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Weizmann Institute solar technology to convert CO2 into fuel; targeted for brown coal use in Australia

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An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. The venture has been recently launched in Israel by NewCO2Fuels Ltd., is now building a solar reactor for the conversion of CO 2 on an industrial scale.

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Israeli company reports successful stage 1 testing of solar CO2-to-fuels technology

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Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Simultaneously, the same device can dissociate water (H 2 O) to hydrogen (H 2 ) and oxygen (O 2 ).

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Virent and HCL CleanTech receive $900K grant to demonstrate lignocellulosic sugars as feedstock for drop-in biofuels and bioproducts

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BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) Energy is a program for US-Israel joint renewable energy development funded by the US Department of Energy, the Israeli Ministry of National Infrastructures, and the BIRD Foundation. Virent Energy Systems Inc. The grant supports almost half of the $2.1 million total project cost.

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Berkeley researchers integrate ABE fermentation and chemical catalysis to produce bio-hydrocarbon blend stocks from sugars at high yields

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The process efficiently converts acetone–n-butanol–ethanol (ABE) fermentation products produced by Clostridium acetobutylicum into ketones via a palladium-catalyzed alkylation. Nevertheless, Blanch said, the process by which the Clostridium bacteria convert sugar or starch to these three chemicals is very efficient. Click to enlarge.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Unless otherwise noted, all are Prius. Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org.

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Qteros and Applied CleanTech Partner to Produce Ethanol from Cellulose Extracted from Sewage Sludge

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Biofuels company Qteros has entered into a joint development project with Applied CleanTech (ACT), a commodities recycling company based in Israel, to use ACT’s Recyllose-based feedstock, produced from municipal wastewater solids (sewage sludge), for more efficient and lower-cost ethanol production by Qteros’ Q Microbe technology.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. EFICIENCY OF ENERGY CONVERSION There is a law in science (more specifically, thermodynamics) that. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is.

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