Green Car Congress
JUNE 19, 2018
The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. Coal emerges as the biggest loser in the long run.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 9, 2014
In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels. Background. Hydrogen-to-fuels.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2009
During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla ( earlier post ) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according to the company. Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2011
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 The US has 1,750 MW of PV planned for 2011 and currently employs 100,000 people, more than coal mining or steel manufacturing.
EV Info
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
Coal – the cheapest option and the only energy source with low-cost storage in the shape of a big heap of the stuff – was ruled out as too carbon-rich, even though countries such as China are currently building scores of new coal-fired plants. But until 2009, the conventional wisdom was that gas was going to run out soon.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 29, 2015
During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 31, 2014
The most obvious is the $456-billion gas deal that Russian state-owned Gazprom signed with China in May, but that was just the biggest in a string of energy agreements going back to 2009. Rise of the Yuan. It is no secret that Beijing has been looking to promote the yuan as an alternative reserve currency.
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