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NACFE releases guidance report on hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty trucks

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The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) released its latest Guidance Report , Making Sense of Heavy-Duty Hydrogen Fuel Cell Tractors. Almost every day there is a new announcement about hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks. Hydrogen is a regional solution, cheap hydrogen even more so.

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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You will be able to literally shovel CO 2 loaded solids from now on, The impact is wide and strong, as the global fuel industry and the Kingdom entities are actively looking for ways to capture, store and transport CO 2 without significant energy penalties.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. The official fuel consumption is 5 l/100 km (47 mpg US) and that is bang on for us as well. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. It was time to buy our first car.

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Simple process for the production of fuel additives from residual forest biomass

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Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel. 2019.116702.

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ICL researchers develop new membrane-based system for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

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Widespread use of biofuels is inhibited by the significant energy burden of recovering fuel products from aqueous fermentation systems. Biofuels can be produced by fermenting waste biomass and recovering the fuel from the fermented solution using an extractant. Ji Hoon Kim, Marcus Cook, Ludmila Peeva, Jet Yeo, Leslie W.

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China researchers synthesize high-density aviation fuel with cellulose

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Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. They also predict it will yield higher profits than conventional aviation fuel production because it requires lower costs to produce a higher-density fuel.

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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.

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