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T&E finds city e-truck charging could cut road freight emissions by 22% in 10 years; requires €28B for charging infrastructure

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The EU could slash truck carbon pollution by more than a fifth (22%) in a decade by requiring its main cities to have electric truck charging infrastructure, according to a new study released by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E). These trips could be covered today by electric trucks, ?thanks

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Ford and Baidu invest $150M in Velodyne LiDAR

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Baidu is developing autonomous vehicles with the intention to increase passenger safety and reduce traffic congestion and pollution in China. —Jing Wang, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Autonomous Driving Unit of Baidu.

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Reaction Design introduces model fuel library resulting from work of Model Fuels Consortium

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Fuel properties affect a number of combustion and engine properties, including ignition delay; knocking tendency; flame speeds; pollutant emissions; sooting tendency and particle size distributions; and density, viscosity and heating value. We’re already working to spread it across the HPC environment. —Bernie Sanders.

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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Electric Cars

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No Air Pollution: This ride is an eco-friendly one as it runs on an electrically powered engine as opposed to an internal combustion engine. Its engine does not emit any harmful byproducts like smoke or other emissions that pollute the environment as it runs on clean energy. Pretty futuristic, huh! But that''s the beauty of it.

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DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

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Additionally, few of current harvesting and dewatering technologies available today are amenable to scaling for larger production scenarios of 1,000 acre or larger algal farms. However, they must accommodate high ripple currents, in a high temperature environment. saline water). Office of Nuclear Energy.

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Researchers develop four-step catalytic process to produce petroleum refinery feedstocks from biomass sugars

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This will help eliminate the expensive hydrotreatment processes downstream in the petroleum refineries, and reduce combustion-related air pollutants, the researchers noted. These waste hemicellulose sugars are among the most inexpensive biomass feedstocks that are available today, they noted. Energy Environ.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.