Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2014

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the latest oil and gas lease sales for federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico garnered $872,143,771 million in high bids on 329 tracts covering 1,707,358 acres. million acres on the US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. billion in bid revenues.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

This new facility has some pretty special distinctions: It’s home to India’s first solar panel recycling plant, and it’s also believed to be the world’s first net-zero water withdrawal solar factory. GW expansion of its Ohio manufacturing complex and new factories in Alabama and Louisiana, each of which is expected to add 3.5

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. million acres, located from three to 230 nautical miles offshore Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 feet (3 to 3,400 meters). billion in high bids.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $97 million in funding for 33 projects that will support high-impact technology research and development to accelerate the bioeconomy. University of Alabama. Earth Energy Renewables, LLC. . Topic 2: Waste to Energy Strategies for the Bioeconomy. AMP Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Vitruvian Energy is trying to crowd-fund its novel biofuel EEB (ethyl 3-ethoxybutyrate). EEB has higher energy content than ethanol: 26-29 MJ/L compared to 23. Data collected with colleagues at the University of Alabama have shown 70-90% conversion of feedstock to SCFAs (short chain fatty acids).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2015

from the University of Alabama noted in a 2014 paper that: Currently, the basic design strategy to make hypergolic ILs is to incorporate reactivity in the cation and/or anion through the incorporation of chemical bonds known to induce a hypergolic reaction with common oxidizers, such as the N−C≡N bond (e.g., in [DCA] − ) or B–H bonds (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2012

The US Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will hold the consolidated Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 in New Orleans on 20 June 202012. The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

coal-cleaning plant in Alabama successfully reduced moisture from ultrafine coal waste. In some cases the water is evaporated to stabilize the deposits before they are recovered in surface reclamation; in others, the waste coal is not recovered for a variety of technological, operational, market, or other reasons.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2015

A new carbon capture technology sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90% of the carbon dioxide emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing. and City Water, Light and Power. The Polaris membrane system, developed by Membrane Technology and Research Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

The Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected nine new projects targeting environmental tools and technology for shale gas and coalbed methane (CBM) production. The primary objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate a process for the frac water returns from Marcellus Shale wells.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

On poor road surfaces the system is even able to recuperate energy, roughly halving the energy requirement compared to the preceding system in the S-Class. The GLE is produced in Tuscaloosa (Alabama/USA). 4MATIC all-wheel drive. In all variants of the new GLE, power is transmitted by the 9G-TRONIC automatic transmission.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2012

has successfully processed sweet sorghum hybrids from energy crop company Ceres, Inc. into renewable diesel in a US Department of Energy (DOE) funded biorefinery project. The joint evaluation project was funded in part by a US Department of Energy Integrated Biorefinery grant awarded to Amyris. Source: Amyris. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Source: NAS, adapted from Southwestern Energy Click to enlarge. In the past several years induced seismic events related to energy development projects have drawn heightened public attention.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 The AP1000 is a 1,117 to 1,154 MWe pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant that is an extension of the older AP600 design. (It It is considered a Generation III Advanced Light Water Reactor.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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APRIL 28, 2010

As of 10:40 am 27 April, an irregular sheen of oil on the Gulf waters had spread to 100 miles by 45 miles at its extremes. The burn will not affect other ongoing response activities, such as on-water skimming, dispersant application, and subsurface wellhead intervention operations. Earlier post.). A flyover on 27 April at 5:00 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award $38 million to 12 projects that will work to reduce the impacts of light-water reactor used nuclear fuel (UNF) disposal. Earlier post.) Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

A map accompanying the report shows that most such rocks are found in and around coastal mountain ranges, with the greatest concentrations in California, Oregon and Washington, and along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama. Some also occur in the interior, including Montana.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies. Berkshire Hathaway Energy. Consumers Energy. Duke Energy. Eversource Energy. National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO). Puget Sound Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding nearly $55 million for 24 projects to develop and deploy advanced vehicle technologies, supporting the Energy Department’s EV Everywhere Grand Challenge to make plug-in electric vehicles as affordable to own and operate as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles by 2022. PPG Industries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

Today’s engines can deliver a fuel efficiency of 40-42%, with corresponding loss of initially available fuel energy of 58-60%. particular we are trying to address the issues associated with energy efficiency limits for IC engines including advanced combustion modes. Really we’re trying to push the boundaries in our thinking.at

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

The new battery factory in Bibb County near the Mercedes-Benz vehicle plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (USA) started operations this year, producing battery systems for the all-electric EQS SUV and EQE SUV later this year. A green electricity supply contract ensures the purchase of electricity from renewable energies at all times.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2012

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. A total of 56 offshore energy companies submitted 593 bids on 454 tracts covering more than 2,402,918 acres.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $16.5 million for three projects that support research focused on designing landscapes that produce bioenergy feedstock while protecting air, soil, water, and wildlife resources and enhancing ecosystem services. The second initiative provides up to $4.5 With funding of up to $4.5

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For example, you can get up to $300 for installing efficient water heaters in your home. The Department of Energy has a tentative list of qualifying vehicles you can use to see if the car you want is eligible. [Ed Buyers looking for more savings can make other sustainable purchases. How Do You Qualify for the EV Tax Credit?

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