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Tsinghua Researchers Find that Sugarcane Juice is a Good Fermentation Feedstock for Algal Biodiesel

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Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have shown that sugarcane juice is a good feedstock for biodiesel production, when used to support the growth of the alga Chlorella protothecoides by heterotrophic fermentation. Most algae are photoautotrophic, and grow using CO 2 as the carbon source and sunlight as the energy supply.

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Osaka Gas launches pilot project in Thailand to supply vehicle natural gas fuel from biogas

Green Car Congress

The project will focus on a verification of a long-time based stable operation and methods to minimize the cost of producing methane gas, as well as determine the effectiveness of the methane produced as a vehicle fuel. These include palm residue, the remnants of sugarcane crushed to extract juice, and food factory wastewater.

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Lessons from a year with solar power

EV Info

Help with reducing our carbon footprint. According to the Department for Business, the average cost for standard electricity in the UK in 2020 was 17.2p/kWh. That rate would give the LEAF a cost of 17.2 * 24 to drive 100 miles. The total cost of the installation was around £7500. Or around 4p pe rmile.

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Electric bikes vs electric scooters vs electric mopeds vs electric motorcycles: What’s the difference?

Green Authority

These electric vehicles can help you save money when you think of maintenance, gas, tolls, parking, insurance, and other costs of vehicle ownership. Of course, you can also contribute to saving the planet by lowering your carbon footprint. Some can go well beyond 220 miles (354 km) before running out of juice.

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Auto Racing Test Drives Its Own EV Future

Cars That Think

Behind the spent carbon fumes, a skeptic might detect a whiff off electric opportunism on the part of some lesser racing organizations, desperate to grab a foothold, headlines or the overtaxed attention spans of sports and racing fans. The latest is World Rallycross , a wild-and-wooly mix of off-road rallying and tarmac sections.

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2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe: The legendary SUV brand’s first plug-in hybrid

Charged EVs

Second, and more crucial from a policy perspective, is that to justify the subsidies and tax incentives lavished on plug-in hybrids as a way to reduce vehicular emissions of carbon dioxide, they have to be plugged in. How about a lease cost of $265 per month, with $3,940 due at signing? 54k MSRP.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Tree Planting as Carbon Offsets – Does Latitude Ma.

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