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At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%. savings stimulated by high oil prices led to a decrease of 3% in CO 2 emissions in the European Union and of 2% in both the United States and Japan. combined, where emissions increased by 9% and 6% respectively in 2011.

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in 2011 as economic growth fuels higher energy consumption. However, even with increases in 2010 and 2011, projected CO 2 emissions in 2011 are lower than annual emissions from 1999 through 2008. EIA projects that world oil consumption will grow by 1.5 million bbl/d in 2011, similar to the forecast of last month.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A three-year biofuel trial organized by Neste Oil, Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), and Proventia has recently been completed, and the results have shown that Neste Oil’s NExBTL renewable diesel can significantly reduce local emissions that have a direct impact on urban air quality.

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JULY 7, 2010

Ford Motor Company’s biomaterial researchers have engineered a patent-pending formula to use renewable soy oil to improve rubber car parts. By using renewable soy oil as a 25% replacement for petroleum oil, Ford researchers more than doubled rubber’s stretchability and reduced its environmental impact.

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APRIL 13, 2011

A new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) study shows finds that oil from algae grown in outdoor raceway ponds located in the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes could replace 17% of the United States’ imported oil for transportation. —Mark Wigmosta, lead author and a PNNL hydrologist.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Suncor is targeting 1 million barrels per day output in 2020, with its growth in the oil sands underpinned by its alliance with Total. Approximately 80% of that production will be from the oil sands. The transaction is subject to certain regulatory and other approvals, with closing targeted late in the first quarter of 2011.

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MARCH 15, 2009

With its second NExBTL renewable diesel plant coming online in Finland in about six months, Neste Oil plans to increase it purchase of palm oil from Malaysian from about 160,000 tonnes in 2008 to around 250,000 tonnes this year, according to Neste vice-president of business operations of renewable fuels Risto Karppinen.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Biorefinery Assistance Program was created through the 2008 Farm Bill and is administered by USDA Rural Development. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility. Other fuel derived from cellulosic biomass.

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MARCH 15, 2011

These three USDA Rural Development renewable energy programs are authorized by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Farm Bill). Under the Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA), USDA is making approximately $463 million in program level available for loan guarantees in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials. Presently, acrylic acid is produced by the oxidation of propylene derived from the refining of crude oil. Novozymes and Cargill have collaborated on renewable acrylic acid technology since 2008.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Waste feedstock shall include, but not be limited to: waste vegetable oils, waste animal fats, substances derived from wastewater and the treatment of wastewater or grease trap waste. Other forms of renewable biomass—agricultural crop residues, dedicated energy crops, or algae—are excluded. The Clean Energy Biofuels Act. The Mandate.

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JUNE 10, 2009

Initial results from a joint pilot test of 14 series-produced Mercedes-Benz trucks and buses running NExBTL renewable diesel (hydrotreated vegetable oil, HVO) since mid-2008 show a reduction in NO x emissions of up to 15%, and in CO 2 emissions of more than 60% compared to fossil fuels.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Oil and gas major Total has invested an undisclosed amount in the series D round of advanced biofuels company Gevo. The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives. In November 2008, Gevo and ICM, Inc. Gevo was founded in 2005 by Drs. Joseph, Mo.,

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

The Annual Energy Outlook 2011 (AEO2011) Reference case released yesterday by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) more than doubles the technically recoverable US shale gas resources assumed in AEO2010 and added new shale oil resources. Shale gas offsets declines in other US supply to meet. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Fast forward to 2008 and Wallace started taking advantage of the internet’s ability to reach vast amounts of people simultaneously. There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. According to the US Energy Information Administration: “In 2022, renewable energy sources accounted for about 13.1%

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With assets exceeding US$270 billion, China Energy has set a number of world records including being the largest producer of coal, thermal power, renewable energy, and coal-to-oil and coal chemical products. Clean energy, including hydrogen, is a key focus of the Group.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

This investment was part of the partnership agreement, signed in July 2011. Since 2008 Global Bioenergies has been developing a process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, one of the most important molecules in the chemical industry, which is easily converted into fuels, plastics and elastomers. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Aeromexico is using a 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced from camelina using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, on flights on its Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

The parties will work together to convert this mill to produce Amyris renewable products with first production targeted for the 2011-2012 harvest season. It is also possible to produce renewable drop-in diesel and jet fuel with performance equal to or better than existing biofuels and oil-based fuels. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via the US Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center to develop and demonstrate technology that will produce renewable jet fuel from isobutanol supplied by Gevo, Inc. —Jim Rekoske, vice president and general manager for Renewable Energy & Chemicals at Honeywell’s UOP.

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MAY 9, 2010

Manitoba Hydro, in partnership with Natural Resources Canada’s National Renewable Diesel Demonstration Initiative (NRDDI), is supporting a C$340,000 (US$326,000) project that will demonstrate the use of biodiesel blends (5%) and long-term storage under extreme cold weather conditions in electric generators in a remote northern Manitoba community.

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The announcement provides the opportunity to expand the use of non-food, energy crops for liquid biofuels and to help meet state mandated Renewal Portfolio Standards (RPS). REPREVE Renewables, based in Georgia, also is the sponsor of the project’s accompanying environmental assessment. USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) administers BCAP.

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MAY 20, 2010

The Evolution Seat is expected to launch in the Asian market by 2011. This is a traditional polyurethane trim laminate and foam insert replacement using recyclable, renewable resource-derived fast-growth southern-softwood fibers. SoyFoam , made from renewable soybean oil, has been on the Ford Mustang seats since 2008.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The 2011 Ford Explorer will feature soy foam in seat cushions and seatbacks. Ford has more models with seats that use bio foam than any other automaker, it says; the 2011 Explorer will become the 23 rd model to feature soy foam. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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China bioethanol pump price for five enzyme loading scenarios in ( a ) 2011 with a 16¢ per liter (60.6¢ In 2011, China contributed 29% of world carbon dioxide emissions and therefore the country has a significant potential to influence the present and future global energy situation. million tons in 2008. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

” Their analysis is in the context of the “ surprising [oil] demand strength of 2010 “; 2010 saw absolute incremental demand at around 2.2mb/d of growth—the second highest in 30 years, despite oil prices in the $90/bbl region. In the US hybrids fell from about 3% of total sales in 2008-09 to 2.2%

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

For example, transport energy consumption actually rose slightly in 2011 compared with 2010 (0.1 %), while overall transport GHG emissions (including aviation but excluding international maritime) in 2010 only reduced by 0.4 % compared to 2009. In spite of the increase in sales of electric vehicles in 2010 and 2011, alternatively?fueled

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Other developing countries took similar measures, in the hope that the crop would provide enhanced income for farmers as well as renewable energy. By 2008, Jatropha had been planted on more than an estimated 900,000 ha, of which 85% was in Asia, 13% in Africa and the rest in Latin America. —Kant and Wu.

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The necessary set of new technologies must enable today’s poor to attain decent living standards, while reducing emissions and waste and ending the unrestrained drawdown of the Earth’s non-renewable resources. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011. —The World Economic and Social Survey 2011.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

million through the Biorefinery Assistance Program for its project to demonstrate an integrated algal biorefinery process that will cultivate algae in ponds, and will use dewatering and oil extraction technology to produce an intermediate that will then be processed into drop-in green fuels such as jet fuel and diesel. 17,944,902. 10,148,508.

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In response, the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Renewable Fuels Association charged that the study was fundamentally flawed. In June 2008, EPA outlined testing needed for the agency to approve a waiver, and EPA requirements were consistent with test plans developed by the auto and oil industries. Earlier post.)

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The Phase 2 review follows on the original NRC Phase 1 review of the Partnership conducted in 2007 and resulting in a report issued in 2008. The 10-year funding for this program expires in 2011. Earlier post.). kW versus 3.0 Recommendation 6-3. Two of the project teams (Cummins, Inc. and Daimler Trucks North America, LLC.)

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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However, notes Dr. Rebecca Boudreaux, Oberon’s president, oil was at $16 per barrel back then. Now, she says, the landscape has changed with the high price of oil. The company demonstrated these vehicles in US operation in 2008, in conjunction with the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC).

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It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. — Volt Enthusiast 7.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Review of Forestry Carbon Standards 2008 Ford Partners to Commercialize Electric Vehicles A New "Green" Deal.Direction for the economic re. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. It would be a financial win-win for all.

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