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$1.67 Billion to Montana Renewables to Significantly Expand US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production

January 12, 2025 admin Aviation, biofuels, clean transport, investing in america, Joe Biden, loan programs office, Montana, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:13:38 +0000

Montana Renewables will expand its renewable fuels facility to scale up sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production. As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s Investing in America agenda, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) announced today the closing of a $1.67 billion ($1.44 billion of principal and $233 million of … [continued]

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Ancient Pongamia Tree Breathes New Life Into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

January 11, 2025 admin Aviation, biomass, clean power, clean transport, green economy, idemitsu kosan, investment, mitsubishi corporation, saf, sustainable aviation fuel, terviva

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:29:40 +0000

The hardy bean-producing pongamia tree is carving out a niche in the sustainable aviation fuel industry, with the potential for producing human food, and animal feed as well.

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Dangerous Downwash Is The 15th Reason Why A Jetsons EVTOL Future Won’t Happen

January 6, 2025 admin archer aviation, Aviation, China, clean transport, ehang, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, joby aviation, lilium, usa, volocopter

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:55:29 +0000

Over the past few years tens of billions of dollars, enormous numbers of hours of aerospace engineers’ precious time, and countless articles have been wasted on the Jetsons fantasy of quiet, electric, folding aircraft taking off and descending vertically amidst the towers and homes of our cities. Now the US … [continued]

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Lilium Lives!

December 28, 2024 admin Aviation, clean transport, electric air taxis, electric aircraft, electric airplanes, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, investment, lilium

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:33:39 +0000

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Lilium running out of money. It seemed the dream had died. After 9 years and nearly 1,000 “preorders,” Lilium just couldn’t make it financially. It’s hard to get off the ground as a startup and reach profitability, even more so in an … [continued]

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An Environmental & Budgetary Defense Of The F-35

December 3, 2024 admin air force (usaf), autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, elon musk, energy efficiency, Military, u.s. military, us air force

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 04:59:55 +0000

In recent posts to his social media site, Elon Musk took aim at a tough target: the Lockheed-Martin F-35 Lightning II. Not only is it stealthy (something Musk claims to have a workaround for), but he also thinks it’s a monetary boondoggle that his unofficial “government agency” should try to get … [continued]

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Aviation Contrails — Low Hanging Fruit of the Climate Fight

November 26, 2024 admin Aviation, climate change, cop29, green economy, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Maarten Vinkhuyzen| Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 03:46:08 +0000

In a recent report, “Contrail avoidance: aviation’s climate opportunity of the decade,” Transport & Environment explained how cheap it was to avoid 80% of the contrails damage. The report was published just before COP29. It got a followup with an event at the conference in BAKU. Recognizing the impact of … [continued]

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Chinese EV Revolution, Best Electric Cars for Your Money, Solid-State Battery News — Top 13 Cleantech Stories

November 25, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, batteries, best electric cars, byd, catl, China, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, Donald Trump, electric cars, Electric vehicles, elon musk, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, ev subsidies, green economy, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, solid-state batteries, subsidies, tesla

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 01:09:14 +0000

It’s the end of another week already, and I’m ready to share some of the top cleantech stories of the past week. The biggest stories of the week center around Chinese EV companies, and that’s probably going to be the case more and more. Check out the latest hot news out … [continued]

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EVTOLs Remain Grounded As Dreams Of Jetsons Lifestyle Doppler Into Future

November 25, 2024 admin Aviation, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric urban air mobility, Electric vehicles, evtol, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, urban air mobility

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:52:59 +0000

It’s been over three years since I bothered to publish an article on the dead end but glitzy space of urban air mobility with their origami electric vertical take-off and landing passenger aircraft. Instead, I focused my aviation related assessments on how aviation will actually decarbonize over the next few … [continued]

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XPENG Hopes To Sell 10,000 Van+Quadcopters ($276,000) A Year

November 22, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, clean transport, Electric vehicles, xpeng, xpeng aircraft

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:05:56 +0000

XPENG has gone a slightly different route with its electric aircraft than others inching into this space. It has developed a 2-person quadcopter drone that fits inside of a 6-wheeled electric van. It makes me think of the Transformers, even though it’s not really that. You can watch the process … [continued]

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New Autonomous Air Taxi Trial in Thailand

November 21, 2024 admin autonomous vehicles, Aviation, Bangkok, clean transport, ehang, electric air taxis, electric aircraft, Electric vehicles, evtol, Thailand, urban air mobility

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:29:12 +0000

Electric air taxis are not going to take over transportation. In my humble opinion, our skies are not going to be full of small aircraft that look like giant bugs. We won’t have swarms of aircraft risking collision and devastating crashes into buildings. However, I do believe that electric air … [continued]

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