Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released One Million Electric Vehicles by 2015 , a short status report on advances in deployment and progress to date in meeting President Obama’s goal of putting one million plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) on the road by 2015. Estimated US supply of PEVs from 2011-2015. Ford Focus EV.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

AVA Biochem developed, patented and piloted a novel hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) process for the conversion of industrial sugars into the 100% bio-based molecule 5-HMF. Earlier post.) 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF, CAS 67-47-0) is the link between biomass and furan-based chemicals. Earlier post.) Krawielitzki et al. doi: 10.1089/ind.2014.1543.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Gates is joined in the round by Total, the global energy major which, after an initial investment in 2015, has expanded its investment and has additionally signed a licensing agreement with Renmatix for 1M tons of annual cellulosic sugar production capacity, at Total’s discretion to build corresponding facilities.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Energy tightened efficiency testing standards for air conditioners for the first time since 2015. cooling represented just 8 percent of residential energy demand, compared to (as of 2015 at least) 43 percent for heating. This year, the U.S. Still, in the U.S.,

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JULY 10, 2019

OTT was established in 2015 to advance the economic, energy, and national security interests of the United States by expanding the commercial impact of the Department of Energy’s research and development portfolio. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif. Louis , Mo. San Jose, Calif.

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APRIL 28, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened the registration period for the new Wave Energy Prize competition that aims to double the state-of-the-art performance of wave energy conversion (WEC) devices over the next two years. Receive seed funding to build a 1/20th scale model WEC device for testing. Van Buren Township, Michigan.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

“xAI is not raising capital and I have had no conversations with anyone in this regard,” Musk said in a post on X. The CEO of Tesla has been vocal about his plans to build safer AI. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but stepped down from its board in 2018.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

OPEN 2015 ( DOE-FOA-0001261 ) will support the development of potentially disruptive new technologies in all areas of energy research and development, for both transportation and stationary applications. OPEN 2015 is the third open funding solicitation issued by the agency. —OPEN 2015. Building efficiency.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Flagship Ventures is investing in Red Rock Biofuels, which is commercializing a Fischer-Tropsch-based process for the conversion of woody biomass into renewable, drop-in diesel and jet fuels. Red Rock is working to build its first commercial scale refinery in Lakeview, OR. Flagship partner Brian Baynes, Ph.D., Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The bio-refinery will be located in Anhui province, close to Fuyang in Eastern China, and will have capacity to process 1 million metric tons of biomass per year, approximately 4 times the capacity of the biomass conversion facility by Beta Renewables in Crescentino, Italy.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2023

Our first two ride & drives, in 2014 and 2015, were the largest NDEW events held in the area west of the Mississippi, south of St. They’ve all been incredibly important to building our chapter in terms of inspiration, organizational effort, and effective visioning.” We started off with a bang,” recalled Erb.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

BioAmber provided an equity investment in Comet in 2015 and its CEO Jean-Francois Huc is now joining Comet’s board of directors. The Comet cellulosic sugar process uses a novel, two-stage process to activate cellulosic biomass, followed by conversion to glucose at very low enzyme loading.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

EST is based on the hydro-conversion of heavy loads using a nano-dispersed catalyser (slurry). Sinopec will build an EST plant with the design capacity of 46,000 barrels per day of heavy refining residue (310 tonnes per hour). An innovative process scheme that allows catalyst to be recycled in a very simple and economic way.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

This novel approach avoids costly, resource-intensive thermochemical gas-to-liquids (GTL) conversion methods, and offers a biofuel that does not utilize sugar or other plant-based feedstock. Conversion of methane to isobutanol provides economic and environmental advantages upon which the collaboration will look to build.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) The carbon nanofibers build up on the steel electrode, where they can be removed, Licht says.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Researchers from Caltech and UC San Diego have developed a family of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts that have shown exceptional activity in the conversion of seed oils to linear-chain olefins. Phil Szuromi (2015) “Olefins from seed oils at industrial scales” Science doi: 10.1126/science.347.6221.516-f. doi: 10.1002/anie.201410797.

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OCTOBER 27, 2015

Aerial view of plant, facing east (August 2015). DuPont broke ground on this facility in 2012, although preparation for the building of this advanced biorefinery started in the early 2000s when it began working with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on biofuels technology. DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol Facility.

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MARCH 22, 2015

Here, we show that crystalline Ni 5 P 4 evolves H 2 with geometric electrical to chemical conversion efficiency on par with Pt in strong acid (33 mV dec -1 Tafel slope and ?62 2 , equivalent to ~10% solar photoelectrical conversion efficiency. Platinum is the benchmark material for both devices as it has the best conversion efficiency.

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MAY 18, 2015

The first isobutene batch produced from renewable resources (here: corn-derived glucose) at Global Bioenergies’ industrial pilot in Pomacle-Bazancourt, near Reims in France, had been delivered to the chemical company Arkema early May 2015. —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. US 9199889 B2.

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APRIL 8, 2014

To achieve this first objective, DOE intends to pursue parallel strategies: Advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power. Operate three fully integrated CCS demonstrations and six large scale CO 2 storage injections by the end of FY 2015. watt utility, $2.37/watt watt commercial, and $3.10/watt

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

electric utility company, battery manufacturers Exide and beta-motion and inverter manufacturer SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) have joined forces to build the first multi-technology, modular large-scale 5MW battery storage system. Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

Corn yields are also improving—between 2005 and 2015, US corn yields increased by more than 10%. Among the findings: Between 2005 and 2015, ethanol production in the US also increased significantly—from 3.9 —US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. billion gallons per year. Source: USDA. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Earlier this year, the company reported the successful conversion of renewable resources first into gaseous isobutene via fermentation, which was then subsequently catalytically oligomerized into a mix of fuel-range liquid hydrocarbons. Earlier post.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative. Luning Prak, M.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The global emissions of CO 2 doubled from 1975 to 2015, and are projected to triple by 2040 if we stay on our present course4. Improved energy management in buildings (e) and widespread diffusion of electric vehicles (f) are decreasing our carbon footprint. Where are we heading? Renewable energy future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Air Products has signed a long-term agreement with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited ( BPCL ) and will build, own, and operate several new industrial gas production facilities in Kochi, Kerala, India. A phased onstream for the products supplied to BPCL’s Kochi Refinery targets late 2015 for the initial supply of gases.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2013

The next step was the conversion of that EV to a full aluminium space frame electric vehicle. This also means an additional weight reduction of 25 kg (55 lbs)—assuming battery technology projected to be available in 2015—making the aluminium electric vehicle in total 187 kg (412 lbs) lighter than the steel electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

At APEC 2015, ON Semiconductor and power conversion specialist Transphorm, building on their previously announced partnership to bring gallium nitride (GaN) based power solutions to market, introduced the co-branded NTP8G202N (TPH3202PS) and NTP8G206N (TPH3206PS) 600V GaN cascode transistors and a 240 W reference design that utilizes them. (A

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

million loan guarantee to build a refined alga oil commercial facility. The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. Other fuel derived from cellulosic biomass. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The ongoing discussion on the feedstock change from fossil to renewable carbon sources opens up new perspectives in terms of novel conversion processes and high performance products. Most research activities aim at either thermochemical or biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. … —Ulonska et al. —Ulonska et al.

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APRIL 6, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named General Motors as one of its 2015 ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management. GM also received the ENERGY STAR Climate Communication s award. GM joined ENERGY STAR as a partner in 1995.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This project is designed to complement an earlier Mississippi agreement, which requires KiOR to build three plants in Mississippi before 2015. The first two plants are expected to be in Mississippi, with additional sites planned in Georgia and Texas. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 6, 2022

Sasson , inventor of the device, told The New York Times in 2015. “It Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. To build his digital camera, Sasson scavenged a lens and an exposure mechanism from a Kodak XL55 movie camera.

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JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. Commercial demonstrations of the conversion technologies integrated with carbon capture and storage will have to be pursued aggressively and proven economically viable by 2015 if these technologies are to be commercially deployable before 2020.

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APRIL 7, 2015

A team of Virginia Tech researchers and colleagues has demonstrated the complete conversion of glucose and xylose from pretreated plant biomass to H 2 and CO 2 based on an in vitro synthetic enzymatic pathway crafted from more than 10 purified enzymes. Pathway depicting the enzymatic conversion of biomass to hydrogen and CO 2.

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JULY 28, 2014

Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Registered teams must submit a technical approach and testing application by 22 July 2015.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Based on requests from producers and public comment, EPA revised the definition of heating oil for purposes of the RFS program to include an additional category of fuel oil used to heat interior spaces of homes or buildings to control ambient climate for human comfort. Deliveries are targeted to commence by April, 2015. mass solids.

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