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Blue World Technologies starting production of methanol fuel cells

Green Car Congress

The high-temperature (HT) PEM technology operates at 160-180 °C and has a high resistance to impurities in reformat gas—making it suitable to combine with fuel reformers. The combination can be done without the implementation of expensive and cumbersome clean-up technologies which enables a simple and cost-effective system design.

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California state senate approves bills extending sole-occupant HOV perk for plug-ins and alt fuel vehicles to 2019

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Existing law exempts certain clean, alternative-fuel vehicles from these occupancy requirements, so that a vehicle with a sole occupant may use an HOV lane—if the vehicle displays a Clean Air Vehicle sticker. These stickers are valid until 1 January 2015. It also deletes obsolete and redundant provisions of existing law.

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How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint — And Why It’s Smart Business

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) analyzed greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. in 2019 and found that 23% came from industries, 29% from transportation, 25% from electricity, 13% from commercial and residential buildings, and just 10% from agricultural activities. Considering that 29% of greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S.

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