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LSBU researchers investigating metal hydride hydrogen storage for buses

Green Car Congress

Researchers from London South Bank University (LSBU), School of the Built Environment and Architecture, are investigating the use of metal hydrides to absorb, release and store hydrogen for fuel cell buses. Hydrogen is stored by reaction with a metal to form a hydride (exothermic reaction). From Adelhelm & Jongh (2011).

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The environmental impact of electric cars

Drive Electric

The positive impact on our environment is one of the biggest and best, especially if you have a business that runs a fleet of vehicles. Are electric cars better for the environment? This is cleaner and better for the environment than producing petrol and diesel. In short, yes.

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Sainsbury trialing Dearman liquid air engine in refrigerated truck

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The truck will operate from Sainsbury’s Waltham Point depot, delivering chilled goods to stores in the London area. Ambient or low grade waste heat is used as an energy source with the cryogen providing both the working fluid and heat sink. The Dearman Engine operates by the vaporization and expansion of cryogenic fluids.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

Charged EVs

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The more collection we do, the better for the environment. Charged : How could we make sure more of that gets collected?

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. The more collection we do, the better for the environment. Charged : How could we make sure more of that gets collected?

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UK wants to ban 100% ICE power by 2030

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Carbon capture: Developing world-leading technology to capture and store harmful emissions away from the atmosphere, with a target to remove 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030 – equivalent to all emissions of the industrial Humber. First we need to stop wasting funds in vanity projects like HS2 that should be killed now.

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UK Awards 24M to 6 Low Carbon Vehicle Projects

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The Hybrid Integrated Urban Commercial Vehicle (HIUCV) is a lightweight Heavy Goods Vehicle designed for refuse collection in an urban environment. The HiUCV is targeted to halve the overall carbon emissions per tonne of waste collected of current best-in-class Refuse Collection Vehicles (RCVs) in the urban environment.