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US average retail gasoline prices ended 2017 lower than they started

Green Car Congress

Midwest (Chicago and Cleveland). The Midwest covers a large geographic area consisting of many semi-connected markets. Prices in Chicago were higher than prices in Cleveland and the Midwest regional average in every week during 2018. Average prices for the entire East Coast region moved within a range of $2.25/gal gal to $2.91/gal

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Alcoa signs long-term agreement with Airbus for titanium and aluminum parts; modernized 50,000-ton press

Green Car Congress

Alcoa signed a multi-year supply agreement with Airbus valued at approximately $110 million for value-add titanium and aluminum aerospace forgings. Alcoa will produce the parts using its recently modernized 50,000-ton press in Cleveland, Ohio. billion.

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New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

Green Car Congress

Source: Cleveland and O’Connor. The authors of the report “An Assessment of the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Oil Shale,” Dr. Cutler Cleveland and Peter O’Connor at Boston University, reviewed the existing literature on the energy return on investment (EROI) for oil shale to reach their conclusions. Cleveland and O’Connor.

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Testimony: Why I like my electric vehicle

Electric Auto Association

We routinely drive to see our daughter in Washington, DC and have driven to Cleveland, Boston, New York and Charleston, SC without concern. Because our EVs Internet-connected computer systems know where all charging stations are located, finding one is easier than finding a gas station.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

Cars That Think

It has enough supplies on board to keep a crew alive for three weeks. S-Band and X-band radios will connect Gateway with vehicles on the lunar surface, such as the Starship. and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland. HALO’s fabrication and testing is nearing completion in Italy.

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When They Electrified Christmas

Cars That Think

The lights were connected in series, so if a bulb burned out, the rest of the line went dark. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. President Grover Cleveland was an early adopter of the electrified Christmas tree, as shown in this 1896 photo. The GE lights came in strands, or festoons, of 8, 16, 24, or 32 bulbs.

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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

Cars That Think

president Grover Cleveland officially opened the extravaganza by pressing a golden telegraph key that symbolically switched on 100,000 incandescent lights. Somehow, in his random connections, Rob accidentally strikes the "master key of electricity," thereby calling forth the Demon of Electricity. Twenty years after the.