Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

JUICE BOX For many years, environmentalists have looked forward to the coming of net-zero-energy buildings. Much effort was devoted to making lighting, heating, and cooling more efficient so buildings consumed less energy. This WindBox turbine, installed on the roof of a building in Rouen, France, is 1.6 household).

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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. In any case, when we switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we reduce but do not eliminate environmental damage. The current technologies work but have limits.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Emissions from buildings, industry and other parts of the economy rose, though less than in 2018. The switch from coal to natural gas and renewables in the electric power sector accounts for the majority of the progress the US has made in reducing emissions over the past decade. Direct emissions from buildings increased by 2.2%

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Progress in engineering and forecasted prices for our products now higher than initially anticipated are fueling our optimism regarding the plant’s financing within the new schedule. IBN-One was granted a license on Global Bioenergies’ process and its purpose is to finance, build and operate the first renewable isobutene plant in France.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. These initiatives have largely focused on renewable electric power generation, distribution, and storage.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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JULY 21, 2015

Red Rock Biofuels LLC will produce approximately three million gallons of low-carbon, renewable jet fuel per year for FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corporation. and will convert approximately 140,000 dry tons of woody biomass into 15 million gallons per year of renewable jet, diesel and naphtha fuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2021

Rising raw materials prices risk undermining EV manufacturers’ efforts to drive down the cost of EV batteries necessary for mass adoption; and. This is generating the world’s largest industrial waste stream and gigatons of emissions, poisoning ecosystems and people’s health, and driving potential labor exploitation including child labor.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Darling International and a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation are taking initial steps towards the formation of a joint venture to build a facility capable of producing more than 10,000 barrels/day or (135 million gallons per year) of renewable diesel on a site adjacent to Valero’s St. Valero Renewables. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 10, 2016

million gallons US) of renewable diesel fuel annually. This support works in concert with Alberta’s Renewable Fuels Standard which requires commercial fuel producers to blend renewable products into their fuels. It uses no water or chemicals and generates no waste. SBI also plans eventually to market renewable jet fuel.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

has entered into a joint development program with the Energy & Environmental Research Center ( EERC ) at the University of North Dakota (UND) in Grand Forks for converting a wide variety of biomass and waste into bio-butanol. Syntec Biofuel Inc. Earlier post.). This is concerning, as it uses food resources to produce fuel.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical production process for fermenting methane into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo , lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Aquaflow chair Barrie Leay says wild micro algae, wood waste, bagasse and other green municipal waste can now all be converted to the next generation of biofuels, including bio-gasoline, bio-diesel and jet fuel. He says the unique chemical qualities of algae can be maximized within a mix of other biomass streams. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On the heels of three new projects announced in the past three months, Velocys has raised approximately $85 million through an oversubscribed equity placing, priced at a premium to the market price. Southwest Airlines also recently signed an agreement with Red Rock Biofuels LLC (RRB) to purchase low carbon renewable jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2021

In a paper published in the journal Applied Energy , they report devising a methodology to estimate the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of meeting the seasonal nature of variable renewable energy (VRE) resources with either a hydrogen-fired gas turbine (HFGT) or lithium-ion battery system (LI). Much of this information was publicly available.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

Government is also targeting making buildings more efficient, sequestration opportunities in forests and emission reductions in natural gas production and processing. Carbon pricing mechanisms. BC supports the adoption of the province’s $30/tonne carbon tax as the benchmark price across the country.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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. After all, the cost of renewables continues to plummet. This reality has come to the forefront as gas prices spiked over Europe’s past winter.

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JULY 24, 2012

Butadiene is a major chemical building block for the petrochemical industry and is presently produced primarily as a by-product of ethylene cracking. It is developing processes to produce sustainable chemicals using feedstocks including conventional sugars; sugars from cellulosic biomass; and syngas made from municipal solid waste.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Bartis and RAND colleague Lawrence van Bibbe were the authors of a 2011 RAND report concluding that if the US military increased its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there would be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Novozymes has developed a fungus that enables production of malic acid from renewable raw materials instead of oil. Novozymes is now out-licensing the technology to partners who are interested in producing and commercializing malic acid and derivatives made from renewable raw materials instead of oil.

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MARCH 3, 2022

It’s about harnessing a century of hardware mastery to help build the future. This team will be hellbent on delivering leading quality, attacking waste in every corner of the business, maximizing cash flow and optimizing our industrial footprint. —Ford President and CEO Jim Farley.

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OCTOBER 26, 2019

Alcohols (ethanol & methanol) are not a highly toxic liquid with various possible production pathways directly from biomass and/or via renewable hydrogen combined with carbon from either biomass or carbon capture. Ammonia is truly carbon free and can be produced from renewable electricity. —LR CEO Alastair Marsh.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

Despite the still apparent softness in capacity utilization, and the on-going softness in fossil fuel prices, global biofuels capacity will continue to grow from 55.1 Cellulosic ethanol and renewable diesel represent the next largest shares with 19% (904 MGY) and 14% (690 MGY) of total next-generation fuel capacity in 2018, respectively.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The foundations serve as in response to the concept that of Prolonged Manufacturer Accountability (EPR) the place the manufacturers (together with importers) of batteries are liable for assortment and recycling/refurbishment of misuse batteries and worth of recovered fabrics from wastes into pristine batteries.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Renewable Energy Integration HEMS can integrate with renewable energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines, allowing users to maximize the use of clean energy. Renewable energy integration involves the incorporation of renewable energy sources into existing energy systems, such as electrical grids or heating systems.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

In an open-access paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they report that combining these distinct paraffin structures synergistically improved VFA-SAF flash point and viscosity to increase the renewable blend limit to 70%. —Huq et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

The MOU covers efforts in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy, water efficiency, fossil fuels, alternative fuels, efficient transportation technologies and fueling infrastructure, grid security, smart grid, storage, waste-to-energy, basic science research, mobile/deployable power, small modular reactor nuclear energy, and related areas.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This project is the culmination of advances not only in our core technology, but in building a commercial-ready system and engineering a scalable process that are now pilot-tested and prepared for deployment. gallon without subsidies. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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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.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

The giant miscanthus was developed at the University of Mississippi and provided from a high yield plot by Repreve Renewables. Agricultural waste from food crops can also produce up to 1,000 gallons of gasoline/acre using this new technology. Cool Planet utilizes mild process conditions. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Novozymes has launched what it called the first commercially viable enzymes for production of biofuel from agricultural waste. The new Cellic CTec2 enzymes enable the biofuel industry to produce cellulosic ethanol at a price below US$2.00 This cost is on par with gasoline and conventional ethanol at the current US market prices.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The latest Investment Plan for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program prioritizes $100 million in state funds to leverage funding and investments from federal agencies, research institutions, private investors, auto manufacturers and other stakeholders.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The plan also calls for accelerating the permitting for renewable power generation on public lands and upgrading the grid. Expanding the Better Buildings Challenge. The Better Buildings Challenge targets helping American commercial and industrial buildings becoming at least 20% more energy efficient by 2020.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 12, 2023

The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) That’s why Liu’s Thermal Energy Storage Group at ORNL is focused primarily on buildings.

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Driivz

JULY 2, 2023

They weigh more than 10,000 pounds and include tractor-trailers and other freight trucks, school and public transit buses, delivery trucks, utility vehicles (including waste disposal), construction vehicles, and shuttles. What do we mean by MHDs ? Delivery vans, commercial-use vans, and pickup trucks are considered light-duty vehicles.

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