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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Norwegian startup Blastr Green Steel is planning to establish a green steel plant with an integrated hydrogen production facility in Inkoo, Finland. Fortum has developed the Joddböle area since the dismantling of its Inkoo coal-fired power plant there in 2017-2020. The production is planned to start by end of 2026.

Finland

Finland Green Coal Hydrogen

BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

Coal

Coal Cleaning Clean Financing

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

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JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5

Wind

Wind Solar Global Coal

Senate version of “Fiscal Cliff” legislation includes 12 energy tax extenders; boost for algae

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JANUARY 1, 2013

The amended bill, now called the “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” and next to be considered by the House, contains 12 extensions outlined in Title IV of the bill, ranging from extension of production credits for Indian coal facilities to benefits for alternative fuels (including algal biofuels) and plug-in vehicles.

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Tax Tax Credit Energy Alternative Fuels

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office’ (FCTO) 2014 Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program Annual Progress Report ( earlier post )—an annual summary of results from projects funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Program—described progress in the field of hydrogen production. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Production

EIA: world energy consumption to grow 56% 2010-2040, CO2 up 46%; use of liquid fuels in transportation up 38%

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JULY 25, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) International Energy Outlook 2013 (IEO2013) projects that world energy consumption will grow by 56% between 2010 and 2040, from 524 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu) to 820 quadrillion Btu. World production of non-petroleum liquids, which in 2010 totaled only 1.6

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2010 Transportation Fuel Energy

BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

Wind and solar have been exhibiting very rapid growth, even as subsidies and support have in general become less generous, and that has been driven mainly by dramatic improvements to their cost-competitiveness, as well as by the removal of barriers such as grid bottlenecks. Oil at $60/barrel could mean a natural gas price as much as $0.90/MMBtu

Oil Prices

Oil Prices Oil Price Carbon

EIA: light duty vehicle energy consumption to drop 25% by 2040; increased oil production, vehicle efficiency reduce US oil and liquid imports

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

The differences from AEO2013 to AEO2014 result from different fuel prices, updated manufacturer product offerings, changing technology attributes, and an updated view of consumer perceptions of infrastructure availability for E85 vehicles. Natural gas overtakes coal as the largest fuel for US electricity generation. per year, from 1.0

Oil

Oil Light Energy Vehicles

IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Report highlights include: Cape Wind’s troubles. Source: IRENA.

Renewable

Renewable Parts Power Powered

Mad Power thoughts

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. This was plain wrong.

Power

Power Powered Wind Coal

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Gas

Gas Mercury Fuel Climate Change

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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MARCH 10, 2013

Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. As the percentage of electricity supply from wind and solar increases, grid operators will need to employ strategies and technologies, including energy storage, to balance supply with demand given the intermittency of the renewable supply. Click to enlarge. A new study by Charles J. Energy Environ.

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Energy Storage Grid Cost Of Energy

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Andrews have demonstrated that ammonia can be synthesized directly from air (instead of N 2 ) and H 2 O (instead of H 2 ) under a mild condition (room temperature, one atmosphere) with supplied electricity which can be obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind or marine. A maximum ammonia production rate of 1.14 × 10 ?5

Water

Water 2010 Energy Storage Mariner

EPA proposes rule for nationwide 30% cut in GHG from existing power plants by 2030 relative to 2005

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JUNE 2, 2014

The value allocated here in EPA’s goal-setting formula was an average heat rate improvement of 6% for coal steam electric generating units (EGUs). the remainder from other sources, including wind and solar. The use of coal by the power sector will decrease by roughly 30 to 32% in 2030. Each estimate increases over time.

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2005 EPA Power Powered

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

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JUNE 25, 2013

DOE will take comment on the draft solicitation, with a plan to issue a final solicitation by the fall of 2013. In President Obama’s first term, the DOE established new minimum efficiency standards for dishwashers, refrigerators, and many other products. A Federal Quadrennial Energy Review. New energy efficiency standards.

Obama

Obama Cleaner Fuel Economy Climate

U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Bender is referring to the 2013 Minamata Convention on Mercury , a U.N. Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. Three quarters of that mercury, the researchers suggested, would eventually wind up in the oceans. Senate but instead deposited with the U.N.

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Mercury Fusion United States IDEA

Study projects emission impacts of inexpensive, efficient EVs: 36% further reduction in LDV GHG by 2050, or 9% economy-wide

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JUNE 7, 2017

They adapted cost and performance projections for LDV technologies from the National Research Council (2013) optimistic case. Electricity generation from natural gas increases over time in both scenarios, whereas generation from existing coal plants declines.

Emissions

Emissions Economy Gasoline-Electric Coal

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Wind, solar and biofuels are expected to be the fastest-growing energy sources, increasing about 6% a year on average through 2040, when they will be approaching 4% of global energy demand. In Asia Pacific, gas production is seen doubling by 2040, driven partly by unconventional production technologies.

Energy

Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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APRIL 5, 2011

In contrast, the Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) program adopted by 29 states has varying goals from 10-40 percent renewable energy generation, deployed anywhere from 2013 to 2030. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

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AUGUST 22, 2017

The state has become the most energy-productive major economy in the world, moving up three spots from 2013 to 2014, while also reducing its carbon intensity by 4.5%. The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels.

California

California Light Emissions Climate

Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. Historical scenario. (A) —Brandt et al.

Oil

Oil Oil-Sands Fuel Economy Transportation

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The newly released 2013 edition of the IEA World Energy Outlook (WEO) depicts a world in which some long-held tenets of the energy sector are being rewritten; importers are becoming exporters, while exporters are among the major sources of growing demand. —WEO-2013. Contributions to global oil production growth.

Oil

Oil 2013 Energy Emissions

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Second Sight Medical Products , in his right eye in 2004 and the subsequent Argus II implant in his left 11 years later. approval in 2013. In 2013, at the age of 36, Perk became one of the youngest people to receive an Argus II. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished.

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New York City New York 2020 Companies

UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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JUNE 13, 2011

By the end of the lease period, MINI E drivers overwhelmingly thought that the electricity for charging their BEV should come from renewable resources such as solar, wind and hydropower, and were strongly opposed to using coal to generate electricity for their vehicles. —Ulrich Kranz, head of project i, BMW Group.

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Mini E Davis BMW New Jersey

NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

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JUNE 24, 2015

Just as PEV batteries are expensive, the utility infrastructure has finite capacity to meet ever-growing electricity needs, and the majority of this system is powered by coal and natural gas generators. Even with these variables, the system has been operating successfully since late 2013.

Grid

Grid Battery Batteries Energy Storage

The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

Duty will rise by 2p per litre on 1st September 2009 and by 1p per litre in real terms on 1st April each year from 2010 to 2013. When large numbers of electric vehicles are on the road their overall contribution to reducing carbon emissions will depend to a large degree on the production of ‘clean’ electricity.

Sustainable Transportation

Sustainable Transportation 2009 Transportation Tax

RWE fires up new 2.2 GW coal-burning power plant in Germany; 43% efficient and flexible to respond to renewables intermittency

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AUGUST 16, 2012

With a 43% efficiency rating and flexibility designed to offset the intermittency of wind and solar power, the twin-unit BoA 2&3 plant is the world’s most advanced lignite coal-fired production power station, according to the company. RWE officially commissioned its new 2.2 The total investment of €2.6 billion (US$3.2

Coal

Coal Renewable Germany Power

EV Driven

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

BloombergNEF: clean energy investment in developing nations slumps as financing in China slows; coal burn surges to record high

Bloomberg NEF forecasts falling battery prices enabling surge in wind and solar to 50% of global generation by 2050

Senate version of “Fiscal Cliff” legislation includes 12 energy tax extenders; boost for algae

DOE reports progress on development of low-carbon and renewable sources of hydrogen production

EIA: world energy consumption to grow 56% 2010-2040, CO2 up 46%; use of liquid fuels in transportation up 38%

BNEF: Oil price plunge to have only moderate impact on low-carbon electricity development, but likely to slow EV growth

EIA: light duty vehicle energy consumption to drop 25% by 2040; increased oil production, vehicle efficiency reduce US oil and liquid imports

IRENA report finds renewable power costs at parity or below fossil fuels in many parts of world

Mad Power thoughts

Duke study finds China’s synthetic natural gas plants will have heavy environmental toll; 2x vehicle GHG if used for fuel

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

Researchers demonstrate electrochemical synthesis of ammonia from air and water under mild conditions

EPA proposes rule for nationwide 30% cut in GHG from existing power plants by 2030 relative to 2005

Obama climate plan calls for new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018; cleaner fuels and investment in advanced fossil energy

U.N. Kills Any Plans to Use Mercury as a Rocket Propellant

Study projects emission impacts of inexpensive, efficient EVs: 36% further reduction in LDV GHG by 2050, or 9% economy-wide

ExxonMobil: global GDP up ~140% by 2040, but energy demand ~35% due to efficiency; LDV energy demand to rise only slightly despite doubling parc

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Ninth annual Green Innovation Index finds California light-duty vehicle emissions spike; major challenge to 2030 climate goals

Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

IEA World Energy Outlook 2013 sees CO2 emissions rising by 20% to 2035; oil use on upward trend

Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported

UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

The Budget 2009 - working towards sustainable transport

RWE fires up new 2.2 GW coal-burning power plant in Germany; 43% efficient and flexible to respond to renewables intermittency

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