Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

CTV is developing proprietary technology and catalysts for the conversion of lignin into hydrocarbon components for transportation fuels. The upgrading of our byproduct lignin to high value transportation fuels is an important step in our effort to prove the effectiveness of integrated biorefineries. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The sectoral analysis of energy use suggested that previous data for liquid fuel use in China’s transportation sector were underestimated. About two-thirds of China’s methanol feedstock is produced from coal and the remainder from coking gas (a by-product of steel production) and natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

biomass, coal, petroleum coke, and wastes) for the production of an ultra-clean syngas. OmniGas has been demonstrated at bench-scale and is now on track for a one ton per day (tpd) prototype demonstration, using coal and biomass as the feedstock, in mid-2010.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST).

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Green Car Congress

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. Essentially, this would require making the power and transport sector carbon-free worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. propane derived from non-petroleum fossil fuels : natural gas, coal or petroleum coke) based on technical and economic analyses of various promising technologies. Stored and transported like. primarily produce bio-propane. (JGS)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Compared to conventional pyrolysis processes this efficient, balanced approach optimizes the energy used to convert a range of non-food feedstocks into renewable transportation fuels or chemicals, according to GTI. Relative transportation cost. from Biomass (BIOMASS 2010). Property comparison. Heating value. 6,560 Btu/lb.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

The updated version includes a longer-term outlook by expanding the time horizon from 2010 and beyond to 2020 and beyond. They also note that large-scale production of synthetic fuels or hydrogen from coal or gas offers the potential for GHG emissions reduction—but only if CO 2 can be captured and stored. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. Current research efforts in the electrochemical conversion of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

For future scenarios where vehicle technology costs were sufficiently competitive to advantage either hydrogen or electric vehicles, the increased availability of low-cost, low-CO 2 electricity/hydrogen provided more cost-effective CO 2 mitigation opportunities in the heat and power energy sectors than in transportation. Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Projects will be subject to further competitive evaluation in 2010 after successful completion of their Phase 1 activities. Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Roughly 6 billion metric tons of coal are used each year, producing 18 billion tons of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Value of life-cycle emissions externality damages and oil premium costs from vehicles in 2010 $. Net present value of lifetime private ownership cost, emissions externality damages, and oil premium costs in 2010 $. Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. —Michalek et al. Michalek et al. Click to enlarge. Michalek et al. Michalek et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Annual GHG emissions from a large refinery are comparable to the emissions of a typical 500 MW coal-fired power plant. In the US, GHG emissions from refineries in 2010 represented nearly 12% of US industrial sector emissions or 3% of the total US GHG emissions. By 2010 this fraction had increased to 15%.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

awards are subject to FY 2010 to FY 2013 appropriations. Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). $20. Use fundamental knowledge about the interactions between catalysts and plant cell walls to design improved processes for the conversion of biomass to energy, fuels, or chemicals. Purdue University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

An interim report with some of this study’s major findings and recommendations was released in June 2010. In the US, a combination of demand reduction and displacement of coal-fired power by gas-fired generation is the lowest cost way to reduce CO 2 emissions by up to 50%. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. —Vispute et al. Science Vol. 1222-1227 doi: 10.1126/science.1194218.

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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. A parallel step to the fuel conversion is the separation of the by-product of hydrolysis, glycerol, from the sweet water. Step 3: Cracking and reforming. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 15, 2010

OBE will launch its first facility, Appomattox Bio Energy (ABE), in Hopewell, VA in July 2010 and plans to be at full production (65 million gallons/year) by the end of the year. An advanced biofuel has a carbon footprint that is 50% or less of conventional gasoline and OBE plans to start the certification process by Q4 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The bill provides more than $7 billion annually to improve transportation infrastructure and efficiency, including highways and mass transit systems. Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. Reducing Transportation Emissions. Transportation and refined products.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

In response to a Congressional mandate in 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) convened the Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels to assess the potential for vehicle and fuel technology options to achieve substantial reductions in petroleum use and GHG emissions by 2050 relative to 2005. Source: NRC. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. This heavy metal is persistent and is dispersed throughout the world by atmospheric transport. Source: UNEP.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

conversion to fuel molecules or to electrons—depends on market and regulatory contexts that are outside the scope of attributional life cycle assessments (LCA). Both styles of LCA have been used in recent regulations aiming to reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector. A 2009 life cycle analysis by Campbell et al.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. When there is conversation, it is frequently combative , with local, state and federal officials fighting among themselves over who has the final say on what is going to be done, where and when.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Other than the good news on oil consumption, very little was said in regards to transportation fuels. Following that logic, a 400 basis point penalty in borrowing cost would increase your delivered price by $0.008 to $0.02/ kWh which is significant when you are competing against coal with an ex-works price of $0.05/ kWh total.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Committed to sales of 10,000 or more vehicles in late 2010, with increasing production in 2011. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. link] This guy has a very nice looking conversion, he managed to do it for about 25k. Not to mention the parts you most definitely could sell from the running gear. Its a Lotus.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

is hoping to launch the Volt in late 2010 with a price tag of about $40,000. We need electric buses to replace the diablos rojos, these are old, old US school buses that are the rusting backbone of public transportation in Panama. link] will give you an insight into the state of transportation here. — Jim Walker 19.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. The Appraisal 2010 Prius Delivers Record Mileage and Accelerates. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? The Three Prongs of the “Green&# Energy Stimulus Pa. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight. nk Related Posts From Green Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

The $787-billion stimulus bill (HR 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) that emerged from the joint House-Senate conference committee this week provides funds for a large range of transportation-related projects. The credit terminates after 2009, 2010, or 2014, depending on the type of vehicle. Fossil Energy.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 10, 2009

My vision makes us the world leader in the new electric transportation future that is destined to replace gasoline-powered transportation – the one that Asia is currently on course to lead. We’ve had initial conversations at the staff level, but at this point the Governor’s staff won’t indicate in any way.

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