CO2, Gas-Electric and Low Cost

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

Green Car Congress

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.

Low Cost

Low Cost Carbon CO2 Solar

GWU team develops low-cost, high-yield one-pot synthesis of carbon nanofibers from atmospheric CO2

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

A team led by Dr. Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) —Stuart Licht.

Low Cost

Low Cost Carbon Li-ion Carbon Fiber

DOE launches Clean Fuels & Products Shot

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Fuels & Products Shot , a new initiative that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from carbon-based fuels and products significantly. Biomass and waste conversion technologies designed to use green electricity and hydrogen to maximize carbon retention in products.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Fuel Production

FREYR and 24M sign licensing and services agreement for mass production of Li-ion battery cells; Glencore for raw materials

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

24M’s SemiSolid platform technology provides opportunities for the production of cost-optimized, application-specific designs in both grid and electric mobility markets. We are now in the process of accelerating and increasing our ambitions to scale up production for all relevant market segments.

Li-ion

Li-ion Lithium Ion Batteries Battery

GWU team develops cost-effective solar process to produce lime for cement without CO2 emission

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at lower projected cost than the existing cement industry process. Thus no CO 2 is formed, to eliminate cement’s greenhouse gas contribution to anthropogenic climate change.

Solar

Solar Emissions CO2 Carbon

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. The team’s approach uses a novel and low-cost heat-pump thermal storage system.

Carbon

Carbon Gas-Electric Grid Gas

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity.

CO2

CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Ames Laboratory.

Commercial

Commercial San Jose San Francisco San Diego

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The C2CNT team uses low-energy, low-cost technology developed in the Licht lab located at GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus to transform carbon dioxide into widely useful and highly valued products—carbon nanotubes. Illustration credit: Stuart Licht. Stuart Licht.

Carbon

Carbon Climate Change CO2 Climate

Stanford faculty awarded $2.2 million for innovative energy research; fuel cells, hybrids, splitting CO2

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Self-Regenerating Fuel Cells Running on Natural Gas. To help in the design of self-restoring catalysts for ceramic fuel cells, which could run on natural gas rather than hydrogen, this project will illuminate the fundamental chemical and structural transformations involved. PIs: John D.

Energy

Energy Fuel Hybrid CO2

ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The selected OPEN 2018 projects are in 21 states and fall into 9 technical categories, including transportation, electricity generation and delivery, and energy efficiency. . Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost.

Engine

Engine San Diego Polymer Lithium Ion

International automotive researchers emphasize the importance of continued development of the internal combustion engine

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2019

We are certainly in revolutionary times, but it is clear that power generation sources will not become fully renewable and transport will not become fully electric for several decades, if ever. Global warming potential (GWP) in CO2 equivalent tons by sector. Gas exchange. road dust) are accounted for. —Reitz et al.

International

International Engine Exhaust Emissions

Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz presented the paper at the 10 th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies ( GHGT-10 ) earlier this fall in The Netherlands. In the near-term pre-CCS era, with a low cost of carbon, the economical solution for power providers is to vent the CO 2 and pay the fees, passing on the costs to customers.

Transportation

Transportation Convert Waste CO2

ICCT-ClimateWorks: well-designed vehicle standards and fuel feeds could reduce combined US, China and EU CO2 emissions by 1.3 Gt in 2030, boost economy

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2012

The analysts find that two types of policies have proved the most effective at significantly reducing emissions from road transportation: Vehicle performance standards which establish minimum requirements based on fuel consumption or greenhouse gas emissions per unit of distance traveled. —Kodjak et al.

Standards

Standards Economy Emissions China

SEAT pushes forward with CNG line-up

Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, continues to spearhead the introduction of compressed natural gas (CNG) technology, giving customers the widest choice of vehicles that are cleaner, more sustainable and offer even greater efficiency. Only a pure electric vehicle running on 100% renewable energy would offer a better overall outcome.

Gasoline-Electric

Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Gas Gas-Electric

DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share). General Electric Company. The project has future applications for supercritical CO2 cycles in power plants, nuclear power, solar power and natural gas combined cycle units. DOE: $696,416 Non-DOE: $174,104 Total: $870,520 (20% cost share).

Power

Power Powered Ohio West Virginia

ARPA-E Soliciting Second Round of Proposals; $100 Million for Advanced Energy Research Projects, with Focus on CO2-to-Liquid Fuels, Plug-in Batteries and Carbon Capture

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The second round is focused specifically on three areas of technology representing new approaches for advanced microbial biofuels, carbon capture, and batteries for electric vehicles. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Areas of focus included under the new funding opportunity include: Electrofuels.

Carbon

Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel

Ecofys study finds large global potential for negative CO2 emissions through biomass linked with carbon dioxide capture and storage

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

Combining biomass-to-energy for electricity or biofuel production with CO 2 capture and storage (Bio-CCS) could result in an annual global technical potential of up to 10 gigatonnes of negative CO 2 emissions in the year 2050, according to a study commissioned by IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme to the global energy consultancy company Ecofys.

Emissions

Emissions Global CO2 Carbon

DOE to award up to $15M for projects to improve reliability of solid oxide fuel cells

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The purpose of the FOA is to advance the reliability, robustness and endurance of low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology suitable for ultimate deployment in equal to or greater than (?) 100 megawatt electric (MWe) Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell (IGFC) or Natural Gas Fuel Cell (NGFC) systems capable of ?97%

Fuel

Fuel Coal Carbon Gas-Electric

Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet

Low cost supercharger slashes diesel emissions

Green Cars News

APRIL 28, 2009

Smoke emissions produced by turbocharged diesel engines under heavy load conditions - such as when accelerating from low engine speeds and other similar transient manoeuvres - can be all but eliminated by a relatively simple and low cost electric supercharger says automotive CO2 reduction specialist, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT).

Low Cost

Low Cost Emissions Diesel Exhaust

UK Technology Strategy Board Awards More Than 12M to 22 Projects to Speed Up Development of Low-Carbon Technology for Vehicles; Includes Gas Turbine Range Extender and Li-S Battery Cells

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2010

Projects to be funded include: Ultra Lightweight Gas Turbine Range Extender for Electric Vehicles. Total project cost is £2,206,784, with the TSB providing £1,103,392. The small size, multi-fuel capability and potential low cost of the ULRE could also help speed adoption of electric vehicles. Title Partners.

Carbon

Carbon Li-ion Downsizing Gas

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. DOE Investment: $988,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $828,000. Gas Technology Institute.

Coal

Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed.

CO2

CO2 Coal Austin Store

CPT Brings TIGERS Technology to VIPER Project for Enhanced Energy Recovery

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The UK-based micro-hybrid specialist Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will contribute its TIGERS (turbo-generator integrated gas energy recovery system) technology ( earlier post ) to the recently announced Vehicle Integrated Powertrain Energy Recovery (VIPER) project ( earlier post ). HyBoost also includes our VTES electric supercharger.

Energy

Energy Land Rover Volt Gasoline-Electric

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

That ranks the effects of soot ahead of methane, an important greenhouse gas. The most immediate, effective and low-cost way to reduce soot emissions is to put particle traps on vehicles, diesel trucks, buses, and construction equipment. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power.

Global

Global Ozone CO2 Pollution

CPT presenting two papers at SAE World Congress on SpeedStart and TIGERS for 48V mild hybrid systems

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will deliver two technical papers at SAE World Congress in April on its SpeedStart torque assist and kinetic energy recovery system ( earlier post ) and TIGERS turbine integrated gas energy recovery system ( earlier post ) for 48V mild hybrid vehicles. Earlier post.)

Congress

Congress Hybrid Exhaust Gas-Electric

DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a wide-ranging Funding Opportunity Announcement ( DE-FOA-0000397 ) for up to a total of $27 million in Phase III small business awards in the areas of energy efficiency and renewable energy, electricity delivery and energy reliability, fossil energy, and nuclear energy. Solar Technologies.

Fuel

Fuel Motor Motors Motoring

CPT developing 48-volt electric supercharger for micro-mild hybrids

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) is developing a 48-volt version of its 12 volt electric supercharger based on its variable torque enhancement system known as VTES. At 48 volts, a VTES electric supercharger will transform 7kW of battery power into a highly boosted charge of air for downsized gasoline and diesel engines.

Volt

Volt Hybrid Downsizing Lead Acid

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The German government offers grants up to €9,000 plus tax reductions for fully electric passenger vehicles, €40,000 for small to medium-sized electric trucks and up to €500,000 for heavy-duty trucks. Already the major players – Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and DHL – have electric vans on the street with orders in for more.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Tax Credit Grid

Appeal for hybrid bus funding

Green Cars News

JUNE 16, 2009

A consortium, including Alternative Fuel Technology Inc, is seeking funding available through the Federal Transit Administration’s Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) programme in a bit to convert 20 hybrid diesel electric buses to hybrid dimethyl-ether (DME)-electric propulsion.

Hybrid

Hybrid Alternative Fuels Gas-Electric Energy Storage

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The Middle East becomes the world’s second-largest gas consumer by 2020 and third-largest oil consumer by 2030, redefining its role in global energy markets. Low-carbon energy sources (renewables and nuclear) meet around 40% of the growth in primary energy demand. Africa today is home to nearly half of the 1.3

Oil

Oil 2013 Energy Emissions

ARPA-E announces $36M for high-temperature materials projects

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2019

Durable and affordable higher-temperature heat exchangers could make energy conversion much more efficient, which in turn could reduce fuel consumption, system footprint, capital and operational cost, and emissions. Additively Manufactured High Efficiency and Low-Cost sCO 2 Heat Exchangers – $1,500,000.

Low Cost

Low Cost Universal Power Powered

DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2020

DOE’s early stage research for the Coal FIRST Initiative supports the development of electricity and hydrogen energy plants that have net-zero carbon emissions. These plants will be fueled by coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste plastics and incorporate carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies.

Coal

Coal Carbon Hydrogen Nebraska

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania).

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

Solar EV Charging – An Emerging Charging Method

Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

While EVs don’t produce emissions, the electricity they use could be produced from a coal or gas-powered power plant. While the upfront cost of building a solar system is significantly higher, in the long run, the cost of grid charging rises over time, and the solar panels continue to generate electricity at no additional cost.

Solar

Solar Charging Grid CO2

DOE issues 4 funding opportunities totaling $78M for advanced biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

This waste carbon source resulted in around 5 gigatons of emissions in 2016 from the transportation, industrial, and electricity sector. scale carbon capture has enjoyed recent success, a major barrier to its utilization is the low energy content of CO 2 , making it relatively difficult to convert to fuels and products.

Waste

Waste Renewable Conversion Carbon

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Focusing on all-electric, Nissan-Renault partnership with Better Place for EVs.

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV

Let Robots Do Your Lab Work

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One is to get low-cost scientific tools like the 3D printer. So for example, ideal gas law says that this should happen, right? So what we’re starting with is a low-cost 3D printer. So it’s material that is super strong, stiff, lightweight, electrically conductive. So there’s two models.

CO2

CO2 Carbon IDEA Universal

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Ted Kulongoski behind the wheel of Nissan’s prototype electric vehicle. Mr. Kulongoski wants to make Oregon the go-to state for electric vehicle production. According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. electric car race with i MiEV in Oregon?

Oregon

Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid

Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

It’s clear electric cars were on the rise up until the outbreak, but how is the current situation with full-scale lockdowns around the world affecting this trend now? However, despite all the concerns about the future of electric cars, EVs have shown significant resilience in the past few months, even in the face of the pandemic.

Economy

Economy Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric

GWU team demonstrates highly scalable, low-cost process for making carbon nanotube wools directly from CO2

GWU team develops low-cost, high-yield one-pot synthesis of carbon nanofibers from atmospheric CO2

DOE launches Clean Fuels & Products Shot

FREYR and 24M sign licensing and services agreement for mass production of Li-ion battery cells; Glencore for raw materials

GWU team develops cost-effective solar process to produce lime for cement without CO2 emission

DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

GWU research team C2CNT advances to the final round of the Carbon XPRIZE; CO2 to carbon nanotubes

Stanford faculty awarded $2.2 million for innovative energy research; fuel cells, hybrids, splitting CO2

ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

International automotive researchers emphasize the importance of continued development of the internal combustion engine

Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

ICCT-ClimateWorks: well-designed vehicle standards and fuel feeds could reduce combined US, China and EU CO2 emissions by 1.3 Gt in 2030, boost economy

SEAT pushes forward with CNG line-up

DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

ARPA-E Soliciting Second Round of Proposals; $100 Million for Advanced Energy Research Projects, with Focus on CO2-to-Liquid Fuels, Plug-in Batteries and Carbon Capture

Ecofys study finds large global potential for negative CO2 emissions through biomass linked with carbon dioxide capture and storage

DOE to award up to $15M for projects to improve reliability of solid oxide fuel cells

Study Finds Availability of Low-CO2 Electricity and Hydrogen May Paradoxically Delay Large-Scale Transition to Electric and/or Hydrogen Vehicle Fleet

Low cost supercharger slashes diesel emissions

UK Technology Strategy Board Awards More Than 12M to 22 Projects to Speed Up Development of Low-Carbon Technology for Vehicles; Includes Gas Turbine Range Extender and Li-S Battery Cells

DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

CPT Brings TIGERS Technology to VIPER Project for Enhanced Energy Recovery

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

CPT presenting two papers at SAE World Congress on SpeedStart and TIGERS for 48V mild hybrid systems

DOE to Award Up to $27M in Phase III Small Business Awards; Algae Processing, Fuel Cells, Improved Materials for Motors, Synthetic Fuels Among Areas of Interest

CPT developing 48-volt electric supercharger for micro-mild hybrids

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

Appeal for hybrid bus funding

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

ARPA-E announces $36M for high-temperature materials projects

DOE Coal FIRST Initiative invests $80M in net-zero carbon electricity and hydrogen plants

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Solar EV Charging – An Emerging Charging Method

DOE issues 4 funding opportunities totaling $78M for advanced biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Let Robots Do Your Lab Work

Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Can Electric Vehicles Speed Up As The Economy Slows Down?

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