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What Is a Heat Pump?

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Furnaces heat air and distribute it throughout houses using ducts, whereas boilers heat water to provide hot water or steam for heating.) government began offering tax incentives for the installation of heat pumps, which tend to cost more up front than traditional furnaces but are far more efficient in the long run.

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Learning to Surf, 200 Miles From the Nearest Ocean

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I’d traveled to the two-acre wave pool at Waco Surf , a water sports complex in Waco, Texas, chasing an unfulfilled childhood dream. We moved on to the hourlong Beginner Wave Session ($129 plus tax, including board; wet suit rental, $25), joining around 10 other people. He held the board in the water and asked me to pop up on it.

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Mitsubishi Chemical and Engineering partner to produce and sell zeolite membranes for ethanol dehydration; new process

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It is expected to increase production about by 15%, by dehydrating high water content ethanol, which is generated in the recycling step of the PSA process. The anhydrous ethanol is blended with about 5% denaturant (such as gasoline) to render it undrinkable and thus not subject to beverage alcohol tax. Click to enlarge.

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EPRI assesses status of 8 key power generation technologies for US; estimates of capital cost and levelized cost of electricity

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For the report, central-station generation refers to >100 MW, with the exception of some renewable-resource-based technologies. impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. The capital cost learning curve. Source: EPRI.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The DOS SEIS accordingly takes a detailed look at life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of petroleum products from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) oil sands crudes compared with reference crudes and the potential impact the pipeline might have on climate change as well as on the future development of the oils sands resource in Canada.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989. Automobile manufacturers were given tax breaks to produce cars that ran on hydrous ethanol, and, by 1980, every automobile company in Brazil was following this lead.

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How the EV Charging Industry Is Emerging and Evolving

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Evolving Institutional Support Year after year, reports of warming temperatures , rising sea waters and increasingly catastrophic natural disasters sound an urgent alarm for decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels. This raises the ceiling for the EV charging industry dramatically. Check out what makes us different.