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New 3-step process for conversion of kraft lignin from black liquor into green diesel

Green Car Congress

Pöyry Forest Industry Oy in Finland, noted that: The magnitude of the recovery process is often not fully appreciated. This makes black liquor the fifth most important fuel in the world, next to coal, oil, natural gas, and gasoline. tons of black liquor dry solids. Vakkilainnen, from. Globally over 1.3 Globally over 1.3

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Test of Planet-Cooling Scheme Could Start in 2022

Cars That Think

Up there, 10 to 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface, ozone molecules absorb the sun’s ultraviolet light, protecting life far below. record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation. This second layer of the atmosphere is serene and mostly void of life.

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