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MAY 28, 2011

Data: California ARB. The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has updated carbon intensities (CIs) and other information about registered biorefineries, and posted the information at the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) biorefinery-registration webpage. Gasoline baseline of 95.86 Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 30, 2012

Coal deposits—the fossilized remains of plants—were formed during a 60-million year period from around 360 to 300 million years ago. Instead of accumulating as peat, which eventually was transformed into coal, the great bulk of plant biomass decayed and was released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

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MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Earlier post.) The baseline CI value for gasoline is 95.86 g CO 2 e/MJ.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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JULY 8, 2015

The California Energy Commission committee reviewing the proposed 390-megawatt Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) power plant ( earlier post ) rejected a motion to terminate the project’s application for certification (AFC) and granted a separate request to suspend the AFC for six months.

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MAY 14, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 7 projects to participate in the University Coal Research (UCR) program. The projects aim to improve the basic understanding of the chemical and physical processes that govern coal conversion and utilization, by-product utilization, and technological development for advanced energy systems.

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MAY 14, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis. million tonnes CO 2 ); California (369.8

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Noel Perry, businessman and founder of Next 10.

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JULY 10, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are working together to advance a coal-based polygeneration plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) simultaneously through the federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review and a complementary California Energy Quality Act process.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) filed a legal challenge to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) with the US District Court, Eastern District of California, Fresno Division. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). 110-140, 121 Stat. 1492, and the federal Renewable Fuels Standard.

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JULY 2, 2009

The two projects selected—an existing power plant in North Dakota and a new facility in California—will incorporate advanced technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The selection of the two projects is part of the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). Post Combustion CO 2 Capture Project.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Carbon Sciences, Inc., the developer of a biocatalytic process to transform CO 2 into low-carbon hydrocarbons (C 1 to C 3 ) for subsequent upgrading into higher-carbon fuels such as gasoline and jet fuel ( earlier post ), has also applied for an award under the FOA. Carbon Sciences, Inc., The opportunity. Earlier post.)

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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. The analysis resulted in a predictive model of oil source families that could be applied to samples of unknown origin.

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MAY 24, 2009

Work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington that burns over one million tons of coal per year, TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired power plant near Centralia by more than half.

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Reaction Design one of seven awards for a project intended to support the full-scale implementation and operation of highly efficient coal-based power generation technologies with near-zero emissions. Bernie Rosenthal, CEO of Reaction Design. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Source: Lux Research.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

According to the findings by the team from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , even the most land-use efficient biomass-based pathway (i.e., The PV system life cycle is based on 2005 technology and production data.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. —US 9199889.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Peabody Energy will purchase a $15 million equity interest in Calera Corporation, which has proprietary technology that converts carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) into green building materials. California-based Calera recently completed a demonstration project near Moss Landing, Calif., Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 6, 2012

As conventional oil production becomes constrained, transportation fuels are being produced from low-quality hydrocarbon resources, such as bitumen deposits and other unconventional fossil resources. These include oil sands, enhanced oil recovery, coal-to-liquids and gas-to-liquids synthetic fuels, and oil shale. —Brandt 2012.

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APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Carbon Capture and Sequestration.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

The Front-Loading Net Zero report states that electricity production costs could be reduced by up to 50% by 2050 if countries and states adopt 100% renewable systems faster than currently planned. The report says that carbon neutral systems can provide cheaper electricity compared to current fossil-fuel-based systems.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif. Earlier post.).

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But the focus is not on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that utilize electricity for propulsion, they’ll be developing internal combustion engines that burn hydrogen in lieu of gasoline — with the assumption benign that they’ll produce fewer carbon dioxide emissions. That seems to be the new trend. But such a breakthrough seems a long way off.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Other benefits from a 20% fuel blend include reductions in carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen oxides (NO x ), and methane (CH 4 ) emissions by a projected 24%, 5.5%, and 11%, respectively. Beijing’s poor air quality is the result of emissions from vehicles, manufacturing plants, the use of coal for cooking, and other sources.

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MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks. Rentech, Inc. ,

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

million) collaboration focused on improving processes involved in the production of dimethyl ether (DME), a clean-burning synthetic liquid fuel. DME is non-toxic and non-carcinogenic and can be produced from natural gas (NG), coal, biomass, or even directly from carbon dioxide. —CSIRO’s Dr. Nick Burke. —Prof.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steam hydrogasification reaction is one component of a three-step process for the production of fuels. process, making a slow carbon conversion reaction ten times faster. The process has high carbon conversion rates at lower temperatures, and can be used to make numerous liquid transportation fuels (i.e., Click to enlarge.

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For example, in 2021 residents of California welcomed the United state’s first electric fire truck. The carbon footprint of operating an electric vehicle varies based on the source of its electricity since different states have different energy resources. renewable energy consumption has just overtaken coal.

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MAY 30, 2012

A computational analysis that screened hundreds of thousands of zeolite and zeolitic imidazolate framework structures has identified many different structures that have the potential to reduce the parasitic energy loss of carbon capture technologies for powerplant flue gas by as much as 30–40% compared with amine scrubbing.

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JULY 28, 2014

Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Petroleum products have historically been the preferred transportation fuels because they offer the best combination of energy density, performance, availability, ease of handling, and price. The preference for even or odd n-paraffins in the products depends upon the reaction conditions, especially temperature and catalyst.

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MAY 27, 2015

At Consumer Electronics Show Asia, Ford launched a strategic collaboration with Haier (home appliance), Trina Solar (solar power) and Delta Electronics (power management) to introduce MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) to China, a holistic approach for lowering the energy costs and carbon footprint of Chinese families. 38% reduction of NO x.

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MAY 3, 2011

coal, dead forest wood or biomass. coal, dead forest wood or biomass. The product gases from the SHR include mainly methane and hydrogen along with carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and steam. These gases are fed to the SMR where the methane reacts with steam to form carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. Just as one can choose between single-use and recyclable materials, so too can one recycle carbon. Commercial systems soak up carbon from flue gas at roughly $46 per metric ton of CO 2 , according to a DOE analysis.

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