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California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

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This feedstock is rendered in Australia and shipped by ocean tanker an estimated 4,548 nautical miles to the Neste plant. After the sugarcane has been crushed, all of the cane juice is sent to sugar production. The plant produces approximately 250 million gallons of RD annually. Pantaleon Sugar Holdings (Bio-Etanol S.A) thermal and 26.2%

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally San Francisco City Carbon Collobarative 18th and 1. 2:54 PM Anonymous said.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

But it is a price that must be paid, and GM should be commended for remaining committed to the Volt. It will appear in Europe next year as the Opel Ampera and in Australia as the Holden Volt in 2012. Not really sure where all the money is going, but it seems like the Volt is already over-priced and under performing.

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