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Sandia-led team demonstrates two efficient hybrid biochemical routes for lignin conversion to value-added chemicals

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A Sandia National Laboratories-led team has demonstrated two new routes to lignin conversion that combine the advantages of earlier methods while minimizing their drawbacks. The team’s recent findings are described in an open access paper in the journal Scientific Reports. Lignin, the tough material left over from biofuel production, contains compounds that can be converted into products such nylon, plastics and drugs.

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Which car would you pick as Best Car To Buy 2018? Poll results

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As we do every year at this time, our editors have gotten together, analyzed and discussed and argued, and come up with what we think is the Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018. We covered our process in a series of articles, including one that lays out the qualifications and rules. To be eligible, a car must be fully or substantially new for.

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Daimler partnering to transfer its latest generation of automotive fuel cell technology to stationary applications

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Daimler, with its wholly owned subsidiary NuCellSys GmbH, and together with Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America (MBRDNA) and Daimler Innovations Lab1886 is expanding the use case of its innovative automotive fuel cell technology. Joining forces with industry leaders Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Power Innovations (PI), a LiteOn company, Daimler AG, with NuCellSys and supported by MBRDNA and Daimler Innovations Lab1886, will develop prototype systems starting this year for

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Tesla's odds, crucial climate report, electric-car sales, Best Car To Buy finalists: The Week in Reverse

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Which of three finalists will win the Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy 2018 award? What two important reports came out this week, and why did one of them embarrass the Trump Administration? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending on Friday, October 20, 2017. Friday, we broke the.

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

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New Delhi hazardous air quality literally beyond Air Quality Index

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As has been widely reported , New Delhi, India, where air quality is generally a problem, has been suffering through several days of extreme choking toxic smog, exacerbated by a lack of wind at ground level, colliding winds in the upper atmosphere, cooling temperatures, biomass burning in fields and street fires for warmth. For a period of several days, the Air Quality Index calculated by the US Embassy in New Delhi exceeded the 500 level, at one point (8 November, 4 pm) spiking to 1010.

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