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JULY 20, 2021

By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs (feral swine), are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually across the globe, the equivalent of 1.1 When soils are disturbed from humans ploughing a field or, in this case, from wild animals uprooting, carbon is released into the atmosphere.

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JULY 18, 2022

A range of location options are being assessed for this including the Rolls-Royce test facility in Mississippi. Combined with our work on Sustainable Aviation Fuel and further gas turbine efficiency, we are making real progress on the hard yards of research and development towards making Net Zero flight a reality.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Hydrogen is presently used in many manufacturing processes and has increasingly gained interest as a clean-burning fuel source that could help reduce carbon emissions from manufacturing, heavy industry and long haul trucking.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The team, which includes researchers from Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, seeks to identify a framework of carbon mitigation strategies that would minimize conflicts with food security and clean energy production priorities. University of Southern Mississippi. Jason Azoulay.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use. Secretary Chu on Carbon Capture. Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. The first phase of these projects will include $21.6

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. In addition to its use of alternative vehicles, UPS uses millions of gallons of lower carbon footprint renewable diesel and renewable natural gas (RNG) in its fleet each year.

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MAY 4, 2018

RRB has begun construction of the biorefinery, which will incorporate Velocys’ technology, and produce low-carbon, renewable diesel and jet fuel. The contract represents Velocys’s second commercial license, the first being to ENVIA for a gas-to-liquids plant. Velocys’ role will be as a licensor for its technology to the project.

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AUGUST 1, 2020

Gas Technology Institute. Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. Mississippi State University. Electrochemical Production of Formic Acid from Carbon Dioxide in Solid Electrolytes. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy.

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MARCH 1, 2013

billion in a new methanol production facility on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. The SLM methanol facility will be located in the Port of South Louisiana district, with access to interstate and intrastate natural gas and carbon dioxide pipelines. James Parish. Austin, Texas-based Zero Emission Energy Plant Ltd.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. The expansion will include on-site fueling stations in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. Phoenix, Ariz.,

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MARCH 18, 2013

developer of a catalytic pyrolysis process to produce renewable rude oil from biomass ( earlier post ), has begun initial shipments of cellulosic diesel from its plant in Columbus, Mississippi. Studies show that KiOR fuels will have a significant reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions when compared to fossil-based fuels.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Field testing the potential for combining geologic carbon dioxide storage with enhanced methane recovery is underway at a site in Alabama by a US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners. trillion cubic feet of natural gas from these coal seams. Coal in the Black Warrior Basin has the potential to sequester 1.1

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

CoolPlanet BioFuels, a start-up developing technology to convert low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered ( earlier post ), claims it has achieved a conversion yield of 4,000 gallons gasoline/acre biomass in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop.

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MARCH 19, 2018

Researchers at Mississippi State University are developing technology that would alert pipeline managers about leaks as soon as failure begins, avoiding the environmental disasters and fuel distribution disruptions resulting from pipeline leaks. The electrons then travel across a resistor to a cathode.

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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. Shell is also working to use natural gas as a fuel in its own operations. The new Mountains scenario: gas as the energy backbone.

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JULY 30, 2011

Schematic illustration of carbon capture and storage at Kevin Dome in Montana. Courtesy Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc. It will be carried out by the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership at MSU.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Syngas produced by coal gasification is used to generate electricity in a gas turbine. The exhaust gas from the turbine is the used to heat water, producing steam to generate additional electricity from a steam turbine. That plant would include 65% carbon capture and sequestration. Source: NETL. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. In addition, carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events, because significant volumes of fluids are injected underground over long periods of time.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

A US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners has begun injecting carbon dioxide into coal seams in the Central Appalachian Basin to determine the feasibility of CO 2 storage in unmineable coal seams and the potential for enhanced coalbed methane recovery. This area has been assessed by researchers to have the capacity to store 1.3

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MAY 7, 2010

The technology is able to process diverse carbon-based feedstocks, including sorted municipal solid waste, construction and demolition wood, as well as agricultural and forest residues. The plant will divert more residential waste from landfills, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce a green transportation fuel.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The technology is able to process diverse carbon-based feedstocks, including sorted municipal solid waste, construction and demolition wood, as well as agricultural and forest residues. In December 2009, Enerkem was awarded US$50 million in funding by the US Department of Energy for development of its planned Mississippi plant.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Rentech MOU contemplates the production and purchase of approximately 250 million gallons per year of synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke, with the resultant carbon dioxide sequestered and the carbon footprint potentially further reduced by integrating biomass as a feedstock. Earlier post.).

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2023

As a rule of thumb, EVs tend to be more expensive to insure than their gas-powered counterparts due to their cutting-edge technology and the high repair or replacement costs of their battery systems. Mississippi, conversely, presents the largest gap, with an extra $79 per month on average required to insure an EV over a traditional vehicle.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are legally required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12%. Enerkem is also developing two commercial projects, one in Edmonton, Alberta and the other in Mississippi. million (US$1.76 Enmax Corporation , C$14.5

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. Cronin, J.

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JULY 21, 2016

Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities. Pacific Gas & Electric. Southern Company: Mississippi Power. Southern Company: Mississippi Power. Indianapolis Power & Light Company. Kansas City Power & Light. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO). National Grid. New York State.

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JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. The renewable synthetic diesel and jet fuels produced can also have carbon footprints of near zero.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

An important analytical issue that needs to be addressed, the report notes, is the lack of lifecycle assessment studies focusing on a wider set of environmental impact indicators than greenhouse gas emissions. Life-cycle assessments (LCA) of biofuels show a wide range of net greenhouse gas savings compared to fossil fuels.

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JANUARY 6, 2010

Legislation giving biofuels preferences on the basis of greenhouse gas benefits should be avoided. Congress and the US administration should refrain from giving preferential treatment to corn-based ethanol on the basis of its purported ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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APRIL 3, 2009

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions). Very few studies take into account land use impacts driven by biofuel crop production. Menichetti and Otto.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Gas Technology Institute (IL)— Long-Term Processing in the Production of Gasoline and Diesel from Biomass —up to $2.4 The project will also investigate catalyst and process parameters that lead to increased process performance over time to enable extended operations in future commercial-scale refineries.

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APRIL 19, 2024

New factories producing EVs and their batteries are bringing more jobs to the Southeast, but utilities are trying to meet the power demands of these factories with natural-gas power plants rather than renewable energy, reports Energy News Network.

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