Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has issued a request for information ( DE-FOA-0001331 ) to obtain feedback and opinions from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on the report findings from the Gas Clean-up for Fuel Cell Applications Workshop.

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MARCH 29, 2017

idea Solutions Design, and JB Mechanical to integrate and install a commercial 1000 Watt Atrex Energy fuel cell power generator fueled with compressed natural gas in an all-electric Polaris Ranger ATV. The only by-products of the Atrex Energy SOFC design are water vapor, heat and low levels of carbon dioxide. Atrex Energy.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2013

Hydrogen is necessary in the upgrading of oil sands bitumen into synthetic crude, but it is a costly and carbon-intensive part of the process, given current hydrogen production technologies. MSG converts natural gas into hydrogen with a 23% reduction in GHG emissions compared to steam methane reforming. will receive a $C1.5-million

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APRIL 14, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a funding opportunity announcement for up to $20 million ( DE-FOA-0001023 ) for applications for selection and award in FY 2014 that focus on the (1) methane hydrate reservoir-response field experiments in Alaska; and (2) field programs for marine gas hydrate characterization.

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Alaska Mariner Gas Russia 210

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JULY 18, 2020

We observed an enrichment of molecules lighter than 170 daltons corresponding to a carbon number of 12 or a boiling point less than 200 °C in the permeate. Since 2000, ExxonMobil has invested approximately $10 billion in projects to research, develop and deploy lower-emission energy solutions. Imperial College London.

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Georgia London Oil Polymer 337

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AUGUST 14, 2019

The California Air Resources Board’s latest state inventory of greenhouse gas emissions shows that California’s GHG emissions continue to decrease. while the carbon intensity of its economy declined by 4.5%. Changes in emissions by Scoping Plan sector between 2000 and 2017. Compared to 2016, California’s GDP grew 3.6%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. However, for high water content biomass, such as algae, the energy costs of dewatering may offset the energy demand of liquefaction processes. 29% dry weight (dw)] and low carbon (30?37% carbon, 10.1% carbon, 10.1%

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Conversion Water Carbon Oil 285

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APRIL 4, 2016

Swedish-Finnish steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and power company Vattenfall have launched an initiative to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than carbon dioxide. Brindle (2000) “ Theoretical Minimum Energies To Produce Steel For Selected Conditions ”. Resources. Fortini H.W.

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CO2 Production Coal Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The E-KIZUNA Project, managed by the city in collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders, aims to help fight global warming and realize a sustainable, low-carbon society through the popularization of electric vehicles. (In Through the E-KIZUNA Project, Honda aims to reduce household CO 2 emissions to half of year 2000 levels by 2015.

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Honda Gas-Electric Gas Engine 261

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Earlier post.).

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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Climate 314

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JUNE 20, 2017

Researchers at Synthetic Genomics’ laboratory discovered a new process for increasing oil production by identifying a genetic switch that could be fine-tuned to regulate the conversion of carbon to oil in the algae species, Nannochloropsis gaditana. The ability to sustain growth while increasing oil content is an important advance.

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Production Oil Carbon Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

They recycled the catalyst over five runs without significant loss of activity (turnover number > 2000). Though mixed with water, the resulting methanol can be easily distilled, Prakash said. We will run out of oil and gas, but the sun will be there for another five billion years. Credit: ACS, Kothandaraman et al. —G.K.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. greenhouse gas emissions. Northeastern Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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APRIL 12, 2015

High-temperature solid-oxide fuel cells and solid-oxide electrolysis cells have potential over the intermediate term to double energy efficiency from fossil fuels and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as over the long-term to enable the shift to renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. Reversible fuel-electrolysis cells.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% The analysis is based on a carbon budget that would stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at 450 ppm and give a 50% probability of limiting warming to 2 °C. per year through 2050. Click to enlarge. a year from now to 2050.

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APRIL 9, 2014

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) announced preliminary test results of its Dedicated-Exhaust Gas Recirculation (D-EGR) demonstration vehicle ( earlier post ) at the SAE 2014 World Congress in Detroit. D-EGR brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) at 2000 rpm 2 bar BMEP dropped 14.3% from 385 g/kWh to 330 g/kWh in the D-EGR engine.

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Gasoline Emissions Diesel Exhaust 317

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide in seawater is already increasing along the California coast decades earlier than existing models predict. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power.

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Climate Change Climate 2007 Ozone 259

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MAY 1, 2009

Hydrogen for reverse water gas shift reaction to avoid producing CO 2 during the process is produced by electrolyzing water, driven by solar power. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy. Hertwich and Zhang (2009).

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Solar Molten Salt Fuel Production 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

However, biodiesel from advanced biomass has an inherent environmental advantage of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction that can be realized once every step of the production chain is fully optimized and decarbonized, the researchers said. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5 They noted that an EBR of 1.2

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Oil-Sands Production Grid Saudi Arabia 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

SOFCs operate by separating oxygen from air and transferring it across a solid electrolyte membrane, where it reacts with a fuel—such as synthesis gas derived from coal, biofuels, or natural gas—to produce steam and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

For example, there is an air battery that uses zinc as the negative electrode, sodium hydroxide as the electrolyte, and the cathode is porous activated carbon, so it can absorb oxygen in the air to replace the oxidant in general dry batteries. (6) 6) Ternary lithium battery: Advantages. Flow field plates are usually made of graphite.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Another major shift is that China has become a voracious energy importer, especially of coal and liquefied natural gas. Now the decline has completely disappeared—they found it. It was underreported.

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Environment Energy Coal United States 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Net water use in oil sands production averages four barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for mining operations and 0.9

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Oil-Sands Oil 2010 Production 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. This lack makes it difficult to assess trade-offs between different environmental impact indicators.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The amount of water on fuel cell electrolyte membranes has a substantial influence on electricity generation efficiency. Two tanks with a three-layer structure made of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic and other materials are used to store hydrogen at 70 MPa (approximately 700 bars or 10,000 psi). mm and weight of 102 g.

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Prius Toyota Hydrogen Carbon Fiber 296

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh

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Solar Future Energy New Jersey 246

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Asia’s long-term competitiveness will depend heavily on how it controls the intensity of its resource use, including water and food, and manages its carbon footprint. Asia accounted for about 20% of the world’s energy consumption in 2000, 27% in 2007, and is expected to rise above 40% by 2050. Energy consumption.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Al Gore Gore Sierra Congress 277

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AUGUST 14, 2009

Most residents (66%) support the 2006 California law (AB 32) that requires greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced to 1990 levels by 2020. Twenty-three percent describe regional air pollution as a big problem, an 11-point drop since last year (34%) and the smallest percentage since PPIC began asking the question in June 2000.

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Economy Los Angeles Climate Change 2008 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Southern Cities See Record Temperatures, Little Water. Buckled train tracks and sagging power lines interrupted much of the city’s passenger train service, and residents were advised to conserve water. We’ve seen blackouts, disruptions to many of our transport systems, greater water consumption and of course, more sleepless nights.”

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Australia Climate Change Water 2009 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The 48 V electrical system serves not only high power consumers, such as the water pump and air-conditioning compressor, but also the Integrated Starter-Alternator (ISG), which also supplies energy to the battery by means of highly efficient energy recovery. The new engine is equipped with multi-way exhaust gas recirculation (EGR).

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Gasoline Mercedes Engine Diesel 150

Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Al Gore Gore Sierra Congress 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

IPCC reference emissions scenarios, 2000—2100. A maximum concentration of 450 ppm carbon dioxide (~550 ppm CO 2 equivalent) in the Earth’s atmosphere is commonly cited as the limit at which average temperatures can be held at 2 ºC, and many emissions reduction proposals are based upon these two “upper bounds” targets. “We

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

As our planet’s atmosphere overheats because the greenhouse gas firewall we’ve built by burning fossil fuels works so damn well, there is one secret weapon we can all still whip out if we want to fight back and try to save ourselves from frying. Won’t that be fun?! The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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America Power Powered Climate Change 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). These technologies are estimated to improve the reliability and efficiency of the distribution system 30-40%. 29,561,142. 125,006,103. 25,000,000.

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