Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). Surprisingly, this situation is reversed at high temperatures in molten carbonates, which allows the endothermic, electrolytic one pot synthesis, and precipitation of CaO. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. —Ren et al.

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CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The US House Committee on Science and Technology’s Energy and Environment Subcommittee held a hearing to examine the scientific basis and engineering challenges of geoengineering, a term that encompasses a wide range of strategies to deliberately alter the Earth’s climate systems for the purpose of counteracting the effects of climate change.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. The IEEE Life Fellow spoke during a session addressing the role of technology in delivering an equitable, sustainable, and low-carbon resilient world.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The focus of the work was on alternative jet fuels that could be available commercially in the next decade using primarily North American resources. Production of commercial quantities of HRJ depends on the availability of appropriate feedstocks at competitive prices. From Hileman et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Among the direct transportation-related provisions in the extensive package are a low-carbon fuel standard for all transportation fuels; financial support for large scale demonstrations of electric vehicles; and financial support for automakers retooling plants to make electric vehicles. Carbon Capture and Sequestration.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Source: IEA.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) program ( DE-FOA-0001197 ) aims to develop low-cost, highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants. ARPA-E posited that there is an urgent need to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced ( DOE-FOA-0001224 ) up to $35 million in available funding to advance fuel cell and hydrogen technologies, and to enable early adoption of fuel cell applications, such as light duty fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). America’s Climate Communities of Excellence. Low PGM Cathode Catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

However, the report also notes that the abatement costs for some of these technologies are much higher than the current cost of carbon. The mix of incentives, the required investments, consumer preferences, the potential for GHG reductions, and the cost of abatement are all part of the optimization.

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Canada Transportation Emissions 2013 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 24, 2015

Areas of emphasis could include, but are not limited to, development of microbial strains or co-cultures with improved hydrogen yields; reactor designs to improve hydrogen production yields or reduce costs (e.g., Fuel Cell Technologies R&D: Low Platinum Group Metal Catalysts and Supports. 2 to 5 awards between $1M and $3M.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 2, 2023

As concerns about climate change and air pollution continue to grow, more and more people are turning to EVs as a clean and sustainable transportation option. The future of e-rickshaws looks bright, as they are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost, high efficiency, and environmentally friendly nature.

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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 13, 2013

Low-carbon energy sources (renewables and nuclear) meet around 40% of the growth in primary energy demand. Globally, fossil fuels continue to meet a dominant share of global energy demand, with implications for the links between energy, the environment and climate change. —WEO-2013.

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MARCH 21, 2013

They are available only for new natural gas and propane vehicles that meet all California Air Resources Board emission requirements. University of California, San Diego , was awarded $95,000 to gather existing data on engine performance using a software modeling program to reduce carbon emissions of gas-fuel mixtures.

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JUNE 29, 2011

27 specifically targets the urban city environment via a novel manufacturing process (iStream, earlier post ) developed by consortium lead partner Gordon Murray Design, it aims to significantly reduce lifecycle impacts and enable low cost, efficient manufacture within the UK. 27, which are key to meeting our climate change goals.

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Zytek Li-ion Low Cost Design 218

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JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. carbon fixation), such that the energy of the excess photons is wasted through non-photosynthetic processes.

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MARCH 8, 2013

With its GWP of 1, it is also the refrigerant that has the least impact on climate. It has a high cooling capacity and is available worldwide at low cost in the required qualities. This raises issues of cost, as well of durability. CO 2 is an A1 refrigerant, indicating minimal toxicity and non-flammability.

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APRIL 30, 2010

This is the fourth year in a row the tiny island nation has lead efforts to strengthen climate protection under the Montreal Protocol. HFCs are a big target that can be eliminated through the world’s best environmental treaty, and at a very low cost—maybe $4 billion. C, says IGSD. Durwood Zaelke. Durwood Zaelke. 0902568106.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV. The transition to electric vehicles depends on the availability of renewable electricity and the infrastructure to enable users to charge their vehicles. The scale of this transition cannot be underestimated.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Battelle will also test a novel commercialization model for the technology, by embedding it in small-scale, factory-built systems deployed widely where biomass is available at low cost. These systems would be built at significantly lower cost relative to large, fixed biorefineries. With funding of up to $4.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. To restore balance we must protect the oxygen-producing biomass of Earth and reduce the amount of carbon emissions. But use of petroleum will continue.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Dr. Maruyama is a materials scientist, and his research focuses on carbon nanotubes and making research go faster. One is to get low-cost scientific tools like the 3D printer. Is that the 3D printer system or is that a— Maruyama: So we started with our system to grow carbon nanotubes. So there’s two models.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. The table and this introduction are also available in multiple foreign languages which occasionally have a translation "lag time" (follow links at bottom of home page).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

But it would have made EV’s better for 10 yrs until now had they been available. But most could build it for under $1k and mine gets the equivalent of 600mpg fuel cost wise. Used Cell phone tower battery takeouts are inexpensive and available about everywhere if you call around. Next: a carbon tax. Follow the money.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target. Representatives Henry A.

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