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Louisiana Governor and Air Products announce US$4.5B blue hydrogen clean energy complex in Eastern Louisiana

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billion clean energy complex to be built in Louisiana that will make the state a leader in the US clean energy transition. The network is the largest hydrogen pipeline system in the world, stretching more than 700-miles from Galveston Bay in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana.

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DOE awards $8.4M for accessing geothermal potential from abandoned oil and gas wells

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million to establish new geothermal energy and heat production from abandoned oil and gas wells. This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). This program is part of the?Wells

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Convert Oil Wells to Solve the Solar Storage Problem

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A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”

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Used Car of the Day: 1991 Toyota Supra

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We'll start your afternoon off with a treat: A clean-looking 1991 Toyota Supra. Clean-looking not running. There's an issue with the oil-pump shaft. This turbocharged car has 129,000 miles, an automatic transmission, and is on its second owner. The seats have been redone.

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US DOI finalizes plan for oil shale and oil sands research, demonstration and development

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar last week announced the Department of the Interior’s final plan for encouraging research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of oil shale and oil sands resources on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. Earlier post.).

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Europe’s sightseeing buses are graduating from vegetable oil fuel to electric and solar power

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Tootbus is currently operating buses that run on hydrotreated vegetable oil but is adopting BEV and solar technology with VEV’s help. Tootbus describes itself as the world’s first clean energy sightseeing bus company, specializing in hop-on hop-off tours around Europe, including Bath, London, Paris, and Brussels.

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Chevrolet debuts 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel for US and Canada

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2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel engine. Assembled in Lordstown, Ohio, the 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel has demonstrated an estimated 42 mpg (5.6 This Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel represents a new era in diesel performance for American cars. 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel. Click to enlarge. turbo-diesel version of the Cruze.

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