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Where Your Author Owns a Used BMW Convertible for a Year

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It seems only a couple of months ago I reported on my experience traveling from Cincinnati to Nashville to purchase the 2010 BMW Z4, thus satisfying a used convertible car search that lasted for a year and a half. Thumbs up on the road, and being stopped at a fuel station or outside a store to answer a question or two is a new experience.

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New composite reduces rare earth element usage in three-way catalytic converters

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The high-performance, three-way catalytic (TWC) converter is one of the workhorses of emissions reduction for gasoline engines. The TWC reduces NO x to nitrogen and oxygen; oxidizes CO to CO 2 , and oxidizes unburnt hydrocarbons to carbon CO 2 and water. —Machida et al. Adapted with permission from Machida et al.

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Chinese steel group Tsingshan investing $375M to build lithium plant in Argentina with Eramet

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It is a key milestone in the deployment of our strategic roadmap which aims at positioning Eramet as a reference player in metals for the energy transition. Fresh water is then used to release the stored lithium. Purification of the lithium, then reaction with sodium carbonate to convert it to lithium carbonate.

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NREL researchers capture excess photon energy to produce solar fuels; higher efficiency water-splitting for H2

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The advancement could significantly boost the production of hydrogen from sunlight by using the cell to split water at a higher efficiency and lower cost than current photoelectrochemical approaches. The research is outlined in a paper in Nature Energy. —Matthew Beard. —Yan et al.

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Hyundai Motor Company and Cummins to collaborate on hydrogen fuel cell technology

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The NEXO, Hyundai’s second-generation fuel cell electric vehicle with a range of more than 610 kilometers, is a versatile, three-row SUV that emits clean water vapor and even purifies the air while driving.

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The difference between kW and kWh | EV Basics

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You can quickly convert watts (W) to kilowatts (kW) by diving your wattage by 1,000: 1,000W 1,000 = 1 kW. So, a kWh refers to the amount of 1000 watts of energy your household consumes per hour. The total output energy produced by a solar system, as well as the amount stored in solar batteries is measured this way.

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Study suggests energy and GHG impacts of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels from CO2 are greater than impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels

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Their quantitative lifecycle assessment of the environmental merits of liquid hydrocarbon fuels produced from CO 2 , water and energy compared to alternative fuel production routes is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. R indicates reference alternatives not explicitly modeled in this study.

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