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Seattle boosted by green car grant

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Alternative fuel technologies have been embraced in Seattle, after the city was awarded a $1.4million grant from the US Department of Energy to enhance its fleet of green vehicles. It will also pick up $500,000 for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations.

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Appeal for funding for beneficial CO2 use

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Carbon dioxide (CO2) may be the emission that most car manufacturers are desperately trying to drive down, but even it has its uses and now one company is hoping for funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to target its beneficial use. They may include plant efficiency projects.

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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21 ] Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave - Union of Concerned Scientists, Nov 2015. [ 24 ] Texas A&M-led team identifies synthetic hydrocarbon pathway in green alga B. braunii - Green Car Congress 07 April 2016. [ 26 ] Where does bioenergy fit into a low-carbon future? - 27 ] Watson, Grant and Andrew A.

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Plans revealed for algae based bio-refinery

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Algenol submitted a formal request for a grant from the US Department of Energy last week with the intention of building a refinery that would be based at Dow’s Freeport site in Texas. The CO2 is supplied to the algae in the photo-bioreactors and serves as a carbon source for the ethanol produced.

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New Zealand will not implement fuel economy standard

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Nevertheless, he moved to reassure those with environmental concerns by pointing out that transport fuels will be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme and that a Road Users Charges exemption will apply to electric vehicles until 2013 with a grant for biodiesel production until 2012. km to 203.8g/km km in the first half of this year.

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Call to support current generation of electric vehicles

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Central to the policy of investment into electric cars, was the announcement of subsidies worth up to £5,000 to be given to buyers of electric cars. By announcing the grant will commence in 2011, Mr. Hoon is actually inviting consumers to wait until 2011 to buy an electric car.

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Will the scrappage extension do any good? The Green Piece

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The UK’s car scrappage scheme may have been dubbed a resounding success by the majority of car manufacturers and consumers alike, but it hasn’t won plaudits from all corners. This is little more than a panicked way of propping up the industry as, given time; those cashing in the grants would most likely have bought the new car anyway.