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German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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million) STORE&GO research project. Construction on the methanation plant began in July 2017. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power. The wind-to-gas pilot plant “WindGas Falkenhagen” was constructed in 2013 to store wind energy in the natural gas grid.

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Seven-Eleven Japan, Toyota launching next-gen convenience store project in 2019; fuel cell trucks and generators

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Seven-Eleven and Toyota entered into a basic agreement in August 2017 regarding considerations toward energy conservation and carbon dioxide emission reduction in store distribution and operation. The Seven & i Group is currently addressing five key issues, one of them being non-wasteful usage of products, ingredients and energy.

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UC Riverside team fabricates nanosilicon anodes for Li-ion batteries from waste glass bottles

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. An open access paper describing the research was published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

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IndianOil and LanzaTech to construct first refinery Offgas-to-Bioethanol production facility

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LanzaTech’s first commercial facility converting waste emissions from steel production to ethanol will come online in China in late 2017. LanzaTech has developed a gas fermentation process based on biological catalysts to make fuels and chemicals from a range of waste gases instead of sugars and yeast.

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New light-driven photo-electrochemical cell produces hydrogen from contaminated gas, including air

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The device recovers part of the energy stored in airborne organic pollutants by the production of hydrogen, while mineralizing the contaminants to less harmful CO 2. This hydrogen gas can be stored and used later as fuel, as is already being done in some hydrogen buses, for example. Verbruggen et al. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Toyota and partners launch low-carbon hydrogen supply-chain project in Japan

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The Association was established in October 2017 to promote the commercialization of a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain and to bridge entities including industry, academia, and government throughout the prefecture in order to achieve this. Background. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society.

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Toyota, Kenworth, POLA and CARB unveil next-gen heavy-duty fuel-cell truck; ZANZEFF

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The ZANZEFF collaboration and the innovative ‘Shore-to Store’ project allow us to move Heavy-Duty Truck Fuel Cell Electric technology towards commercialization. —Bob Carter, Executive Vice President for Automotive Operations Toyota. particularly in disadvantaged communities. weighted tons of nox, ROG and PM 10.

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