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FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Honda continued the expansion of its manufacturing operations in North America with the production start of the redesigned 2015 Honda Fit at a new, automobile plant of Honda de Mexico, S.A. The start-up of the Celaya Plant increases Honda’s annual automobile production capacity in North America to approximately 1.92

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APRIL 19, 2013

billion (US$15 billion) in the country by 2015; investments in highly efficient products and resource-conserving production will account for more than two thirds of this figure. Annual production capacity is set to grow from the present figure of 2.6 A further reduction of 11% is planned by 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Production is now underway from the Cardamom development, the second major deep-water facility Shell has brought online in the US Gulf of Mexico this year, following the start-up of Mars B in February. Cardamom is a high-value addition to Shell’s production at the Auger platform, said Marvin Odum, Shell Upstream Americas Director.

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JULY 16, 2020

Costs for producing green hydrogen have fallen 50% since 2015 and could be reduced by an additional 30% by 2025 due to the benefits of increased scale and more standardized manufacturing, among other factors. The hydrogen produced by electrolysis is rapidly developing from pilot to commercial-scale operation in many parts of the world.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

ExxonMobil has started oil production from the Liza field offshore Guyana ahead of schedule and less than five years after the first discovery of hydrocarbons, which is well ahead of the industry average for deepwater developments. The Liza Phase 1 development is approximately 190 kilometers offshore in water depths of 1,500– 1,900 meters.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

The new Ford EcoBlue diesel engine production line at Dagenham Engine Plant will reduce water and energy consumption by more than 50%. Dagenham Engine Plant is Ford’s largest diesel engine production facility globally, and produced the first EcoBlue diesel engine ( earlier post ) in April this year.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Ford plans to cut the amount of water used to make each vehicle 30% globally by 2015, compared with the amount of water used per vehicle in 2009. If Ford meets the 30% goal, the amount of water used to make a vehicle will have dropped from 9.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015. Reducing water use.

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APRIL 13, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. Structure of an IMM photocathode configured for water splitting with TEM cross-section of the active layers.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Iron and nickel, which are found in abundance on Earth, would replace precious metals ruthenium, platinum and iridium that up until now are regarded as benchmark catalysts in the water-splitting process. —Suryanto et al. Our results show the nickel-iron catalyst can be as active as the platinum one for hydrogen generation. and $19.65

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AUGUST 11, 2015

A team at Monash University (Australia) has developed an “artificial photosynthesis” system that delivers the highest efficiency reported to date—in excess of 22%—for the solar-driven conversion of water to hydrogen. A paper on the researchers’s work is published in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

AB 1328 gives California water agencies access to information on potentially hazardous chemicals used in oil and gas operations. For decades, legislators in California have been working to obtain information on the chemicals present in wastewater from oil and gas production.

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MARCH 3, 2015

million in funding in fiscal year 2015 will be made available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative ( BRDI ) to support feedstock development, biofuels and biobased products development, or biofuels development analysis. Biofuels and Biobased Products Development. USDA-NIFA-9008-004957 ).

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JANUARY 25, 2022

And chip fabs need a lot of water to operate. By some estimates , a large chip fab can use up to 10 million gallons of water a day, which is equivalent to the water consumption of roughly 300,000 households. to open up its plants to inspection to demonstrate their water conservation efforts.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

The improved catalyst has already released four times the amount of hydrogen ever produced by MoS 2 from water. Improving the capacity and efficiency of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) is an enduring challenge of green energy production and artificial photosynthesis. Water splitting is a challenging reaction.

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JUNE 5, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. The two projects were competitively selected from the five Brine Extraction Storage Test (BEST) projects awarded in September 2015.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 14, 2022

In Canada, bp will no longer have interests in oil sands production and will shift its focus to future potential offshore growth. The first discovery was made by Equinor in 2013, followed by additional discoveries in 2015, 2016 and 2020. 650 water depth. John’s in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

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DECEMBER 21, 2015

Researchers at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have made advances toward affordable photoelectrochemical (PEC) production of hydrogen. The PEC process uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Producing hydrogen through solar water splitting requires the coverage of large land areas.

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MARCH 27, 2022

The company manufactures flat steel products—primarily hot-rolled plates and coils—for both domestic and international markets. Launched in 2015, ResponsibleSteel sets global standards for sustainability performance and promotes the certification of steel chain companies through a network of independent certification bodies.

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APRIL 10, 2015

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed an artificial photosynthetic scheme for the direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO 2 and water using a two-step process involving a biocompatible light-capturing nanowire array with a direct interface with microbial systems. —Liu et al. The acetate (?

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JANUARY 9, 2016

of the energy consumed for the reported water electrolysis. Wei Liu, Yong Cui, Xu Du, Zhe Zhang, Zisheng Chaob and Yulin Deng (2015) “High efficiency hydrogen evolution from native biomass electrolysis” Energy Environ. The electric energy consumption can be as low as 0.69 kWh per normal cubic meter of H 2 (Nm −3 H 2 ) at 0.2

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al. —Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University’s Winthrop E.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The well was drilled in 6,030 feet (1,838 meters) of water and is located approximately 11 miles (18 kilometers) northwest of the Liza field. The well was drilled in 4,793 feet (1,461 meters) of water and is located approximately 42 miles (68 kilometers) southeast of the Liza field. The Stabroek block is 6.6

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NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A team at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis ( JCAP ) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley is proposing an artificial photosynthesis scheme for direct synthesis and separation to almost pure ethanol with minimum product crossover using saturated salt electrolytes. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Singh, Ezra L.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Using genome-scale transcript and protein profiling, the team study presented and tested a new hypothesis on the metabolic relationship between oxygenic photosynthesis and nitrogenase-mediated H 2 production in Cyanothece 51142. This organism can make lots of hydrogen, very fast; it’s a viable catalyst for hydrogen production.

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JULY 9, 2016

The Volkswagen brand announced that it has reached the self-defined sustainability target for production set out in Think Blue. At the brand’s production facilities throughout the world, vehicles and components are now manufactured in a way which is 25% more environmentally compatible than five years ago. Earlier post.)

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JULY 18, 2021

The financing round will enable the company to scale from the batch processing of materials to commercial roll-to-roll production. In addition to having an extremely low carbon footprint, MIRUM requires no water during manufacturing and dyeing. NFW was founded in 2015 and is based in Peoria, Illinois.

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MARCH 24, 2015

The US Department of Energy announced 94 2015 Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Phase 2 Release 1 Awards , including three Office of Science projects focusing on hydrogen production from electrolysis and hydrogen systems supporting fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). Giner, Inc.

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JULY 10, 2023

—Björn Wickman, Associate Professor at the Department of Physics at Chalmers, corresponding author Sulfuric acid is produced either from sulfur from the petroleum industry or as a by-product in the mining industry’s smelters. In the latter case, mercury, which is naturally present in the ore, can end up in the finished products.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Bosch is now more broadly commercializing its water injection system for turbocharged engines ( earlier post ). Bosch currently supplies water injection parts for the BMW M4 GTS—the first production vehicle to feature a water injection system. Water injection can also boost power by up to 5%, Bosch says.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Now the slick but dry state is becoming famous for water: that precious element that both resolves the drought problem and also makes it possible to pump more oil out of the ground. At the same time, the new technology uses no chemicals, rendering it quite possibly the ‘greenest’ water processing technology in operation today.

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JANUARY 13, 2014

We do not believe that it is prudent to fund the production of cellulosic fuels out of Columbus at a significant loss to prices…these losses are driven by the operating state—low volume cannot absorb the cost of production.” We must drive yield toward and beyond 80 gallons per ton, while reducing product cost per gallon.”

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JULY 29, 2012

The technology could theoretically reduce the generation of carbon dioxide while producing ethanol that could be used an alternative fuel for automobiles.Panasonic used an original metallic catalyst, as well as gallium nitride used in the production of such semiconductors such as LEDs, to induce the reaction with the sunlight, water and CO 2.The

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

miles (6 kilometers) east of Turbot-1 and was drilled in 5,928 feet (1,807 meters) of water by the Noble Tom Madden. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited is operator and holds 45% interest in the Stabroek Block. It is located approximately 3.7 Earlier Stabroek block discoveries. Source: ExxonMobil.

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JUNE 28, 2023

People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment.” She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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APRIL 29, 2013

Production of mined diluted bitumen from the first of three froth treatment trains has begun. Start-up of two additional bitumen froth trains will proceed in sequence as planned, bringing production from the initial development to an expected 110,000 barrels per day later in 2013.

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