Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
This review consisted of a closer look at the refined products markets in China, and also a sectoral analysis of energy use. Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. MTG units involve high capital costs and are only cost-competitive when oil prices are high.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Global food prices are predicted to rise 70 to 90 percent by 2030.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 5, 2009
GAO reviewed scientific studies, interviewed experts and agency officials, and visited five DOE and USDA laboratories. Increased cultivation of corn for ethanol, its conversion into biofuels, and the storage and use of these fuels could affect water supply, water quality, air quality, soil quality, and biodiversity, the report found.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 12, 2012
The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. Water is essential to the production of energy, and the energy sector already accounts for 15% of the world’s total water use.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Projected output of the Clinton Project is a maximum 13,000 barrels of diesel per day (15,800 barrels of oil equivalent per day or 5.3 Syngas projects about a 10% ROI at US$60/barrel of crude, which higher returns at higher oil prices.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2013
The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. 2012 Keystone XL plan vs. 2008 plan. Length of new pipeline (miles).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2011
The type of feedstocks produced, management practices used, land-use changes that feedstock production might incur, and such site-specific details as prior land use and regional water availability will determine the mandate's environmental effects, the report says. Barriers and opportunities.
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