Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

An analysis of near-term spending plans on renewables by the biggest oil and gas companies shows that real investments in renewable energy will continue to pale in comparison to capex plans for greenfield fossil fuel projects. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric 418

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

BEVs charged with electricity generated from coal currently have higher life-cycle emissions than ICEVs, whereas the life-cycle emissions of a BEV could be almost 90% lower than an equivalent ICEV using electricity generated from wind power. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”.

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Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating. The much lower emissions increase in China of 4.2% in 2013 and 3.4% The consumption of oil products increased by 1.7%

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2013 Emissions Global CO2 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault’s comparison of the carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles over production, operation and end of life. The publication gives the opportunity for an “apples-to-apples” comparison between the environmental impacts of the two types of powertrains: same manufacturer, same model, same boundary conditions. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Gasoline-Electric Ozone Diesel 364

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2012

Comparison of demand projections for REE (total summed). and colleagues evaluated future potential demand scenarios for REEs with a focus on the issue of comining. These issues should be considered carefully by interested stakeholders and future research on this topic. Credit: ACS, Alonso et al. Click to enlarge. Kirchain, Ph.D.,

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MIT Supplies Energy Green 252

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Is the electric truck cost-effective in comparison with the diesel truck? The comparison involved a 2011 Smith Newton electric truck powered by a 120 kW electric motor, and a 2006 Freightliner truck powered by a Cummins diesel engine. The comparison controlled for improvements in diesel efficiency between 2006 and 2011.

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Georgia Diesel Gas-Electric Electric 268

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

In addition to ensuring the same energy source, the analysis was conducted such that the same functional unit and system boundary are assumed for all of the three mobility options, to facilitate a direct comparison of their respective environmental footprints. —Dai and Lastoskie. The system boundary for the LCA. Click to enlarge.

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Gas Li-ion Gas-Electric Conversion 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. In comparison, they noted, the technology for bio-chemical ethanol production from cellulosic biomass is not sufficiently developed yet. There is a very large potential supply of methanol since it can be made from natural gas, coal and biomass feedstocks.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The ORNL team analyzed two categories of vehicles: current vehicles as well as future technologies that are not currently in the market but are conceptually valid—for example, CNG hybrid electric concepts. The baseline for comparison is based on a 2012 2.4 Future technologies. mpgge (equivalent to 7.6 Left: WTW energy use.

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Gas-Electric Gas Fuel Economy PHEV 345

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Air pollution is a major contributing factor in the deaths of around 600,000 children under five every year—and it threatens the lives and futures of millions more every day. No society can afford to ignore air pollution. —UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. The imperative for green investments could not be stronger.

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Pollution Nigeria Asia Africa 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

And it has become clear that not only oil and gas giants are being targeted, after one of the world’s largest mining and commodity trading companies, Glencore, decided to put a limit on its thermal coal investment. The future is different and could be even less positive than currently is assessed.

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Oil Industrial Industry Financing 231

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Electricity prices in comparison. Siemens proposes giving up a fixed target for renewables and focus on reducing CO 2 emissions in the future instead. Renewable energies should prevail on the market in the future without levies, Siemens says. Euro cents/kWh. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2011

g CO 2 e/MJ highlighted in red for comparison. g CO 2 e/MJ for Midwest corn ethanol in a wet mill using coal to 56.56 Current reported CI for ethanol plants. Gasoline baseline of 95.86 Data: California ARB. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.) The vast majority of the data is for ethanol, produced via different pathways.

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Carbon California 2010 Gasoline 218

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. F of warming. . F of warming.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. By comparison, oil shale has NERs (or EROI) of 1.6−2.0 Credit: ACS, Nduagu & Gates. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

Methane, the main component of natural gas, is released from leaking pipelines, coal mines, oil wells, cattle, rice paddies and landfills. GCAM takes into account ongoing future changes in technology, society and the economy, including energy and land use. degrees to a high of 0.35

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Climate Pollution Carbon Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Based on the work of the multidisciplinary team, with advice from a board of 18 leaders from industry, government and environmental groups, the report examined the future of natural gas through 2050 from the perspectives of technology, economics, politics, national security and the environment.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

By comparison, Chinese per capita CO 2 emissions of 6.8 Between 1990 and 2010 they reduced their dependence on coal (from 25% to 20% of total energy production) and oil (from 38% to 36.5%), and shifted towards natural gas (which increased from 23% to 27 %), nuclear energy (from 8% to 9%) and renewable energy (from 6.5% Source: JRC.

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Global Emissions Industrial Industry 281

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Moore for IEEE Spectrum ‘s Fixing the Future podcast. For instance, the extraction of coal for electricity production. Moore: And so why do you feel like you have to look at all the upstream stuff that a chip-maker may not really have any control over, like coal and such like that? I’m Samuel K. That’s the cradle.

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Climate Manufacturer Emissions Industrial 72

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. between present and a 2050 future time period at high spatial resolution under the A2 climate and Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 8.5 anthropogenic precursor emission scenarios.

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Ozone Climate Change Pollution Climate 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has issued a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) soliciting research projects that will address key challenges related to the utilization of coal-biomass mixtures for co-production of power and hydrogen, fuels, and/or chemicals.

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Coal Power Powered Production 170

Green Car Congress

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 If the goals of this new directive are met, it would reduce the rate at which future tailing accumulations grow. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Oil-Sands Oil 2010 Production 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels. Next 10 is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates, engages and empowers Californians to improve the state’s future. below their 2006 levels.

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California Light Emissions Climate 150

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. And the percentage of clean energy is growing every year as coal and gas plants are being replaced by renewable energy sources. In India 39.1%

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In comparison, increasing the H/C eff ratio of pyrolysis oil from 0 to 1.4 Alternatively, hydrogen can be obtained from coal gasification or from water splitting driven by carbon-free energy sources, such as solar, nuclear, and wind energy, as suggested by Agrawal et al. requires 11.7

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Oil Convert Hydrogen Fuel 225

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future.

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Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Up to 50% more liquid product per ton of coal. Source: Headwaters.

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Coal Diesel Hydrogen Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

FCA is used to evaluate the energy and GHG emission impacts of a wide variety of existing and proposed fuels, including fossil options (coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, unconventional petroleum) as well as electricity, gaseous fuels and biofuels from a range of feedstocks.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Climate 268

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Despite their limitations, GWPs are widely used for comparison among long-lived gases, forming the basis for worldwide political agreements on climate and carbon trading. In comparison, the model calculated that global carbon monoxide emissions have caused a 13% reduction in hydroxyl and 9% reduction in sulfate aerosols.

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Climate Change Climate Ozone Pollution 268

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Comparison of GHGenius, JACOBS, TIAX, and the new PRELIM gasoline greenhouse gas (GHG) estimates using base case estimates and variations from the scenario analysis. Annual GHG emissions from a large refinery are comparable to the emissions of a typical 500 MW coal-fired power plant. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Hydrogen 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Present day anthropogenic emissions contribute to both current and future emissions to the air. Source: UNEP.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

For the study, the team reconstructed the vehicle technology portfolios from two national vehicle studies (the 2007 Environmental Assessment of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles by the Electric Power Research Institute and Natural Resources Defense Council; and the 2009 Multi-Path Transportation Futures study by Argonne National Laboratory).

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Carbon EPRI Climate Gasoline-Electric 150

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Certification of the €9.5

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Ukraine Russia Fuel Saudi Arabia 121

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

90% is from coal. The team found that using concentration rather than intake is suboptimal for health comparisons. Unique aspects of China include the large population and coal-heavy electricity system. For EVs, combustion emissions occur where electricity is generated rather than where the vehicle is used. in most cities.

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Emissions China Gasoline-Electric Fleet 252

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2013

In addition, a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) anode technology for possible future use in these batteries was assessed. However, the GWP benefit only appears when the electricity grid relies less on coal production and more on natural gas and renewables. O 2 , Li-NCM); and lithium-iron phosphate (LiFePO 4 ).

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Li-ion PHEV Batteries Battery 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

In comparison to automotive service, use in this application will entail relatively benign duty cycles, generally much less than one cycle per day with discharge durations of greater than one hour. These capabilities are expected to become even more valuable in future facilitation of higher penetrations of solar- and wind-based generation.

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Grid Batteries Battery Energy Storage 150