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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. Power steering is electric and as a result we don’t need to check the power steering oil level as there isn’t any.

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Univ of Washington team working to make poplar coppice viable cheap, high-volume biofuel feedstock

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The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. That’s the problem.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. Fletcher, S., Hill and Wang.

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Mad Power thoughts

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The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. And in any case, an inflexible approach to regulation has caused the cost of new nuclear to balloon – despite it being perhaps the most obvious solution to our long-term energy needs. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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Fast-forward to 2017. Washington state has an abundance of power very cheap from all the hydro. Another snake oil sales group is the battery guys. Charged : For a fleet going electric using your service, are they looking at a cost per mile that’s equivalent to diesel, or does it depend? Smith Electric didn’t succeed.

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Assessment of US CAFE fuel economy standards finds big savings on fuel and emissions since inception

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In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money. since 1975.