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Navigator CO2 to provide ~600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

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Electrofuels provider Infinium and comprehensive carbon management company Navigator CO2 entered into a Memorandum of Understanding and long-term relationship for Navigator to deliver 600,000 tons per annum (TPA) of biogenic carbon dioxide from its Heartland Greenway system to a future Infinium facility for the production of electrofuels (eFuels).

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Norwegian Post becomes first European customer for Transit Connect Electric van with 20-unit purchase; targeting 30% reduction in CO2 by 2015

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Norwegian Post Ford Transit Connect Electric. Norway Post has signed a contract to purchase 20 Transit Connect Electric vehicles, with an option to order more vehicles in the future. Ford and Azure are introducing the Transit Connect Electric in summer 2011. Transit Connect Electric offers a cargo volume of 3.8

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IAV unveils new battery assembly concept that is easier to recycle, with better CO2 balance

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Wherever possible, click and plug-in connections are used. This means that the number of bolted connections can be reduced by two-thirds, and bonding and welding can also be significantly cut back. Instead of multiple screw solutions, bonding and welding seams, IAV engineers have introduced new joining techniques.

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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We’ve been striving to get here for a number of years, and to be able to demonstrate that we can connect our system through a commercial device to the grid is the first bridge to more efficient electricity generation. It took us a long time to get the data needed to let us connect to the grid. Importance of advanced power electronics.

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New highly efficient catalyst for photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction toward methane

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In practice, the artificial photosynthesis panel would need to be connected to a source of concentrated carbon dioxide—for example, carbon dioxide captured from industrial smokestacks. The device can be designed to run under solar power alone, or the methane production can be amped up with a supplement of electricity.

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Honda secures auto industry’s largest renewable energy purchase; 60% reduction in CO2 from N.A. manufacturing operations

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Currently, 21% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America is supplied from extremely low- and zero-CO2 sources. —Ryan Harty, manager, Connected and Environmental Business Development, American Honda. The VPPAs will raise the total use of renewable electricity to more than 80% for North America.

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RWTH Aachen researchers report on two methods to convert CO2 to chemicals and fuels

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The RWTH Aachen team pursued a new approach to obtain methanol by the hydrogenation of CO2 with elemental hydrogen in an homogeneous process—i.e., It subsequently connects a molecule of CO 2 in a stepwise fashion with three molecules of hydrogen to produce methanol and water.

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