Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Between 2000 and 2012, these included mandating the closure of many polluting sources, auditing companies that produced large amounts of toxic and hazardous materials, setting pollutant emissions standards, and promoting energy efficiency and pollution reduction. Particulate matter is released by coal-burning plants and other sources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In February 2008, Chevron Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company created a 50-50 joint venture company— Catchlight Energy LLC — focused on developing the next generation of renewable transportation fuels from nonfood sources. The company plans to break ground on that facility during the first half of 2010. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The new booklet— Signals & Signposts —updates the company’s thinking by taking into account the impact of the global economic and financial crisis. Underlying global demand for energy by 2050 could triple from its 2000 level if emerging economies follow historical patterns of development. Zone of uncertainty.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Yet the growth in oil demand from trucks has outpaced all other sectors—including passenger cars, aviation, industry and petrochemical feedstocks—since 2000 and contributed 40% to global oil demand growth, a similar contribution as cars.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Vehicle penetration 2000 to 2040. Lower-sulfur fuel regulations for marine vessels expected over the next decade may attract some shipping companies to invest in LNG capability. In 2010, about 75% of the world’s vehicles were in OECD countries. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge. Range of average vehicle efficiency. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. billion from 1975-2000 to develop DCL technology. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The well-to-retail pump part of the emissions (before vehicle use) accounts for some 20-30% of the total life-cycle GHG emissions, the company says. Over the past decade, production from oil sands more than doubled from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to 1.35 Conventional oil uses 0.1 Land disturbance and reclamation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

billion) in total, Alstom has signed a power plant contract worth the equivalent of more than €650 million (US$923 million) with Tenaga Janamanjung Sdn Bhd to provide key power generation equipment to South East Asia’s first 1000 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant Manjung, Malaysia. In a project worth about €1 billion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. 29,561,142. 125,006,103.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

billion coal-gasification project, but called off the project in late 2009 due to high capital requirements, the narrow difference between petroleum and natural gas prices and uncertain US energy policy. Janus Methanol is a methanol and chemical development and operating company. Methanol-to-gasoline process flow diagram. Source: EMRE.

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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 ”. Resources. Fortini H.W.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

At the same time, though, Russian energy has been buffeted by announcements from major Western petroleum companies that they’ll extricate themselves from Russia, with whom they've been doing business for decades. The drop was steep enough to force Germany to produce more electricity from coal than from wind in 2021. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Well you look at Germany and four companies vie for each roof space. When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. That’s correct.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Several companies are building plug-in hybrid schoolbuses (see bottom of page at Where-PHEVs-Are ).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Stellantis is offering certain higher salaried US employees separation packages to help its “transformation to become a sustainable tech mobility company and the market leader in low-emissions vehicles,” a company spokesperson said. Of course, more EV battery factories creates more demand for raw materials.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Yes, even these unfortunate dimwits can still save what’s left of their retirement funds while helping out the rest of us who weren’t fooled by the right wing, unabashed carbon pimps who ran things in the US government from 2000-2008 and did more damage to our environment than any government in history. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

Or Cell phone companies agreeing on all cellphone using a mini-usb plug. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. 1, 2000) Sited: [link] You can google it and find it anywhere that vehicles have always placed more harmful chemicals into the air.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

It would focus the federal government's spending power upon utility companies, giving them financial incentives to clean up and doling out penalties to utilities who fail to meet standards. In the US, RPSs have accounted for nearly half of the country's renewable energy growth since 2000. If the success of similar state policies.is

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

In one of those alternative realities Al Gore got elected President in 2000 and because he understood what was happening with CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions he made cutting emissions, and developing renewable and clean energy sources our country’s focus and goals. Too few people give a shit about that title. .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

But GM says it wont get the money until the Obama administration is satisfied the company is financially viable. GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? Gotta love a company that blows nearly 2 billion a year on PR and advertising!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Reduced Output. The Stringency of the Cap.

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