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The Seat IBE, the electric concept car revealed by the Spanish automaker at Geneva, looks kind of awesome. No, that is not just this humble reporter’s opinion.

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Well, never fear, you can have your jet turbine and really damn cool car and not worry about your tires melting (too much), your brakes failing, and your car embedding itself into the side of a cliff with you still in it.

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The NOx level at the gas turbine exhaust will come down from 40 ppm to 25 ppm. At the site there is a biogas plant producing gas by fermentation of waste from farming. The gas is used mainly as fuel for busses, cars and trains

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Generally we only cover topics related to electric cars , but the buzz this week has been so intense, its worth a look at something new called the Bloom. … Beautifully situated outside the company’s LEED gold certified “Mint” building, the Bloom Energy Servers have delivered 2.2 million-kWh of power and mitigated more than 650000 pounds of CO2 in just their first 6 months; with biogas turned on, the amount of carbon mitigated more than triples.” …

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It’s like saying a car is carbon neutral if you put biofuel in its tank – true, but this is not a feature of the car itself. Biogas is a legitimate green technology – using microbes to make methane (primarily) from manure and waste. …

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Researchers at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, have investigated the feasibility of a biogas -fueled 250 kW power generation system based on molten carbonate fuel cells (MCFCs) with an efficiency higher than 50%, integrated with a …

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Transportation Air car · Alternative fuel · Alternative propulsion · Battery electric vehicle · Bicycle · Bioalcohol · Biodiesel · Bioethanol · Biogas · Biomass to liquid · Bus rapid transit · Community bicycle program · Ecodriving …

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Both Lundberg and Aurandt note that in Sweden, many cities use biogas as fuel for transportation whether by train, car , or bus. Lundberg, a process engineer from SBI, came to Kettering to help the students working under professor …

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Biogas from refuse produces 95% less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline, according to a new research report. With a few simple improvements to the biogas plants, the figure can rise to 120% i.e. biogas becomes more than climate …

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