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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

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The waste heat given off during methanation is used as process energy in the adjacent biogas plant, significantly increasing overall efficiency. Ground was broken in September 2012, and the topping-out ceremony was celebrated in December. The efficient use of energy flows is the top priority in the production sequence of the plant.

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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Fuel cells, like stem cells in medical science, are a new technology in the automobile industry. According to the IEA, this way of creating green hydrogen would avoid the 830 million tonnes of CO2 released annually when the hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels. What exactly is an FCEV?

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Japanese carmakers still ‘most sustainable’

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A focus on tailpipe CO2 emissions has distracted away from the impact of car production, suggests Professor Frank Figge who co-authored the ‘Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing’ study. Asian carmakers are still outperforming their Euorpean and American counterparts in environmental sustainability, a new report finds.

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

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We should have built more Nuclear power plants and created a nuclear waste recycling program. Commendation, absolutely, but GM needs to make sure their company continues on to make sure that money doesnt just go to waste. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2. Never again.

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