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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) awarded more than $4 million in funding to test novel applications of dimethyl ether (DME) as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Global carbon dioxide emissions show no sign of abating and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK). The study, which also involved the University of East Anglia (UK) and other global institutions, is part of the annual carbon budget update by the Global Carbon Project.

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MAY 31, 2014

Black carbon emissions and BC emissions intensity per year. A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 Black carbon has two deleterious effects on the environment. and 172 million in 1960 and 2010, respectively). Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

—Low Carbon Fuel Standard 2011 Program Review Report. The California LCFS regulation, which went in to effect on 15 April 2010, targets a reduction of the carbon intensity (CI), on a full-fuel lifecycle basis, of transportation fuels (measured in gCO 2 e/MJ) used in California by an average of 10% by the year 2020.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

An international team from Hanyang University (Korea), University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy), and Argonne National Laboratory (US) has synthesized a cathode material of an electrically conducting carbon-LiMnPO 4 nanocomposite by ultrasonic spray pyrolysis followed by ball milling.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First application is on the 2010 Ford Flex’s third-row interior storage bins. Seeing this go into production on the Ford Flex is a major accomplishment for the University of Waterloo and the BioCar Initiative. —Leonardo Simon, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The carbon intensity (CI) of Alberta oil sands production has significantly decreased over the last 40 years, according to a new study by a team from Stanford University published as an open access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Carbon capture and storage at large upgrading and refining facilities (e.g.,

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MARCH 13, 2012

Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8

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JUNE 23, 2009

Scientists at the University of Delaware are developing a new low-cost material for hydrogen storage—carbonized chicken feathers (CCFF)—that they say could meet the DOE requirements for hydrogen storage and are competitive with carbon nanotubes and metal hydrates at a tiny fraction of their cost.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

A team at Tsinghua University in China has developed a film of porous carbon nanofibers containing Sn/SnO x nanoparticles in the pores for use as an anode material in Li-ion batteries. A paper on the work is in press in the journal Carbon. Carbon Article in Press doi: 10.1016/j.carbon.2010.08.046. 2010.08.046.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The study led by a team from the University of Leicester (UK) suggested that 86 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 50 years) or 100 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 25 years) represent the best available estimates of typical emissions from peat decomposition in palm plantations. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

program is paying nearly 10 times the projected price of carbon credits per ton in the best-case scenario, according to an analysis of the implied cost of carbon dioxide reductions under the program by UC Davis transportation economist Christopher Knittel. A gallon of gasoline creates roughly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide when combusted.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

Louisiana-based startup New Oil Resources (NOR) is commercializing a near-critical (i.e., New Oil Resources licensed the technology (US Patent 6,180,845 ) in 2009 from Louisiana State University (LSU); the original developers of the process are Drs. New Oil Resources was co-founded by Catallo and Dr. Gary Miller.

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APRIL 11, 2019

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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JUNE 6, 2011

Overview of Carbon Sciences’ process. Carbon Sciences, Inc., a technology developer focusing on the conversion of carbon dioxide and methane to fuels, plans to produce samples of diesel fuel in an end-to-end process demonstration. Carbon Sciences says it has solved this problem. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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JULY 8, 2012

A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Major emission areas are marked. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 22, 2018

California can reduce carbon emissions by more than 70 million metric tons by 2030—akin to taking 15 million gasoline-powered cars off the road in one year—by adopting a higher target for its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), according to an analysis released by the UK-based research firm Cerulogy.

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APRIL 5, 2010

A spinout from work at the University of South Florida is developing a new Fischer-Tropsch-based (FT) process to produce hydrocarbon transportation fuels—initially jet fuel—from biomass. The COSI reactor design takes care of the generated heat, reducing the risk of sintering and plugging due to carbon formation. The next step is to.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Even with necessary advances in biology and process efficiencies, the resource potential of microalgae biofuels will always be modest mainly due to the lack of sites having all the needed resources, in particular available CO 2 , according to a new detailed assessment from the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) in Berkeley.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Better Place will partner with Tokyo’s largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, in the project commissioned by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry’s Natural Resources and Energy Agency. Partnership with University of Melbourne. It is hoped that one day the entire University fleet could be converted to electric.

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JUNE 6, 2010

GMP40 (60:40 weight ratio of mixed mesophase pitch carbon and phenolic resin) produced the best results. However, carbon remains the predominant commercial anode material solution at this point. Some studies have demonstrated that carbon coating of graphite improves the anode performance in LIBs. Credit: ACS, Lin et al.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

According to a 2021 report by the International Energy Agency, the average amount of minerals needed for a new unit of power generation capacity has risen by 50% since 2010, as renewable energy technologies using these metals expand their reach. This research was supported by the US Department of Energy and the US National Science Foundation.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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JULY 14, 2016

is black carbon (BC)—a pollutant with large positive radiative forcing on the climate due to its ability to absorb incoming sunlight and reduce surface albedo on snow. A new study by a team at the University of Toronto has made a preliminary assessment of the climate trade-off (i.e., A significant fraction of the GDI PM 2.5

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APRIL 7, 2020

As part of its Sustainable Zoom-Zoom 2030 long-term technology development program, the company is committed to reducing its average Well-to-Wheel CO 2 emissions to 50% of 2010 levels by 2030, and to 90% by 2050. Earlier post.). Microalgae biofuel has numerous positive attributes as a renewable liquid fuel. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 31, 2014

The hybrid energy storage device comprises a low-cost, activated carbon anode, a Manganese oxide cathode (MnO 2 ), and an electrolyte consisting of Na 2 SO 4 in water (~1 M). Aquion spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. Aqueous hybrid ion chemistry. Source: Aquion. Click to enlarge. Aquion Technical Presentation.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Authors of the paper are Rathin Datta, cellulosic ethanol company Coskata’s chief scientific officer; Mark Maher, executive director, powertrain/vehicle integration, GM Powertrain; Coleman Jones, GM biofuels implementation manager; and Richard Brinker, Dean and Professor of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University.

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The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. Other authors include Raymond Pilcher of Raven Ridge Resources of Grand Junction, Colo.; —Nazar Kholod. —Nazar Kholod.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

(The comparison to the electric vehicle is based on estimates which factor in the CO 2 emissions resulting from fuel production, with the DME-powered vehicle figure calculated from the use of renewable energy to generate the DME fuel, and the electric vehicle figure calculated from electricity generated from renewable resources.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2016

An international group of physicists led by the University of Arkansas has created an artificial graphene-like structure with transition metal atoms in place of carbon atoms. Its discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010. The U of A-led group published its findings in Physical Review Letters. and Meyers, D.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Electricity generated by the fuel cell is going straight into the Edison grid, and the university will be able to utilize the waste heat it produces to preheat the campus heating system, resulting in an estimated annual savings of $120,000 from avoided natural gas costs.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

NOHMs, a spin-off from Cornell University, will utilize the Kentucky-Argonne Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center and the University of Kentucky’s Spindletop Administration Building. Founded in October 2010, NOHMs Technologies has developed a battery that is based on lithium-sulfur chemistry. Batteries'

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APRIL 9, 2012

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently selected XG Sciences, a spin-off company from Michigan State University, to develop ultrahigh-energy ultracapacitors for use in space energy storage systems. While activated carbons are considered excellent electrode materials for. Hybrid supercapacitor electrodes from xGnP.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Illustration of the carbon-coated SnO 2 hollow nanospheres in solvothermal synthesis with different thicknesses of SnO 2 shell. Researchers at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan have synthesized tin oxide (SnO 2 ) hollow nanospheres covered with a carbon layer for anode material in lithium-ion batteries. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new findings published in the journal Science. ” —Pearson (2010). Their analyses indicate that MECO carbon dioxide levels must have at least doubled over a period of around 400,000 years.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

A new study, led by a team from The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, has found that in 2010, about 2.7 associated preterm births in 2010 for 183 countries. in 2010 using a low concentration cut-off of a) 4.3 In 2010, an estimated 14.9 Environment International. Malley et al.

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