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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation. —Eduard Kerkhoven. Zhou, Eduard J.

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MAN propane-fueled ME-LGIP to power Chinese VLGC

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The new ME-LGIP (-Liquid Gas Injection Propane) engine, revealed in September 2018, builds on the success the company has had with its ME-GI and ME-LGI dual-fuel engines, which have won more than 250 orders since their introduction to the market. LGIP engine. HFO-burning engines to 6G60ME-C9.5-LGIP LGIP LPG-propelled dual-fuel engines.

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How Olympics Officials Try to Catch "Motor Doping"

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UCI’s New Techniques to Spot Cheating in Cycling Professional cycling got its most sophisticated detection systems in 2018, after criticism of UCI motor-doping policies helped fuel a change of leadership.

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

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2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Reviver Auto is making the so-called Rplates, and they aren’t cheap—the plates are listed at US $700, plus an $8 a month subscription fee. [ Update 14 Oct.

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Jeep says a $25,000 Renegade EV is coming to the US, but can it deliver?

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Jeep Wagoneer S Trailhawk concept (Source: Jeep) “The way it’s laid out right now, it’s either going to come from Poland, which is most likely, or Brazil,” AutoForecast Solutions VP Sam Fiorani said. However, it can’t go too cheap, or Jeep could hurt the brand. Jeep’s US sales slipped 6% last year after falling 12% in 2022.

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New MIT metal-mesh membrane could solve longstanding problems with liquid metal displacement batteries; inexpensive grid power storage

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Sadoway considers this development a breakthrough, because for the first time in five decades, this type of battery—the advantages of which include cheap, abundant raw materials, very safe operational characteristics, and an ability to go through many charge-discharge cycles without degradation—could finally become practical.

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With This Bionic Nose, COVID Survivors May Smell the Roses Again

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The prototype is a partial demonstration of a concept that he’s been working on for decades: a neuroprosthetic for smell. In the lab’s back room, another model shows the second half of the concept: There, the e-nose sensor transmits its signal to a small array of electrodes taken from a cochlear implant. In experiments with rats in.