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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Green Car Congress

Any person who controls an electrical grid is very cautious about what you sync to their grid, because you could disrupt the grid. The compressor gets the supercritical CO 2 up to the necessary pressure before it meets up with waste heat in the recuperator and returns to the heater to continue the cycle.

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North America just got its first recycled Li-ion battery materials plant

Baua Electric

Photo: Green Li-ion Green Li-ion has launched North America’s first commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.

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Biofuels- paving the way for low carbon future in mobility – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The emissions further drop to ~70% if we consider 2G ethanol which is produced using farm waste. Ethanol production from farm waste such as corn cob, rice husk, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse, is known as second generation ethanol (2G). India has already started setting up 2G plants, which use crop waste for ethanol production.

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China and India Nullify Global Reduction in CO2 Emissions in 2009

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The PBL calculated that emissions from fossil-fuel combustion (including those from gas flares—the burning of waste gas from oil drilling and other industrial processes, such as the production of cement and ammonia) in the industrial countries have decreased by 7%. In India the emissions were 1.4

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The BMW Group’s 360-degree approach to sustainability

EV Central

As the issue of climate change heats up, it’s natural to ask “are we doing enough” and, on World EV Day in particular, will switching to EVs be enough to reduce the CO2 emissions produced by the world’s cars? Every part of the i-Vision Circular has been designed to minimise waste, and weight. Can they be reused, recycled, repurposed?

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Volkswagen outlines a range of near-term technologies for reducing fuel consumption and emissions; stop-start 2.0, 10-speed DSG

Green Car Congress

Compared to baseline figures for 2010, the Group wants to reduce energy and water consumption, waste generation and emissions (including CO 2 emissions) by 25% in all of its business areas. and e-Golf) are equally important in ensuring that fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are further reduced. VW’s “Strategy 2018”, earlier post.)

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Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Long Beach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. . First staff job I’ve had since 1982.

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