Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Better air conditioners, in a technical sense, really only affect the last link in a long, climate-harming supply chain. Department of Energy tightened efficiency testing standards for air conditioners for the first time since 2015. no natural gas needed—and offer pathways to reducing the other two sources of climate-forcing emissions.

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Future Climate Phoenix Gas-Electric 140

Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2020

According to the brief, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects a 28% increase in average world energy consumption between 2015-2040, with fossil fuels continuing to take up 50-80% of that consumption. Potential applications for a burgeoning carbon supply chain would need to move beyond the traditional markets.

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Hydrogen Carbon Production Carbon Fiber 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2013

LanzaTech and the Centre will leverage each other’s expertise to create a new process for the direct conversion of waste CO 2 into drop-in fuels through an acetates-to-lipids pathway. LanzaTech has developed gas fermentation technology that can directly convert waste CO 2 gases into acetates. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A study by a team at the University Putra Malaysia concluded that the gasification of empty fruit bunch (EFB), a waste of the palm oil industry, could, if scaled up, produce hydrogen at a supply cost of $2.11/kg The US Department of Energy (DOE) 2015 cost target for hydrogen is $2.00-$3.00/kg The feedstock particle size of 0.3–0.5

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Waste Hydrogen Oil Industrial 231

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APRIL 8, 2014

To achieve this first objective, DOE intends to pursue parallel strategies: Advance options for diverse energy resources and conversion devices for power. DOE will sponsor activities to encourage safe and environmentally responsible development and use of domestic petroleum and natural gas resources. watt utility, $2.37/watt

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2014 2018 Energy Climate Change 225

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JUNE 1, 2021

This makes conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfate more efficient. So, even though air quality regulations have reduced the supply of sulfur dioxide from power plants and shipping, the total amount of sulfate particulates that harm human health has dropped more slowly.

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Pollution Emissions Europe Climate Change 221

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2016

The City of Montreal, Canada has signed a two-year framework agreement with Cité Nissan Gabriel SEC to supply LEAF EVs for the municipal fleet. The purchase of electric vehicles is a step towards achieving our goal of 30% reduction by 2020 of greenhouse gas emissions, compared to 1990. Denis Coderre, Mayor of Montreal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2012

The core of Solena’s three-step solution is its patented Solena Plasma Gasification (SPG) technology, which is capable of producing a synthetic fuel gas (BioSynGas) from the thermal conversion of bio-based hydrocarbons. These projects include GreenSky California, GreenSky Rome and GreenSky Stockholm. the plant’s operation.

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Fuel London 2015 Waste 199

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MARCH 12, 2019

Switch to renewable energy sources for power supply. In order to improve the CO 2 balance of vehicles throughout their lifecycle, for example, Volkswagen has already made a start on the supply chain. There is particularly significant potential as regards steel and aluminum supplies. billion) by 2023. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded 2015 Climate Leadership Awards to 16 organizations and one individual representing a wide array of industries from finance and manufacturing to retail and technology for showing what the agency said was exemplary corporate, organizational, and individual leadership in response to climate change.

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Climate Chevrolet San Diego EPA 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2011

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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Coal MIT Climate Global 247

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

According to their analysis, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , favorable assumptions for all involved process steps (30% thermochemical energy conversion efficiency; 3000 kWh/(m 2 a) solar irradiation, low CO 2 and heliostat costs) result in jet fuel production costs of €1.28/L kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. 5b03515.

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Solar Fuel Renewable Production 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Bloomberg New Energy Finance found that approximately 225 million tonnes of biomass should be annually available by 2020 under the base case scenario for bioproduct conversion. In the base case scenario, next-generation ethanol supply could grow from 63 billion liters (16.6 billion gallons US) in 2015 to 75 billion liters (19.8

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Gasoline Europe 2020 2015 253

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

The report ( America’s Energy Future: Technology and Transformation ) of the Committee on America’s Energy Future addresses a potential new portfolio of energy-supply and end-use technologies—their states of development, costs, implementation barriers, and impacts—both at present and projected over the next two to three decades.

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Coal Conversion Light Future 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The D-code (D#) of a RIN identifies the renewable fuel standard category for a particular fuel based on its projected greenhouse gas reduction requirement. Ensyn’s RIN generation is being led by the supply of 300,000 gallons/year of RFO to Memorial Hospital, located in North Conway, New Hampshire, under a five-year, renewable contract.

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Sale New Hampshire Oil Diesel 295

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

to identify issues and countermeasures upon integration of bio jet fuel supply scheme, from shipping to fueling a blended fuel of neat bio jet derived from microalgae and Showa Shell’ Sekiyu K.K.’s Annex A4: Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene with Aromatics (FT-SPK/A) (2015). IHI also began work with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.

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Fuel Oil Convert Hydrogen 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The new report, A Life-Cycle Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Corn-Based Ethanol , found greater lifecycle GHG benefits from corn ethanol than a number of earlier studies, driven by a variety of improvements in ethanol production, from the corn field to the ethanol refinery. —US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Flugge, M.,

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Gasoline Emissions 2004 Brazil 150

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JUNE 15, 2015

The system easily switches between hydrogen addition (>97% conversion) and release (>99% conversion) with superior capacity of 7.1 This has prompted great efforts to replace the current method of using compressed gas hydrogen (30−70 MPa) or liquid hydrogen (−253 °C) in tanks. —Li et al. 5b03505.

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Solar Hydrogen Fuel Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

As the assumed annual growth rates for forecast liquid fuels consumption have remained unchanged for 2015-18, the higher baseline 2014 data raises overall consumption through the forecast period. Most of China’s methanol supply is from domestic production. EIA recently completed a re-assessment of energy use in China.

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2000 2016 Fuel China 150

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Unconventional liquids become increasingly important in the total supply of liquid fuels, according to IEO2011. World oil prices remain high in the IEO2011 Reference case, but oil consumption continues to grow; both conventional and unconventional liquid supplies are used to meet rising demand. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2008 Oil Prices 220

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The ongoing discussion on the feedstock change from fossil to renewable carbon sources opens up new perspectives in terms of novel conversion processes and high performance products. Most research activities aim at either thermochemical or biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass. … —Ulonska et al. —Ulonska et al.

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Conversion Fuel Production Energy 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Comparison of GHGenius, JACOBS, TIAX, and the new PRELIM gasoline greenhouse gas (GHG) estimates using base case estimates and variations from the scenario analysis. Between 2008 and 2015, it is estimated that more than $15 billion will be spent to add processing capacity specifically for heavy crude blends in US refineries.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Hydrogen 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

A core group of airlines has signed letters of intent with Solena Fuels, LLC for a future supply of jet fuel derived exclusively from biomass to be produced in northern California. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Fuel San Jose San Francisco Purchase 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Gevo’s technology platform is high yielding, approaching 94% of the theoretically possible conversion of plant sugars to isobutanol, according to the filing. The straightforward conversion of isobutanol into butenes is a fundamentally important process that enables isobutanol to be used as a building block chemical in multiple markets.

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Renewable Fuel Companies Polymer 252

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2015

Most of these studies have assumed that the algal ponds will be supplied with chemical fertilizers in order to meet the N and P requirements for algal growth. It was found that algal biodiesel could actually generate greenhouse gas emissions and require significantly more energy inputs compared to conventional crops. T ha -1 y -1 ).

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Houston Kansas Production Oil 150

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JULY 20, 2015

The hydrogen from electrolysis and CO 2 , delivered by a pipeline, are fed to a plant where the gases are converted in a reverse water–gas shift (RWGS) reactor to syngas (H 2 and CO). Liquid hydrocarbons are considered an option to store renewable energy while decoupling supply and demand. König et al. 2015.06.085. 2015.01.013.

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Power Powered Hydrogen Renewable 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Design variants are available for fuel switching systems, installation of selective catalytic reduction and exhaust gas scrubbing systems and, in the near future, the use of LNG as fuel. This reduction level will also be mandated within the Emission Control Areas (ECAs) by 2015. Wash water holding tanks are also included.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On the way there, I made a pit stop at a gas station to buy a bottle of champagne as a gift, hoping to start out a conversation with a stranger on the right foot. The other is the hybrid battery (nickel-metal in the Gen2), responsible for the charge and supplying the cabin with electricity, including the climate control.

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2004 Prius Cheap 2009 409

Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. DME engine in 2015. Volvo is currently in development with the DME engine that will enter production in 2015.

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Volvo 2015 Production North America 270

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MARCH 18, 2013

Light-duty vehicles (LDVs) in the US may be able to reduce petroleum use by 50% by 2030, and by 80% by 2050; and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% by 2050, according to the newly published results of a two-year study by a committee convened by the National Research Council. Source: NRC. Click to enlarge. —Douglas M.

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Hydrogen Oil Plug-in Fuel Economy 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Low-input cultivation of perennial plants, e.g. from short-rotation forestry and grasslands, may be an effective source of cellulosic biomass and provide environmental benefits (reduced pollution and lower greenhouse gas emissions).

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Conversion Water Emissions 2009 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2015

Reflecting both changes in the highly-competitive C-segment market and Toyota customer feedback, the 2015 Auris range features significant improvements in five key areas: Design; Sensory Quality; the Hybrid model; Safety; and, improving the model’s segment coverage by some 40%, Powertrains. 2015 Toyota 1.2T Click to enlarge.

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Gasoline Engine Toyota Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The 48 V electrical system serves not only high power consumers, such as the water pump and air-conditioning compressor, but also the Integrated Starter-Alternator (ISG), which also supplies energy to the battery by means of highly efficient energy recovery. The new engine is equipped with multi-way exhaust gas recirculation (EGR).

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Gasoline Mercedes Engine Diesel 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

The first generation Sharan made its debut in Geneva in 1995; between 1995 and 2015 more than 800,000 Sharans were sold worldwide. The engine supplies its maximum torque of 340 N·m (251 lb-ft) within a range of 1,750 to 3,000 rpm. more fuel efficient; the most efficient model consumes 5.0 l/100 km (47 mpg US).

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Standards Fuel MPG Batteries 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2015

Toyota’s 2015 Auris range in Europe features significant improvements in five key areas; design; sensory quality; the hybrid model; safety; and, improving the model’s segment coverage by some 40%, powertrains. Conversely, CO 2 emissions are markedly lower than those of the outgoing 2.0 Earlier post.). This equips the Auris 1.6D-4D

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