Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Leveraging biomass presents a potential avenue to contribute to the global objective of achieving a carbon-neutral human society. By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Enabling Production of Low Carbon Emissions Steel Through CO 2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gases. Chevron USA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Solar. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

MAY 15, 2024

Carbon neutrality, zero waste and serving seafood solely from responsible suppliers: Many boutique eco-tourism destinations — particularly those catering to small numbers of luxury travelers — can reach or come close to sustainability goals such as these, but what about a decades-old resort company operating 97 properties across 14 countries?

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Mariner Dominican Republic Waste Climate Change 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

GLBRC is working to increase the efficiency of biomass conversion. Designing new platform microbes capable of producing targeted bioproducts from conversion residues created when producing specialty biofuels. One such discovery breaks down lignin’s six-carbon rings—the aromatics—into individual components.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), under the purview of DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), will manage the selected projects. DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. million (US$2.0-million)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Earlier post.). Robert Dorner. Scott Shaw.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The California Air Resources Board formally considered the first 28 proposals for new ways to make low carbon transportation fuels under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). California’s standards were designed to drive innovation and invite companies to devise new low-carbon approaches to making alternative fuels.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Scaling is hard Let me be very clear: Transitioning to electric vehicles and renewable energy to combat climate change are valid goals in themselves. Technological change is hard, social change even harder. Drastically reducing our fossil-fuel use is key to realizing those goals. C above preindustrial levels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Model scope includes all upstream processing of biomass material; conversion to liquid or solid fuel is intentionally excluded. Biofuel conversion processes were excluded from the scope of the analysis. These so-called ‘indirect’ changes are associated with conversion of arable land into production and were not included here.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. —Page et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group , will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Success will be measured by the prospective ability to predict yield gains early, specifically, to identify which genes can improve carbon capture efficiency in newly cultivated bioenergy crops. Dry-cooling systems—which use air to cool and transfer waste heat—are an appealing and potentially transformational alternative.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2012

This is to stimulate the development of alternative, second-generation biofuels from non-food feedstock, such as waste or straw, which emit substantially less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels and do not directly interfere with global food production. For biofuels to help us combat climate change, we must use truly sustainable biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

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. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. carbon fixation), such that the energy of the excess photons is wasted through non-photosynthetic processes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

High conversion efficiency NO x after-treatment and particulate filters. Waste heat recovery. Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. Combustion control and optimization technology.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Given the magnitude of technological change required to support California’s transition to a low-carbon economy while improving air quality, ARB says that it is imperative that its policies understand and effectively contend with barriers to implementation of clean technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

These areas store 579 megatonnes (million tones) of biological carbon, mostly in peatlands. When the carbon in soils, peat and trees breaks down, it combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). The above and below ground biological carbon content of this area is at least 140.7 megatonnes of carbon, 873.4

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. In addition, global carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. Virtually everywhere that alternating current must be transformed to direct current or vice versa, there will be fewer wasted watts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. A hard price collar binds carbon prices and creates a predictable system for carbon prices to rise at a fixed rate over inflation.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2015

Hydrogen Production R&D: Microbial Biomass Conversion. Microbial biomass conversion processes offer mid- to long-term potential for sustainable hydrogen production with low environmental impact. Support studies will include novel carbon-based support materials and structures or non-carbon supports.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Subtopics include Microbial Biomass Conversion. Subtopic 1a: Microbial biomass conversion. Innovative materials, processes, and systems are needed to establish the technical and cost feasibility for renewable, low carbon hydrogen production. FCTO is encouraging teaming between universities, National Laboratories, and industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

That figure does not include damages from climate change, harm to ecosystems, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security, which the report examines but does not monetize. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Chemical plants on dedicated platforms then process part of the hydrogen, combining it with nitrogen to make ammonia, or with carbon dioxide to produce substitutes for fossil fuels. Why all the hype about hydrogen?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2015

This quality control device will help to drive down the costs of fuel cells by reducing waste and improving the process efficiency of roll-to-roll manufacturing of polymer electrolyte membranes. reliance on foreign energy sources and mitigate climate change, highly efficient automotive gasoline fueled engines need to be developed.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

In general, biofuels made from organic waste are environmentally more benign than those from energy crops. On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. This implies reaching agreement on of key parameters (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

To deal with this major special waste problem has to my knowledge never ever been brought to the attention of the readers of any paper around the world. Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? Next: a carbon tax. In the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. I know these them, I lived in Japan I know these people, I’ve sat and had conversations with them. I’m not asking them for money, I’m asking them to change a rule. I know these folks.

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