Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2023

The E uropean Critical Raw Materials Act would help the bloc secure supply of the metals needed to build batteries, wind turbines and other green technologies. Lithium is the new oil and Europe needs to act quickly to source it responsibly.

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Green Batteries Battery Supplies 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Different that shale oil—i.e., million (US$12.8

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Estonia Oil Cleaner Jordan 236

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable and abundant resource, holds great promise for sustainable production of valuable chemicals and fuels, currently derived mainly from oil. The term ‘biofuels’ encompasses solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels primarily derived from biomass, including animal and plant wastes and residues.

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Fuel Auto Oil Conversion 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Emissions from buildings, industry and other parts of the economy rose, though less than in 2018. Renewables played an important role as well thanks in part to continued cost declines in both wind and solar generation. Direct emissions from buildings increased by 2.2% Far less progress was made in other sectors of the economy.

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Coal 2019 2018 Gas-Electric 370

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

Mainstream Engineering Corporation is developing a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert food wastes to renewable diesel and jet fuels that will improve yield and quality, and reduce aqueous byproducts to advance commercial adoption.

PHEV 220

PHEV Lithium Ion Waste Renewable 220

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. This project will deliver a demonstrated scalable, deployment-ready oil-extraction system focused on creating a low carbon-intensity pathway to algae-based sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). Comstock Inc.,

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Production Carbon Conversion Mariner 225

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

Energy 140

Energy Wind Solar Building 140

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2018

Renewable diesel is a 100% hydrocarbon renewable fuel produced by hydrotreating fats and oils; it can be used in existing diesel engines without modification. The City also uses solar and wind energy to power government buildings and vehicles. Most renewable diesel use is currently concentrated in California.

Renewable 210

Renewable Diesel New York City New York 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a similarly sized gas-fired power plant. Wind takes the lead, bolstered by material-intensive offshore wind. Source: IEA. Source: IEA. Scale up recycling.

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Supplies Climate Wind Clean 248

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The boom in oil consumption following the Second World War led to ever-larger oil tankers, with sizes rising from 50,000 to 100,000 and 250,000 deadweight tonnes (dwt). There are engineers who think that we will soon have wind turbines whose more than 200-meter diameter blades will fold, like palm fronds, in hurricanes.

Design 144

Design Engine Hummer Panama 144

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

Energy 98

Energy Wind Solar Building 98

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2014

While any project that meets the eligibility requirements is eligible to apply, the Department has identified five key technology areas of interest: advanced grid integration and storage; drop-in biofuels; waste-to-energy; enhancement of existing facilities; and efficiency improvements. Waste-to-Energy. Drop-in Biofuels.

Renewable 281

Renewable Energy Grid Waste 281

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2014

At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s (CE) Braås facility, a 45,000 m 2 -site in southern Sweden, which specializes in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers, became powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including wind, biomass and hydropower.

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Volvo Renewable Energy Power 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills.

California 240

California Transportation Green Energy 240

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

The efforts also build on the airline’s existing programs such as investments in fuel-saving technologies and aircraft, as well as advocating for a more fuel-efficient air traffic control system that would reduce emissions from flying. Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel is produced 100% from waste and residue raw materials.

Carbon 150

Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The station, called Fengning and located about 200 kilometers north of Beijing, will store up to 40 gigawatt-hours of energy, and help keep the grid on clean energy when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun’s not shining. United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S. Several U.S.

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Engine San Francisco Iceland Wind 127

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In the depths of the 1970s oil crisis, French prime minister Pierre Messmer saw an opportunity to transform his country’s energy supply. Following somewhat in Messmer's footsteps, French president Emmanuel Macron announced a plan earlier this month to build at least six new reactors to help the country decarbonize by 2050.

France 98

France Germany Renewable Spain 98

Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2022

Although the idea of replacing a hunk of iron with a lightweight, ultrathin, easy-to-make, long-lasting PCB was attractive from the outset, it didn’t gain widespread adoption in its earliest applications inside lawn equipment and wind turbines a little over a decade ago. But in 2012 Boulder Wind Power put a PCB stator in a.

Motor 105

Motor Motors Motoring Wind 105

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

the SunShot Initiative; $95 million for wind energy, including off-shore wind technologies; and $65. nuclear waste that supports the implementation. gas and oil production from hydraulic fracturing. Works through the President’s Better Building Initiative to make non-residential buildings more. reactors R&D.

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2013 Fuel Wind 2012 261

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now—right now—American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.

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Obama Clean Cleaning All-Electric 186

Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

It’s January 2030 and your electric heat pump is warming the house while your electric car charges in the garage, all powered by solar panels on your roof and by wind and solar generators at your local utility. Now we had to build a version that could generate electricity and run for years at a reasonable cost.

Fuel 145

Fuel Store Gas-Electric Energy 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Oil-by-rail.

Transportation 150

Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Center for Enhanced Camelina Oil (CECO) The team led by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center will. produces more oil per acre. Lead organization. light energy.

Energy 294

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings. Current versions of renewable energy such as solar cells and windmills do far less damage to the environment than oil rigs, fracking, and strip mining, but they do damage the environment.

Renewable 98

Renewable Energy Fuel New York City 98

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. remote oil wells burn natural gas as a by-product because it is not. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

2012 240

2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

What it means for the oil and gas industry. How much oil and gas companies can save with new desalination systems. It’s more valuable than oil because at the end of the day, there is no oil without water. Advancements that finally make desalination commercially viable. How it’s already working-and where. per barrel.

Water 150

Water Oil Texas Gas 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

DNV and GL merged in September 2013 to form DNV GL—the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. Ship electrification and renewables.

Alternative Fuels 231

Alternative Fuels Fuel Gas-Electric Mariner 231

EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Offshore wind: Produce enough offshore wind to power every home in the UK, quadrupling how much it produces to 40 gigawatts by 2030, and supporting up to 60,000 jobs. Point 1: Advancing Offshore Wind. The report says that by 2030, we aim to produce 40GW of offshore wind, including 1GW of innovative floating offshore wind.

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Power Powered Wind Hydrogen 56

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Wind Energy Project: GLPTC seeks to reduce its electrical energy usage by investing in a renewable source of energy to be generated by wind using equipment on site.

Emissions 256

Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects).

Energy 231

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

liter engine, a hybrid system, a Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) system, along with a number of other upgrades. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. —Derek Rotz, principal investigator for SuperTruck, Daimler Trucks North America.

2009 150

2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Variable-flow oil pump enhances efficiency. Piston-cooling oil jets contribute to optimal performance, efficiency and refinement. That helps ensure the oiling system maintains full pressure during extreme driving conditions. A die-cast aluminum oil pan contributes additional structural strength. turbo and Ecotec 1.5L

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Chevrolet Diesel 2017 Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

PHEV 150

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 29, 2021

A Lucid innovation connects cells with slender aluminum ribbon instead of wire, saving a claimed 80 horsepower that would otherwise be wasted in electrical resistance. A metal cooling plate, the new standard in EV packs—which Tesla will soon adopt , eliminating a space-wasting thermal circuit—dissipates heat from terminal ends.

Miles 145

Miles Saudi Arabia Range Volt 145

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

” New Delhi: Billionaire Gautam Adani-led group is building the world’s largest single-location copper manufacturing plant at Mundra in Gujarat, which will help cut India’s dependence on imports and aid energy transition , sources said. Globally, copper production is more concentrated than oil. million tonnes.

Auto 52

Auto India Production Renewable 52

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 28, 2021

Try to avoid using your car as a storage container, and don’t let clutter build up. Visit a mechanic regularly to tune up your car, rotate tires and switch out oil. However, idling is a huge waste of fuel and money. These help reduce wind drag that can be caused by an open truck bed.

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Fuel Economy Economy Fuel Maintenance 104