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EEA: increase in EU GHG emissions, mostly due to transport, hampers progress towards 2030 targets

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Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the European Union rose slightly in 2017, mostly because of the transport sector. Preliminary estimates published in the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) annual trends and projections assessments show a 0.6% emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. drop in emissions between 1990 and 2017.

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BuG ReMeDEE project seeks to use extremophile bacteria to convert methane to biofuels, biopolymers and electricity

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The project—Building Genome-to-Phenome Infrastructure for Regulating Methane in Deep and Extreme Environments ( BuG ReMeDEE )—was awarded a $6-million grant by the National Science Foundation in October 2017. The BuG ReMeDEE consortium includes industrial partners LanzaTech (US) and Bijson Innovations Pvt.

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California ARB awards $7M for ultra-low NOx heavy-duty diesel truck demo project with Achates opposed-piston engines

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In 2017, engineers from Achates presented a paper (2017-01-0638) at the SAE World Congress (WCX 17) describing the development of a 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) commercial heavy-duty opposed-piston engine without the use of a waste heat recovery system or turbocompounding. Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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Three-layer technique helps secure additive manufacturing

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The two institutions recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to further develop the process to be described at the symposium. Beyond detecting malicious activity or quality problems, the technique could stop inadvertent production problems, reducing materials waste.

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Canada invests $1.9M to support Nano One advanced battery production technology

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There is less handling, lower cost capital equipment, no waste solvents, 90-95% yield, many fewer failure points, higher safety and flexibility to run different material formulations in a controlled and sealed environment. These funds are non-dilutive and non-repayable and add to funds previously announced.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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With such a device, he thought, people could enjoy a long shower without wasting water. You’d waste more water than you saved. Oasense’s team has been granted several patents related to their device, the first filed by Schneider in 2016. But turning the water on and off manually didn’t make sense in our house,” Schneider said.

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UK Awards 24M to 6 Low Carbon Vehicle Projects

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The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment.