Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership. Success with forklifts could lead to bigger transportation markets.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted Reaction Design one of seven awards for a project intended to support the full-scale implementation and operation of highly efficient coal-based power generation technologies with near-zero emissions. Bernie Rosenthal, CEO of Reaction Design. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. The global transportation of ammonia by pipeline and bulk carrier is already a well-developed technology. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

A new paper from the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concludes that while a market-based mechanism (e.g. For buildings and appliances. In the meantime, in the absence of any other regulatory constraints, new coal or gas-fired generation will be built without CO 2 emissions controls.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University. —Newell and Raimi.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 4, 2022

These announcements target different markets. Intel plans to follow suit with Sapphire Rapids , an upcoming architecture for the server market built on the use of chiplets it calls “tiles.” Now Apple and Nvidia have joined the party—though with designs that target significantly different markets.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. After that, the companies plan to build a larger reactor for demonstration at sea in the early 2030s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2011

Addressing automotive environmental and energy supply problems would be better done by working from the market end first, rather than through technology push, according to a recent report by Dr John Wormald, Managing Partner of auto POLIS, an automotive consultancy. Blow the tops off all those mountains in Appalachia, burn that coal!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics looks forward to the results of this energy storage demonstration project to further broaden the market for our electrolyzer technology in the production of renewable fuels. CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). —Daryl Wilson, CEO of Hydrogenics.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2014

This is equal to 250 to 300 years’ worth of CO 2 emissions produced by the Wyoming’s coal-fired power plants and other large regional anthropogenic CO 2 sources at current emission levels. For every 1 million metric tons of CO 2 stored, approximately 250 metric tons of lithium carbonate, with an approximate market value of $1.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Advanced Coal Technologies. China is rapidly deploying supercritical and ultra-supercritical coal combustion plants, which have fewer emissions and are more efficient than conventional coal plants because they burn coal at much higher temperatures and pressures. Supercomputing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. Many of the non-degradable scrap tires get stockpiled in landfills.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

Over three decades later, Martinson reinvented himself, earning an Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) from the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. We need to go all out in building charging infrastructure and developing the workforce required to install and maintain it.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

CO2 Value Europe’s mission is to promote development and market deployment of sustainable industrial solutions that convert CO2 into valuable products, in order to contribute to the net reduction of global CO2 emissions and to the diversification of the feedstock base. Currently, China produces most of its methanol from coal.

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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. The best we can do is to build tools that allow us to explore possible futures.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. Since the discontinuance of the GM 8.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

That mix is cleaner on both the East and West coasts, with higher usage of renewable energy sources and relatively low-emissions natural gas, while in the upper Midwest there is still a much higher proportion of coal-burning power plants. Lightweight aluminum is now used in the Ford F-150 pickup truck, and in the all-electric Tesla sedans.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

Converting captured CO 2 into products such as chemicals, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology, the DOE said. Brown University (Providence, R.I.). McGill University (Quebec, Canada). DOE share: $794,000; recipient share: $545,100; duration: 36 months).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Perspective by Professor Bruce Dale, Michigan State University. Instead of focusing on the technical details, however, let’s consider two market examples and one policy example of indirect effects analysis. The automaker has taken some nickel off the market. Distinguished University Professor. 3247 Engineering Building.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The total product yield can be adjusted depending on market values of the chemical feedstocks and the relative prices of the hydrogen and biomass, the researchers said. The products can be tuned to change with different market conditions. The gasoline-range alcohols can be high-octane gasoline additives. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

In a new study published in the journal Applied Energy , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers found that controlled charging of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) reduces the costs of integrating the vehicles into an electricity system by 54–73% depending on the scenario.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

But one wonders if it’s enough to pull people away from the mighty Tesla, which continues to dominate the electric car market, and if there won’t be better deals coming in the future. Additionally, the fear of running out of battery energy without access to a charger is perpetuated by the lack of a universal charging infrastructure.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I truly believe hydrogen is the UK’s best opportunity to build a world-leading industry which creates UK jobs, cuts emissions and is the envy of the globe.” Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. And here’s why. .

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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

Unlike Lithium, hydrogen is the most plentiful element in the universe ( Lithium is the key component in electric vehicle batteries). Hydrogen production as mentioned above is based on electrolysis, a chemical process that produces hydrogen which is a universal, light, and highly reactive fuel. So what is green hydrogen?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. We’ll incorporate those conclusions and lessons from Japan in designing and building the next generation of plants. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

and will build, own and operate the largest on-site air separation unit (ASU) order ever awarded to an industrial gas company. A day earlier, Air Products announced it had signed a joint R&D agreement with the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). It is jointly-owned by YanKuang Coal Group (50%), Yanzhou Coal Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. G20 countries build a generous Green Climate Fund, well above the $100-billion-a-year goal in the Paris climate agreement. —Goldthau et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The draft promotes development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to establish a continuing place for coal in the US energy mix. The draft includes a CCS early demonstration program, incentives for the wide-scale commercial deployment of CCS, and performance standards for new coal-fired power plants.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Stellantis is offering certain higher salaried US employees separation packages to help its “transformation to become a sustainable tech mobility company and the market leader in low-emissions vehicles,” a company spokesperson said. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 Ford is not alone.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 20, 2006

Toyota moves to corner the 'plug-in' market Reversing course, the Japanese automaker reveals it will make hybrid cars that can go even farther on electricity. But Toyota's announcement was more significant because the company is presumed to have the technology to actually bring such cars to market, they say. Join in the momentum.

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