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signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. Super pollutants have more potent heat-trapping effects but remain in the atmosphere for a shorter time than carbon dioxide. and other pollutants. and other pollutants.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) ( earlier post ) has issued a $35-million open innovation international challenge to create new, carbon-based products and markets. The CCEMC Grand Challenge: Innovative Carbon Uses offers three rounds of funding that total $35 million over a five-year period.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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This blend replaces some of propane’s fossil-derived fuel with a renewable one, enabling up to a 60% reduction in carbon emissions for this popular fuel used in vehicles, forklifts, farm equipment, backyard grills and outdoor heaters. The plant was upgraded in 2020 with a grant from the California Energy Commission.

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As part of a $6-million project funded in part by a grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), Oberon is converting waste methanol into rDME at its upgraded facility in Brawley, Calif. In 2013, Oberon Fuels’ refinery in Brawley, Calif., It is the first time this feedstock has been used to make rDME at commercial scale.

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JULY 9, 2012

billion (US$10 billion) for the 2013 work program will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe’s competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanization and managing waste. billion) research budget for 2013. In total, €8.1

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Skeleton Technologies , an energy-storage start-up located in Tartu, Estonia, was recently awarded a US patent ( #7,803,345 ) on its nanoporous carbon powder supercapacitor material. The US patent and soon-to-be-granted EU patent gives the company protection for carbide-derived-carbons suitable for energy storage applications.

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The California Air Resources Board has released the 2020 issue of its Annual Evaluation of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Deployment and Hydrogen Fuel Station Network Development , pursuant to the requirements of AB 8 (2013). This report is the seventh annual publication.

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Researchers at Duke University have developed a novel graphene–sulfur–carbon nanofibers (G-S-CNFs) multilayer and coaxial nanocomposite for use as the cathode of Li–sulfur batteries with increased capacity and significantly improved long-cycle stability. Credit: ACS, Lu et al. Click to enlarge. Nano Letters doi: 10.1021/nl400543y.

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During expeditions to oil and gas reservoirs in the central North Sea in 2012 and 2013, scientists of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel discovered that methane bubbles emerged from the seabed around abandoned wells. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Photo: ROV team/GEOMAR.

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Consumer grants. To encourage more people to use ULEV, car grants of £5,000 (US$8,413) off the upfront cost will be extended. The UK’s Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LowCVP) also announced its work program for 2014-15. At its tenth anniversary in January 2013, the LowCVP announced the intention of ‘moving beyond the tailpipe’.

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has been selected to receive a grant of up to $6.5 The grant was awarded to Canada Lithium to construct a pilot plant to test the viability of refining lithium metal from the company’s lithium products, soon to be produced from the new mine and process plant currently being commissioned near Val d’Or, Québec. Canada Lithium Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Southwest Airlines has signed an agreement with Red Rock Biofuels LLC ( RRB ) to purchase low carbon renewable jet fuel, made using forest residues that will help reduce the risk of destructive wildfires in the Western United States. In July 2013, Red Rock Biofuels was awarded $4.1 Earlier post.).

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DFC power plants utilize carbonate fuel cell technology, which is well suited for megawatt-class applications due to its scalability and favorable cost profile. FuelCell Energy was the successful fuel cell bidder in a competitive solicitation issued by UI in 2013 under its “Renewable Connections” program.

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MARCH 26, 2013

The research, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), was supported by the Department of Energy as part of the Electrofuels Program of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under Grant DE-AR0000081. Adams (2013). Earlier post.). The team altered P. furiosus strain. Leuko, Michael P.

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When tested, the device reduced carbon monoxide (CO) by 87%; NO x by 67% and particulate matter (PM) by 44%. The students—Timothy Chow, Brian Cruz, Jonathan Matson and Wartini Ng, all of whom just graduated—won a phase one grant of $15,000 as part of the EPA’s P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) competition.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

London Graphene Ltd was established in 2013 to develop advanced energy storage applications based on high quality graphene. Graphene is a one-atom thick form of carbon with excellent electrical conduction properties and a very high surface area. —Tim Harper, Chief Executive, Cientifica Plc.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2013

172,045 entitled “Even Carbon Number Paraffin Composition And Method of Manufacturing Same.” On January 31, 2013, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware granted Syntroleum’s motion to stay Neste’s lawsuit pending reexamination of the ‘344 patent by the US. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

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The cleaned syngas is them processed through an amine system to capture and remove sulfur and carbon dioxide. The Naphtha is recycled to the partial oxidation unit with remaining tail gas to be reformed to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. In 2013, Fulcrum was awarded a $4.7-million In 2013, Fulcrum was awarded a $4.7-million

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This hydrogen-generating cluster of iron (brown) and sulfur (yellow) atoms, with side groups of carbon monoxide (gray/red) and cyanide (gray/blue), could be a key to future fuel sources. The bacterial catalysts are based on precisely organized clusters of iron and sulfur atoms, with side groups of cyanide and carbon monoxide.

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At the same time, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide concentrations tended to go up. In the first, they found that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible-fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20%. Alberto Salvo, Joel Brito, Paulo Artaxo, and Franz M.

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carbon alternative fuels, fueling infrastructure, and advanced vehicle technologies. In September 2013, the program was extended by statute through 1 January 2024. Additionally, when combined with funding from fiscal year 2013?2014, million to support workforce training and development grants with partner agencies.

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Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded 11 seed grants totaling $2.2 Precourt Institute for Energy grants. Electrochemical Splitting of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide. PIs: Mark C.

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In April 2013, the company was awarded a $500,000 Phase II SBIR Award from the NSF to scale a novel low-cost manufacturing process for long-life sulfur cathode composite materials. NOHMs’ uses sulfur-infused carbon composite cathode materials developed at Cornell, as well as an electrolyte chemistry developed there. Technology.

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BASF, the Linde Group and ThyssenKrupp plan to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive basis for utilizing carbon dioxide as a raw material on an industrial scale. In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon.

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In September 2013, EPA granted Aemetis approval to produce ethanol using grain sorghum and biogas at its converted corn ethanol plant to generate D5 Advanced Biofuels Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). esters and nearly no monoglycerides, water or other contaminants.

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The SLM methanol facility will be located in the Port of South Louisiana district, with access to interstate and intrastate natural gas and carbon dioxide pipelines. (ZEEP) and New Zealand-based Todd Corp. are joint owners of the project, which will result in a world-scale methanol plant.

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no external reformer—reform a complex liquid hydrocarbon fuel into carbon fragments and hydrogen, which are then electrochemically oxidized to produce electrical energy without external fuel processors. Grant Norton, Jinsoo Kim, Louis Scudiero, Joe Breit and Su Ha? Click to enlarge. These fuel cells first internally—i.e.,

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Separately, Sunshine’s Board of Directors approved a total budget for 2013 of $430 million that includes a $390 million capital expenditure program directed at West Ells and advancing other growth projects. Sunshines oil sands leases are grouped into three main asset categories: clastics, carbonates and conventional heavy oil.

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(Sion Power, supported by an ARPA-E grant, also has a 600 Wh/kg in 2016 target for its Li-S batteries. In January 2013, Oxis and Arkema, a global leading chemicals producer, signed a Joint Development Agreement to further improve the performance of the Polymer Lithium Sulfur cells battery. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2013

The CEMI announcement was made at the ribbon cutting of the Department’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a new advanced manufacturing facility to reduce the cost of carbon fiber. The selected project recipients and DOE funding request are: Projects Selected for Award Negotiations in March 2013.

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The scope of Ford’s recent rubber research, which was funded in part by grants from the United Soybean Board (USB), included the use of soy fillers (flour, meal) as well as soy oils. Automotive rubber usage is expected to rise more than 4% through 2013. Ford is a pioneer in the use of biomaterials in vehicles.

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The United States and the European Union have some of the world’s most aggressive policies for alternative fuel promotion, including volumetric mandates, lifecycle fuel-carbon-intensity requirements, and fuel-taxation schemes. RFS and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) in the U.S.

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The Carbon Trust also issued a report highlighting promising UK efforts that, according to the report, have the potential to achieve $36 per kW. FuelCell Energy’s chief executive officer stated that the company was approaching profitability, perhaps as early as 2013. States of the States, Fuel Cells in America 2013.

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The goal of the ZEV standard is to incentivize automobile manufacturers to build more models and use increasingly efficient low-carbon technology. The government also offers grants for the purchase and installation of charging stations, both at home and at work.

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The LCFS program calls for a 10% reduction in the carbon intensity of fuel sold in California over the next decade. Several groups have studied potential future compliance scenarios under the LCFS including Boston Consulting Group (2012) and ICF International (2013). —Lade and Lin. Lade, Gabriel E.

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Over the last 10,000 years, Liu says, we know atmospheric carbon dioxide rose by 20 parts per million before the 20 th century, and the massive ice sheet of the Last Glacial Maximum has been retreating. However it does not, the authors emphasize, change the evidence of human impact on global climate beginning in the 20 th century. 1407229111.

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