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MEG expanding heavy-duty electric truck efforts; succsessful testing of mine vehicle

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Ideanomics’ Mobile Energy Group (MEG) is expanding its activities with heavy-duty electric trucks as part of an ongoing effort to identify commercial vehicle activities where significant pollution reduction can be achieved by eliminating fossil fuels.

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Fluid thermal processing of Mongolian oil sands

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The study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Israel’s Brack Capital Energy (BCE) is exploring for oil sands reserves in the Xing’an region of Inner Mongolia. investigated the thermal reaction performances of Inner Mongolia oil sand bitumen in a confined fluid-bed reactor. —Zhang et al. Zhang et al.

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$1.1B Huineng SNG plant goes on-stream transforming coal into natural gas in China

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Haldor Topsoe A/S announced that Huineng, a large-scale SNG (Substitute Natural Gas) plant, went successfully on-stream near the city of Ordos, located in Inner Mongolia in the northern part of China. This steam is used to generate electricity significantly improving the overall energy efficiency of the entire plant complex.

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8 development banks commit to provide more than $175B to scale up support for sustainable transport

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Rapid motorization is creating more congestion, air pollution, traffic accidents and greenhouse gas emissions—especially in developing countries. Developing countries have the opportunity to leapfrog to a greener future of less motorization, shorter commutes, and more energy efficient transport systems.

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Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

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They] will lock in high greenhouse gas emissions, water use and mercury pollution for decades. These environmental costs have been largely neglected in the drive to meet the nation’s growing energy needs, the researchers say, and might lock China on an irreversible and unsustainable path for decades to come. —Robert B.

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