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Virginia Clean Cities reaches 1,000 vehicle conversions to propane

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the city of Vestavia Hills, Lee County and Lewis Pest Control in Alabama. The vehicle conversions in this program take ordinary vehicles that run on gasoline and upfit them with the bi-fuel Prins VSI propane autogas system. Autogas is cleaner than gasoline and costs around $1.50

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AirCapture, OCOchem and partners win $2.93M DOE grant for direct air capture of CO2 and conversion to formic acid

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Carbon dioxide capture company AirCapture and carbon dioxide conversion company OCOchem, along with other partners, have won a $2.93-million The proposed CO 2 capture and conversion plant will be instrumental in helping the company meet these goals. In addition, the project will assess the impact on members of the local community.

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DOE awarding $11M to advance renewable carbon fiber production from biomass

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The two projects seek to demonstrate new biomass conversion technologies that enable the manufacturing of acrylonitrile—an essential feedstock for high performance carbon fiber—for less than $1 per pound. Southern Research Institute (SRI) of Birmingham, Alabama will receive up to $5.9

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Virginia Clean Cities requests proposals from Southeastern fleets interested in converting to propane Autogas

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Funding to cover the parts and labor for vehicle conversions will be provided under the Southeast Propane Autogas Development Program. Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC.

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Mercedes-Benz selects Plug Power fuel cell technology for lift truck fleet

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MBUSI) has purchased 72 Plug Power GenDrive hydrogen fuel cell units to operate its Hyster electric lift truck fleet in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. With this conversion, Mercedes-Benz is able to eliminate its battery room and open that floor space up for storing and moving product. Mercedes-Benz US International, Inc.

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DOE-sponsored drilling projects demonstrate significant CO2 storage at three sites

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If the potential of the sites is eventually fulfilled, they could safely and permanently store combined CO 2 emissions equivalent to that produced by more than 11 million passenger vehicles annually or from the electricity use of more than 7 million homes for one year, according to Environmental Protection Agency conversion data.

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Coskata touts two years of operation of its semi-commercial biomass and MSW to ethanol facility

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The Coskata process combines the flexibility of gasification with the efficiency of biological conversion of syngas into fuels or chemicals. The facility has accumulated more than 15,000 run hours of operation and successfully converted wood biomass and municipal solid waste into fuel-grade ethanol.