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Andrew Jones
flipped into Materials Science
Electric Vehicles
Volvo says Tesla influenced bigger battery size for XC40 Recharge
Electrek - Bradley Berman
Volvo’s first all-electric vehicle, the XC40 Recharge, was originally designed to have a maximum battery size below 70 kilowatt-hours. But the Swedish automaker changed its decision after the Model 3 introduced
18 hours ago
Forbes
flipped into Technology
Oil
Oil & Gas Leaks Crocodile Tears Over Nuclear Waste Storage
Forbes - James Conca
In the absence of a permanent disposal site for America’s commercial spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and the lousy characteristics of Yucca Mountain, the obvious and best path forward is to put all of the waste
1 hour ago
The Guardian
flipped into US News
Fossil Fuels
Why Texas’s fossil fuel support will ‘spell disaster’ for climate crisis
Guardian US - Tom Dart in Houston
Having some kind of wild west boom going on in Texas ... that’s just the precise opposite to what should be going on Lorne Stockman We’re facing a massive wave of fossil fuel facilities that we’ve never
9 hours ago
Reuters
EPA
U.S. EPA proposed biofuel blending requirements 'similar' to...
Reuters - Reuters Editorial
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sign is seen on the podium at EPA headquarters in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Ting Shen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental
14 hours ago
Plymouth Live
flipped into Plymouth
Energy
Futuristic new Citybus buses with WIFI and charging sockets land in Plymouth
plymouthherald.co.uk - Molly Dowrick
Plymouth Citybus is launching eleven new futuristic buses that are cleaner, greener and 'more advanced' in a £2.6m investment into the city's bus …
23 hours ago
CBS News
Oil & Gas Industry
Cities are banning natural gas in new homes, citing climate change
CBS News - By Irina Ivanova
A growing number of U.S. cities are taking a stand against gas stoves, long billed as a more convenient way to cook, because of their contribution to …
18 hours ago
BBC News
Energy
General election 2019: Labour pledges to electrify UK bus fleet
BBC News
Labour plans to make the entire UK bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election. This would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping
16 hours ago
Koen Batinas-geurts
flipped into Solar
Clean Energy
Millimetre-scale thin-film batteries on a charge
nature.com
In Proc. 2019 IEEE Int. Electron Devices Meeting (in the press); https://ieee-iedm.org/program/ Credit: Image courtesy of S. Oukassi et al., CEA …
20 hours ago
The Globe and Mail
flipped into Business
Fossil Fuels
Against the grain: For Prairie farmers, carbon tax shows how little Ottawa understands their industry
The Globe and Mail - Patrick Brethour
Hour after hour, the massive grain dryer on Janina Currah’s family farm churns away, slowly heating bushel after bushel of damp canola. It’s an expensive necessity this year after heavy autumn rains left
18 hours ago
Madison, WI
Two injured after fuel tanker, garbage truck collide, crash causes propane leak
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JOHNSON CREEK, Wis. - Two drivers were taken to the hospital after a crash between a garbage truck and fuel tanker near Johnson Creek. The crash …
22 hours ago
Yahoo Finance UK
flipped into Yahoo Finance UK
Energy
Labour to invest £4bn to switch all buses in England to electric power
yahoo.com - Kalila Sangster
Labour has pledged to make every bus on England’s roads electric-powered by 2030 as the general election looms. The party announced late on Friday it …
18 hours ago
The Economic Times
flipped into Economy
Nitin Gadkari
Agriculture crisis one of country’s biggest problems: Nitin Gadkari
indiatimes.com
NEW DELHI: Agriculture crisis is one of the biggest problems the country is facing at present, and while prices of fertilisers, diesel and …
8 hours ago
The Motley Fool
flipped into Energy
Fossil Fuels
John Kerry's Climate Coalition Highlights the Importance of Natural Gas
The Motley Fool - Maxx Chatsko
Global emissions reduction efforts are likely to be much more successful if one controversial energy source is included -- if only temporarily. Maxx …
2 hours ago
Reuters
flipped into Business
Environment
Trump administration sees partial waivers as potential fix in biofuel debate: sources
Reuters - By Stephanie Kelly and Jarrett Renshaw
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Trump administration believes it can assuage farmer anger over its biofuels policy by agreeing to use more partial waivers for oil refineries, signaling a potential solution to
1 day ago
Motor1.com US
flipped into Motor1.com
Autos
Hyundai Has Calculated 36,750 Different Driving Styles
motor1.com - Dominik Wilde
Hyundai has revealed that there are nearly 37,000 different ways to drive. The bonkers findings come as a result of new research from the Korean …
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Anton Prodanovic, Ph.D.
flipped into NeoCar
Hydrogen
World’s largest zero emission hydrogen flight test in Scotland
heraldscotland.com - Brian Donnelly
It is claimed it creates the first opportunity for commercialisation of zero emission flight, so far stymied by the limitations of battery-powered …
12 hours ago
National Observer
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Technology
One woman’s mission to make B.C. a clean-tech epicentre
nationalobserver.com - By Stephanie Wood
They want to reform the landscape of B.C.’s clean-tech industry. In a small office tucked away in Burnaby, Jeanette Jackson sits with her clean-teach …
14 hours ago
The Motley Fool
flipped into Energy
Oil
Is Chevron Stock a Buy?
The Motley Fool - Reuben Gregg Brewer
This high-yield stock is in the out-of-favor energy sector. Is this a buying opportunity or are investors better off avoiding it? Reuben Gregg Brewer …
4 hours ago
Methanol
Characterization of the dielectric properties of water and methanol in
nature.com - Xiaoming Liu, Junsheng Yu
This work presents the measurement of the permittivities of water and methanol in the D-band. Water is a reference medium for dielectric measurement. …
20 hours ago
trendspotter
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Green Technology
Urine: An Ever-Flowing Stream of Fuel Cell Material?
discovermagazine.com
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news To most people, urine is a waste fluid that’s promptly flushed away as soon as it’s …
1 day ago
Pacific Green
flipped into EMISSIONS MONTHLY, DECEMBER 2019
"The industry executive said there have been several cases of tankers having to discharge freshly loaded low sulphur fuel because of quality issues, which can tie up barges for several days." Another …
Shipping
Tankers running on fumes as shipping fuel switch causes delays
Euronews - By Reuters
1 day ago
trendspotter
flipped into Trends, Megatrends, Science & Research
Autos
Electric-car battery prices dropped 13% in 2019, will reach $100/kwh in 2023
greencarreports.com - Bengt Halvorson
Although electric cars haven’t quite taken off in the 2010s the way some had anticipated, sheer economics are pointing to the 2020s as the time when …
1 day ago
Mike
flipped into TRANSPORTATION
Autos
Someone Stuffed a Viper V-10 Into This Honda S2000
Road & Track - By Brian Silvestro
The Honda S2000 is great to drive because it's light and balanced. A lot of that has to do with its high-revving VTEC-equipped inline-four. But if you want to take it drifting, you'll want a lot more One
1 day ago
retroshawty2303
flipped into Trap Genius
Electric Vehicles
McLaren’s 2021 hybrid supercar will barely match Tesla’s 4-door sedan at 0-60
Electrek - Jameson Dow
McLaren plans to hybridize its next-generation supercar with an electrically driven front axle, allowing it to hit 0-60 times of 2.3 seconds, down from 2.7 for its current model, according to CEO Mike
1 day ago
Reuters UK
Electric Vehicles
China-built Tesla cars secure new energy vehicle subsidies
Reuters UK
BEIJING (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Friday its Chinese-built Model 3 cars would receive state subsidies, a move that will help the U.S. electric vehicle maker’s push into the world’s biggest
1 day ago
Jennifer Deland
flipped into All About Alcohol
Alcohol
Alcohol intoxication: Signs, symptoms, and treatment
Medical News Today
Alcohol intoxication refers to a temporary condition that occurs when a person drinks an excess of alcohol at one time. Alcohol intoxication causes …
1 day ago
Karrar Al-Bahathly
flipped into Business
Fuel Cell
What's the future of the auto industry? Hydrogen cars appear to give way to electric
USA TODAY Money - Travis Hoium
Just a few years ago, there was a debate about which fueling technology would win long term: all-electric vehicles or hydrogen-powered vehicles. That debate appears to be over. The final holdouts were
1 day ago
Car and Driver
Mary Barra
GM, LG Teaming Up to Build Batteries for GM's Future EVs in Ohio
Car and Driver - Colin Beresford
General Motors has announced a joint venture with LG Chem in which the two companies will build a new battery-cell assembly plant in Ohio with a $2.3 billion investment. The facility is being built on
1 day ago
Outlook Magazine
flipped into Outlook India
Energy
Gadkari urges car makers to develop biofuel-based vehicles
outlookindia.com
New Delhi, Dec 6 (PTI) Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday called upon automobile manufacturers and urged them to produce …
22 hours ago
TESLARATI
flipped into TESLARATI
Electric Vehicles
Electric car battery production causes less CO2 emissions than once thought: study
teslarati.com - Joey Klender
The classic anti-Tesla argument alleging that CO2 emissions from battery production negates the positive environmental impact of electric vehicles …
1 day ago