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JULY 26, 2023

Enerkem, a producer of bio-methanol from mixed waste at commercial scale, and Dimeta, a joint venture between the two of the largest off-grid energy suppliers, are initiating feasibility studies for the development of two large-scale projects that will convert waste into renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME).

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JUNE 3, 2020

Within the Netherlands transport sector, inland navigation accounts for 5% of carbon dioxide emissions. With the help of a 2000 kWh Repack container, an inland vessel can sail for two to four hours. The other founders of ZES are ING Bank, energy and technical service provider Engie, and the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

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Concept Emissions Hydrogen 2000 357

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

World’s first integrated Power-to-Liquid (PtL) test facility to synthesize fuels from the air-captured carbon dioxide. Worldwide, wind and sun supply a sufficient amount of energy, but not always at the right time. In a first step, the plant captures carbon dioxide from ambient air in a cyclic process. Four steps to fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

In 2009, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States saw their largest absolute and percentage annual decline (405 million metric tons or 7.0%) since the start of US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) comprehensive record of annual energy data that begins in 1949. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. between 2008 and 2009.

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2009 Emissions Carbon Transportation 239

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Lakh (US$10,000) (All India – Ex-showroom), for the first 10,000 customers (of which 2000 will be reserved for the current owners of Nexon EV and Tigor EV). Tata Motors, India’s leading automobile manufacturer, launched the newest member of its EV family this past week: the Tiago.ev. Equipped with a permanent magnet synchronous motor, Tiago.ev

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Motors Motoring Motor India 435

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2021

By 2030, the Rolls-Royce business unit is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 35% compared to its 2019 level through the use of new net zero and zero carbon technologies. The engines are used in a wide variety of applications, for example, in energy supply, commercial shipping, heavy land vehicles, passenger trains and in yachts.

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2019 Engine Climate Power 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2014

Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. giga tonne carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO 2 eq) (2.2%) per year from 2000 to 2010 compared to 0.4 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. million tonnes).

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2010 Emissions California Transportation 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2016

Swedish-Finnish steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and power company Vattenfall have launched an initiative to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than carbon dioxide. Brindle (2000) “ Theoretical Minimum Energies To Produce Steel For Selected Conditions ”. HYBRIT concept. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

for conventional diesel reflects the minimum fossil energy requirements for oil-based diesel production, and that the industry has become more energy intensive with unconventional oil resources from oil shale and tar sands already accounting for 12% of US crude oil production in the year 2000. They noted that an EBR of 1.2

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Moving goods by road consumes about 50% of all diesel produced; 80% of the global net increase in diesel use since 2000 comes from road freight. Logistics companies, however, have wide discretion over their operating mode and supply chains, and therefore need to play a leading role in decarbonizing road freight.

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Emissions CO2 Alternative Fuels Climate Change 255

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The MSG process, under license from Idaho National Laboratory, uses a combination of molten sodium salts (sodium carbonate and sodium hydroxide) to convert a carbon feedstock and water into hydrogen. The MSG process occurs in a single high-pressure reactor in which a carbon-based feedstock and water react with a molten salt bath.

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Molten Salt Hydrogen Oil-Sands Idaho 303

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. Modern Truck Scenario.

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Oil Transportation Alternative Fuels Fuel Economy 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The UK has launched a new research program aiming to strengthen the supply chain for the UK’s aero-engine industry and accelerate the development and introduction of low carbon aircraft engine technology. The total cost of the project including government and industry investment is expected to be around £90 million (US$148 million).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The initiative is sponsored by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which established the disclosure and reporting framework used by 2,500 of the world’s largest companies to report carbon emissions. Ford has reported to the CDP on its successful efforts to reduce its carbon footprint since 2003. billion gallons.

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Water Ford Climate Change 2000 322

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MARCH 27, 2017

These factors included a decline in the carbon intensity of the energy supply (CO 2 /British thermal units [Btu]) of 1.8%; and a 3.4% —“US Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2015”. According to the EIA, the 2015 increase in energy-related carbon dioxide emissions from the transportation sector was led by gasoline.

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2015 Transportation CO2 Energy 150

Setec Powerr

APRIL 10, 2024

In most cases, “energy resilience” refers to the ability to maintain power supply during localized outages. This form of resilience is increasingly critical—over the 20 years following 2000, the frequency of major outages increased by 67%, with expectations for further increases due to extreme weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2011

m 3 (2,510 gallons US) in 2000 to approximately 3.5 Ford’s latest water reduction initiatives are designed to build on the success the company has had with its Global Water Management Initiative that launched in 2000. Between 2000 and 2010, Ford reduced its global water use by 62%, or 10.5 m 3 (925 gallons US) in 2015.

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Water 2015 Ford 2000 257

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AUGUST 14, 2012

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that after an increase in 2010 of 3.3%, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the US in 2011 decreased by 2.4% (136 million metric tons), while GDP grew by 1.8%. This indicates that the carbon intensity of the economy declined by about 4.2%. per gallon.

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2011 Emissions Energy CO2 231

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

AC Transit (Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District), which operates the third-largest public bus system in California, has filed a fuel pathway application for gaseous hydrogen produced via electrolysis powered by renewable electricity (solar) with the California Air Resources Board (ARB) under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Effects of changes in the average lifespan of ordinary passenger cars newly registered between 1990-2000 on total induced CO 2 emissions in 2000. fuel combustion), and CO 2 emissions generated throughout the supply chain. Credit: ACS, Kagawa et al. Click to enlarge. —Kagawa et al. —Kagawa et al.

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Emissions CO2 2000 Vehicles 218

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Davos on Monday was reportedly experiencing the heaviest snow for the summit since 1999-2000.). The environmentally friendly system in Geneva could ultimately cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 tons annually. Top: TOSA flash charging station in Davos. Bottom: Close-up. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

SLCPs include black carbon (soot), methane and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)—the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions in California and globally—which are used as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and insulation. Black carbon. SLCPs may account for an estimated 40% of global warming, increasing the impacts of climate change.

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Pollution California Emissions Climate 150

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. 29% dry weight (dw)] and low carbon (30?37% ash-free dry weight (afdw) carbon, 37.5% carbon, 10.1% The ACPs contained 4550 ± 460 mg L–1 organic carbon, 1640 ± 250 mg L –1 total nitrogen, and 3.5 afdw lipid.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 19, 2024

These LFP cells boast an energy density exceeding 150 Wh/kg, exceptional charge-discharge rates, and a service life surpassing 2000 cycles. The recently certified LFP cells, meticulously designed and tested in-house, signify a giant leap toward reducing India’s dependence on imported LFP batteries.

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Li-ion India Auto Energy Storage 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% The analysis is based on a carbon budget that would stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at 450 ppm and give a 50% probability of limiting warming to 2 °C. per year through 2050. Click to enlarge. a year from now to 2050.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In turn, this buffer system is briefly able to supply over 2000 amperes when needed for full performance. To our knowledge, no-one has ever before put a system delivering over 2000 amperes on the road in a passenger car. This is unique. We achieve this by combining our flow battery with the new buffer system.

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Cars That Think

MAY 7, 2024

As early as 1900, civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins predicted that by 2000 we would have such now-commonplace innovations as color photography, wireless telephones, and home televisions (and even TV dinners), among other things. “If Engineering R&D Solutions for Unhackable Infrastructure.

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Engine Climate Change Climate Future 90

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has entered into a feedstock processing and lignin supply agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron USA, Inc. Under terms of the agreement, CTV will provide various sources of lignocellulosic feedstock to Mascoma. In addition, the reductant for the hydroprocessor could also be syngas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2014

By 1995, Orbital had filed the 365 patent (“Method ofOperating an Internal Combustion Engine”) and 951 patent (“Engine Air Supply Systems”). This became the subject of the 387 (“Deposit Control In Fuel Injector Nozzles”) patent, filed in 2000. In 1997-98, Orbital incorporated the OCP into a Mercedes engine for testing.

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Mercedes 2002 Australia Engine 218

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JUNE 20, 2017

Researchers at Synthetic Genomics’ laboratory discovered a new process for increasing oil production by identifying a genetic switch that could be fine-tuned to regulate the conversion of carbon to oil in the algae species, Nannochloropsis gaditana. In 2016, ExxonMobil announced its partnership with Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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Production Oil Carbon Emissions 170

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Global liquids supply by type.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

A consortium brought together by low carbon experts at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK launched the first bus in the UK to run on biomethane gas. Originally powered entirely by diesel, the Mercedes-Benz engine has been adapted by the Hardstaff Group ( earlier post ) to run for 60-80% of the time on low-carbon biomethane.

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Emissions Fuel Conversion Cleaner 246

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

In the first half of the year, producers strained to meet global demand, but when the recession took hold later in the year the market was swamped by excess supply. In 2000, coal provided 28% of the world’s fossil fuel energy production, compared with 45% for oil. in 2008 to reach 27.4 Coal has led the growth in fossil fuel production.

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2008 Oil-Sands Production Fuel 150

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JUNE 13, 2012

The report also highlighted supply disruptions as one of the major energy events of the year. The “Arab Spring” affected oil and gas supplies—most notably the complete, albeit temporary, loss of Libyan supply—while the tragic Fukushima accident in Japan had knock-on effects for nuclear and other energy sources around the world.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 3, 2010

In August 2009 a state-of-the-art rig using “new technology&# spilled 2000 barrels of oil a day for 10 weeks into the fragile East Timor Sea. We’ll have a long-term supply of oil. Offshore drilling will only give us about 18 months of supply at our current rate of consumption. Try telling the Australians that.

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