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ICL researchers develop new membrane-based system for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

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Our new technology could help to drive down the cost of biofuels so that they eventually replace fossil fuels in transport and aviation—a much happier situation for the environment and one we are all working towards. —Kim et al. —Professor Andrew Livingston of Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering.

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Comment on Indonesia's largest taxi operator to buy 80% of its EVs from BYD by Reagan

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With more EVs, China can help to give the world a cleaner and healthier environment. China has helps the world by providing the world with cheap and useful products. China helps to bring down our cost of living and have brought down most of the expensive goods prices down. China is a good force for the whole wide world.

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Queensland, AU doubles EV rebates to boost zero-emission vehicle adoption

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The move is intended to accelerate the adoption of cleaner and more sustainable transportation. Minister for Energy, Renewables, and Hydrogen Mick de Brenni said, “We want more zero-emission vehicles on Queensland roads with Queensland families to have access to cheaper and cleaner vehicles.”

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The Inefficiency of Car Buying

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They don’t care that its an end of line car with an older engine and a socket for a nokia 6310, its cheap and its better than what they are driving today. Electric vehicles are zero-emissions meaning the air we all breathe is cleaner. What can you do to be more efficient. Why is this approach “efficient.”,

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Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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While the%age increase in VMT was roughly in pace with population increase, as the cost of driving went down it appears some people abandoned public transportation for driving. Both rail and bus emissions decreased during this time, due in part to the state’s efforts to transition to cleaner fuels and to electrify public transportation.

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. from the Bakken shale) are developed, but increasing reliance on oil imports elsewhere heightens concerns about the cost of imports and supply security. World transportation oil demand by mode in the New Policies Scenario. Click to enlarge. World Energy Outlook.

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The Why, How, and Maybe Not of Geoengineering

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And so the cost of that right now is really, really high. So based on that, science was proposed in the 90s, maybe you could create a sort of cleaner, more intentional form of this kind of low atmospheric cloud cooling. Absolutely, but it’s not necessarily cheap and easy to do in an absolute sense. It’s very low concentration.

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