Green Car Congress

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. SRI’s approach makes it economical to use carbon-neutral electricity, such as nuclear, hydro, or solar as a source of additional energy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

With recent and projected cost declines in wind, solar, and lithium-ion batteries, electrification using batteries has become a viable option for applications compatible with the inherent range limitations and recharging time. However, the scale of biofuels is limited by their environmental footprint, considering the land and water usage.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2012

The HSHS installed in this demonstration test house consists of CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) thin-film solar cell panels; a home battery unit (rechargeable battery); household gas-engine cogeneration unit and hot-water supply system; and the Smart e Mix Manager.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

One of the challenges in electrocatalysis (be it for solar fuels, fuel cells or rechargeable metal-air batteries) is to find an effective catalyst that will reduce (oxygen reduction reaction, ORR), as well as generate (oxygen evolution reaction, OER), oxygen at moderate temperatures. Menezes, P. Sahraie, N. Bergmann, A., Strasser, P.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

Satellite data over a shipping lane in the south Atlantic show that the ships modify clouds to block an additional 2 Watts of solar energy, on average, from reaching each square meter of ocean surface near the shipping lane. For comparison, today the Earth is estimated to have warmed by approximately 1 ?C, C, or 1.8 ?F,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Partially because of this heat, the Brayton cycle has the potential to be much more efficient at turning heat from power plants—nuclear, natural gas or even concentrated solar—into energy than the traditional steam-based Rankine cycle. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%.

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Electrek

MAY 12, 2021

For comparison, it goes for $130 direct right now and today’s deal is the best available. Dethatching needs to take place when that layer gets too thick and starts to block water, sun, and other things from reaching the soil. Walmart is offering the Greenworks 10A 14-inch Corded Dethatcher (DT14B00) for $101.15

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Their results showed that in comparison with gasoline mode, CO emitted in methanol mode decreased 11.2%.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2010

The new catalyst is applied in a hybrid photocatalytic-electrolysis system that uses the photocatalytic reaction converting solar energy to lower the electrolysis voltage required for the hydrogen production by water electrolysis. Potential diagram of various reaction mechanisms for hydrogen production via water decomposition.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. At Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Ultrathin Light Absorbers for Solar Cells. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. The proposed concept could dramatically reduce solar cell manufacturing costs, according to the researchers. Splitting Water at High Temperatures.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The total output energy produced by a solar system, as well as the amount stored in solar batteries is measured this way. To calculate the kWh your solar panel produces. In comparison, the Nissan Leaf hatchback tops out at just 100 kilowatts which is appreciably slower in this context. Think of kilowatts as a garden hose.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the report also assesses a number of other environmental impact categories, ranging from resource use, including cumulative energy consumption, mineral and metal resource depletion and water scarcity, to airborne pollutant emissions (like particulates and nitrogen oxides), and human- and eco-toxicity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Algenol Biofuels’ Direct to Ethanol technology is based on an intracellular photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that produces ethanol that is excreted through the cell walls, collected from closed photobioreactors as a dilute ethanol-in-water solution, and purified to fuel grade ethanol. Algenol algae.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

In the future, hydrogen produced through water electrolysis is expected to be used to store energy as a way of compensating for solar or wind power’s intermittent output. In addition to being a carrier of energy, hydrogen could also be a source of energy, and its combustion would emit water (H 2 O) instead of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Researchers at the State Key Lab of Matrix Composites at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China have described a new design strategy to produce an “Artificial Inorganic Leaf” (AIL), which could lead to working prototypes that capture solar energy and use it efficiently to change water into hydrogen fuel. Credit: Tongxiang Fan.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

In a subsequent laboratory comparison, they found that nitrate disappeared from grime 10,000 times faster than from a water-based solution when both were exposed to artificial sunlight. In previous work, they discovered that nitrate anions disappeared from grime at faster rates than could be explained by wash-off due to rainfall.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

The basic approach of photocatalytic reforming (or photoreforming) is to use solar energy for the activation of the catalysts involved in the reforming of the feedstocks. Hydrogen evolution from photocatalytic reforming of grass and comparison with photocatalytic reforming of cellulose and photocatalytic water-splitting.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses. As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. Source: SRREN.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you’re able to find an alternatively-powered charging station, like solar charging , for example, you can go even further in reducing your emissions. So, it’s a good idea to start with a comparison search and then look into each company’s discounts on your shortlist. Hybrid Cars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

One chapter is devoted to international comparisons, allowing users a quick way to see how the nature of energy and economic activities differs from country to country. Whereas the last version of the Databook did not even have data on wind and solar power generation, China is now among the top wind power producers in the world.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

So as you can see there is absolutely no comparison, an ICE car emits insane amounts of GHG’s compared to EV’s and we have not even featured ICE car manufacturing emissions in the discussion. A completely new method is to filter lithium directly out of the brine using membranes, thus avoiding water-intensive evaporation [8].

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. The addition of hydrogen also raises the proportion of oxygen lost as water relative to CO and CO 2 and thereby further raises the proportion of carbon incorporated into marketable compounds. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In comparison, the state’s goal is to achieve this amount by 2050. The city has provided incentives for the purchase of both EVs and charging ports, the installation of heat-pump water heaters , and the installation of solar and battery-storage systems. Or we can’t even have one EV charger go in.”

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Support the installation of solar panels wherever possible. Going solar now is cheaper than buying electricity from the grid and starts paying for itself from day one. And if you are fortunate enough to own a home, get an EV and install solar panels. Electric Vehicles sales in Norway have reached over 50% of all vehicles sold.

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Plug In India

MARCH 21, 2022

If your charging infra is from solar & battery recycling is sorted, then it’s the ideal for environment. Solar at home,EV for commute & rain water harvesting at home that’s the best we can contribute to cleaner environment. First, use water to cool down the battery to avoid further combustion.

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Plug In India

MARCH 24, 2021

The only other product that they have for comparison is the Sonalika tractor. Of course, I am basing this comparison on my experience with cars and not other tractors. acres - with solar panels on the roof. It would be interesting to see if the IP 65 rated battery packs withstand the water abuse. It will be spread over 1.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The storage of electrical energy in chemical form is potentially useful in two key areas, (1) leveling the output from intermittent electricity sources such as wind and solar and (2) allowing the production of liquid fuels for the transportation sector with renewable electricity.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

The carbon footprint of the energy cost to produce the CNTs from CO 2 is insignificant when nuclear or solar, wind or hydro renewable energy is used to drive the electrolysis, and is only a small fraction of the electricity generated when natural gas is used to drive the electrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Schematic comparison between direct photosynthetic (top) and algal biomass (bottom) processes. The engineered microorganisms thus function as biocatalysts that use only sunlight, waste CO 2 and non-fresh water to directly and continuously produce diesel-range hydrocarbons, which are compatible with existing infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

Green hydrogen is produced by pumping seawater onboard, purifying the water and feeding it to electrolyzers. All steps are powered by renewable wind, solar or hydro energy through a high capacity power cable from a renewable power source next to the P2XFloater.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Transformation of the current approach to appliance standards to one based on full fuel cycle analysis will enable better comparison of different energy supply options in commercial and residential applications. Transparency is key, both for fracturing operations and for water management.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The process also solves common problems associated with generating electricity from renewable sources such as solar, wind or wave energy. Hence, if the energy source is renewable, H 2 can be produced sustainably from water using electrolysis. A schematic of silicotungstic acid–mediated H 2 evolution from water. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Joule says Lea County ideally meets it requirements for production, including high solar insolation, access to non-potable water and waste CO 2. Schematic comparison between direct photosynthetic (top) and algal biomass (bottom) processes. The Helioculture concept. Source: Joule. Click to enlarge. Joule Unlimited, Inc.,

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2023

There is only so much salt you can dissolve in a glass of water. Importantly, the nanofluids are engineered to remain suspended indefinitely, unlike other suspensions—for instance, sand in water. At the depot, the spent fuel could be recharged with electricity from any source—solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, or fossil fuels.

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