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The refinery has an annual production capacity of 800,000 metric tons or 1 billion liters (264 million gallons US) of renewable diesel and cost around €670 million (US$873 million) to build. stearin), as well as waste oils and fats which all meet the sustainability criteria included in the EU Renewable Energy Directive.

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It also requires federal agencies to increase their energy efficiency, reduce the petroleum consumption of their fleets, conserve water, reduce waste, support sustainable communities, and leverage their federal purchasing power to promote environmentally-responsible products and technologies.

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EEB is produced from organic waste, including (and initially) sewage treatment bio-solids—the leftover, dirt-like organic material that remains after a community’s wastewater is treated. Future plans include building a pilot scale facility to verify modeled assumptions. Vitruvian has modeled production costs at $2.58-3.73

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Source: Hagelstein, 2007. The scheme is conceptually simple, wrote Hagelstein and graduate student Dennis Wu in the 2007 Progress Report from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics. There’s a gold mine in waste heat, if you could convert it. Tags: Materials Vehicle Systems Waste Heat Recovery. Click to enlarge.

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million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are legally required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12%.

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BC’s target is to reduce 2050 emissions 80% below 2007 levels. Government is also targeting making buildings more efficient, sequestration opportunities in forests and emission reductions in natural gas production and processing. Expanding support for zero emission vehicle charging stations in buildings.

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in 2007, dropped to a low of 56.9% Waste oils (corn oil, yellow grease, brown grease, and mixed oils), on the other hand, will emerge as a leading feedstock choice and account for 61% of next-generation biofuels with a 3.0 The global biofuels industry averaged 68% in utilization rate from 2005 to 2014, reached a high of 80.9%

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MARCH 8, 2011

The plant has a capacity of 800,000 metric tons per annum, and cost around €550 million to build. It uses a variety of renewable feedstocks to produce NExBTL, including palm oil and side stream products of palm oil production from Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as waste animal fat from Australia and New Zealand.

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JUNE 1, 2009

HCL Cleantech uses hydrochloric acid-driven hydrolysis to convert cellulosic wastes to sugars that can be fermented to ethanol and other biofuels. Ari Eyal in 2007, HCL Cleantech has developed a proprietary full HCL recovery process to enable more economic use of the Bergius cold hydrolysis processs. Israel startup HCL CleanTech Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) created the California Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. In 2007 the company developed Mission One, a high performance electric motorcycle. These would then be installed on-site into mass-produced truck bodies made elsewhere.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

According to the 2015 Urban Mobility Scorecard , travel delays due to traffic congestion caused drivers to waste more than 3 billion gallons of fuel and kept travelers stuck in their cars for nearly 7 billion extra hours—42 hours per rush-hour commuter. Drivers on America’s Top 10 worst roads waste on average 84 hours or 3.5

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MAY 19, 2013

The demonstration facility will be integrated into the Canadian Natural’s operations with direct access to industrial flue gas emissions, wastewater and waste heat. Pond Biofuels, founded in 2007, has designed, constructed, and is operating a large scale process validation facility, using CO 2 from the raw flue gas from Votorantim St.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. In 2007, ConocoPhillips and Tyson Foods Inc.

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billion (US$10 billion) for the 2013 work program will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe’s competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanization and managing waste. In total, €8.1 billion (US$13.3-billion) billion (US$13.3-billion)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Slowly decompressing the gases would waste less of that energy and make for a much quieter engine. Furthermore, the K6 wouldn’t require computer control for operation, making an individual engine as much as $100 cheaper, and much simpler to build. Shedd (2007) Continuous Combustion General Purpose Engine System (SAE 2007-32-0010).

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In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale. These Liquid Desiccant HVAC systems deliver a 50 - 75% reduction in energy usage over conventional HVAC units.

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JUNE 24, 2009

The ClearFuels technology can convert multiple cellulosic biomass feedstocks such as sugarcane bagasse and virgin wood waste into clean synthesis gas (syngas) suitable for integration with synthetic gas-to-liquids technologies. This joint demonstration is anticipated to lead to the final design basis for the commercial facilities.

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Adopting the belt filter press reduces the need for dredging the solid waste from the bottom of POME ponds, which currently has to be done every five to seven years and requires operation shutdowns. All the crude palm oil that Neste uses has been fully traceable to the oil palm plantations since 2007, and 100% certified since 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Assembly Bill 118 (Núñez, Chapter 750, Statutes of 2007) authorized the Energy Commission to provide approximately $100 million annually over seven years to encourage new fuels and technologies. Funding comes from such sources as vehicle registrations, vessel registrations, identification plates, and smog abatement fees.

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MAY 10, 2012

These include projects that use a wide variety of materials, including waste, algae and crops that can be grown on agriculturally marginal land. $11 Skilled workers are needed to manufacture low-emissions vehicles, produce alternative fuels, build fueling stations and otherwise support California’s growing clean transportation market.

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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. —“Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”.

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million tonnes emitted in 2007. Waste heat is used to generate electricity, making Enefit shale oil plants net producers of electricity. However, the National Development Plan for Oil Shale Use for 2008-15 calls for reducing annual extraction while preserving the country’s strong energy security.

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Total electricity production in the scenario more than doubles, from just under 20,000 TWh in 2007 to around 41,000 TWh in 2050. The latest reactor designs, now under construction around the world, build on more than 50 years of technology development. Concepts for Gen IV Systems. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR).

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Westinghouse submitted an application to amend the AP1000 on 27 May 2007. revisions to buildings for enhanced protection (such as for aircraft impact). additional waste-water monitor tanks. revisions to buildings for enhanced protection (such as for aircraft impact). additional waste-water monitor tanks.

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billion tonnes in 2007). In addition they made progress in energy savings, for example by insulation of buildings, more energy-efficient end-use devices and higher fuel efficiencies. The increase is significant even when compared to 2008, when global CO 2 emissions were at their highest before the global financial crisis. Source: JRC.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Canada’s total emissions for 2007 were 747 megatonnes CO 2 eq from all sources and Canada’s Kyoto target is 558.4 megatonnes of CO 2 eq in 2007, and have been projected to be 113.1-141.6 Our research also builds on the reports commissioned by the Alberta Government's Energy Research Institute. megatonnes.

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We have been building a network of ethanol plants across Finland since 2007, and our goal is to produce around 300,000 m 3 /a of ethanol for traffic fuel use from waste and sidestreams by 2020. St1 is already pressing ahead in this direction with its launch of Refuel RE85, a high-blend bioethanol.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Instead of the 950 million liters required initially under the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act, the final target will be a much smaller 25 million liters. Brazil plans to build 103 new sugarcane mills by 2019, increasing production capacity by 66%. —Sam Shrank. In the United States, eliminating the $0.54

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The FOA covers 8 broad topics—Vehicles; Biomass; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Advanced Manufacturing; Buildings; Solar; Water; and Wind—and 30 subtopics aligned with Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs. EERE is the only program Office participating in this FOA. Biobased Products.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Building on the experience and success of the GTL Consortium, we now move to the next phase of alternative fuels while continuing to develop GTL further,” said Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker at a press conference in Doha. Earlier post.) Qatar Airways will operate a fleet of 120 aircraft by 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

CATS’ fleet and financial plans call for the replacement 1998, 1999 and 2007 year diesel buses with new diesel buses in fiscal year 2012. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. City of Charlotte/Charlotte Area Transit System, North Carolina: $3,000,000. Minneapolis-St.

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I’m a huge fan of their 2007 publication, “ Working Toward A Greater, Greener Manhattan Beach &# and I’ve been learning a great deal from their city’s presentations at the South Bay Green Task Force meetings I attend. Green Building. Solid Waste and Recycling. The Task Force has four subcommittees -.

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The investment will allow Ford significantly to build up its research and development capabilities in the country—especially at its Nanjing Research and Engineering Center (REC)—and will help Ford create more world-class vehicles in China, for China. Ford Motor plans to invest RMB 11.4 billion (US$1.8

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Working with Heidi, cities have been gathering data from Southern California Edison, The Gas Company, waste haulers and other contractors using Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) software, which was developed for specifically compiling this diverse data.

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JUNE 27, 2009

Among its accolades, it has held the ISO14001 green standard for environmental management since 1996 thanks to innovations in energy saving, recycling and waste management. The plant sends no waste to landfill and has reduced the amount incinerated by 82 per cent to 730 tonnes from 1999 to 2006.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Damages are expressed in cents per VMT (2007 USD). The committee that wrote the report focused on monetizing the damage of major air pollutants—sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ozone, and particulate matter—on human health, grain crops and timber yields, buildings, and recreation. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge.

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Here are some examples of actions that would be required to achieve the target of at least 35 mpg specified by EISA 2007: [Note: NHTSA has released CAFE standards for MY 2011, but is engaging in further consideration and analysis prior to issuing rules for subsequent model years. Earlier post.)]. The city will have two transit levels.

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