently than previous catalyst—that can split water into hydrogen and oxygen. —Zhou et al. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701562114. 1701562114.

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