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Parker Hannifin and Autocar Deliver Hydraulic Hybrid Refuse Vehicles to Florida Communities

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Parker Hannifin Corporation, in partnership with Autocar, delivered hydraulic hybrid refuse vehicles to three South Florida municipalities ( earlier post ): City of Miami, the City of Hialeah, and Miami-Dade County. Click to enlarge. The new Autocar E3 refuse vehicles feature Parker’s RunWise hydraulic hybrid drive system. Earlier post.).

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DOE awards $2.7M to U Florida, Synhelion to support production of hydrogen from concentrated solar

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Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 For this project, Synhelion and University of Florida (UF) will jointly develop a solar reactor powered by high-temperature solar thermal energy to produce hydrogen gas from water and sunlight.

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QuantumSphere and University of South Florida Exceed 2010 DOE Goals for Solid State Hydrogen Storage

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and the University of South Florida announced that they have exceeded the 2010 Department of Energy (DOE) goals for solid state hydrogen storage. This compares to the 6 wt% system efficiency target set by the DOE, as this is believed to be the threshold at which hydrogen can be economically stored as a solid. QuantumSphere, Inc.

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SpaceX begins stacking Florida Starship launch tower

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SpaceX has begun stacking Starship’s first Florida launch tower. For Florida’s first Starship launch tower, SpaceX has spent more than three months assembling and meticulously outfitting the first six of nine prefabricated tower sections before the first stack. lb) of liquid methane (LCH4).

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Researchers find that the global carbon pool in seagrass beds is as much as 19.9B metric tons

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Per unit area, seagrass meadows can store up to twice as much carbon as the world’s temperate and tropical forests, according to a paper this week in the journal Nature Geoscience. The paper, “Seagrass Ecosystems as a Globally Significant Carbon Stock,” is the first global analysis of carbon stored in seagrasses.

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Costco partners with Electrify America for fast-charging stations

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The rollout includes Costco stores in Clermont, Florida, and Denver, Colorado, which will each get six chargers, plus three California locations, according to a press.

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New graphene-derived 3D porous carbon material enables energy-dense supercapacitors

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Supercapacitors are similar to batteries in that both store electric charge. Because these chemicals take time to react, energy is stored and released relatively slowly. But batteries can store a lot of energy and release it over a fairly long time.

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