Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Energy Parks Australia Pty is partnering with New Zealand-based Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation to develop the infrastructure for energy parks to produce next-generation biofuels from multi-biomass sources. The first site has been identified on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, while others are being researched for suitability.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The Future of Petrochemicals is part of a new IEA series focusing on “blind spots” of the global energy system—issues that are critical to the evolution of the energy sector but that receive less attention than they deserve. Petrochemicals are rapidly becoming the largest driver of global oil demand. Source: IEA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

The development of new ultrahigh-temperature materials with compatible coatings and manufacturing technologies has the potential to increase gas turbine efficiency up to 7%, which will significantly reduce wasted energy and carbon emissions. The proposed program aims to develop refractory metal alloys (such as Mo, Nb etc.)

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Gas Gas-Electric Environment 2000 269

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Anthropogenic global greenhouse gas emissions increased by 15% between 2000 and 2005, a sharp increase in the expected rate of growth, according to a new report from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). It also provides data on greenhouse-gas emissions for the 20 years preceding the 1990 Kyoto protocol.

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2005 2000 Gas Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

It joins a number of established ABB products, such as Azipod propulsion and the Onboard DC Grid, which maximize energy efficiency for vessel owners. Currently, many ships still run with their generators at a set speed, regardless of the power requirement, creating a surplus of wasted energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2017

In a study published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , a team from the University of Vermont reports that particulate matter from the combustion of biodiesel blends may be 50–80% less toxic per unit PM mass emitted than PM from petroleum diesel, depending on feedstock. Holmén, Benjamin Rukavina, John Kasumba, and Naomi K. 7b00698.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5 Ford’s latest water reduction initiatives are designed to build on the success the company has had with its Global Water Management Initiative that launched in 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

It’s perfectly obvious that President Obama is attempting to reach out to the right and members of Congress who are owned by the oil industry with his move this week to make offshore drilling part of his energy mix. New technologies will prevent oil spills. Try telling the Australians that. Our beaches are economic engines.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 22, 2022

He added that Tesla is deploying capital at the fasted rate possible without being wasteful and then shared a bit of Gigafactory news. Deploying capital at the fastest rate we can without being wasteful. Elon Musk said: “The overarching purpose is to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. We are working on all three.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

The decision to go forward with the project followed a thorough evaluation of renewable energy sources for the plant, which Honda announced in February 2012. This includes a 30% reduction in CO 2 emissions from Honda products, and significant CO 2 reductions from the company’s plants and other operations, compared with year 2000 levels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste. GM has generated more than $2.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Gevo is focusing on isobutanol fermentation and Amyris is doing the bioconversion to produce isoprenoids.

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Alternative Fuels Oil Chevron Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

The use of natural gas reduces greenhouse gas emissions six to 11 percent, according to the US Department of Energy. RNG, also known as biomethane, can be derived from many abundant and renewable sources, including decomposing organic waste in landfills, wastewater treatment and agriculture. Chicago, Ill.; Earth City, Mo.;

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Gas West Virginia Alternative Fuels Vehicles 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2012

The Honda Environmental Leadership Award and Acura Environmental Leadership Award will be given to dealers who quantifiably reduce their environmental impact, beginning with a minimum 10% reduction in total energy use at their dealerships. —Steve Center, vice president of the Environmental Business Development Office.

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Acura Dealers Honda Green 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2012

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. in the period 2000-2010. This combination of treatments is of remarkable interest because it could be a reasonable route for dealing with waste plastics. Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/ef300938r. —Escola et al.

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Transportation Fuel Production Gasoline 240

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

The group is committed to making transportation fuel from agricultural waste, energy crops and forest biomass. G2Biochem’s technology has successfully processed a variety of biomass feedstocks including agricultural residues (corn cobs, stover and bagasse), energy crops (sorghum and miscanthus) and woody biomass (poplar).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

A new regulation on the recyclability of motor vehicles will significantly limit the waste production from end-of-life vehicles (ELV). reprocessed in a production process of waste materials for the original purpose or for other purposes but excluding energy recovery). Japan also introduced similar legislation in 2002(Act No.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive as conventional diesel (bottom). times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

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Oil-Sands Production Grid Saudi Arabia 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. However, for high water content biomass, such as algae, the energy costs of dewatering may offset the energy demand of liquefaction processes. oxygen and an energy content of 39 MJ/kg. The yield of biocrude was 44.5 ± 4.7% carbon, 10.1% hydrogen, 4.4%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2013

MQL reduces oil mist generation; biological contamination of coolant; waste water volume; costs for capital equipment; and regulatory permitting. Without the need for a coolant system across most engine production lines, MQL also helps to reduce energy use. MQL also improves recycling and transport of coolant contaminated chips.

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Ford Water 2007 Michigan 273

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

But there’s much more automakers can do beyond fuel efficiency to reduce our environmental impact by adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout our operations. When complete, the new paint shop will be the most energy-efficient paint line in Honda’s US automobile production network. —Ryan Harty.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

However, black carbon emissions from these sources have declined significantly, as well—by almost 30 percent since 2000. … The largest source of black carbon emissions in California, by far, is wildfire. An average wildfire season contributes two-thirds of current black carbon emissions in California.

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Pollution Climate California Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

SynSel Energi AS has entered into an IH 2 (Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion) process demonstration license agreement with CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company Ltd, a member of the CRI Catalyst group (CRI), a global group of catalyst technology companies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2016

Success in developing a sustainable composite could reduce vehicle weight and lower energy consumption, while paring the use of petrochemicals and the impact of vehicle production on the environment. According to the United Nations Environment Program, 5 billion metric tons of agricultural biomass waste is produced annually.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Any computation generates waste heat. This strategy would also make it easier to harvest solar energy. The more solar plants these robots built, the more energy they would have to mine Mercury and produce machines. In a 2000 paper , Lloyd calculated that 1 kilogram of matter in 1 liter could support a maximum of roughly 5.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The oxygen reduction reaction takes place at the fuel cell’s cathode, creating water as its only waste. The team created the iron-platinum shell by decomposing iron pentacarbonyl [Fe(CO) 5 ] and reducing platinum acetylacetonate [Pt(acac) 2 ], a technique Sun first reported in a paper published in 2000 in the journal Science.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

During his time at MIT, Penfield developed a course that made the second law of thermodynamics—which states that the more energy is transferred or transformed, the more of it is wasted—accessible to first-year students. In 1985 he became director of the Microsystems Research Program. He earned a bachelor's degree and Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Contaminated sites, including old mines, landfills, and waste disposal locations, release 8 - 33 tonnes per year. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here, RME show advantages for primary energy and GHG, but disadvantages in terms of acidification, eutrophication and ozone depletion. Increased eutrophication is a key characteristic of biofuels from energy crops when compared with fossil fuels. Source: “Assessing Biofuels”. Click to enlarge. World Transport Biofuel Production.

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Ozone Water Emissions Oil 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected. Over the past decade, production from oil sands more than doubled from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to 1.35 mbd by 2030, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) targets are specifically defined and require reductions by 2020 (relative to best practice in 2000), of CO 2 emissions per passenger-km by 50%, NO x emissions by 80% and noise by 50%.

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Engine Carbon Universal 2000 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2009

The standard FedEx trucks used in the retrofit program were 2000 or 2001 models with 300,000 to 500,000 miles driven. An added benefit of the conversion program is that it not only reduces pollution but also extends the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production and creating a reduce-and-reuse program.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2009

fermentans for carbon and energy, and A. cerevisiae for metabolism of toxic waste products. Both of these processes require large energy inputs to convert the gas to liquid fuels. Cicerone (2000) Emissions of Methyl Halides and Methane from Rice Paddies. cerevisiae dependent on A. fermentans dependent on S. Redeker, N.-Y.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I just want to see projects get funded, renewable energy put to work, energy efficiency retrofits instituted, conservation measures adopted and sustainable practices replace business-as-usual before the climate crisis makes any positive action a moot point. You can argue the merits of that if you want, but I’m done arguing.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

In just two decades, the share of the global lighting market held by gallium-nitride-based light-emitting diodes has gone from zero to more than 50 percent, according to a study by the International Energy Agency. The data came from the International Energy Agency, Statista, and other sources.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

With the AMG Performance package, the engine delivers 875 N·m of torque at 2000 rpm, with a constant 900 N·m available between 2500 and 3750 rpm. MCT 7-speed sports transmission with Controlled Efficiency mode and stop-start function.

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Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

These standard trucks used in the retrofit programme were models from 2000 or 2001 with 300,000-500,000 miles on the clock. The aim of the conversion programme is not only to reduce pollution but also to extend the life of the vehicles, helping to eliminate waste production. The powertrain equipment was replaced with a Cummins 6.7l

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