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Mitsui OSK completes first hybrid car carrier vessel Emerald Ace; 2 new LNG carriers

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Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has completed the hybrid car carrier vessel Emerald Ace , designed to generate zero emissions while berthed, at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) Kobe shipyard. Emerald Ace. Click to enlarge. Conceptual diagram of system. Click to enlarge. The Emerald Ace is equipped with a hybrid electric power supply system that combines a 160 kW solar generation system—jointly developed by MHI, Energy Company of Panasonic Group, and MOL—with lithium-ion batte

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BMW-Toyota Pact: Hybrids, Fuel Cells, Carbon Fiber--And A Sports Car Too

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On Thursday, we brought you news that BMW was planning to ditch its partnership with GM to develop fuel cell vehicles, for Japanese rival Toyota. That news has now been confirmed, with a joint press conference on Friday heralding the start of BMW and Toyota's partnership. The automakers' Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) includes plans for joint.

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Comparative genome study finds ancestral fungus may have influenced end of coal formation; potential resource for biofuel production

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Scanning electron micrograph of wood being decayed by the white rot fungus. Punctularia strigoso-zonata. (Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. A team of 71 researchers from 12 countries, including researchers at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), has proposed a new factor that may have contributed to t

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Green Automotive to acquire Liberty Electric Cars

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US-based Green Automotive Company has signed an agreement to acquire UK-based Liberty Electric Cars Limited ( earlier post ). Liberty Electric Cars is a electric vehicle design, engineering and manufacturing company. Green Automotive will purchase all of the issued and outstanding stock of Liberty Electric Cars Ltd. and its subsidiary LEC 2, Limited, in exchange for 39,172,178 shares of Green Automotive Company common stock.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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Petrobras oil and gas output up 1.9% in May from April

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Petrobras announced that its average domestic and foreign oil and natural gas output in May was 2,601,223 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), up 1.9% on the figure for April. Fields in Brazil produced an average 2,350,476 boed, a rise of 2% on the previous month’s output. Foreign output stood at 250,747 boed, an increase of 1.7% on April. Domestic output included 1,989,210 barrels/day of oil, up 1.4% on oil output in April.

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Argonne releases new version of GREET fuel cycle model

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The GREET team at Argonne National Laboratory has released a new version of the GREET fuel cycle model. The Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation ( GREET ) model simulates the energy use and emissions output of various vehicle and fuel combinations, and is widely used in lifecycle analysis. Changes in the new version include: Power plant generation efficiencies, technology shares, criteria pollutant emissions, transmission losses, and associated probability dist

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