Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $14 million to six projects aimed at developing technologies to lower the cost of producing electricity in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants using carbon capture. General Electric Company. Columbia University, and ATS Rheosystems/REOLOGICA. TDA Research, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Biotech Fuels Solar'

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

In 2007, GE and BP formed a global alliance to jointly develop and deploy technology for at least five IGCC power plants that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation. The Hydrogen Energy California County project would be the first power plant built under that alliance.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has selected projects by Basin Electric Power Cooperative and Hydrogen Energy International LLC—a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto ( earlier post )—for up to $408 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Post Combustion CO 2 Capture Project.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

The technology captures CO 2 emissions from coal- or gas-fueled power facilities, cement plants and refineries, and converts it into solid carbonates that can be used as building materials in the form of aggregates or other cement-type materials. which used the emissions stream from a natural gas-fueled power plant.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are working together to advance a coal-based polygeneration plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS) simultaneously through the federal National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review and a complementary California Energy Quality Act process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2009

Work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington that burns over one million tons of coal per year, TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired power plant near Centralia by more than half. Washington Gov.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process they developed to convert waste into fuels. of natural gas found in the earth and sea with a renewable resource.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The plant will be capable of providing enough electricity for approximately 30,000 homes. Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber. Rentech, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Solar’s competition is really fossil fuel, or in other words, the established way electricity is being generated. With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Nikola, producer of fuel cell and battery electric semi trucks, held a grand opening for the first of its HYLA refueling stations. There’s a big push for zero emission trucks in California right now, in response to California’s new truck regulations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. “We

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

According to Forbes , studies have found that solar and wind power is often cheaper than power from fossil fuels, even without financial assistance, and their daily operations undercut even the most cost-effective coal plants. Creating chargers for electric vehicles is our way of contributing to green tech. than gas-fueled vehicles.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

Proponents believe such a car could be easily refuelled with hydrogen and assumed it would have greater range than a pure all-electric car. Little seems developed in any wide commercial sense and certainly not to the extent of the pure electric car. It is important to realize that a fuel cell car is actually an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2012

In a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Stanford University assistant professor Adam Brandt reviews a number of recent life cycle assessment (LCA) studies calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands extraction, upgrading, and refining pathways—the results of which vary considerably.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

However, 70% of vehicles can apparently be fueled with no increase of electrical capacity. T here are a lot of facts and misstatements about Plug-Ins that circulate these days about water consumption, pollution, the need for new power plants, and the like. Why is fueling a PHEV from coal electricity better than gasoline ?

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. That killer earthquake California has coming that’s long over due? So don’t buy another car until you can go electric.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Mikhail Chester and Arpad Horvath inventoried on-road, rail, and air travel to determine energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and criteria air pollutant (CAP) emissions (excluding PM, lead, and ozone due to lack of data). Decisions should not be made based on partial data acting as indicators for whole system performance.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In the first group, 16 awards totaling $435 million will support fully integrated, regional Smart Grid demonstrations in 21 states, representing more than 50 utilities and electricity organizations with a combined customer base of almost 100 million consumers. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pecan Street Project (TX).

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. Here’s how.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) It is much more than that.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Water (1 project). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Earlier post.) Conventional Energy (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. DOE grant: $6,949,624).

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We’re staging the largest climate action in the history of Southern California right on the beach next to the pier in Manhattan Beach on October 24 – the International Day of Climate Action. For the past three months I’ve been working night and day as the Chairman of the South Bay Los Angeles 350 Climate Action Group.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

As our planet’s atmosphere overheats because the greenhouse gas firewall we’ve built by burning fossil fuels works so damn well, there is one secret weapon we can all still whip out if we want to fight back and try to save ourselves from frying. Our daily use of electricity during this two year period has gone from 22.55

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

And the work they’re doing brings California’s leading edge fight against global warming right into my neighborhood and into my home. We’re all under the mandates of the AB32, our groundbreaking Global Warming Solutions law that calls for all of California to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler , Dodge , AutoblogGreen Exclusive , SAE World Congress Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2009 at 7:48PM Two months ago we went for a ride in the Dodge Circuit EV.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Find investors, resumes, and free research Get Cleantech Blog in your email Enter your email address: Subscribe in a reader Join us on Linked In Follow us on Twitter Join us on Facebook GHGBlog.com - The Greenhouse Gas Blog Loading. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Here we go again.or Carbon trading vs t.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Impacts on the electric vehicle ecosystem.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

In the United States, for example, there are more than 49,000 public charging stations , and it is now possible to drive an EV from New York to California using public charging networks. Indeed, adopting electric vehicles will go a long way in helping to improve environmental outcomes. But coal use varies, even within China.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Waxman of California and Edward J. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Volt is, and always has been, more than than an electric car. GM will leapfrog Toyota and Honda by providing an electric car to the masses by the end of next year. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

I took an unexpected trip in the Wayback Machine last week while I was on vacation with the lovely and talented Debra just outside Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park here in America’s most beautiful state, California. It’s what the cartoon characters who run our dimension call “a hoax.&#.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

I took an unexpected trip in the WABAC Machine last week while I was on vacation with the lovely and talented Debra just outside Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park here in America’s most beautiful state, California. It’s what the cartoon characters who run our dimension call “a hoax.”

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