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Dürr building smart and resource-efficient paint shop at San Luis Potosí in Mexico for BMW Group; Industry 4.0

Green Car Congress

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 Responsible use of water resources is a particular sustainability goal in San Luis Potosí. The facility will have the lowest water consumption per vehicle produced in the production network. production.

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Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

Green Car Congress

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. Texas Parks and Wildlife; the Texas Coastal Exchange; the New Mexico Department of Agriculture; GSI Environmental Inc.; —Kenneth Medlock. —Jim Blackburn.

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Can We Stop Putting Level 3 Fast Chargers At Hotels & Improve Services At Ones Already Built?

CleanTechnica EVs

In the past, most of my EV travels have been in New Mexico and Arizona. On those trips, I saw EV fast charging stations at Walmart stores, convenience stores, shopping centers, and restaurants.

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Audi opens power-to-gas facility in Werlte/Emsland; e-gas from water, green electricity and CO2

Green Car Congress

Water and oxygen are the only by-products. Audi notes that its e-gas project transcends the needs of the automobile industry and shows how large amounts of green electricity can be stored efficiently and independently of location by transforming it into methane gas and storing it in the natural gas network.

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Petrobras To Take Pioneering FPSO to US Sector of Gulf of Mexico

Green Car Congress

Petrobras will be the first company to operate an FPSO (floating oil production, storage and outflow) type platform in the American portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), in the Cascade and Chinook fields. The vessel BW Pioneer will be turret-moored at a water depth of about 2,600 meters—by far the deepest for an FPSO. Source: Keppel.

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BP Plans to Deploy Subsea Oil Recovery System in 6-8 Days, Weather Permitting

Green Car Congress

This will mark the first time such a system will be used at this water depth (5,000 feet / 1,524 m). The system is designed to collect hydrocarbons from the well and pump them to a tanker at the surface, where they will be stored and shipped ashore. The FPSO will process the captured hydrocarbons and separate oil from water and gas.

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Vehicle to Home Device can save people from snow storm

Setec Powerr

In recent times, multitudinous countries around the world have been hit by snowstorms, especially in February 2021, southern Canada, the transnational United States, and Mexico all endured severe cold swell downfall processes. Due to the power outages, some original people are forced to use candles to boil water for cookery.