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4th International Conference on Biofuels Standards: current issues, future trends

Green Car Congress

Brazil, EU and the US are the three largest producers of biofuels; other countries where biofuel production and utilization is increasing are also expected to participate in this conference. Requirements that result from new regulations and applications in different parts of the globe will be discussed.

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U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

Green Car Congress

Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. The fuel cells, based upon patented technology developed by professor Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) in the A. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

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GM adds 3 acres of solar arrays in Michigan

Green Car Congress

The site also is home to a 1.237 MW rooftop solar array—one of the largest in Maryland—that generates nearly 6% of the facility’s electric consumption. parts distribution warehouse. —Rob Threlkeld, GM global renewable energy manager. GM, OnStar and energy service company TimberRock Energy Solutions, Inc.

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

Cars That Think

Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics. Barth (left) and Moira Stanton at the 1997 RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems Conference, held in Cannes, France. About Janet Barth. advisory board.

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Greenius Will Meet With Al Gore To Talk Climate Reality

Creative Greenius

I now travel across the country on a regular basis – when I’m not at my desk at our Manhattan Beach office – roll from one conference call to another on my iPhone, and wear a suit and tie to meetings and events. . In fact I’m writing this on my flight back to L.A.

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Video Friday: Happy Holidays!

Cars That Think

A variety of testing is taking place at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Marshall Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Terradynamics Lab ] This is the final project video for the Bottle Butler.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. I took some surplus parts and motorcycle batteries… it was definitely Rube Goldberg style,” Smith explained.

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