Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2014

High project value for technology licensees: Current estimates show that a 400kT per year Liquid Light MEG plant would offer more than $250 million in added project value as compared to a plant built using the best currently available process technology. The result is that chemicals can be made directly from renewable energy sources and CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. For example, the study found that the availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology has a major impact on the lowest cost passenger vehicle fuel and technology choice.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The upstream, “well to wheel” emissions of the EV are linked to electricity generation and the electrical grid, with lower emissions in regions that use more renewable energy sources. The post How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions appeared first on Blink Charging. This is critical in the continued expansion of EVs on the road.

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My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Lee Sutton and Jordan Brompton founded UK-based myenergi in 2016 with the purpose of removing the barriers to a greener future, including the technological, behavioural and financial challenges relating to fast adoption of smart energy products, setting the company on a mission to pioneer a simple transition to renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a catalyst comprising of black silicon nanowire supported ruthenium ( Ru/SiNW) for the photochemical and thermochemical reduction of gaseous CO 2 to methane (methanation) in the presence of hydrogen under solar-simulated light. 1 under 14.5 reduction of gaseous CO 2 by H 2.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU, is heading an effort to transform CO 2 and renewable electricity into synthetic fuels for transportation. Moreover, it is possible to utilize the heat which is often available as surplus heat from, for example, power stations and industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

An Electricity/CO 2 Market Simulation Incorporating Renewables. Many local devices that can either generate electricity, like rooftop solar panels, or store energy, like electric cars, are expected to help reduce the costs of the traditional system, especially as intermittent renewable energy provides a bigger fraction of our energy use.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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Driivz

JUNE 22, 2022

Decarbonization (or decarbonisation) is reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere as a component of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Deep decarbonization should also address reducing CO2 emissions in the manufacture, transport, and disposal of road vehicles and their components.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Such yields would far eclipse productivity levels of current bio- or renewable fuels. There is no question that viable, renewable fuels are vitally important, both for economic and environmental reasons.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural photosynthesis uses solar energy to recycle CO 2 (and H 2 O) into new plant life (biomass) and ultimately fuels (biofuels). Sustainable tri-reforming uses CO 2 , renewable energy and CH 4 (or biogas) to yield syngas and, ultimately, synthetic fuels and commodity chemicals. Jiang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Incentives also take the form of lowering rates for customers that reduce electricity demand during peak hours by shifting consumption to off peak hours when more electricity is available. Increasing supply is costly — a cost passed on to customers in the form of high rates for peak demand hours — and typically increases CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy, etc.).In emissions. . ~90%)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

CH 4 is an ideal H-supplier to replace H 2 in CO 2 hydrogenation as CH 4 has a high H density and is available from a range of sources (e.g. wind and solar power) to act as an efficient chemical energy storage localized or distributed system. natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Photovoltaic Solar Energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) devices harvest and convert sunlight directly to electricity. The duration of unsolicited awards is typically three years.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Transportation Fuel Production 236

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Such fuels, produced synthetically with renewable energy, can be transported via conventional routes and made available through the existing infrastructure. By means of a clever heat management, we want to cover the heat requirements of the CO2 collector as much as possible with this waste heat —Christian Bach.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. This achievement marks a critical step towards making renewable diesel fuel a reality at high volumes and competitive costs.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

The project sponsors—including Volvo Cars, Vattenfall, A-hus, ICA and Siemens—said that the family’s 80% drop shows that the government’s climate target of a 40% reduction in Swedish carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 is already within the reach of the average household using the best available know-how and technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

This has considerable implications for policy making, since the numerical evidence for comparing different fuels and car performance is not presently available, as the second interim report of this study has shown. —Methanol report. The second issue is enabling consumers to make informed choices. Goeppert, A. and Prakash, G.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

SRI’s approach makes it economical to use carbon-neutral electricity, such as nuclear, hydro, or solar as a source of additional energy. The availability of CO 2 -free electricity was assumed.). In conventional CTL approaches, energy is supplied by burning a portion of the coal feed, which then produces carbon dioxide. Source: SRI.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

At a high level, 15 states with 25% or more of electricity form renewable sources accounted for 53.5% And 15 states with renewable energy sources of 25% or more combined for 53.5% Heavy Coal Using States Accounted for Only 10% of EV Sales in 2020. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

The authors are Pushker Kharecha and James Hansen from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Columbia University Earth Institute (GISS); Charles Kutscher from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and Edward Mazria from 2030 Inc./ Architecture 2030.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change 239

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 5, 2022

Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. An exponential increase in EVs will require exponential growth in the availability of locations to charge them. Congress has passed a bipartisan Infrastructure bill that includes $7.5

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 14, 2009

One of the groups I support and learn from is Environment California who have been great advocates of AB 811 and AB 920, the one-two punch for solar we absolutely need to drive solar sales at the rate demanded by today’s CO2 levels. But setting a standard ain’t the same thing as keeping a standard.

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Sacramento Solar California Environment 191

Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, electric vehicles basically are emission-free at least when they are powered by electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, etc. This means a battery’s CO2 footprint will be regarded the same no matter if it will allow 500 charge and discharge cycles or 5,000. Potential to decrease the CO2 impact.

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Lithium Ion Climate Batteries Battery 82

Electric Vehicles India

JULY 18, 2021

It will reduce 5,000 tons of CO2 emissions every year and removes 10% of pollution from the state. The Minister of Power, Environment, and New & Renewable Energy, Goa, Nilesh Cabral had shown the importance of ushering in electric two-wheelers in the state. To avail of the incentives, electric two-wheelers must have .

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Here are some of the key advantages of electric vehicles: Environmental Benefits: EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions, meaning they do not release pollutants like carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and other harmful gases into the atmosphere. Developing such infrastructure takes time and investment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Starting in 2013, Audi will begin series production of TCNG models whose engines—derived from TFSI units—will be powered by e-gas: synthetic methane produced via the methanation of hydrogen produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity. achieving a neutral CO 2 balance across the entire mobility chain.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. —William J. Sims, President and CEO of Joule.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

Carbon-aware computing, Hussain adds, is about doing more with your applications during the periods when the electricity comes from clean or low-carbon sources—such as when wind and solar power are available—and doing less when it doesn’t. Are my third parties green?

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Green Carbon Google Emissions 141

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. billion available for highway, transit, bridge, rail, shipyard and airport construction and repairs nationwide. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1 Of that, $26.5 Of that, $26.5

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Driivz

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The eMobility revolution is accelerating as sales of EVs shift into high gear around the world –partly due to government regulations and subsidies and partly due to the growing availability of longer-range, lower-cost EVs. As these new EVs hit the road over the next few years, demand for public charging will explode.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 29, 2022

Many studies show that battery electric vehicles (BEV) produce approximately 80% less CO2 emissions over their lifetime (including manufacturing and recycling) compared to an internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV). Businesses in NZ are setting new targets for their fleets to reduce CO2 emissions and driving down fleet costs.

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Carbon Fleet CO2 Emissions 52

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2015

The solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency was 1.72%, without sensible heat recovery. a) Schematic of the experimental setup, featuring the main system components of the production chain to solar kerosene from H 2 O and CO 2 via the ceria-based thermochemical redox cycle. (b) b) Schematic of the solar reactor configuration.

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