Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2016

The 2015 papers provided technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; Mirai’s newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. FC Boost Converter. The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Battelle is granting an exclusive license to Genifuel Corporation for a process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to convert algae into renewable synthetic natural gas (SNG) for use in pipelines and power generation. PNNL has tested the gasifier with terrestrial plants, kelp and water hyacinths.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the tropics likely drove a global increase in atmospheric methane in 2007 and 2008 after a decade of near-zero growth, according to a new study. Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, albeit a distant second. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

A 12% blend of Cobalt biobutanol with gasoline, already permissible under US EPA guidelines, complies with the requirements of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. It can be used as a standalone fuel; blended with gasoline, diesel and ethanol; converted into jet fuel or plastics, or sold as is for use in paints and coatings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

IBN’s research shows that only a small amount of NHC is required to induce carbon dioxide activity in a reaction. Hydrosilane, a combination of silica and hydrogen, is added to the NHC-activated carbon dioxide, and the product of this reaction is transformed into methanol by adding water (hydrolysis). Yugen Zhang. 48 (18) pp.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO 2 e) emissions from entering the atmosphere. This year alone, GM has recycled or reused 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Results of the study suggest that soot is second only to carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. Jacobson found that the combination of the two types of soot is the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2009

UCTL is an in situ process that converts brown coal/lignite to liquid hydrocarbon and gas products within the coal seam. The preferred coal type is lignite; the water and impurities aid the UCTL process. Underground Coal to Liquids Business Plan Overview (Magma, December 2008).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and UOP will also participate in the analysis, which will include an assessment of the total carbon lifecycle of biofuels. Sustainable biofuel development is a key component of aviation’s strategy for lowering carbon emissions. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

Very broadly, the biomass-to-gasoline (BTG) process assessed in the NREL report gasifies biomass to produce a syngas rich in hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This syngas is then converted into methanol, and the methanol is converted to gasoline using the methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process first developed by Exxon Mobil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2009

In the report, its first, the panel concludes governments should fit biofuels into an overall energy, climate, land-use, water and agricultural strategy if biofuels deployment is to benefit society, the economy and the environment as a whole. This is mainly as a result of carbon releases from the soils and land.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

77% is up from just under 13% of the total primary energy supply of around 490 Exajoules in 2008. Of the around 300 Gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity added globally between 2008 and 2009, 140 GW came from renewable energy. Technology subcategories and discount rates were aggregated for this figure. Source: SRREN.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Eventually, Hazen said the use of microbes might even result in “oil sweetening,” or converting its chemical structure to a more environmentally friendly and useful form, like methane. This includes water and rock geochemistry and hydrocarbon composition and will chart the geologic thermal burial history of each sample. Terry Hazen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

Startup Mattershift says it has achieved a breakthrough in making carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes at large scale. The paper is a characterization study of commercial prototype carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes consisting of sub–1.27-nm-diameter nm-diameter CNTs traversing a large-area nonporous polysulfone film.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy. Integrated renewable hydrogen systems and public-private community-based partnerships. Since that time, DOE has dedicated $1.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

The SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) International Biofuels Project, has published the full proceedings of its Rapid Assessment workshop on the environmental effects of biofuel technologies, 22-25 September 2008. However very few studies include water use impacts. Menichetti and Otto. Ravindranath et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2015

The papers provide technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; the newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. Conventional flow field structure. Konno et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Generally, any alternative energy form that can help reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and limit our reliance on fossil fuels is well-received. Further worries include the impact on water resources. There are concerns too about soil erosion and deforestation. So do biofuels have a role to play?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

liter unit introduced in the US in 2008 in the Jetta as Volkswagen’s first Tier 2 Bin 5/CA LEV II-compliant (i.e., It is then converted to ammonia which interacts with NO x on the SCR catalyst to form water and nitrogen. The oxidation catalyst converts a large portion of the HC and CO into water vapor and carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The engine’s dual-circuit cooling system and integrated water-cooled exhaust manifold enable short engine warm-up times. The use of precious metals in the catalytic converter and their composition were also reconfigured, as when natural gas is combusted, about 25% less CO 2 is generally emitted with far less carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

students a simple question: “What is the most efficient and practical way possible to convert chemical-bond energy into useful work?” The efficient, clean, flameless reaction at the heart of the Mainspring generator works with nearly any fuel, including carbon-free ammonia as shown here. Here’s how that would work. That’s the theory.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

He also designed a virtual world game from the ground up (since 2008, still a work in progress). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. Alan has 30+ years in business development and marketing.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He also designed a virtual world game from the ground up (since 2008, still a work in progress). In my conversations, I focus primarily on the overall total cost of ownership and I have encouraged some friends to convert. Alan has 30+ years in business development and marketing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage. The deep formations could also store carbon dioxide after the coal is turned into gas. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2009

The LTA-SOFC was able to convert the biodiesel to electricity at commercially viable power densities, i.e., greater than 100 mW cm -2. Oxygen ions are extracted at the cathode and pass through the electrolyte to the anode (fuel) side where they combine with hydrogen or carbon monoxide from the fuel to form water or carbon dioxide.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

There are two basic approaches to converting coal to synthetic fuels: indirect liquefaction (ICL) (Fischer-Tropsch) and direct (Bergius). The indirect liquefaction pathway first gasifies the coal to produce a syngas, and then catalytically converts the syngas to linear hydrocarbons or chemicals. Half the water consumption.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

In the Bakken formation, the oil is extracted from tight carbonate. In 2008 the US Geological Survey revised its estimate of the Bakken Formation resource, stating that the Bakken may contain up to 4.3 If the tender offer is completed, un-tendered shares will be converted into the right to receive the same US$36.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The idea of self-sufficient cities is gaining currency in the European Union, which has set itself the ambitious task of cutting carbon dioxide (CO{-2}) emissions to one-fifth below 1990 levels by 2020 ? February 17, 2009 9:43 am Link No matter how you slice it we need a carbon TAX to accelerate all these important projects.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. Next: a carbon tax. Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business.

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