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APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. The system converts natural gas into syngas—with higher energy content than natural gas—using a thermochemical conversion device installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 10, 2011

The company already offers the industry’s only turn-key conventional chassis natural gas solutions, and along with units sold under the Sterling brand, will have more than 1,000 trucks in customer hands by the end of 2011. Production will begin on the natural gas 114SD SBA in December 2011.

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JUNE 9, 2011

2011 Click to enlarge. However, the viability of CTL becomes quite limited in regions with climate policy due to the high conversion cost and huge carbon footprint. However, with the rise in energy prices that began in 2008 and concerns over energy security, there is renewed interest in the conversion technology, the report notes.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 3, 2012

It has been about 5 months since I posted my first blog about converting my car to electricity. My professional life has kept me busy, but I still have made good progress on my conversion. Winter 2011-2012: Engine Bay and Under-car: The car is now completely gas-less. Very good prices. I have yet to see photos.

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

In some algal biofuel production methods, lipids are extracted from algae and converted to renewable diesel, while the non-lipid components of the algae are converted to biogas. The biogas is used for renewable heat and electricity to power the conversion process of the lipids to renewable diesel.

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MARCH 4, 2013

ePower Engine Systems specializes in the retrofit and conversion of diesel-powered Class 8 trucks into series hybrid-powered units inspired by the diesel-electric drives in locomotives—i.e., In addition, PbC batteries are competitively priced, and they have a construct with a proven safety record.

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APRIL 20, 2011

The process would convert much of the organic carbon in oil shale to the char which is left in the subsurface. Conversion to work via. Scale of conversion to work. Waste heat from conversion. The chemical energy contained in the shale is converted to work (e.g., Heat source. direct thermal or electrical energy.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Through the sales network, these conversions will primarily target professional customers (commercial vehicles) dependent on access to the urban centre for the continuity of their activities. Second-life batteries are also used to operate refrigeration units on converted versions of Kangoo Z.E.

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AUGUST 6, 2011

The team also suggested that algae systems can be either net energy positive or negative depending on the specific combination of cultivation and conversion processes used. This is because some crops are more easily converted into energy carriers than others, and this was not included in the previous paper’s system boundaries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2011

A new report from the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) concludes that gasoline produced via the methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) route ( earlier post ) using syngas from a 2,000 dry metric tonne/day (2,205 US ton/day) biomass-fed facility could have a plant gate price (PGP) of $1.95/gallon gallon US ($0.52/liter).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

According to CMAI, Cathay is the world’s largest producer of biobutanol based on active production capacity in 2011. The company will begin pilot stage testing of its proprietary cellulosic biobutanol bioprocess technology by the end of 2011. ABE conversion yield using pure glucose as feedstock; 30.8%

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Phase 2 of the Keystone pipeline, which extended the pipeline from Steele City to Cushing, was completed in February 2011. In May 2012, the 150,000-bbl/d Seaway pipeline, which also shipped crude north to Cushing from the Gulf Coast, was also reversed in order to move crude oil to the higher-priced Gulf Coast market. Pony Express.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

First, using microbial platforms for the overproduction of FPP, we screened for sesquiterpene synthases able to convert FPP into bisabolene in high titers. Finally, we demonstrated the conversion of biosynthetic bisabolene into bisabolane using chemical hydrogenation. Second, we optimized the mevalonate pathway in E. coil and S.

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MARCH 3, 2011

In the FT process, solid feedstocks such as coal and biomass, are gasified to produce syngas, which is cleaned of CO 2 and sulfur compounds and then send to FT reactors where a catalyst is used to convert CO and hydrogen into the desired hydrocarbon products. The CO 2 may be vented or captured and sequestered (with the CCS technology).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The classical way to regenerate NO x trap catalysts consists of operating the engine under rich combustion conditions for a short while in order to produce reducing species in the exhaust gas, which will convert NO x into N 2. The power supply is a resonant converter controlled in current. —Lebouvier et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere. Why Power Conversion Matters in Climate Calculations Before we get to the semiconductors themselves, let’s first consider why we need them.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. The use of synthetic biology to convert sugars to diesel has advanced significantly in the past one to two years, and it is close to commercial viability. Accenture divided the technologies into three groups: Evolutionary.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

A commercially viable OCM process—which has been sought for some 30 years— would decouple the production of mainstream chemicals and fuels from crude oil and its current price instabilities, along with reducing energy consumed for processing. million (US$10.6 million) in funding. Alex Tkachenko, President, Siluria Technologies.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof. The mixture of CO and H 2 —i.e.,

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). Q: When gas prices went up, people started driving less, and interest in EVs soared. But now, gas prices have fallen below $2 in some places. A: Certainly, when oil prices are down, it makes it harder for the competition.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. —SAFN report. renewable diesel. Lignocellulosic biomass processing.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

announced that 462,461 warrants to purchase Maxwell common stock at a price of $16.22 The warrants were issued in conjunction with a private placement of a $25 million convertible debenture in December 2005. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. per share were exercised in full on 20 December, resulting in cash proceeds of approximately $7.5

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Under the current set of prices and slate of feedstocks available, you can produce Green Diesel fuels from renewable fats and greases at a price competitive with petroleum diesel—provided you get feedstock at the price needed. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil.

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AUGUST 26, 2017

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1-sun illumination. 2017.144.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2011

Based primarily on an EPA teardown study, the committee’s estimates of the costs for turbocharging and downsizing range from close to zero additional cost, when converting from a V6 to a four-cylinder (I4) engine, to almost $1,000, when converting from a V8 to a V6 engine. National Academies Press, 2011).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

3Prong Power converts existing Toyota Priuses into plug-in hybrids that can run entirely on electricity. They convert Toyota Prius hybrids into mostly electric vehicles that get 100 to 150 miles per gallon. The conversion can double or even triple fuel economy, thereby severely limiting carbon dioxide emissions.

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JUNE 16, 2011

That’s according to the Boeing 2011 Current Market Outlook (CMO) released in Paris. The company’s annual commercial aviation market analysis foresees a market for 33,500 new passenger airplanes and freighters between 2011 and 2030. Rising and volatile fuel prices are expected to continue to challenge the industry.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

that has developed a gasification-based process to convert agricultural biomass into 93 octane gasoline ( earlier post )—has expanded its US-based development facility in New Jersey, enabling the company to build its complete, integrated thermochemical process. gallon US ($0.52/liter). Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

For years now, inventors and sellers of electric car conversion kits have been blasting traditional automakers for not providing the 100 m.p.g. based Fisker plans to produce just 15,000 plug-in hybrids a year, starting later this year, with pricing to start at $87,900. Base price: $109,000. The 100 m.p.g. based Tesla Motors Inc.

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JUNE 7, 2013

Now, she says, the landscape has changed with the high price of oil. Founded in 2011, Oberon Fuels has developed a patented, skid-mounted, modular design for DME production. US Patent Nº 8,378,159: Process and system for converting biogas to liquid fuels T.H. DME engine in 2015. Oberon’s process. Click to enlarge. Fleisch, A.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

But in todays’ market, 2011, and for the foreseeable future, mid-size is where the majority of the vehicles are. The new Power Control Unit combines the inverter and DC/DC converter into one unit. Its more compact size, along with moving the DC/DC converter to the engine compartment, results in a trunk that is 2.1-cubic

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JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Oil sands production induces small LUCs associated with soil and forest carbon emissions from peatland conversion. —Policy Design Recommendations.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

He also observed, in a conversation on the eve of the LAAS, that if an automaker can launch a defining product, the game changes. Conversely, if the rear axle has less grip, the opposite happened; up to 7% of the torque is correspondingly diverted to the front axle. Audi’s first e-tron quattro: 2011. Earlier post. ).

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Mitsubishi’s North American-spec i-MiEV battery electric vehicle ( earlier post )—available in either an ES base model or upgrade SE trim package —will be available to test drive at US dealerships beginning in November 2011 with the first scheduled customer vehicle deliveries set to commence in early 2012.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) No announced plans.

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JULY 17, 2015

There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. Already Porsche, Mercedes and other high-end automotive manufacturers are making such PHEVs because of the availability of low-cost electricity from wind and solar and the availability of government incentives which make them competitively priced in the beginning.

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