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). Conducive to our new solar process, electrolysis of molten carbonates forms oxides, which precipitate as calcium oxide when mixed with calcium carbonate. Click to enlarge. —Licht et al.

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Solar Emissions CO2 Carbon 285

Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Computational modeling of cost-effective carbon capture technologies on industrial gas turbines to reduce CO2 emission. Solar Turbines. This technology can significantly reduce the capital and operating costs of CO2 removal by commercially available CO2 removal technologies. Develop a new integrated macro?micro?nano

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Energy CO2 Hydrogen Carbon 321

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2022

The global CO 2 emissions and energy demand numbers are based on the IEA’s detailed region-by-region and fuel-by-fuel analysis, drawing on the latest official national data and publicly available energy, economic and weather data. The use of coal for electricity generation in 2021 was intensified by record high natural gas prices.

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Emissions Global Coal China 370

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This opens up a new field of research into new applications for inexpensive, readily available organic semiconducting polymers within solar fuel cells. While in the gas phase, only hydrogen was detected, but potential fuels such as methanol and ethanol were both detected in the solution for carbon dioxide-saturated samples.

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Arlington Polymer CO2 Solar 199

Teslarati

MAY 10, 2021

Tesla has agreed to pay a $1 million fine and install a solar roof project on top of its Fremont Factory in Northern California as part of a settlement with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). The Solar Roof project will be approximately 160 kW and will be paired with two Powerpacks for energy storage.

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Installation Solar Tesla Emissions 98

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2019

Solar and wind generation grew at double-digit pace, with solar alone increasing by 31%. The Global Energy & CO 2 Status Report provides a high-level and up-to-date view of energy markets, including latest available data for oil, natural gas, coal, wind, solar, nuclear power, electricity, and energy efficiency.

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2018 Global Emissions Energy 207

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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EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

It was one year ago that we decided to add solar panels to our roof. With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. Panels: JA Solar black. Power is watts.

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Solar Power Powered Grid 81

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Finally, technology is also making EVs more eco-friendly, and as our energy grid switches to use more renewable sources like wind and solar power, EVs become even better for the environment. The post How EVs Are Reducing Carbon (CO2) Emissions appeared first on Blink Charging.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Gasoline-Electric 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2018

At the sewage treatment plant of the city of Sabadell near Barcelona, large amounts of the basic materials required are available, INERATEC’s Managing Director Tim Böltken said. With a power-to-gas process, excessive or decentrally produced power from renewable sources, such as solar or wind power, is converted into methane.

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Kits Gas Hydrogen Spain 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2021

By MY 2026, EPA projects that the final standards can be met with sales of about 17% electric vehicles (EVs), and wider uptake of advanced gasoline engine and vehicle technologies available today. Advanced technology vehicle multiplier credits for MYs 2023-2024 with a cumulative credit cap of 10 grams CO2 per mile.

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EPA Standards Gas Pollution 243

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.

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Light CO2 Wind Renewable 230

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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CO2 Solar Hydrogen Water 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

It can be made available to a variety of markets, such as the manufacturing sector, the electricity, and heating market as well as the mobility sector. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power. Type of CO2 source (biogas; waste water; atmosphere).

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Store Gas Green Power 258

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. Junctionless Solar Cell for Enabling Third-Generation Photovoltaics.

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Energy Fuel Hybrid CO2 210

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It sells not only solar panels, but also battery storage systems for residential (Powerwall), commercial (Powerpack) and utility-scale (Megapack) applications.

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Tesla Grid Solar Commercial 145

My Energi

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It manufactures a range of ‘eco-smart’ home energy technologies, including the market-leading solar-compatible zappi electric vehicle charge point, the eddi power diverter, and the libbi smart home battery. Transportation is responsible for nearly a quarter of the global energy related CO2 and road transport makes up the lion’s share of it.

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Jordan Energy Ireland Renewable 119

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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CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Films in which embedded particles can be aligned when a voltage is applied, and which can be used for targeted darkening of the window, have been available for a long time. The available film still has a slightly blue shimmer, but in the future Continental is expecting a broader range of colors, opening up additional design possibilities.

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Emissions Las Vegas Range CO2 150

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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Grid CO2 Charging Solar 52

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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Conversion Fuel CO2 Gas 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The biological photosystems, on the other hand, are limited by the intrinsic design and biomaterials available, for which no near-term improvements are in sight. One way to circumvent both problems is to link man-made solar cells to biological CO 2 fixation and fuel production.

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Convert Engine CO2 Li-ion 210

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 ). are expected to be widely available only as supercritical CO 2 in pipelines destined for geologic storage.

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Transportation Convert Waste CO2 231

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.

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Transportation CO2 Carbon Hydrogen 244

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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CO2 Grid Transportation Carbon 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, if reaction heat was provided by geothermal or solar thermal energy, then the resulting sygnas would be carbon negative. In countries where carbon credits are available, a carbon negative balance may offset a majority of the cost of producing syngas, offering a major cost advantage over other methane reforming processes.

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Carbon Diesel Fuel CO2 285

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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Conversion Transportation Fuel CO2 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

In China and India, these emissions increased by 9% and 6%, respectively, despite a doubling of wind and solar energy in China, for the fifth year in a row. Overall, this has meant that in 2009, CO 2 emissions worldwide have remained constant, for the first time since 1992.

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2009 India Emissions Global 199

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. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.)

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Conversion CO2 Diesel Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2013

Photovoltaic Solar Energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) devices harvest and convert sunlight directly to electricity. Work on commercially available systems such as lead-acid and nickel-metal hydride will not be considered by this program.

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Nickel Metal Hydride Transportation Fuel Production 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

This assessment provides an evaluation of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption, influence on liquid, mixed-phase, and ice clouds, and deposition on snow and ice.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon CO2 286

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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Coal Water Transportation Fuel 257

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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Personal Emissions CO2 Volvo 199

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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Production Water Hydrogen Switzerland 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2010

Readily available reserves of oil and gas are sufficient to take atmospheric CO 2 to at least 400 ppm. Oil and gas are such convenient fuels, and the world has developed such a strong dependence on them, that it is very likely that the large readily available pools of these fuels will be exploited.

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Coal Emissions Oil-Sands Climate Change 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2010

Moreover, it is possible to utilize the heat which is often available as surplus heat from, for example, power stations and industry. Tags: Catalysts Emissions Fuels Methanol Solar Wind. These high-temperature electrolytic cells will be good for large, central plants for manufacturing synthetic fuel from synthesis gas.

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Renewable Transportation Fuel CO2 186

EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

However, while still a fossil fuel, natural gas emits 50 to 60 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2 when combusted in a new, efficient natural gas power plant compared with emissions from a typical new coal plant. And that’s that so-so news of one fossil fuel replacing another.

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