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Clean Cities Autogas Vehicle Conversion Program Rolls Out First of 1,189 LPG Cars in Virginia

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based Red Top Cab provided the first vehicle for conversion under the program. The founding partners of Alliance AutoGas—a national propane Autogas vehicle conversion and fueling network—are closely involved with the program. Arlington, Va.-based

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New silica-organic hybrid absorbents deliver among highest performance yet reported for CO2 capture from air

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organic hybrid adsorbents—in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. While fossil fuels will be used for as long as they can be easily and economically produced, it should also be clear that their amounts are finite and that they are increasingly depleted.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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The resulting biofuel, n -butanol, is a carbon-neutral fuel alternative that can be used in blends with diesel or gasoline. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology. Microorganisms have evolved a bewildering array of techniques to obtain nutrients from their surrounding environments.

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IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

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While vehicle efficiency will be the most important and most cost-efficient way to reduce transport-emissions, biofuels will still be needed to provide low-carbon fuel alternatives for planes, marine vessels and other heavy transport modes, and will eventually provide one fifth (2.1

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UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

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Unlike biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion, Bio-SNG is formed by the conversion of thermally-derived syngas—i.e., Cost of carbon abated for transport applications. Click to enlarge. via the gasification of biomass waste—into methane. This saving is similar for both conventional heating and transport applications.

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MIT team develops new synthetic pathway and modular engineering toolkit for direct biosynthesis of odd-chain molecules for fuels and chemicals

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The interest in microbial synthesis of fuels and chemicals has increased substantially as efforts to transition toward a “bio-based” economy have gained momentum; however, the ability to more broadly use biological systems for chemical production is somewhat limited by the natural repertoire of biosynthetic pathways. —Tseng and Prather.

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California Energy Commission to award up to $3M to support development of bio-oil as intermediate for renewable jet fuel

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The California Energy Commission is issuing a solicitation ( GFO-17-901 ) to provide up to $3 million in funding for innovative, pre-commercial low-carbon fuel production processes that result in the development of bio-oil as an intermediate fuel with wide-scale adoption potential used for renewable jet fuel production.

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