Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

This agreement is a win-win for the laid-off coal miners who will work in this facility, their families and their communities. Sparkz will be focused on creating a strong and diverse workforce capable of competing against foreign batteries made in China and securing the supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2021

MP Materials has received a $3-million award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to complete a feasibility study, working with the University of Kentucky (UK), on a system to produce rare earth oxides, metals, and other critical materials recovered from coal by-products. Mountain Pass facility. Source: MP Materials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2023

The Louisiana SAF facility will be the template for multiple other such facilities to be built across North America, Europe and Asia. DGF replaces the coal gasification used by others with biomass gasification and natural gas reforming. This simplifies implementation and further reduces new carbon emissions created in the process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. Lithium Americas is focused on advancing the Cauchari-Olaroz and Pastos Grandes projects in Argentina and the Thacker Pass project in Nevada. Background.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The composite blocks can be made from low-cost and locally sourced materials, including the excavated soil at the construction site, but can also utilize waste materials such as mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass from decommissioned wind turbine blades.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 16, 2016

Located on the shores of Lake Erie, the Ontario Power Generation Nanticoke Generating Station was once North America's largest coal-fired power plant. Here's a turn of events that should make renewable-energy advocates smile.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2012

By 2025, ExxonMobil predicts natural gas will overtake coal to become the second most widely used source of energy worldwide. To date, North America has been the proving ground for unconventional gas development—and the results have been encouraging, confirming the enormous potential of this resource. —Rex Tillerson.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2023

Mercedes-Benz has signed a supply agreement with Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) ( earlier post ) over approximately 50,000 tonnes almost CO₂-free steel per year for its European press shops and deepened its partnership through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to establish a sustainable steel supply chain in North America.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2010

Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The syngas composition depends on the coal geology as well as the process parameters such as operating pressure, outlet temperature and flow.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2009

has entered into an agreement with Clean Coal Ltd., an internationally based company whose technical team is based in the United Kingdom, for the development of an Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project in Nova Scotia. Clean Coal Ltd. Clean Coal Ltd. Clean Coal Ltd. Stealth Ventures Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd. West Virginia is home to about 22,000 coal miners, down from 62,500 in 1979.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

Aqua America, Inc., As both a former DEP [Department of Environmental Protection] and Economic Development Secretary for the Commonwealth, I believe that the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania will become the biggest economic driver in the state since days of coal and steel.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% Coal was again the fastest growing fossil fuel with predictable consequences for carbon emissions; it now accounts for 30.3% globally, and 8.4%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four advanced coal gasification projects for funding of up to $5.9 The projects will test membrane technology to separate hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from coal or coal/biomass-derived synthesis gas (syngas), such as from Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) power systems.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 14, 2022

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 15, 2016

These are tough times for the coal industry. Coal plants are being retired at an increasing rate in North America and Europe, replaced by a combination of natural-gas and renewable generating capacity.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2015

The $5-million on-site CNG fueling station, designed and built by TruStar Energy, is the largest private CNG station in North America. The company spent $1.8 million to enable the 36,000-square-foot maintenance facility to handle the new CNG-powered fleet. Prior to the changeover, the FCA Transport Detroit fleet used nearly 2.6

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2011

These penalties can add as much as 80’ to the cost of electricity for a new pulverized coal plant. The projects, managed by FE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory include: Linde LLC: Slipstream Pilot Scale Demonstration of a Novel Amine-Based Post-Combustion Process Technology for CO 2 Capture from Coal-Fired Power Plant Flue Gas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

are examining the possibility of using underground coal gasification (UCG) as a means to convert the coal into product gas at its recently acquired Drumheller, Alberta property. million for a $30-million deep coal gasification project being undertaken by a Calgary-based company. Nordic Oil and Gas Ltd. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

By achieving this accelerated goal, GM expects to avoid the production of an estimated 1 million metric tons of carbon emissions that would have been produced between 2025 and 2030, equal to the emissions produced by burning 1 billion pounds of coal. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will discuss its $140 million demonstration project, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) “to recover rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal ash and other mine waste, reducing the need for new mining.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Comparison of coal consumption and CO 2 emissions for co-production and separate production of liquids and power. Conventional CTL plant gasifies coal to produce a syngas which is then converted in a Fischer-Tropsch reactor to products. The conference series rotates between, North America, Europe and Asia. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 1, 2015

Over the past few years, some of America''s, shall we say, less enlightened drivers hit upon a new trend. It''s called "rolling coal"--and drivers of hybrid and electric cars report that it often seemed to be directed at them. Green Illinois air pollution emissions legislation'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 emissions, according to the report. Intel Corp.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2015

Leaded gasoline was a larger emission source of the toxic heavy metal lead than mining in South America, even though the extraction of metals from the region’s mines historically released huge quantities of lead into the environment, according to a study by researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the University of Bern.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

A US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) team of regional partners has begun injecting CO 2 into a deep lignite coal seam in Burke County, North Dakota, to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of geologic CO 2 storage in the US Great Plains region.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. Market forces rather than policies shape the energy system: oil and coal remain part of the energy mix but renewable energy also grows.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

For the Americas region, the BMW Group has already reached agreements with domestic steel producers Steel Dynamics (SDI) and Big River Steel, a US Steel facility, to use renewable energy sources in their local steel production.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

The levelized cost of electricity analysis for H2 2015 shows onshore wind to be fully competitive against gas and coal in some parts of the world, while solar is closing the gap. The LCOE for combined-cycle gas turbine generation rose from $76 to $82 in the Americas, from $85 to $93 in Asia-Pacific and from $103 to $118 in EMEA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

LeBlanc, CEO of Chemrec, strongly advocated increased efforts to promote the benefits of dimethyl ether (DME) throughout North America. DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Speaking at the 2009 World Methanol Conference in Miami, Richard J.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. However, if an EV is charged using electricity that is generated by burning coal or in some other way that generates fossil fuel emissions, those emissions would be associated with that EV’s well to wheel emissions. of total U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

The project also highlights the ongoing transformation: Here, where coal was long liquefied into gasoline, the active material for EV batteries will be produced from now on. We are happy to support this transformation with IPCEI funding.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Photo: EDF Renewables North America Renewables provided over 22.7% Similarly, the mix of solar (5.6%) and wind (10%) is closing in on coal (15.9%) and seems well-positioned to overtake the fossil fuel this year. of US electrical generation in 2023, according to newly released end-of-year US Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. The pandemic has created disruption in the global energy sector, but low gas prices will ultimately stimulate demand growth as the economy recovers.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2018

However, POSCO’s lithium business has been delayed due to the bankruptcy of partner companies in South America, which have the Li salt reserves. PosLX technology has been able to produce lithium in less than three months, while existing lithium extraction technology takes at least 12 months to dry brine naturally.

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Chile Li-ion Building South America 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. These 35 cracker facilities release as much GHG as 35 coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.

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