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Incat Tasmania selects Wärtsilä solutions for battery-electric lightweight Ro-Pax ferry

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The order with Wärtsilä was booked in July 2023. The vessel will operate between Argentina and Uruguay. The uniquely designed vessel will be fully battery powered, with e-motor driven Wärtsilä waterjets as the main propulsors. It will carry 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles.

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3-Year Cruise Passengers Seek Fraud Charges Over Cancellation

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By now, they were supposed to be well into the first leg of the three-year Life at Sea cruise , sailing from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia. Louis, who sold his house and car after his wife died and booked the cruise, hoping it would help him heal from his loss. “I

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Worldwatch Institute: global biofuel production fell in 2012 for first time since 2000

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billion liters (951 million gallons), while Argentina took second place with 2.8 Seventy-six states, provinces, or countries had such mandates on the books in 2012, up from 72 the previous year. The European Union (EU) as a whole produced 4.6 billion liters (1.2 billion gallons) of fuel ethanol in 2012.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. That’s why they have authorized over $7 billion bucks in energy efficiency and clean energy programs for the USA. million homes here in California.