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AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Graphic courtesy Sandia National Laboratories).

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Acrylonitrile, a petroleum-derived commodity chemical, is one of the most widely used monomers in the chemical industry with many commercial applications. The high acrylonitrile yield allows us to propose a potential industrial process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to renewable acrylonitrile and carbon fibers.

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DECEMBER 18, 2022

Scaling up the production of what we call green hydrogen is a priority for researchers around the world because it offers a carbon-free way to store electricity from any source. Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas. Nearly all commercial hydrogen is produced from natural gas.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

System boundaries (red line) schematic for liquid fuel carbon balance. For biofuels, because biogenic carbon is automatically credited within a product lifecycle, the boundary effectively excludes vehicle end-use CO 2 emissions. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge. —DeCicco 2013. A hierarchy for reducing CO 2 from transportation.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy is seeking these projects as part of the Department’s Carbon Storage program, which has the goal of developing and advancing technologies to improve the effectiveness of carbon storage, reduce the cost of implementation, and be ready for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025–2035 timeframe.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Ricardo is advancing its work with two novel technologies to improve the efficiency of heavy-duty goods vehicles: a cryogenic split-cycle engine “ CryoPower ” ( earlier post ), and a low-carbon waste-heat powered microwave fuel reformer “ HeatWave II ”. HeatWave II.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 1, 2024

Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. They need to contain them.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Pyrometallurgy, which traditionally doesn’t recover carbon or lithium, seems likely to be phased out. Several companies are developing chemical processes, but these are still at pilot scale, and Aqua’s execs see serious challenges in delivering the required product purity and dealing with waste streams. They need to contain them.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis. Colosi (2010) Environmental Life Cycle Comparison of Algae to Other Bioenergy Feedstocks. The large environmental footprint of algae cultivation is driven predominantly by upstream impacts, such as the demand for CO 2 and fertilizer, they found.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. As each of the following stages heat and compress the biomass, it will outgas commercially viable bio-intermediary compounds that are then taken off to catalytic reaction chambers. Cool Planet’s biogasoline blendstock is 100% compatible with pump gasoline.

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JULY 21, 2010

New Zealand-based waste gas and syngas to fuels company LanzaTech ( earlier post ) has attracted US$18 million in Series B financing from investors led by China-focused venture capital firm Qiming Ventures. LanzaTech uses proprietary bacteria to convert industrial waste gases into fuels and chemicals. Gary Reischel. Köpke et al.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Cellulosic ethanol produced by grain ethanol producer POET’s Project LIBERTY ( earlier post ) first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant will reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 111% relative to gasoline, an independent lifecycle analysis (LCA) compiled by Air Improvement Resource , Inc., gCO 2 eq/MJ. gCO 2 eq/MJ. gCO 2 eq/MJ.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Although algae can also be grown in salt water and covered ponds, the authors focused on open, freshwater ponds as a benchmark for this study; much of today's commercial algae production is done in open ponds. As carbon dioxide-consuming organisms, algae are considered a carbon-neutral energy source.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Navy engineers monitored the performance of the gas-turbine engines and generators while running on petroleum F-76 prior to taking on the ReadiDiesel to establish a baseline for comparison. While operating on 100% ReadiDiesel, the ship successfully completed multiple engine starts and speed changes.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and UOP will also participate in the analysis, which will include an assessment of the total carbon lifecycle of biofuels. Sustainable biofuel development is a key component of aviation’s strategy for lowering carbon emissions. Global Seawater Inc. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 25, 2014

Comparison of power loss and fuel consumption among BD, HVO and iso-HVO. For the study, the biodiesel (Fatty Acid Methyl Ester) consisted of a mixture of 80% palm-based methyl ester (PME) and 20% biodiesel derived from waste cooking oil—a typical blending ratio of commercial biodiesel in Korea. Source: Kim et al.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

The goal of this AOI is to support advanced fuels and lubricants technologies that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines for passenger and commercial vehicle applications. Such fuels should be currently available, or have the potential to become, commercially practical within the next 10 years.

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MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Oil sands mines produce waste material called tailings; the waste materials have been difficult to reclaim and have grown larger than projected.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2013

Magnesium (AZ or AM series commercial alloy). Carbon Fiber Polymer Composite. Applications must include an existing baseline production assembly; specific targets for assembly mass; technical approach to meet targets; and a technology transfer /commercialization plan. Steel (Mild, HSLA, AHSS, or Boron automotive alloy).

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JANUARY 12, 2012

of the energy output of the fuel is used to actually move the car; the rest is wasted. By comparison, an electric car has only half the friction loss of that of a car with a conventional internal combustion engine. With current technology, only 21.5%

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

According to a recent analysis, the number of electric vehicles sold in 2017 will generate 250,000 metric tonnes of battery waste. It may also pave the door for greater automation in the waste disposal process. This estimate excludes other electric vehicles, such as electric buses. Standardization helps the environment.

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JANUARY 13, 2016

As two rough comparisons, Toyota’s production Mirai fuel-cell sedan, with a 114 kW fuel cell stack and a 113 kW traction motor, has an NEDC fuel consumption—calculated from the JC08 homologated value—of 0.76 According to the New European Driving Cycle, fuel consumption of the h-tron quattro is around one kilogram (2.2 about 6 kg.

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MAY 10, 2011

As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. Developing countries host more than 50% of current global renewable energy capacity.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

There are several new powertrain options, and none has yet proven itself in regular commercial service. Last September, ZeroAvia successfully completed a test flight of a commercial-scale fuel cell-powered aircraft. Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well.

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MARCH 8, 2009

a company commercializing a cellulosic ethanol production process, is co-author of five of the eight papers in the special issue. The emissions analysis does not account for carbon sinks (e.g., soil carbon sequestration) or sources (e.g., forest conversion) resulting from land-use considerations.

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APRIL 23, 2020

94% less stored carbon at risk. 100% reduction in solid waste. They have never been mined on a commercial scale, and plans to develop these ocean resources have been met with opposition from ocean-conservation NGOs concerned about disruptions to seabed ecosystems and inhabitants. 90% reduction in SO x and NO x emissions.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

has an annual program budget of approximately $100 million to support projects that: Develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels. Produce alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels in California. Decrease, on a full fuel cycle basis, the overall impact and carbon footprint of. The Energy Commission.

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JULY 30, 2013

With its new architecture, use of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and premium mobility service offerings, the “ i3 marks the beginning of a new mobility age ,” said Dr. Reithofer. EVs in general currently have a larger carbon burden in the production phase than conventional vehicles (e.g., The i3 accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.2

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Globally, lighting accounts for about 20 percent of electricity use and 6 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the United Nations Environment Program. 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

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta are collaborating on a project for the microbial remediation of oil sands tailings—the waste byproducts of oil sands surface mining that are collected in large manufactured settling basins called tailing ponds. Source: Golby et al. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Behind the spent carbon fumes, a skeptic might detect a whiff off electric opportunism on the part of some lesser racing organizations, desperate to grab a foothold, headlines or the overtaxed attention spans of sports and racing fans. Extreme E’s events are being held with no spectators, created entirely for Web and TV broadcast).

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AUGUST 1, 2013

The U-M-led “biodiversity and biofuels” project aims to increase the productivity and stability of algae-based biofuel systems while reducing environmental impacts by recycling wastes and cutting the need for biocides. Savage will work with researchers at Argonne National Laboratory on the comparison. Algae Algal Fuels'

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The main study shows that under all nine scenarios for both rates of market penetration of PHEVs and the evolving power grids characteristics (capacity/carbon intensity), PHEVs will vastly reduce greenhouse gases for the next 40 years. In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh.

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JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. Conclusions. slow charge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

We also think that with more people realizing that global warming is our greatest challenge, and that evolving the transportation sector to zero-carbon via cellulosic ethanol plug-in hybrids plus electricity from renewable sources may be our best strategy, the discussions about payback are a narrow answer to big questions.

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