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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy ( earlier post ) has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based alkaline fuel cell technology company AFC Energy Plc and its related company, B9 Coal ( earlier post ). Linc Energy anticipates commencing testing of the system at Chinchilla by mid April 2010.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

A team of researchers from the US and India has found that airborne black carbon aerosols, or soot, from India is a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30% of this sum. Change in annual linear snow cover from 1990 to 2001.

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JUNE 21, 2010

Field testing the potential for combining geologic carbon dioxide storage with enhanced methane recovery is underway at a site in Alabama by a US Department of Energy (DOE) team of regional partners. The SECARB members began injecting CO 2 at the Alabama test site on 15 June 2010. gigatons to 2.3

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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JULY 19, 2011

Representative costs are reported in constant December 2010 US dollars. impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. emissions capture and storage, new emissions controls regulations, and increasing capital costs.

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MAY 24, 2009

By October 1, 2010, the Department of Ecology shall develop emission reduction strategies and actions, including complementary policies, to achieve the state’s 2020 emissions reduction targets.

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JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. In addition, global carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The report also finds that by 2035 global energy savings could be equivalent to nearly 20% of global demand in 2010. barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. Energy demand. Renewables. Energy efficiency.

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MAY 21, 2010

The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. Net water use in oil sands production averages four barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for mining operations and 0.9 Source: IHS CERA.

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Market forces and emerging public policies will continue to have an impact on energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. In 2010, about 75% of the world’s vehicles were in OECD countries. Source: ExxonMobil.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

The EU Fuel Quality Directive states that fuels in Europe must reduce their carbon emissions by 6% by 2020. Furthermore, The EU Emissions Trading System threshold, will be reduced by 1.74% (based on the 2010 cap) annually. t CO 2 (US$13.27/t t CO 2 ). Chemical Industry. When oxidized, this leads to emissions of about 2.2

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MAY 3, 2011

coal, dead forest wood or biomass. The combination of steam and hydrogen in the steam hydrogasifier offers the flexibility of using feedstock that has high water content. The product gases from the SHR include mainly methane and hydrogen along with carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and steam. DEER 2007 poster).

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JUNE 10, 2011

Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. ” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 4, 2010

Researchers from the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) in Germany have shown that hydrocarbon yield and energy efficiency can be increased in a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biomass-to-liquids (BTL) process through the use of a hydrophilic membrane enabling the in situ removal of water from the catalyst bed. Unruh et al. Unruh et al.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh Increases in carbon dioxide concentration along with global surface temperatures are showing a decline in agricultural yields due to climate change. [

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The projects—led by FuelCell Energy, in partnership with VersaPower Systems, and Siemens Energy—have successfully demonstrated solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) designed for aggregation and use in coal-fueled central power generation.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The presence of carbon monoxide in the syngas can assist with the conversion of lignin, and the observed effect is similar to that seen for coal hydroprocessing with syngas compared to hydrogen alone. Chevron says tests have shown that this produced water does not inhibit the lignin conversion.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

However, the resulting bio-oils are typically high in oxygen, water, solids and acids. The width of the vertical arrows represents the product carbon yield from a particular field. g of H 2 /100 g of carbon in the feed, reducing the hydrogen requirements as compared to complete hydrodeoxygenation by 20%. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 24, 2022

per capita carbon dioxide emissions , according to a 2020 European Union report. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7 In 2021, about 73 percent of the country’s electricity was produced from coal, and only 9.6 For coal, the capacity utilization rate can go as high as 90 percent.

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APRIL 25, 2011

Red Wolf, formed in 2010, is in the process of raising $3 million through an equity offering to commercialize the thermal-chemical catalytic process. Two product streams exit this reactor, free fatty acids (mixed with water) and sweet water (glycerol mixed with water). Step 1: Hydrolysis. Click to enlarge. Deoxygenation.

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JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. They found that if the energy content of bitumen is taken to be 42.8

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

The electrochemical reduction of CO 2 can produce several products, including formic acid, carbon monoxide, methane, ethylene, and methanol. must be renewable, or at least from a carbon-neutral source such as nuclear; otherwise, more CO 2 would be emitted in producing the electricity than would be reduced in the process.

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JULY 2, 2013

2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars). Thus, in IDES, substitutes for conventional oil include NGLs; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); low-quality hydrocarbons such as bitumen and extra-heavy oil; coal-derived fuels (CTL); natural gas-derived fuels (GTL, CNG, LNG); biofuels; and electricity. Historical scenario. (A)

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MARCH 23, 2013

President Obama established the current PCAST in 2010 as an advisory group of leading scientists and engineers who directly advise the President and the Executive Office of the President; one of the members serves as the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (the Science Advisor).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. Carbon dioxide amount is already 385 ppm and rising about 2 ppm per year.”. ” “What!? That’s 18 months away.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Efficiencies and emissions factors reported are for year 2010. They excluded emissions occurring outside of the contiguous US and surrounding waters) from the results below. of all three fuels, but emits more black carbon (15 mg mi ?1 Emissions are represented in 12 km resolution grids. 1 , corn ethanol: 10).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. wt%, which exceeds the 2010 system target of 4.5

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JANUARY 26, 2022

Three months ago the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP26) declared that by 2030 the world must cut total carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent relative to the 2010 level, which was 30.4 trillion carbon-free passenger-kilometers. billion tonnes of pig (cast) iron in blast furnaces fueled with coke made from metallurgical coal.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Error bars are ± one standard deviation.

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JULY 14, 2009

Funding of fuel cell technologies however, was to be slashed by some $100.8million as the Department of Energy (DOE) chose to refocus its efforts on what Mr Chu described as technologies with “more immediate promise” (for more read ‘ Fuel cell funding to be cut in 2010 Budget ’). However, these hurdles are slowly being surpassed.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

After Copenhagen, countries would then concentrate on “ two processes ”, now colloquially referred to as “two steps” in 2010. as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012.

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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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OCTOBER 15, 2009

More importantly we are obligated to help change the course of the certain hell and high water that is coming for anyone under 30 years old. Carbon dioxide amount is already 385 ppm and rising about 2 ppm per year.”. So far GM, Toyota, Nissan, VW, Mitsubishi, have all announced plug in vehicles they will have for sale in 2010.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. Tree Planting as Carbon Offsets – Does Latitude Ma.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal. Well, the cheapest source is from steam reformed fossil fuels, and that process produces CO2, especially when that fossil fuel is coal.

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MAY 23, 2010

But the scientists now know that we’re NOT going to save our children from that hell and high water that’s coming their way. Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide are making the oceans more acidic. Methane is a greenhouse gas more than 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky).

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