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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

In one of the first comprehensive assessments of the fuel economy standards in the United States, researchers from Princeton University and the University of Tennessee found that, over their 40-year history, the standards helped reduce reliance on foreign oil producers, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and saved consumers money. through 2026.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Scientists in China have developed a process for converting cellulose from plant waste from agriculture and timber harvesting into high-density aviation fuel: a polycycloalkane mixture. They also predict it will yield higher profits than conventional aviation fuel production because it requires lower costs to produce a higher-density fuel.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. The official fuel consumption is 5 l/100 km (47 mpg US) and that is bang on for us as well. It is something very cheap to fix and to inspect. It was time to buy our first car.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The use of vast amounts of high-purity water for hydrogen production may aggravate the shortage of freshwater resources. University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer. Resources Guo, J., A cm −2 at 1.87 V

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MAY 11, 2019

Researchers at the University of Waterloo (Canada), with a colleague in Sweden, have used a power management strategy greatly to extend the durability of onboard fuel cells in a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle: an increase of 1.8, Architecture of FC-PHEVs with three fuel cell stacks as considered in the Zhang et al. —Zhang et al.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The process uses relatively little energy and a relatively cheap material—iron sulfide with a trace amount of molybdenum as an additive. The team first used chemical looping on coal and shale gas to convert fossil fuels into electricity without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. —Kalyani Jangam, lead author.

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

A team from Georgia Tech, with colleagues at the university of Kansas, has designed a high-performance solid-oxide fuel cell that operates directly on nearly dry (only ~3.5 Structure and performance of an intermediate-temperature fuel cell. H 2 O) or H 2 was used as the fuel and ambient air was used as the oxidant. Chen et al.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Our research proved that poplar coppice can be a good option to meet the cheap, high-volume criteria of biofuel feedstock. Alternative fuels must make economic sense, the researchers stress, for biofuels to make a dent in the petroleum-driven market. The researchers harvested poplar trees approximately the size shown in this photo.

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MARCH 24, 2020

The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) are the most important electrochemical reactions that limit the efficiencies of hydrogen fuel cells (for powering vehicles and power generation), water electrolyzers (for clean hydrogen production), and high-capacity metal-air batteries.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

ne of the biggest challenges for materials science is to design facile routes to structurally complex materials, which is particularly important for global applications such as fuel cells. These show remarkable performance in the oxygen reduction reaction – a key process in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Hollamby, Brian R.

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MAY 19, 2014

A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. In contrast, this contribution focuses on the dehydroalkylation of benzene with mixtures of ethane and propane for the production of superior fuel components, i.e., with the aim to maximize octane numbers (Scheme 2). —Hussin and Traa.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The clean technology company Danish Power Systems (DPS), with partners at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic, reports the best operating stability for high-temperature polymer fuel cells (HTPEMFC) yet. μV h −1 for a reference membrane. 2016.12.075.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a photo-chemo-enzymatic multi-step combination pathway for the highly efficient and environmentally friendly preparation of biogasoline from cheap and sustainable triolein using solar energy and atmospheric O 2 under mild conditions. —Xu et al. doi: 10.1039/D2GC01992B.

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APRIL 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have further increased the interest of Europe and Western countries to invest in the hydrogen economy as an alternative to fossil fuels. The hydrogen is liquefied where electricity is cheap. —Julian Hunt Resources Hunt, J., Montanari, P., Schneider, P.,

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JULY 26, 2013

The price disparity between crude oil and other resources, coupled with the emergence of cheap and abundant shale gas, especially in the United States, is opening up opportunities to produce cheaper gasoline, according to a new report from Lux Research. bbl to the fuel price—but that’s often more than offset by feedstock cost savings.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The findings stem from a three-year project funded by the Department of Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office. If you can produce hydrogen from seawater, the resource pool is pretty much unlimited. Like seawater, the MoP catalyst material is widely available, and therefore, cheap. The catalyst also worked well with seawater.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake have developed a process for the synthesis of high energy density renewable fuels through the selective dimerization of α-pinene, camphene, limonene and crude turpentine using the heterogeneous catalysts Nafion, Nafion SAC-13, and Montmorillonite K-10.

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APRIL 11, 2014

The material’s selectivity for oxygenates, with ethanol as the major product, demonstrates the feasibility of a two-step conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuel that could be powered by renewable electricity, the team suggests in their paper published in the journal Nature. In this experiment, ethanol was the major product. —Matthew Kanan.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia’s energy resources are enormous and Europe’s dependence on them is deep and pervasive. But Russia’s importance as an exporter of natural resources goes far beyond hydrocarbons. Peter Kovalev/TASS/Getty Images So how did Europe become addicted to Russian fossil fuels, particularly natural gas? Certification of the €9.5

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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MAY 9, 2018

The researchers believe this new type of photoelectrode is not only cheap to produce, but can also be recreated on a larger scale for mass and worldwide use. A promising way of storing solar energy is via chemical fuels, in particular hydrogen as it is considered as a future energy carrier. —Pawar and Tahir. Govinder S.

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JULY 19, 2021

1 km 2 (depending on adoption rate and the fuel price to electricity price ratio) and an equally-large North-American city to increase by about 1?4 Orsi determined that given cheaper operating costs compared to conventional vehicles, EVs might lead a 100 km 2 European city to increase by about 0.2?1 —Orsi (2021). 2020.102680.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The catalyst could support the achievement of more affordable fuel cells. Electricity is produced from the oxidation of hydrogen in low-temperature fuel cells, but the best catalyst is platinum, a precious metal of low abundance. In a real fuel cell, the acceptor would be oxygen. Tianbiao Liu, Daniel L. DuBois and R.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g., —Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Improved battery technology plus access to cheap renewable electricity open the possibility of battery-electric rail. The study highlights that additional pathways to electrifying US freight trains exist, such as electrifying trains via overhead power lines or using hydrogen fuel cells in conjunction with battery-powered trains.

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JUNE 6, 2013

The finding, detailed in an open access paper in Nature’s Scientific Reports , is a step toward eliminating what industry regards as the largest obstacle to large-scale commercialization of fuel cell technology—the high cost and insufficient supply of platinum catalysts. —Jeon et al. Again, the graphene-based catalysts were unaffected.

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MAY 21, 2013

A new analysis by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) finds that the US’ land and water resources could likely support the growth of enough algae to produce up to 25 billion gallons of algae-based fuel per year—one-twelfth of the country’s yearly needs.

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MAY 26, 2015

LanzaTech, founded in 2005, has developed a novel gas-liquid fermentation process that produces fuels and chemicals from gas resources and is the first company to successfully demonstrate production of fuel-grade ethanol from steel mill gases. Audi e-fuels. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Isobutene and isooctane.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have now developed a method to use this cheap and abundant waste byproduct to build a components for lithium-sulfur batteries. Lu Li, Liping Huang, Robert J.

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MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. These results suggest an efficient route to develop stable halide perovskite based electrodes for photoelectrochemical solar fuel generation.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater. However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

As a very rough benchmark on yield, cellulosic gasoline and diesel company KiOR, which uses a different pathway for fuel production (the production of renewable crude from biomass followed by catalytic cracking to upgrade to fuels), calculates that one bone dry ton of woody biomass contains hydrocarbons approximately equal to 2.8

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials. This simple and inexpensive new sustainable fuels technology could potentially help limit global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make fuel. Some of those, such as octane, are drop-in replacements for existing liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Chemists at the University of Illinois report the development of a nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that could more effectively support the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass as well as improved liquefaction of coal. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science. —Sergeev and Hartwig.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , their findings point to a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and renewable catalyst for processing that uses common bacteria and the metal palladium, which can be recovered from waste sources such as discarded electronics, catalytic converters, street sweeper dust and processed sewage.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Unlike traditional gene-editing methods, it is cheap, easy to use and effective in almost any organism. Described in 2012, CRISPR-Cas9 is a groundbreaking technique that enables scientists to make precise targeted changes in living cells. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation. 5b00162.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. The share of fossil fuels in global primary energy consumption falls from around 81% today to 75% in 2035. By contrast, subsidies for fossil fuels amounted to $409 billion in 2010. billion, around 20% of the world’s population.

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