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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The plant will feature SGH2’s technology, which will gasify recycled mixed paper waste to produce green hydrogen that reduces carbon emissions by two to three times more than green hydrogen produced using electrolysis and renewable energy, and is five to seven times cheaper. But, until now, it has been too expensive to adopt at scale.

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Rolls-Royce wins $6.5M contract to supply LNG propulsion package for fish food carrier; Bergen gas engine

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The B and C Series engines emit around 22% (including methane slip) less CO 2 per unit of power than a diesel engine and NO x emissions are reduced by 90%. SO x emissions are negligible. BioMar has 11 factories producing fish food, in Norway, Chile, Denmark, Scotland, Spain, France, Greece, Turkey and Costa Rica.

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Kia introducing bi-fuel gasoline-LPG Picanto in Europe

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Responding to growing customer demand in Europe for small cars with low running costs and low emissions, Kia is introducing a bi-fuel gasoline-LPG model to its Picanto small car range. mpg US ) and CO 2 emissions of 100 g/km; automatic stop-start (ISG) equipped models will achieve 5.6 l/100 km (40.6 l/100 km (42 mpg US ) and 97 g/km.

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Fiat Introducing Fleet Version of eco:Drive

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The data recorded can be transferred onto PCs via a USB key, and processed by the appropriate software, in order to analyse motorists’ behavior and to help them to optimisze fuel consumption and emissions. Earlier post.) eco:Drive receives parameters related to fuel consumption from the engine control unit through Blue&Me.

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MIT study cautions smaller nations on rushing to develop their natural gas resources; Cyprus as model

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While natural gas is often cheaper than oil and gives off fewer emissions, developing the resource comes with risks, especially for smaller nations. Operating maintenance costs were set at $0.20/MMBtu The researchers expect to finish the larger report in August 2014; the study is sponsored by The Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation.

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