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Delek sells AltAir renewable diesel/jet business to World Energy for $72M

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Delek US Holdings has sold AltAir Paramount, LLC and Delek’s Paramount, California refining and pipeline assets to an affiliate of Boston-based World Energy, LLC, a major biodiesel producer. In 2016, United agreed to purchase up to 15 million gallons of sustainable biofuel from AltAir Paramount over a three-year period. Earlier post.).

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Lightning Hybrids secures order for 35 hydraulic hybrid systems from Kiessling Transit

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Hydraulic pumps and a lightweight accumulator store braking energy and use the stored energy to power the wheels. Kiessling Transit purchased a pilot vehicle equipped with the hybrid system through Lightning Hybrids’ Boston-based dealer, National Fleet Hybrids, in 2013.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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I teach technology and information systems courses at Northeastern University in Boston. After the purchase of a new IBM computer, a customer had to rewrite all their existing code. After the purchase of a new IBM computer, a customer had to rewrite all their existing code. Consider the example of a retail store.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Early utility companies like Boston Edison and New York Edison organized EV fleets, favoring electric trucks for their comparatively capacious batteries. Grid-stabilization functions were reborn as “ancillary services.”

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BCG Report Expects Battery Costs Will Constrain Widespread Market Adoption of Fully Electric Vehicles, Absent a Technology Breakthrough; Forecasts 26% of Major Market New Cars in 2020 To be Hybrid or Electric

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Although lithium-ion cell and pack costs are expected to fall sharply by 2020, they are unlikely to drop enough to support widespread adoption of fully electric vehicles without a major breakthrough in battery technology, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Industry Dynamics.

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A More Detailed Look at a Prismatic Li-ion Cell and Pack Manufacturing Process

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EnerDel purchases their raw materials from suppliers in Japan and Korea but is working on localizing production in the US. The anode and cathode materials are a mixture of active ingredients, solvent and binder. The active materials are defined by the cell chemistry. The coating equipment is one of the plant’s major capital items.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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Department of Energy has purchased an F3DM to take the battery apart. Its essentially a set of rooftop solar photovoltaic panels with batteries built in to store power for use when the suns not out, all to be designed and manufactured by BYD. "Solar is an endless source of energy," Wang says.

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