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MAN propane-fueled ME-LGIP to power Chinese VLGC

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This innovative fuel booster, specially developed for the ME-LGI engine, ensures that a low-pressure fuel-gas supply system can be employed, significantly reducing first-time costs and increasing reliability. The ME-LGIP engines feature a low-pressure supply system and an injection pressure of 500-600 bar.

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Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

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We expected it would come from higher prices or a supply disruption—we’ve all been surprised.) How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. And oil only seems cheap. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change.

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Nissan and Enel to launch major V2G trial in the UK; LEAF and e-NV200

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The announcement follows the signing of a partnership agreement between Nissan and Enel in Paris in December 2015 during the 21 st UN Conference on Climate Change (COP21) to trial V2G technology in Europe. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016. —Steven Holliday.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change. There is nothing special here!”

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The dispute has contributed to a significant split among the primary bloc of developing countries, and has highlighted an increased focus on climate adaptation strategies, in addition to emissions reductions, during the talks. ºF) above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, Robust.AI , has written hundreds of articles and half a dozen books and was featured in the motion picture Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. CEOs of major auto companies were all saying by 2020 or 2021 or 2022, roughly. And it’s really cheap. Brooks: Lots of predictions.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term. The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . 2020) [11].