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Bertrand Piccard’s Big Hydrogen Adventure

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Now hes in the midst of what looks like his most technologically ambitious mission yet: to fly around the planet in a green-hydrogen fuel-cell aircraft. Piccard: With Breitling Orbiter, I flew nonstop around the world, but with carbon emissions. Its easy to see how this is the logical next step in Piccards remarkable career.

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CalEPA to hold public workshop on new strategies to achieve carbon neutrality in transportation; vehicles and fuels

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The 2019-2020 California State Budget authorizes $3 million for two studies focused on the state’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. Study 1 - Identify strategies to significantly reduce emissions from vehicles and to achieve carbon neutrality in that sector. Demand and Supply of Fossil Fuels.

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ARPA-E holding workshop on increasing efficiency of light collection and bioconversion to liquid fuels

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The US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E will hold a workshop on “Applied Biotechnology for Transportation Fuels: Meeting Today’s Energy Needs by Maximizing Photon Capture” on 2 December 2010, in Arlington, Va. Altering organism metabolism to increase the energy captured as liquid fuels.

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California ARB holding public workshop for review of OPGEE crude oil production lifecycle assessment model

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The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is holding a public workshop on 12 July 2012 to discuss the lifecycle assessment of crude oil production within the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. Brandt at Stanford), and preliminary estimates of carbon intensity values for crude supplied to California refineries in 2010.

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DOE to award up to $12M for technologies to produce renewable carbon fiber from biomass

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award ( DE-FOA-0000996 ) up to $12 million in funding to advance the development of a cost-competitive pathway to produce high-performance carbon fiber for vehicle lightweighting from renewable non-food biomass. Reducing a vehicle’s weight by just 10% can improve fuel economy by 6% to 8%.

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ASTM International to hold workshop on PFAS in atmosphere

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ASTM International is hosting a Workshop on PFAS in Atmosphere – Sources, Sampling, and Standards , to be held 1-2 November 2023, in Washington, DC. The carbon-fluorine (C-F) bonds in PFAS lead them to be very stable chemically. Fluoropolymers are one specific class of PFAS, and play a significant role in the automotive industry.

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DOE BETO hosting alternative aviation fuel workshop

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The US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is hosting a 2-day workshop gathering lead experts in the field of aviation biofuels on 14–15 September. During the workshop, attendees will discuss potential solutions for overcoming technical and regulatory barriers to the development of renewable aviation fuel.

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