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Gov’t, industry, national labs collaborate on comprehensive cradle-to-grave LCA study and economic assessment of LDV GHG reductions

Green Car Congress

The costs to consumers for established fuels were based on the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) 2015 Annual Energy Outlook, while techno-economic analysis models with consistent economic assumptions were used to estimate the costs for hydrogen and advanced bio-derived fuels. 350 g CO2 e/mi for ICEVs and ?250

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Shell secures C$865M funding for Canadian CO2 storage project; >1M tonnes/yr from oil sands

Green Car Congress

The Quest Project is being advanced on behalf of the AOSP, a joint venture among Shell Canada (60%) Chevron Canada Limited (20%) and Marathon Oil Canada Corporation (20%). With CO 2 injection planned for 2015, the Quest Project would join a handful of CCS projects around the world that are injecting CO’ at a commercial scale.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. Chevron owns the NiMH patents and have not allowed EV size batts to be built. The huge hill of used batteries represents a major problem with the toxic acid and lead inside. Now add much cheaper materials and NiMH is now obsolete.

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