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Bridgestone awarded $35M USDA Climate-Smart Grant to advance guayule natural rubber production

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The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone and several partners a $35-million grant to continue its investment in desert shrub guayule ( earlier post ) to advance a climate-smart domestic rubber industry and offer a solution for growers amid the ongoing water crisis in the Southwestern US.

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Fortescue & Nikola Insane Green Hydrogen For Trucking Play In Waterless Arizona Desert

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continued] The post Fortescue & Nikola Insane Green Hydrogen For Trucking Play In Waterless Arizona Desert appeared first on CleanTechnica. Green hydrogen is absolutely essential for decarbonizing the massive global warming problem that is current hydrogen use. Our current 120.

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thyssenkrupp nucera to deliver electrolyzers for Air Products’ hydrogen facility in Arizona; 2nd joint project under strategic partnership

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Air Products has awarded thyssenkrupp nucera a contract for the supply of alkaline water electrolysis technology for a 10 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen in Casa Grande, Arizona. Under this contract, thyssenkrupp nucera will deliver two of their large-scale alkaline water electrolysis standard modules.

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Chevron taps retirees to oppose EV charging in Arizona

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Astroturf lobbying organizations have been a fixture of the EV opposition and anti-climate-action movement—indeed of American politics—for a long time. A new report in the Arizona Republic tells us that support for electric cars still hasn't moved us past that.

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Arizona State Students Develop a Solar-Powered Air Filtration System

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A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. When people are at home watching a documentary about how climate change affects the world, they often say, ‘Oh man, that sucks, but I can’t do anything about it.’

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Study finds Colorado River Basin’s worst known megadrought was 1,800 years ago

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The new study used tree-ring data and other climate records to identify a drought period unmatched in severity by the current drought or other ancient droughts. The new knowledge for how much worse droughts can be, even without anthropogenic climate forcing, points to a potentially grim outlook for water in the West.

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Volkswagen starts operation of $22M North American Battery Engineering Lab in Chattanooga

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Working on-site or remote via cloud access, a new team of 30 engineers will focus on various climatic, mechanical, electrical, and corrosion tests of battery cells and battery packs. They can replicate every climatic environment in the world and scale between extreme settings well beyond what a typical customer would put a vehicle through.

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