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China Steel Corporation making $46M investment in LanzaTech commercial waste-gas-to-ethanol project

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Taiwan’s largest integrated steel maker, China Steel Corporation (CSC), has announced formal Board approval of a 1400-million TWD (US$46 million) capital investment in a LanzaTech commercial ethanol facility. We need to keep fossil resources in the ground and carbon recycling is one way we can achieve this. Earlier post.).

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LanzaTech and Sekisui advance conversion of municipal solid waste to ethanol

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Sekisui , a multibillion dollar Japanese diversified chemicals company and LanzaTech report making significant progress on a waste-to-chemicals platform converting municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol or other new products. Garbage is an important resource. 20,000 liter per year MSW pilot facility.

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Velocys receives FONSI from USDA for planned Mississippi biorefinery; wood waste to drop-in fuels

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Velocys has engaged the global leading project finance bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), as the lender of record and as its financial advisor. The site will be home to a biorefinery that will use Velocys’ technology to produce low-carbon transportation fuels from the wood wastes of lumber operations and tree plantations.

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New Flyer and Li-Cycle complete heavy-duty lithium-ion battery recycling pilot; 3,200 lbs of Li-ion batteries

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one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. We are thrilled to work with New Flyer in spearheading closed-loop resource recovery of electric bus batteries.

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Chevron invests in nuclear fusion start-up Zap Energy

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Chevron Corporation made a Series A investment in Zap Energy Inc. , a Seattle-based start-up company developing a next-generation modular nuclear reactor with an innovative approach to advancing cost-effective, flexible, and commercially scalable fusion. Resources. “

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‘‘Retrofitting can be a better option than investing in new commercial vehicles’’ | Autocar Professional

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Anshu Dewan: In India, the market is yet to realise its commercial potential and is currently at a nascent stage. How does the compulsory scrapping of commercial diesel vehicles after 15 years get impacted with retrofitting of electric systems? What’s the size of the refitting (hybridisation of Diesel/CNG) market in India for CVs?

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Progress toward commercializing the GTI IH2 thermochemical process for drop-in hydrocarbon fuels

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The process uses as its feedstock virtually any kind of nonfood biomass material—including wood, cornstalks and cobs, algae, aquatic plants and municipal solid waste—and produces gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel. GTI anticipates full-scale commercial plants converting 2,000 tons a day will be operating by 2014. Marker, T.