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DuPont Industrial Biosciences awarded grant for high-efficiency biogas enzyme production

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Enzyme technology has been proven to improve biogas yields and process robustness, ultimately increasing customers’ revenue and profitability while increasing offerings in renewable energy. Methane biogas is primarily used to generate electricity or is compressed and inserted into the pipeline gas grid. Earlier post.).

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Renault and VW may partner on low-cost BEV minicar

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I don’t have any time to waste, so I will not postpone it,” de Meo said. It certainly isn’t the first time European automakers have collaborated on minicars –Toyota partnered with Peugeot and Citroen on the Aygo/Peugeot 108/ Citroen C1 minicar, as well as Ford paired with Fiat to produce a second gen Ka on the Fiat 500 platform.

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EU Parliament Approves 2012 Tire Efficiency Ratings

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Members of the European Parliament last week approved regulations that will require replacement tires for cars as well as light- and heavy-duty vehicles (C1, C2, and C3 tires) to carry energy efficiency labels as of 1 November 2012. The US Department of Energy maintains a webpage devoted to low rolling resistance tires.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 15 research projects through ARPA-E’s “Energy and Carbon Optimized Synthesis for the Bioeconomy” (ECOSynBio) program to decarbonize biorefining processes used across the energy, transportation, and agriculture sectors. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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