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Nestlé Waters Converts Lift Trucks from LPG to Hydrogen Fuel Cells

Green Car Congress

Nestlé Waters North America has installed 32 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cells, purchased in 2008, in its materials-handling fleet at their Dallas, Texas bottling facility. Nestlé Waters evaluated both hydrogen fuel cells and lead-acid batteries as potential replacements for the LPG-fueled systems.

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Learning to Surf, 200 Miles From the Nearest Ocean

Baua Electric

I’d traveled to the two-acre wave pool at Waco Surf , a water sports complex in Waco, Texas, chasing an unfulfilled childhood dream. He held the board in the water and asked me to pop up on it. Every session is filmed, and all videos from a session can be purchased an hour later on Waco Surf’s website for $34.)

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Team partners will purchase a total of 191 commercially available light- to heavy-duty alternative-fuel and advanced-technology vehicles. The project will deploy refueling stations and alternative fuel vehicles in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The project also includes construction of a B20 station. Total DOE award: $14,983,167.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

Cars That Think

At the University of Texas at Dallas , Siavash Pourkamali's group has taken a different approach. The resulting cascade of water eroded the dam's foundation, potentially compromising the dam's integrity. During its inactive state, it draws nearly zero power, having a leakage current of only nanoamperes.