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Honda said that it will take a proactive approach to increase the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and strive to expand its hydrogen business, in addition to continuing to electrify its products. In addition to water and food, people need oxygen, as well as hydrogen for fuel and electricity for various activities supporting life in space.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

million to participate in the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Water Splitting Benchmarking Project. Proton is directly responsible for the AEM and PEM pathway and will develop a series of Best Practice documents and databases for advanced water splitting research, and roadmaps for further development of each pathway.

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MARCH 18, 2012

Bitumen production from the Canadian oil sands provides a point of reference that could be used to observe and better manage the land and water impacts of a rapid transition to unconventional fuels, suggests Dr. Sarah Jordaan of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the massive factory still awaiting its final approval, some of Giga Berlin’s critics have reiterated concerns about the electric vehicle factory’s water consumption. Elon Musk has been asked about Giga Berlin’s water consumption in the past. The factory just is not a very intense consumer of water per square meter. “The

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JANUARY 16, 2015

of the online tool Water Assessment for Transportation Energy Resources ( WATER ) this week. This latest version of WATER allows, for the first time, biofuels manufacturers to analyze water consumption associated with use of cellulosic feedstocks such as residue left from lumber production and other wood-based resources.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The presentation of results was made by Dr. Petronela Gotcu, manager R&D Cells and Dr. Hilmi Buqa, vice president R&D Cells, Leclanché, at the International Battery Production Conference 2020 Braunschweig, Germany, held online this year from November 2 - 3. 1C/1C continuous for a 100% DoD at room temperature conditions.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

For comparison, Lang stated that the entire budget for a community of 9,000 residents was about €20 million. Tesla plans to expand Gigafactory Berlin to double its annual production capacity from 500,000 units to 1 million cars.

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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MARCH 3, 2022

European Energy , a Danish developer and operator of green energy projects, has ordered a 50 MW electrolyzer from Siemens Energy for use in developing the first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility. Start of commercial methanol production is planned for second half of 2023.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The schedule allows us to ramp up production in 2025, which is good news for the Finnish battery cluster as well as for the whole Kokkola region, where the project means job opportunities and increased vitality. Once production has reached the steady stage, Keliber will employ directly and through contractors approximately 300 people.

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APRIL 5, 2018

The new technique addresses the long-standing challenge of an efficient process for large-scale production of graphene, and paves the way for sustainable synthesis of the material. Preparation of ultra-high concentration graphene in water. b) New non-dispersion strategy for graphene production in water.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Fraunhofer’s POWERPASTE releases hydrogen on contact with water. Refueling would be simple; riders merely have to replace an empty cartridge with a new one and then refill a tank with water. An ester and a metal salt are then added in order to form the finished product. It has a hydrogen capacity of about 10 mass-% (i.e.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. The production is planned to start by end of 2026.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

As a comparison, Air Products’ newly announced blue hydrogen megaproject in Louisiana will produce some 1.8 million kg of blue hydrogen per day. Earlier post.). Pending regulatory approvals and equipment availability, the hub’s first phase is planned to enter commercial service by 2025.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

bp has successfully loaded the first LNG cargo from Mozambique’s offshore Coral Sul FLNG (floating liquefied natural gas) facility, the country’s first LNG project and first floating LNG facility deployed in the ultra-deep waters of the African continent. FLNG vessels are floating LNG production, storage and offloading units.

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MAY 7, 2023

A key role is played by dual layers of high density polyethylene adding up to 4 mm thickness, as a water diffusion barrier. This is measured by “water activity,” a quantity similar to relative humidity. By comparison, some direct air capture and carbon dioxide gas sequestration strategies cost US$600 per tonne.) In 1 y, PNAS.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

A research team from University of Western Ontario, McMaster University and Beijing Computational Science Research Center has developed an effective synthesis method to produce isolated single platinum (Pt) atoms and clusters for use as catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting to produce hydrogen.

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APRIL 28, 2011

Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. In their paper, Mishra and Yeh analyze the lifecycle water requirement consumption and withdrawal requirements of ethanol produced from corn and from crop residue.

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MAY 6, 2022

urea-water solution—is injected into the exhaust stream and ideally decomposes to form ammonia, which reacts with NO x on the SCR catalyst to form N 2 and H 2 O. Today’s diesel engines use selective catalytic reduction (SCR) to abate NO x emissions. DEF—a 32.5 —Wheeler et al. Wheeler, S., and Henry, C.

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MAY 30, 2020

The global demand for critical materials (CMs) and other metals continues to grow while their production from primary ore resources is limited. The removal of CO 2 from oceanwater (or other natural waters), or direct ocean capture (DOC), is one method of capturing dispersed CO 2.

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DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The researchers estimate that adding floating solar panels to bodies of water that are already home to hydropower stations could produce as much as 7.6 Previous NREL work estimated that installing floating solar panels on man-made US reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of the nation’s annual electricity production.

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Globalization has revolutionized food production and consumption in recent decades and cultivation has become more efficient, and as a result, many people’s diets have diversified and food availability has increased in various parts of the globe. In comparison, the global average is about 3,800 kilometers. —Pekka Kinnunen.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane-and-coal-to-liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide. Lifecycle GHG comparison. Top: Conventional F-T process. Bottom: SRI process. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. per gallons vs. $2.14.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. As a result, the charge air coolers used must be resistant to ionized water.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Using genome-scale transcript and protein profiling, the team study presented and tested a new hypothesis on the metabolic relationship between oxygenic photosynthesis and nitrogenase-mediated H 2 production in Cyanothece 51142. This organism can make lots of hydrogen, very fast; it’s a viable catalyst for hydrogen production.

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MAY 12, 2014

NEC Corporation (NEC) has developed a new production technology which allows it to produce a high-functionality bioplastic using just one-tenth the energy (i.e., fewer CO 2 emissions) that was previously required for processes using the non-edible plant resource of cellulose and natural oil as raw materials. Background.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

Now, a new analysis of up to seven years of production data gathered through the Regional Feedstock Partnership, established by DOE and the Sun Grant Initiative, supports the billon-ton estimate. Switchgrass is more productive than miscanthus in some of the northern regions because miscanthus is not as winter hardy. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 13, 2014

In comparison to smooth copper electrodes, the faradaic efficiencies of CO, methane, and ethylene are reduced significantly, whereas C 2 and C 3 products such as ethane and propylene are produced in small but detectable quantities—overall, a very different product outcome than obtained from planar electrodes. Hori et al.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Despite this, research on the environmental and health impacts of tire wear has been neglected in comparison to the research and innovations dedicated to tackling fuel emissions. Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Heating energy and water consumption per car are reduced by 20%. That’s why we are continually further developing our production technologies. Dr. Hubert Waltl, Member of the Board of Management of AUDI AG for Production and Logistics. Sustainable operations have high priority at Audi. —Prof.

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MARCH 16, 2012

eutrophication; ET = ecological toxicity; FEC = fossil energy consumption; WU = water use; LO = land occupation; “The rest” includes acidification; smog formation; ozone layer depletion; and human health effects. Environmental impacts of gasoline and E85. Error bar shows regional variations for E85. GW = global warming; Eut. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 12, 2020

The GWP improvement was calculated using industry-standard software that examines multiple factors associated with a vehicle’s design, production and on-road performance. These factors include: the environmental impact of fuel production and delivery; material use; and the vehicle’s own fuel consumption.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Leather is a plant-based animal-free leather that von Holzhausen describes as “buttery-soft like lambskin, scratch-resistant, stain-resistant, water-resistant, and lightweight.” It saves 16,307 gallons of water per car in production. In comparison, traditional leathers can take centuries to biodegrade.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a nickel-based catalyst for hydrogen production that works 10 times faster than the hydrogenase enzymes that served as its functional model. In nature, [FeFe] hydrogenase enzymes catalyze the formation of hydrogen from water with reported rate constants as high as 9000 s ?1

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