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EU Launches 37M Next-Generation Integrated Biorefinery Project

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Together, the partners will develop an integrated biorefinery concept covering a wide range of feedstocks and different processes (chemical, biochemical and thermochemical). Finally, the plants should produce zero waste.

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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

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based TerraPower and London- and Italy-based Newcleo should be safer and simpler to operate than conventional reactors. This artist’s conception, which is not based on any specific design for a cargo ship, is intended to show the approximate scale of such a vessel. The reactors would be small, modular units.

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Detroit’s Inductive EV Charging Roads: Boon or Boondoggle?

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But there has been mild pushback from local residents suggesting that this might just be a waste of money.& But city leadership doesn’t want to spoil the grandeur of what’s a very interesting concept.& But it’s hardly on a major thoroughfare and just barely long enough to serve as anything other than a proof of concept.&

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Volkswagen’s 1.0L eco up! natural gas vehicle offers 79g CO2/km

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natural gas vehicle, previewed in a concept form in 2011 ( earlier post ) and revealed in its production version at the Geneva auto show in March this year, in Europe. In Germany, the fuel cost per 100 km (62 miles) is just over €3 (US$3.92); in Italy, the largest market for natural gas cars in Europe, the cost is less.). The eco up!

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