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Tips: 5 Best Car Maintenance Practices

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Whether you’re driving an electric car or a vintage machine, maintaining your car properly keeps it in top condition. Whatever’s under the hood, regular maintenance will make it run better. You’ll also spend less money on fuel, whether it’s liquid in the tank for electricity in the battery.

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ElectraTherm and Navy to demonstrate shipboard waste heat recovery

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ElectraTherm, a leader in distributed, waste heat to power generation, is working with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Creare, and the US Naval Academy (USNA) to demonstrate gas turbine waste heat recovery as part of a Small Business Innovation Research project. Hot water is the only fuel consumed by the Power+.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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Capstone Turbine releases ultra low emission CR200 kW certified to ARB requirements for landfill gas applications

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Capstone Turbine Corporation released the CR200 Low Btu microturbine product; landfill gas applications are a key market for the Capstone CR200 200 kW. Capstone microturbines are capable of burning waste gases with methane contents as low as 30%, which can be challenging for competing combustion technologies.

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Volvo CE Braås facility now powered entirely by renewable energy

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Braås then joined a Volvo Group initiative in 2007 that saw it switch to green electricity (i.e. Staff identified the greatest source of energy consumption as the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) burners, which were used to heat the rust protection treatment ovens to 60 °C. generated from renewable sources).

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Why Businesses Should Adapt EVs to Their Fleet?

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Automakers are continuing to ramp up the production of electric vehicles worldwide. Subsidies, tax breaks, and other incentives for electric vehicles are being offered by an increasing number of governments around the world. So it is pretty clear that the future of personnel transportation would be electric.

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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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The California Energy Commission approved its first $10 million to fund Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) research and development (R&D) projects during its monthly business meeting today. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.