Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

gigatons of direct and indirect carbon dioxide emissions annually, or 10% of the global total. Conversion of iron ore into iron accounts for 90% of steelmaking emissions that may be eliminated using Electra’s process. billion metric tons of crude steel and causes 3.7 —Electra CEO Sandeep Nijhawan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The €35-million Torero project is designed to process sustainable biomass (initially in the form of waste wood that cannot be used in other applications) for use as a raw material input into the blast furnace, hence lowering the volume of fossil coal used. This project will reduce annual carbon emissions in Ghent by 112,500 tonnes.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In the report, “ Getting to Neutral: Options for Negative Carbon Emissions in California ,” funded by the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) with grant support from the ClimateWorks Foundation, LLNL focused on three specific pillars of negative emissions: natural and working lands; carbon capture from biomass conversion to fuels; and direct air capture.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Enerkem’s facility in Edmonton, AB, Canada, is the first commercial-scale plant in the world to produce cellulosic ethanol made from non-recyclable, non-compostable mixed municipal solid waste. This growing global market is expected to reach 124 billion liters (32.8 Catalytic synthesis.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

France-based Global Bioenergies, a company developing a processes to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, has joined aireg (Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany e.V.) We are very excited about Global Bioenergies’ membership in our initiative. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects cover a wide range of sectors contributing to the EU's decarbonization efforts such as production, distribution and use of green hydrogen, waste-to-hydrogen, offshore wind, manufacturing of photovoltaic (PV) modules, battery storage and recycling, carbon capture and storage, sustainable aviation fuels, and advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Global Algae Innovations, “Algae Direct Air Capture Scale-up to Multi-Acre Raceways”, $3,600,000. Comstock Inc., per GGE, with lifecycle emissions reductions exceeding 80% over petroleum.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2013

The Algal Carbon Conversion (ACC) Pilot Project is a partnership among the National Research Council of Canada (NRC); Canadian Natural Resources Limited, one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in Canada; and Pond Biofuels. Pond Biofuels’ validation facility at St Marys Cement kiln in Ontario. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The funding will be provided through the Brookfield Global Transition Fund (BGTF), which is the largest fund in the world focused on the energy transition. Additional plants are under construction globally. Brookfield Renewable operates one of the world’s largest publicly traded, pure-play renewable power platforms.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

The energy conversion rate of this system is higher than that of biomaterial-based systems, but the production pathway cannot tap into potential energy sources such as waste biomass. This builds on the technology development pathway that MAN ES presented at the NH3 Energy+ Topical Conference at Pittsburgh in October 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2021

The fuel will undergo certification by the Roundtable on Sustainable Materials, globally recognized as the most robust approach to sustainability for the bio-based and circular economy. The technologies enabling project AtmosFUEL are proven climate solutions that are being deployed globally.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Australia-based global energy company Woodside Energy and LanzaTech NZ, a US-based carbon capture and transformation company, announced a strategic collaboration with the signing of a Strategic Framework Agreement. Woodside and LanzaTech expect to further collaborate to explore and develop additional products from greenhouse gas emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

President and CEO Jaehoon Chang explained how the company’s second-generation dedicated EV platform, under the new Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA), will replace its Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP) going forward. The proportion of global EV production is set to increase from 8% this year to 34% in 2030.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

One month after its IPO ( earlier post ), Global Bioenergies, a France-based startup that has engineered a series of bacterial strains that can produce isobutene, has received €475K (US$680K) in funding from the French innovation agency OSEO. straw) into isobutene, one of the key building blocks of the petrochemical industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When our country was attacked at Pearl Harbor, no one believed we could build 30,000 planes and tanks in just one year. But it will take decades to shift most freight from trucks to trains, design walkable communities, shorten our commutes, and build better mass transit and high-speed rail networks. And no one asked what it would cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2014

Cathay Pacific Airways has made a strategic equity investment in Fulcrum BioEnergy —a pioneer in the development and commercialization of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into sustainable aviation fuel ( earlier post )—as part of the airlines biofuel strategy and to help it achieve a target of carbon-neutral growth from 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

From a proof-of-concept stage, where preliminary pathway engineering results in low titers on a small scale, the titer, rate and yield are improved through multiple rounds of the design-build-test-learn (DBTL)-cycle. The other main barrier is efficient conversion of biomass to the sugars that are used by the cell factories. Zhou et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2014

The State of Hawaii recently passed legislation to assist in funding a project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into biofuels and value-added co-products. The conversion process takes a few days to cycle in a heterotrophic environment—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Biohydrogen Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstration”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report. portfolio globally while adapting more mature.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Technology changes inside the vessels are minor when compared to the massive innovative solutions and fuel transformation that must be found to produce and distribute sustainable energy sources on a global scale. —Katharine Palmer, LR global head of sustainability, who led the study on behalf of the classification society.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 23, 2023

We need to make sure that we have a diverse set of people at the table to be able to ensure that when these models are put out there, there’s a degree of transparency that we can help review and be part of that conversation. I’ve been troubled by that too, especially the sort of vitriol that seems to come out in some of these conversations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Red Rock adds a proven technology pathway to Joule’s own Helioculture technology and strengthens Joule’s platform for global supply of carbon neutral fuels, the two said. By merging Red Rock Biofuels with Joule, we intend to accelerate the commercialization of carbon-neutral fuels and continue to build a world leading company.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 13, 2024

The show highlighted rooftop solar panels in Germany, explaining that the panels generated electricity to power the buildings and even earned the owners money by letting them sell extra energy back to the electricity company. China currently leads the world in installed solar power capacity, accounting for about 40 percent of global capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2013

Providing additional energy productivity training and technical assistance for manufacturers that build on current efforts like the Industrial Assessment Centers that offer no-cost energy efficiency assessments for manufacturers and the Better Plants Challenge. Lead organization. Description.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

In the field of fuel cell research UBC and Fraunhofer ISE have already developed a globally unique method for spatially-resolved characterization of fuel cells. Building on this development the partners will continue their efforts to improve significantly the efficiency and reliability of fuel cells.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in the production of liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and HeidelbergCement, a German multinational building material company, are partnering to explore application of Joule’s technology to mitigate carbon emissions in cement manufacturing. The increased use of alternative fuels including biomass (20.6%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has developed a highly modular system using highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 directly to liquid hydrocarbons and ethanol ( earlier post ). Joule Fuels will initially commercialize Sunflow-E, with Sunflow-D for the global diesel market to follow. gallon without subsidies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Among the technologies and green building concepts showcased in the Honda Smart Home US are: Solar photovoltaics (PV). Concrete accounts for approximately 5% of global anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. Sustainable materials & waste management. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge. DC-to-DC electric vehicle charging.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2014

However, despite decades of effort, no lab-developed catalyst for achieving that conversion has been commercialized. Building on novel computation techniques, assistant professor Heather J. Batteries Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Catalysts Fuels Natural Gas'

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. But not all of the vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes that now use fossil fuels can run on electricity alone. Hydrogen is thus greasing the wheels of the global transition to cleaner energy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

With the transportation sector growing considerably, and demand for transport fuels rising globally, the IEA assessed liquid and gaseous fuels derived from biomass as one of the key technologies to reduce CO2 emissions and reduce dependency on liquid transport fuels. This projected use of biofuels could avoid around 2.1

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

How new reactor technology could change shipping The first step in making nuclear merchant ships a reality will be to build the right kind of nuclear reactors. We needed to get the conversation started.” The majority of global shipbuilding happens in South Korea, Japan, and China. How is it arranged? Where does the crew go?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Sinopec Capital, as the industrial investment arm of Sinopec Group—one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies—announced an investment in LanzaTech with a focus on promoting direct production of chemicals from waste carbon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2011

This has the potential to accelerate the commercial production of biofuels from crop waste and inedible plants, the partners said. We are building a leading position in the most efficient ethanol-producing country in the world. We are building a leading position in the most efficient ethanol-producing country in the world.

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