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Mayors of 12 major cities pledge to procure only zero-emission buses from 2025; major areas to be zero-emission by 2030

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Mayors from more than 30 major cities including Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona, Cape Town and Quito met over the weekend with senior executives of some of the world’s largest companies, including Mastercard, Siemens and Volvo Bus Corporation in order to define solutions to the threats posed by climate change.

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Jim Wangers, the Godfather of the GTO, useless at 96

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Truth was we were taking Pontiac performance off the race track, like the Corporation wanted, and putting it on the street,” with the GTO, “like the Corporation didn’t want,” wrote Wangers in his reserve Glory Days. With Tri-Energy and Tremendous Responsibility emblems, it appeared Pontiac’s funding in racing had all been for naught.

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UTRC and ANGP unveil first low-pressure conformable natural gas tank design

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David Parekh, corporate vice president, Research, and director, UTRC. It can store 30 percent more natural gas than an array of conventional gas cylinders in the same space envelope.

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ANGP commercializes 1st ANSI NGV2-certified on-board low pressure ANG technology storage system for LDVs

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The ANGP GEN 1 ANG system includes several industry firsts: ANSI NGV2 certification, conducted by tank manufacturer Worthington Industries, which allows for over-the-road use of the vehicle; Seamless monolith-filled cylinders, containing Ingevity Corporation’s Nuchar Fuelsorb activated carbon monoliths, developed and produced for ANGP.

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Study explores energy balance of Fischer-Tropsch diesel via autothermal reforming of pyrolysis oil from biomass residue; spreadsheet offered as tool

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Researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology, BASF Catalyst and Golden BioMass Fuels Corporation report on their investigation of an energy balance, in broad outline, for the production of a high-quality synthetic diesel from residual crop biomass via a Fischer-Tropsch route in a paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation plans to develop and test MIL-101(Cr)-based sorbents in the form of powders, in composite polymer/MOF fibers and on the surface of monoliths. The University of Akron in collaboration with Aspen Aerogels, Inc., DOE Funding: $799,981; Non-DOE Funding: $199,995; Total: $999,976.

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