Energy, Montana and Water

NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 11 awards totaling $55 million aimed at building research capacity to develop new innovations at the intersection of food, energy and water systems and to address fundamental questions about the brain. Research at the nexus of food, energy and water. Montana State University.

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Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

Produced water from coal-bed natural gas (CBNG) production may contain sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO 3 ) at concentrations that can harm aquatic life, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey; Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; the Bureau of Land Management and the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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MSU-led regional team awarded $6M NSF grant to research biofuel, carbon capture technologies

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation to address questions about whether biofuels and carbon capture technologies can be sustainably introduced into the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. expanding cleanup operations in Yellowstone River

Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2011

ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (EMPC) said it is expanding its clean up operation following a release of an estimated 750–1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana from the company’s Silvertip pipeline. Montana refining. The Montana Refining Company in Great Falls has invested. Earlier post.).

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) released a report suggesting that, in theory, over 300 former and present coal power plants could be converted to nuclear. A lot of communities that may have not traditionally been looking at advanced nuclear, or nuclear energy in general, are now being incentivized to look at it,” says Victor Ibarra Jr. ,

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy. Montana State University. 4,000,000. .

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Linc Energy taking stake in aboveground gasification company; potential CTL introduction in US

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Linc says the Pyromex process produces good quality syngas with almost no CO 2 gas emissions, and without the need for the consumption of high volumes of water or power. PowerHouse now offers integrated waste and biomass-to-energy systems on a turnkey basis. Linc Energy is granted a further option exercisable within the next 2.5

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Coal Energy Companies North Dakota

Expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil to areas previously occupied by crops or pastureland leads to local cooling

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

It does so by reflecting sunlight back into space and by lowering the temperature of the surrounding air as the plants “exhale” cooler water. They measured temperature, reflectivity (albedo), and evapotranspiration—the water loss from the soil and from plants as they exhale water vapor. —Greg Asner. Loarie, David B.

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ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. Source: ORNL NSD. Click to enlarge.

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. Wabasca Heavy is a heavy oil from the Athabasca region obtained by polymer injection and water flooding and typically has a 19-20 API gravity and 4.15 Principal producers of Wabasca include Cenovus Energy and Canadian Natural Resources.

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Blue Marble Biomaterials launches first zero-waste chemical biorefinery

Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2011

A photobioreactor and algae perform the “water recycling”; the pelletized solid waste material will be used in the gasifier. Blue Marble Biomaterials, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Marble Energy Corp., has launched the first zero-waste chemical biorefinery in the US in Missoula, Montana. Source: Blue Marble.

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Harvard Kennedy School researcher forecasts sharp increase in world oil production capacity and risk of price collapse

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2012

The findings by Leonardo Maugeri, a former senior executive vice president of the oil company Eni, and now a fellow in the Geopolitics of Energy Project in the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, are based on an original field-by-field analysis of the world’s major oil formations and exploration projects.

Oil

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

A barrel of dilbit contains 30% diluents (that do not make significant contribution to gasoline) and 70% bitumen (with a high fraction of residuum, requiring a higher amount of energy-intensive coking to make gasoline and distillate fuels along with a higher fraction of petroleum coke than light crudes). tank-to-wheels, TTW).

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate

PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The report examined grid conditions in the Northwest Power Pool, which covers Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; many of them home to abundant wind resources and wind energy projects. a case identical to a distributed stationary energy storage system dedicated to perform balancing services.

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First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Injection of CO 2 began in a first-of-a-kind US Department of Energy–sponsored field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam. CONSOL Energy Inc., CONSOL Energy Inc., The project is funded by DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and managed by NETL.

West Virginia

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US Mapping Project Highlights Potential for Mineral Carbonation for CO2 Sequestration

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Some also occur in the interior, including Montana. The US Department of Energy has been working on a basalt atlas for the northwestern United States as part of its Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership; extensive mapping in Washington, Oregon and Idaho has already been done through Idaho State University.

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Carbon CO2 Idaho Oman

kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

Blink Charging

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Here’s what you need to know about kWh energy rates and EV charging taxes. Understanding kWh Energy Rates To begin, let’s clarify what a kilowatt-hour (kWh) energy rate is and why it matters for electric vehicles. Although much cheaper than putting gasoline into a ICE car, charging an EV is not necessarily free.

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Tax Charging Virginia Gas-Electric

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

They also generate environmental problems from degrading soil to runoff into rivers where they pollute fresh waters and coastal zones. Some plant-like bacteria (cyanobacteria) are able to fix nitrogen using solar energy via specialized cellular machinery. Team members are John W.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. The work will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont.

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State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

In addition, current projections suggest that the amount of energy required to extract all crude oils is projected to increase over time due to the need to extract oil from ever deeper reservoirs using more energy intensive techniques. Oil sands comprise clay, sand, water, and bitumen.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Oklahoma

DOE and USDA award $10M to advance biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the joint investment of $10 million in seven projects towards research that will drive more efficient biofuels production and agricultural feedstock improvements.

North Carolina

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

The proposed Keystone XL project consists of a 875-mile (1,408 km) long pipeline and related facilities to transport up to 830,000 barrels per day of crude oil from Alberta, Canada and the Bakken Shale Formation in Montana. From Steele City, existing pipelines would transport the crude oil to the Gulf Coast area.

Oil-Sands

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Are Disposable Hotel Slippers the Next Plastic Straws?

Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

Waste from hotel slippers may seem minor when compared to larger issues like energy consumption, food waste or water usage,” Mr. Legrand wrote. Six Senses Crans-Montana in Switzerland stocks Kaaita felt slippers made from recycled plastic bottles that can be washed and reused or recycled at the end of their life span.

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USGS boosts assessment of recoverable natural gas in Marcellus Shale by 42x from 2002; now 84 trillion cubic feet

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

While the new 84 TCF USGS assessment marks a significant increase from the 2002 report, it is also considerably less than an estimate developed by INTEK, under a commission from the US Energy Information Administration, published in July that pegged Marcellus technically recoverable shale gas resources at 410.3 Coleman, J.L., Milici, R.C.,

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Norways Statoil to acquire Brigham Exploration for US$4.4B cash; entry into the US Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Brigham, based in Austin, Texas, has a strong position in the Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays in the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. The US unconventional plays hold a substantial resource base and represent an increasingly important part of future energy supplies. The total equity value is approximately US$4.4

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. transportation sector; and industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before they are phased in.

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Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Charged EVs

JANUARY 18, 2022

Transportation will be, probably along with the energy sector, the key sector that will require to be addressed in order to achieve that goal. Charged : As we discussed last time, the Trump administration tried to water down the federal regulations. To me, that is important for three reasons. Margo Oge: Exactly.

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Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 30, 2024

& They’ve been joined by Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming in the suit.& Swelling vehicle prices was another issue.&

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

Study finds high sodium bicarbonate concentrations in water from coal-bed natural gas production harms aquatic life; water treatment can mitigate effects

MSU-led regional team awarded $6M NSF grant to research biofuel, carbon capture technologies

ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. expanding cleanup operations in Yellowstone River

Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

Linc Energy taking stake in aboveground gasification company; potential CTL introduction in US

Expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil to areas previously occupied by crops or pastureland leads to local cooling

ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

Blue Marble Biomaterials launches first zero-waste chemical biorefinery

Harvard Kennedy School researcher forecasts sharp increase in world oil production capacity and risk of price collapse

State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

US Mapping Project Highlights Potential for Mineral Carbonation for CO2 Sequestration

kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

State Department releases final environmental impact statement on Keystone XL Pipeline Project; analysis of GHG emissions

DOE and USDA award $10M to advance biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products

State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Are Disposable Hotel Slippers the Next Plastic Straws?

USGS boosts assessment of recoverable natural gas in Marcellus Shale by 42x from 2002; now 84 trillion cubic feet

Norways Statoil to acquire Brigham Exploration for US$4.4B cash; entry into the US Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Former EPA exec Margo Oge explains the new federal emissions rules

Gas War: 25 States Sue EPA Over Updated Emissions Regulations

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