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Off With His Head: Heritage Customs Shows an Open-Top Defender

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A custom shop in The Netherlands has changed that with a new creation called the Valiance. Far from a backyard Sawzall job, this conversion involves a semi-electric soft top, roll cage which conforms to FIA standards, snazzy new wheels, different upholstery (water resistant, perhaps), and the expected scattershot blast of badges and emblems.

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Joule Biotechnologies Introduces Its Technology for Producing Renewable Transportation Fuels

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a bioengineering startup, unveiled its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. It can be easily customized depending on land size, CO 2 availability and desired output.

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Renewable Chemicals and Advanced Biofuels Company Gevo Files for IPO; Non-binding Letter of Intent with United Airlines for Renewable Jet Fuel

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The number of shares to be offered and the price range of the offering have not yet been determined. Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. UBS Investment Bank and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Earlier post.)

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Obama Announces Steps to Boost Biofuels, Clean Coal; RFS2, BCAP, BIWG and Carbon Capture and Storage Task Force

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Second, the US Department of Agriculture proposed a rule on the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) that would provide financing to increase the conversion of biomass to bioenergy. Pilot-scale Conversion and Biorefinery facilities – DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), USDA (REE and FS). per gallon. Earlier post.)

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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That means that there is more likelihood that the actual demand that we see from customers will be substantially higher than the estimates rather than right on target or below estimates. “ We think there will be a substantial preference on the part of the customer to head to 220. ” The issue is the draw. But we see a 6.6

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

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It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. And do you wind up offering your customers some kind of assistance in filing the rebate form? Then they’re idiots. Got up on roofs.

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A 100 m.p.g. truck? A Bright IDEA | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

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For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. based Fisker plans to produce just 15,000 plug-in hybrids a year, starting later this year, with pricing to start at $87,900. Base price: $109,000. The 100 m.p.g. based Tesla Motors Inc.

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