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AUGUST 11, 2021

Increased economic activity and a changing fuel mix in the electric power sector in 2021 will lead to a significant increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) August Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). billion metric tons this year. billion metric tons this year.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Carbon dioxide, generally speaking, has difficulty penetrating aqueous solutions and reaching the entire surface of this material; so when the flow of electrons (electric current) is increased to carry out the reaction, there is not enough CO 2 to be transformed. The authors show that this limitation can be overcome. Resources. Science Vol.

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MARCH 29, 2021

From 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. A green power supply contract ensures the purchase of electricity from renewable energy sources at all times. The electricity generated from this is roughly equivalent to the amount consumed by 65,000 households annually.

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MAY 27, 2022

The extended drought in California could cut the state’s summer electricity generation from hydropower nearly in half compared with normal precipitation conditions, according to an analysis by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Figure 2 data source: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Market uptake of electric and low- emission cars should also accelerate, said MEPs. Carmakers will also have to ensure that zero- and low- emission vehicles—ZLEVs (electric cars or vehicles which emit less than 50g CO2/km)—have a 35% market share of sales of new cars and vans by 2030, and 20% by 2025.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Electric vehicles constituted 3.5% CO2/km, which is about 7 % above the 2020 target of 147 g CO 2 /km. The share of electric vans in registrations nearly doubled between from 2018 (0.8 %) to 2019 (1.4 %), but the vast majority (94%) of new vans still ran on diesel, the EEA indicator shows. of new car registrations in 2019.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Researchers from University of Girona (Spain) successfully used electrically efficient microbial electrosynthesis cells (MES) to convert CO 2 to butyric acid. V and an electric energy requirement of 34.6 Solventogenic butanol production was triggered at a pH below 4.8 kWh el kg −1 of butyric acid produced.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Already today we have, by far, the largest fleet of electric delivery vans, electric-powered bicycles and cargo bikes providing the industry’s most climate-friendly mail and parcel delivery service. For domestic advertising mail and press products, customers still have the option of ordering GoGreen as an additional service.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Montauk Renewables captures methane, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere, and converts it into either RNG or electrical power for the electrical grid. The company has current operations at 15 operating projects located in California, Idaho, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Texas.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

It offers tTwice the electric range at 100 kilometers, 110 rather than 90 kW of electric power and a level luggage compartment with through-loading facility. This feeds self-generated green electricity to the production shop. The top speed in the ELECTRIC driving mode is 140 km/h, after which the speed is gently limited.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

When driven in battery-charging mode, which could become more common as motorists charge up ahead of using electric mode in low-emissions zones, the PHEVs emitted three to 12 times more. Plug-in hybrids are fake electric cars, built for lab tests and tax breaks, not real driving.

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MAY 11, 2020

Nearly all of the change in CO 2 emissions in 2019 arose in the electric power sector. Total net electricity generation fell by 1.5% Electricity generation from coal fell, and the increase in natural gas-fired electricity generation was more limited. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review.

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JUNE 3, 2022

a Sumitomo Corporation Group company, jointly demonstrated a new waste heat recovery system based on a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which generates electrical power via exhaust gas heat. Yamaha Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation Power & Mobility Co., With the TEG, 1.9% of CO 2 emissions (i.e. CO 2 reduction (i.e.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Topsoe will lead the FrontFuel project to develop highly efficient Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production from CO 2 , water, and renewable electricity. Topsoe will receive a 26.9 million DKK (US$4 million) grant from Denmark’s EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program) to fund the project.

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AUGUST 22, 2022

Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle.

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MAY 28, 2021

The upside is that the private jet market is ideally suited to help bring about aviation’s Tesla moment, making hydrogen and electric planes a reality. The good news is these short hops are prime targets for replacement by clean technologies like electric and hydrogen aircraft. —Andrew Murphy, Aviation Director at T&E.

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APRIL 20, 2019

According to a new study published by the ifo Institue Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Germany, EVs will barely help cut CO 2 emissions in the country over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles does not necessarily lead to a reduction in CO 2 emissions from road traffic given the current power generation mix.

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Germany CO2 Power Powered 406

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This EDCS is powered by hydrogen like a fuel cell but needs no electrical wires, bipolar plates or current collectors, and thus can be modularized like a typical separation membrane. It’s risky, but we managed to control this short-circuited fuel cell by hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Power Powered CO2 448

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

of global CO2 emissions. The yet to come electric truck is expected to be able to carry max 2 TEU and is projected to run 800 km per charging. To achieve this goal, carbon neutral vessels must be commercially viable by 2030, and an acceleration in new innovations and adaption of new technology is required.

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CO2 Emissions Panama Climate Change 286

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The electricity required to operate the plant comes from a photovoltaic system on the company’s premises. The large-scale plant near Linz, which is currently in the process of going into operation, can filter 500 tons of CO 2 per year. By the end of the year, another module will increase the plant’s capacity to 1,000 tons.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. More hauliers are now starting to invest in electric trucks, also for heavy transport. Mattsson Åkeri in Gothenburg, Sweden is one of them, and the company has now bought three heavy electric Volvo FH trucks from Volvo.

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MARCH 4, 2022

This approach is highly scalable and could ultimately produce ethanol at an industrial scale, while simultaneously eliminating CO 2 emissions.

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APRIL 19, 2022

In this first phase, 15,000 tons of electric kerosene are to be produced annually, from the 100 tons of CO 2 per day combined with 12 tons of hydrogen per day. Also in this project, only renewable electricity is used for the production of 40 tons of green hydrogen per day.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Audi is focusing on the electric car, which has the best carbon footprint of all drive systems in the largest markets over its entire service life. 97.9 - 111.9 —Audi CEO Bram Schot.

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Audi CO2 Emissions Vehicles 275

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Seeking to slash CO 2 emissions from its North American manufacturing operations, Honda has entered into long-term virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) for renewable wind and solar power that will cover more than 60% of the electricity that Honda uses in North America.

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APRIL 25, 2019

In addition, the electric vehicles offer a higher CO 2 -saving potential in all phases of the product cycle. A corresponding vehicle with electric drive emits only 62 g CO 2 /km during this phase, which results from energy generation and supply. The DKI is measured in tons of CO2 equivalent per vehicle.

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CO2 Diesel Carbon Emissions 277

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The particularly high geothermal energy means that the Earth’s heat can be converted to electricity cost-effectively and virtually CO 2 neutrally. Its volcanic origin makes the country one of the world’s most potent geothermal regions. Furthermore, the rock in Iceland has the ideal composition for storing large amounts of CO 2.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The ultimate aim would be to capture wasted CO 2 using renewable hydrogen gas from biohydrogen—as in this research—or electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, and convert it to formic acid. “We wanted to try this in the lab.”. The key is for a microbe to use formate as its sole carbon source.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

In 2020, Gonvarri Industries committed to reducing its Scope 1 CO 2 emissions by 50% by 2030, as well as operating solely using renewable electricity, as part of a commitment to reducing Scope 2 emissions by 100% by 2030. The company has further committed to carbon neutrality by 2050.

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APRIL 12, 2022

On the electrification front, the aim is to achieve up to 50% share of plug-in hybrid and BEVs by 2025 on the way toward going all-electric by 2030 wherever market conditions allow. Globally, the portfolio already includes six—and soon nine—all-electric models. The battery is the biggest lever for reducing CO 2.

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Mercedes CO2 Emissions Vehicles 186

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JULY 22, 2020

At least 96% of the hydrogen used in the trial came from on-site electrolysis from renewable electricity. If deployed full time, the vehicles would not only save carbon but also provide improvements to local air quality.

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MARCH 9, 2022

Despite the rebound in coal use, renewable energy sources and nuclear power provided a higher share of global electricity generation than coal in 2021. The use of coal for electricity generation in 2021 was intensified by record high natural gas prices.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

—Zetian Mi, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science, who co-led the work with Jun Song, professor of materials engineering at McGill University. The chief advance is that the team has harnessed relatively large electrical currents with a device that should be possible to mass produce.

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JULY 19, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. unusually high electrical conductivity and Raman spectra of these materials demonstrated in the linked Data in Brief paper are that of multi-walled carbon nanotubes, and are due to the morphology as demonstrated by TEM.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

tonnes of CO 2 when the electricity is produced by hydropower; 16.4 On the average EU electricity mix, the lifecycle CO 2 balance almost doubles to 32.4 Compared to current electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Mercedes-Benz intends to reduce the use of primary resources in the powertrain and battery technology by 40% by 2030.

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Mercedes CO2 Polymer Lithium Ion 210

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

For one experiment, Yang and team designed a model device with a copper surface; then, they exposed the copper surface to liquid methyl iodide (CH 3 I) and CO gas, and applied an electrical bias to the system. Isotope-labelled CH 3 I was used in the experiments in order to track the reaction pathway and final products.

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APRIL 12, 2022

in Iceland is operated with 100% green electricity. If we can use our renewable electricity to produce green methanol at PCC BakkiSilicon, we are one step closer to a green future. Carbon emissions will be utilized to produce green methanol that can, for example, replace fossil fuel in ships. —Hörður Arnarson, CEO Landsvirkjun.

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