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MAY 6, 2021

A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a similarly sized gas-fired power plant. The expansion of electricity networks also requires a huge amount of copper and aluminum. Source: IEA. Source: IEA.

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APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society. The project.

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JULY 8, 2022

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant (VPP) to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. VPPs are a valuable resource for supporting grid reliability and an essential part of California’s clean energy future.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

The Nikkei reports that in 2024, Japan will begin to extract rare earth materials for electric vehicles and hybrids from sea bottom mud in an area off Minami-Torishima Island, a coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo. The resource amount was estimated to be 1.2 —Takaya et al. Yasukawa, K.,

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JUNE 7, 2018

Seven companies—Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC); SHIZUOKA GAS Co., Against this backdrop, the hopes are that the batteries of EV/PHEVs, ownership of which is expected to grow rapidly in the near future, can be effectively utilized as a VPP resource. TEPCO Power Grid, Inc.;

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JANUARY 28, 2024

Australia’s resources minister has begun a week long trip to South Korea and Japan to discuss gas exports and critical minerals opportunities, as its government on Monday released a “prospectus” of 52 investment ready critical minerals projects. For nickel, a flood of Indonesian supply has also hit prices.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The California Energy Commission (CEC) approved a staff analysis recommending the state pursue extending operation of Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) through 2030 to ensure electricity reliability. The determination is based on data showing California risks energy supply shortfalls during extreme weather events.

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JULY 14, 2021

An open-access paper on the study is published in the journal Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Production of Li 2 CO 3 from brine-based resources had less life cycle GHG emissions and freshwater consumption per tonne of Li 2 CO 3 than Li 2 CO 3 from ore-based resources. —Veronica Gautier, SQM’s head of innovation.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond intends to show that renewable hydrogen can be a cost-effective fuel for multiple end-use applications, including fuel cell electric vehicles, when coupled with large, baseload consumers that use hydrogen for clean, reliable stationary power.

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JULY 30, 2019

million in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses. The NRCan funding furthers the government’s commitment to renewable transit options and supports the purchase of eight electric buses for Brampton—six of which are New Flyers Xcelsior model.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

Orange EV and Dependable Supply Chain Services announced the deployment of Orange EV pure electric terminal trucks (aka yard trucks, hostlers, spotters) as the first step in fulfilling the Dependable Highway Express (DHE) plan to transform its Ontario, California facility into a sustainable, energy-efficient, emission-free freight terminal.

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APRIL 16, 2023

NFI, one of the US’ oldest and largest third-party supply chain solutions providers, is expanding its fleet of Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) in Southern California as part of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative ( JETSI ) project. million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Yet, the lack of established process and business models defining “green steel” make it difficult to understand what the respective H 2 price has to be in order to be competitive with commercial state-of-the-art natural gas DRI. …

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Aurora Hydrogen is scaling its proprietary and highly efficient microwave pyrolysis technology to produce hydrogen and solid carbon from natural gas without generating CO 2 emissions or consuming water. And, unlike electrolysis, the process does not require water as a feedstock, preserving another critical and scarce resource.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The challenge: when modeling a hypothetical well-to-wheel scenario of aggressive battery electric vehicle (BEV) adoption, powered by hypothetical full switch to fossil-free power sources in parallel, there is still a GHG emission overshoot, unless upstream scope 3 (supply chain emissions) are simultaneously tackled.

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AUGUST 24, 2012

The US’ large resource base of natural gas can be used for cost-effective power generation, with environmental burdens coming primarily from fuel combustion, not resource extraction, according to a new Department of Energy (DOE) study.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nikola Corporation and KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis , a clean hydrogen and chemicals production facility under development, are working together to create Pennsylvania’s first low-carbon hydrogen production value chain, which includes full integration of commercial carbon capture and storage.

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MARCH 10, 2020

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) Executive Officer has certified the 2020 annual update to the carbon intensities (CI) of the lookup table pathways for a) California Average Grid Electricity Used as a Transportation Fuel in California and b) Electricity Supplied under the Smart Charging or Smart Electrolysis Provision.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

SK E&S and SK Plug Hyverse—a joint venture (JV) formed in January of this year by SK E&S and Plug Power—will work with Korea Southeast Power Generation (KOEN) to cooperate with green hydrogen and green ammonia projects based on renewable energy resources in Korea and abroad. million tons in 2030 and 27.9

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The University of Birmingham is working with Bentley Motors and others on a three-year research project to deliver a sustainable source of rare earth magnets for electric and hybrid vehicles. Rare earth magnets are found in almost every appliance that uses electricity to generate motion. Resources. million (US$3.6-million)

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Along with hydrogen production and use, an energy transition will involve the synchronous upscaling of renewable electricity, batteries, and energy use technologies. The materials and metals demanded by a low-carbon economy are projected to be immense and create challenges along the full supply pathway. —Palmer et al.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Modifications included a DME-adapted high-pressure common rail pump, adapted injectors as well as a low-pressure fuel-supply system able to deliver DME at 10 bar and return the injectors’—as well as the common rail pump—backflows accordingly. Soltic et al. from 16.5) —Soltic et al. 2023.129357

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Rivas); the bill requires the California Air Resources Board to develop an incentives-based plan to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other alternatives to jet fuel to reduce the impact of commercial aviation on climate change. The bill sets a sustainable fuels usage target in the aviation sector of at least 20% by 2030.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The global push to convert the world to electric vehicles will cause supply chain complexities that could undermine the alternative energy transition in the United States, according to a new report from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. The detailed report— Need Nickel?

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APRIL 16, 2021

has closed a $68,155,000 “Green Bond” private activity bonds offering to finance the construction of its renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Northwest Iowa. The feedstock for the RNG Project will be supplied by three dairy farms located in Northwest Iowa totaling more than 20,000 milking cows. Other related improvements.

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JULY 7, 2023

Maritime transport represents around 90% of trade worldwide, while producing 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. bp is working to establish supplies of lower carbon alternative fuels for the shipping sector and will look to use its trading expertise to bring WasteFuel’s bio-methanol to market.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2012 Audi’s Hungarian plant opened a geothermal facility to supply most of its heat requirements. The remainder is compensated by bio-gas certificates. The focus lies on the challenges that are key to Audi: decarbonization; water utilization; resource efficiency; and biodiversity. Audi Hungaria, in cooperation with E.ON

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MARCH 8, 2021

A team at Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Center has evaluated the well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of Fischer–Tropsch (FT) fuels produced via various electrolytic H 2 pathways and CO 2 sources; using various process designs (i.e., Zang et al. —Zang et al. 0c05893.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The input of a suitable sweep gas on microwave switching-off leads to the material reoxidation via gas deoxygenation and the formation of valuable molecular energy carriers. The heat excess from CGO reoxidation is reused to supply the energy demand of the reduction step. Serra et al. H H 2 O =285kJmol ?1 Serra et al. Serra, J.M.,

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A new report from a team at Argonne National Laboratory examines the changing characteristics for light-duty plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) from 2010-2021, evaluating range, energy efficiency, costs, and performance. terawatt-hours of electricity to drive 19.1 More than 2.1 Annual sales of PEVs in the US by year. Gohlke et al.

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MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

said that furnaces for steel reheating are responsible for a large amount of energy consumption, where less than 50% of the energy supplied to the furnace (mainly gaseous fuel) is net energy of steel heating, the remaining is lost. kWh/Nm 3 of hydrogen gas produced, up to 2.2 Resources S. A 2020 study by Zanoni et al.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted a revised draft of California’s proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP) Strategy. The major sources of methane in California are livestock (~30% of the state’s methane emissions), followed by landfills and oil and gas production.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The California Air Resources Board last week approved the final proposed 2022 Scoping Plan ( earlier post ), a roadmap to reduce demand for petroleum by 94%, cut air pollution by 71%, reduce greenhouse gas emissions 85%, and reach carbon neutrality by 2045.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

A sustainable material is defined as a bio-based/renewable, recycled material or one that may be produced using or contributing to other sustainable practices for resource conservation and/or emissions reductions including mass-balance materials.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nippon Steel and EVR have agreed that concurrently with the completion of the Investment, they will enter into long-term coal offtake rights agreement, under which EVR will supply steelmaking coal to Nippon Steel.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

We will use Sinopec’s current industry resources and lay out the green hydrogen industry chain to achieve greater progress. As an important industrial resource for hydrogen energy, Sinopec has a strong industrial background and integrated value chain. million tons, accounting for 14% of national hydrogen production.

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