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JUNE 20, 2011

billion in 2011 to $98.5 The 2011 award winners are: Greener synthetic pathways: Genomatica, San Diego, Calif. Genomatica has been producing BDO at pilot scale in 3,000 liter fermentations since the first half of 2010, and is moving to production at demonstration scale in 2011. billion by 2020. per million Btu.

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These included hitting targets for trace contaminant control, water contaminant oxidation, urine water recovery, and water tank tests—all of which are required to operate effectively and efficiently to enable finite resources to keep delicate human beings alive in orbit for long timeframes.

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MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. Report 2011-5210, 45 p. and OCS Study BOEM 2011–016. Lorenson, T.D., Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L., Greinert, J.,

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

We hear time and time again the claim that electric and plug-in hybrids are great for the environment -- but can’t handle bad weather.

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JULY 21, 2011

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Rice University led by RPI Professor Nikhil Koratkar have shown that flowing water with various molarities of hydrochloric acid (HCl) over graphene generates induced voltages an order of magnitude higher as compared to carbon nanotubes. Credit: ACS, Dhiman et al. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 29, 2011

A new report from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford identifies advantages to using agave plants, such as those used in the production of tequila and sisal, to derive biofuels. —Iou Cyan, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Energy Environ. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 7, 2010

Renault held a “2010 Environment Workshop” last week to showcase its progress across its range of vehicles’ full lifecycle through the Renault eco² program. It is a Renault-Nissan Alliance joint development and is due to be introduced in 2011. It will be manufactured at the Cléon plant in France.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC. An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. …

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2011

AOSC) announced that the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water has issued full regulatory approval for the MacKay River commercial oil sands project to MacKay Operating Corp. The company filed the application on December 10, 2009 and MacKay Opco received the final approval on December 23, 2011.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Implementation Plan addresses the following components: air quality; acid sensitive lakes and accumulated aerial deposition; water quantity/quality; aquatic ecosystem health—fish status and health, benthic invertebrates and other aquatic biota; wildlife toxicology; terrestrial biodiversity and habitat disturbance; and data management.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

BP has sanctioned the $9-billion Mad Dog Phase 2 project in the United States, despite the current low oil price environment. Today, the leaner $9-billion project, which also includes capacity for water injection, is projected to be profitable at or below current oil prices. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2019

—Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment. This proof of concept is a ground-breaking development that addresses the challenges of energy, water and food security – three elements that are inextricably linked and which form a nexus, meaning that actions in any one area have an impact in the others.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. Wabasca Heavy is a heavy oil from the Athabasca region obtained by polymer injection and water flooding and typically has a 19-20 API gravity and 4.15 It carries 90,000 barrels of oil per day, almost exclusively Western Canadian crude oil.

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JULY 23, 2012

Announced last month, the Five Year Program makes more than 75% of recoverable energy resources in US waters oceans available for exploration and development. million acres, located from nine to 250 miles offshore, in water depths ranging from 16 to more than 10,975 feet (5 to 3,346 meters). billion in high bids for more than 2.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Many of the resulting environmental problems can be addressed by stepping up efforts to meet new EU targets, according to the latest report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The EEA’s annual report under the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) assesses the environmental impact of transport across Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

Following the BDNT joint venture contract signing in May 2010 and granting of the China business license in March 2011, development has been progressing on schedule, according to the partners. The logo is designed around the flowing form of a central water-drop, supported by two hands.

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APRIL 19, 2011

It does so by reflecting sunlight back into space and by lowering the temperature of the surrounding air as the plants “exhale” cooler water. They measured temperature, reflectivity (albedo), and evapotranspiration—the water loss from the soil and from plants as they exhale water vapor. Loarie, David B. Lobell, Gregory P.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The analyzed samples consisted of a sand/soil mixture: 41% - 41%; water: 25% - 26%; bitumen: 31% - 32%; cellulose and other impurities: less than 1%. Clean sand/soil and clean water with the solids content of less than 0.36% were obtained as three separate end products of the MCW extraction process.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

to drill up to four shallow water exploration wells in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea beginning in July 2012. BOEMRE received Shell’s proposed exploration plan on May 4, 2011, and deemed it submitted on July 5, 2011.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

SITA UK, one of the country’s leading recycling and resource management companies and a subsidiary of Suez Environment, has signed an exclusive agreement with Cynar Plc to build Britain’s first fully operational plants to convert end of life plastic into diesel fuel. The cleaned distillates are then pumped to the storage tanks. (A

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AUGUST 23, 2016

The team recently reached a significant milestone on the project, producing over five gallons of synthetic paraffinic kerosene in a lab environment. The catalyst first removes water from the ethanol (dehydration), leaving behind ethylene. Five gallons is the quantity needed for “fit-for-purpose” testing.

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MAY 8, 2014

The Volkswagen Group’s Sustainability Report has been published annually since 2011. We aim for solid, sustained growth that brings benefits to everyone: customers and investors, the environment and society, and last but not least our employees. Since late 2011, “Think Blue. lower than the 588 kg of the base year of 2010.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

US-based Devon Energy Corporation has received regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water to move forward with the company’s third oil sands project in Canada. Devon’s Jackfish projects are designed to utilize saline water rather than fresh water.

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Yet governments have pledged to keep warming below two degrees to avoid the most dangerous aspects of climate change such as widespread water stress and sea level rise, and increases in extreme climatic events. Raupach (2011) Rapid growth in CO 2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. Canadell and Michael R.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Geologic pumped hydroelectric storage works by pumping water to a reservoir behind a dam when electricity demand is low. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity. These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce.

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JANUARY 28, 2012

Uranium in nuclear fuel rods is in a chemical form that is “pretty insoluble” in water, said Professor Alexandra Navrotsky, UC Davis, corresponding author on the paper, unless the uranium is oxidized to uranium-VI—a process that can be facilitated when radiation converts water into peroxide, a powerful oxidizing agent.

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JULY 25, 2013

The greatest damage to the Fukushima Daiichi complex after the tsunami in March 2011—and the greatest release of radiation—may have been caused by explosions of hydrogen gas that built up inside some of the reactors. Tests of the new cladding material are described in a series of papers appearing in the journal Nuclear Technology.

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MARCH 1, 2013

Specific measurements will include aerosol number, size, composition, and volatility; cloud particle size, number, images, and water content; CO 2 ; CO; NO x ; O 3 ; and water vapor. —Ruben Del Rosario, manager of NASA’s Fixed Wing Project. and will take place mostly within restricted airspace over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The 2011 Buick Regal’s direct injection Ecotec 2.0L The Qorivva MPC5566 is the first device from Freescale’s Qorivva MPC55xx Family to integrate 3MB of embedded flash memory, to be qualified for the harshest automotive environment and to offer full Read-While-Write capability. MPC5566 Block Diagram. Source: Freescale.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

UK Energy Minister, Charles Hendry MP, unveiled a well-capping device developed by the Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) at the SPE Offshore Europe 2011 conference in Aberdeen. At water depths of between 100m and 3,048m (328ft to 10,000ft). To various points of the subsea stack.

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MAY 26, 2011

New online maps published by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, in close cooperation with the Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) of the Joint Research Centre, allow citizens to pinpoint the main diffuse sources of air pollution, such as transport and aviation. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The new solar park is an integral part of Volkswagen’s worldwide sustainability strategy, which includes generating more power within the Group from renewable energy sources, said Volkswagen Group Officer for the Environment, Energy and New Business Areas, Wolfram Thomas. 25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

In nature, [FeFe] hydrogenase enzymes catalyze the formation of hydrogen from water with reported rate constants as high as 9000 s ?1 DuBois (2011), A Synthetic Nickel Electrocatalyst With a Turnover Frequency Above 100,000 s-1 for H 2 Production. 106,000 H 2 molecules per second—for the new catalyst. in their paper. Stewart, R.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

The water is recovered and returned to the reactor system, minimizing water discharge from the process. LanzaTech: Creating Something from Nothing; Alternative Route to Aviation Fuel (presentation by Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, 2011). The products and co-products are collected for downstream use.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

CNSOPB said there is strong evidence for Early Jurassic restricted marine oil-prone source rock along the southwestern Scotian Margin (OETR Association PFA 2011) beneath these parcels. The parcels are found in water depths ranging from ca. Parcel 2: $303,078,225. Parcel 3: $235,025,888. Parcel 4: $430,139,437. —Stuart Pinks.

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The Creative Greenius says you can now expect a bold United States policy on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a rapid shift away from carbon-based fuels to renewables and a science-based approach to water policy and other critical resources. The drought is causing the city to push water conservation and discuss possible penalties.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). There’s not one that makes sense everywhere; it’s more of a localized environment.” Earlier post.).

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