Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2010

Located in Thompsons, TX, the post-combustion capture and sequestration project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. NRG will construct a 60 megawatt carbon capture demonstration facility at the company’s W.A. Ramgen’s advanced carbon dioxide compression system.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Pressure on governments and industry for a green recovery is further constraining availability of capital, it says. As a result, investment decisions are becoming increasingly complex. Increased price volatility would weaken the prospects for the inclusive and sustainable economic recovery that producers, consumers and governments all want.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

Proximity of the UK’s largest industrial emitters to CO 2 storage sites in the North and Irish Seas. billion) direct grant support for capital funding, and additional support, subject to affordability, through low-carbon Contracts for Difference. The program puts the onus on industry to bring forward CCS solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. We may not see a strong CO 2 price signal for many years.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2014

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The research and development (R&D) portfolio is designed to ensure the ability to use abundant domestic fossil resources through the development of technologies with a specific focus on significant reductions of global carbon emissions at acceptable cost. and Industrial CCS activities. and Industrial CCS activities.

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Baua Electric

MAY 18, 2024

The Chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Limited who is also a seasoned veteran in the auto industry spanning over four decades, firmly advocates that for India to progress into a developed nation, accessible mobility options are imperative. What can he afford? Those are absolutely renewable, absolutely clean, and carbon-negative fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 15, 2021

One of the reasons behind the drastic increase in sales was the more affordable price range of the Tesla Model 3, a best-seller in the U.S., The vehicles use electricity produced from nuclear power, coal, natural gas or solar energy. Tesla’s Model 3 paved the way to powerful, affordable EVs. Zero Carbon Emissions.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. Welcome to Australia, where a green-hydrogen boom is in full swing. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Simulation of a coal jet region. Multiphase refers to the process of changing a solid (in this case, coal) to a gas (syngas). Scientists are able to run detailed simulations on the coal inlet region into the gasifier, allowing them to observe the dynamics. Image credit: Chris Guenther, NETL. Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As mentioned in our most recent post the root of the crisis lies in the monomaniacal way in which this government and its recent predecessors have pursued decarbonisation at the expense of other priorities including reliability and affordability of energy. . Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

High electricity rates are burdening private households and industry alike and threatening Germany’s competitiveness, the company noted. For private households, electricity rates were nearly 40% higher than the European Union average in 2012; for industrial facilities, 20%. billion) this year. billion) this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In a speech at the National Press Club, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that the success of China and other countries in clean energy industries represents a new “Sputnik Moment” for the United States, and will require a similar mobilization of innovation to enable the US to compete in the global race for the jobs of the future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models. by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2012

We need innovative, affordable and reliable energy solutions for the 21 st century, a set of investments that will meet our energy needs today while creating job opportunities and economic prosperity for our future. will also require cooperation among industry participants, regulators and environmental advocates.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Energy-related CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Without systematic, transformative changes, the US is unlikely to succeed either in averting the worst economic and environmental consequences of climate change or in achieving a secure, affordable and reliable energy supply. A carbon price must surely be a part of any energy transition strategy. Innovation should become that focus.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Consumers and industries may be encouraged to shift their energy use to times when renewable energy production is high, helping to balance supply and demand on the grid. Renewable energy integration is essential for achieving a sustainable and low-carbon energy future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. ” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself. It is clean and flexible.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Energix Research’s process uses electrically activated nanoparticle catalysts supported on a carbon microfibers with high porosity and surface area. Energix expects to develop affordable, micro GTL plants to monetize underutilized resources, such as abandoned natural gas fields, coal bed methane (CBM) fields, flared gases, etc.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

The electric vehicle industry is growing at a high pace these days. The technological advancements in this field attract people to work in this industry. Are you planning a job in electric vehicle industry? I consider the electric vehicle industry as a place where I could deliver the best of my knowledge.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” It doesn’t get us to a hundred.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Tampere, an inland Finnish industrial city of nearly 250,000 people, is an ideal testing ground for this new technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. It has important potential for increasing our electricity without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. Market development RFI. Report to Congress.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Of the fossil fuel subsidies, $70.2billion went to traditional sources such as coal and oil with just $2.3billion dedicated to carbon capture and storage, which is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Why is so much money dedicated to fossil fuels? Furthermore, most alternative energies are domestic by definition.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

Climate pledges by governments to date—even if fully achieved—would fall well short of what is required to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050 and give the world an even chance of limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 °C,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The project will evaluate a wider range of applications for lithium-ion batteries that will spur broader demand for the technology, bringing production to a scale that will make this form of large energy storage more affordable. 24,978,264. 53,510,209. Beacon Power Corporation (MA). Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I would have thought we would be beyond that point and further along in understanding the solar industry, but apparently I’m wrong. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities. This is still an immature industry. Yeah, they can afford it. We need a dynamic industry association.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Wendel Dreve and Marion Gilliland have dedicated the past five years to pursing their dream of transforming the corn ethanol industry. Their systems approach leads to synergies that have the potential to dramatically reduce corn ethanol’s carbon footprint. All of these issues are contributing to excess capacity in the industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Attendees believe that renewable energy needs two elements to be successful: technical progress leading to lower costs and a price on carbon. They were hoping it was going to be more aggressive in combating carbon directly through a stronger cap and trade and indirectly with a higher federal renewable energy standard. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. Low-carbon energy sources (renewables and nuclear) meet around 40% of the growth in primary energy demand. Low-carbon energy sources meet around 40% of the growth in global energy demand. —WEO-2013.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study. —Alternative Fuels for Military Applications.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). FastCAP SYSTEMS, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will develop a new nanotube enhanced ultracapacitor with potential for a 6x improvement in energy density and cost over the current industry state-of-the art. CARBON CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). BIOMASS ENERGY.

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