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OptiFuel to repower Argentina’s 400 freight locomotive fleet from diesel-power to CNG and/or RNG

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We stepped back even further and asked: How can we affordably integrate new technology and required infrastructure into the world’s massive railroad networks in a way that is gradual, flexible, reliable, and affordable? This led us to OptiFuel’s modular, affordable designs. We didn’t look at one railroad or even one country.

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How Long Do Electric Car Batteries Last?

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There were no recharging stations, so batteries needed to be replaced much more often. None of these problems remain today, and most EVs are as powerful as petrol-fueled vehicles. These components are much less dense than Li-ion, have a shorter lifespan, and must be recharged more often. Moving Forward. Efficiency in Numbers.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. First Solar Inc.

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Opinion: Debunking the mythsWhy fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) are viable for the mass market

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This renewable production capacity is increasingly important to ensure the existing power grid can accept more renewable sources. Myth #2: Hydrogen gas is dangerous to store and use. Of course, this also has the merit of producing so-called “green hydrogen”.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. grid, transforming domestic energy production.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. system to pump, heat, store, and discharge the molten glass. power applications. Camelina will be engineered with. field trials.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Volvo Ford-owned company exploring PHEVs "ReCharge" flex-fuel series 60-mile concept PHEV w/wheel motors. DaimlerChrysler has presented plug-in hybrids in commercial vans that have enough room to store the batteries, but the technology is not quite ripe for cars."Plug-in Joint Venture with Saab and others to research PHEVs.

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