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

AUGUST 6, 2010

The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. University of California-Irvine , Irvine, Calif.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

LLNL worked with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to produce the atlas of hybrid energy/water Sankey diagrams for each of the states, such as the California estimated energy and water flow chart for 2010 (below). coal, natural gas, geothermal and nuclear) into electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. New pathways can be added to the LCFS Lookup Table in two ways: fuel providers may apply to ARB for new pathways under the regulatory “Method 2” process, and ARB staff may develop new pathways internally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

In a paper in press in the journal Environment International , Ben Machol and Sarah Rizk quantify the economic value of health impacts associated with PM 2.5 When accounting for the adverse health impacts of imported electricity, the California figure increases to $0.03–$0.07/kWh. Click to enlarge. kWh in Maryland. kWh, $0.08–$0.19/kWh,

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

The international geothermal power industry is poised to place between 500 and 1,000 MW on line per year for the rest of the decade, said GEA. GEA member commitments to financing and development stages included MidAmerican’s $1 billion pledge to extend the life of its Salton Sea, California geothermal fields.

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APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2012

The fast thermal processing of the biomass typically produces a large quantity of activated carbon, or bio-char; when the excess process carbon is used for fuel such as a coal substitute, the entire process is carbon neutral and, thus, produces both carbon neutral petrochemical compatible components and a carbon neutral coal substitute.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a cooperative agreement with Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) to build and demonstrate a hydrogen-powered electric generating facility, complete with carbon capture and storage, in Kern County, Calif. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 17, 2023

But the focus is not on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that utilize electricity for propulsion, they’ll be developing internal combustion engines that burn hydrogen in lieu of gasoline — with the assumption benign that they’ll produce fewer carbon dioxide emissions. That seems to be the new trend. But such a breakthrough seems a long way off.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

AI-EES’s Next Generation Energy Storage Technologies initiative is an international competition seeking energy storage technologies with the highest potential for Alberta. with California leading the way due to the incentives offered there, but our project will be the first of its kind in Alberta.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. E&B, along with their counterparts at Chevron, Exxon/Mobil, BP, Shell et al know internally exactly what The Math says. It’s already figured into their companies value and stock price.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The new breeder reactors in China, meanwhile, are demonstration projects, the second step in a three-step program to develop fast breeder reactors to reduce the country’s dependence on coal. If China flipped on old plutonium-processing reactors, the international response would be strong and negative.

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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 reaction is exothermic and steam is generated in the internals of the reactor to produce steam and to remove heat and control the reaction temperature.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 2, 2021

These vehicles, with mostly internal combustion engines, emit smog-causing particles that are 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair and can penetrate deeply into the lungs and bloodstream of those living nearby. It should also be noted that those in poverty have a higher chance of experiencing the ill-effects of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. We know we have to reduce sulfur and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal power plants and vehicles, but now it’s evident we should be thinking about reducing ammonia emissions from vehicles and agriculture too.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among 2016 INCITE award recipients: Martin Berzins of the University of Utah received 351 million core hours to study ultra super critical coal boilers, leading to improved efficiency and new designs for safer next-generation coal boilers.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

While it’s obvious that the internal combustion engine vehicles are polluting the air outside the buses, what you may not know is that numerous studies show that the pollution from the burning diesel regularly makes its way into the buses. View the Case Study How much funding is available for EV charging at school districts?

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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. Solar fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

At this week’s American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Turbo Expo presented by ASME International Gas Turbine Institute, Reaction Design’s Dr. Chitral Naik will present the results of a two-year liquid-fuel model-development program funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Earlier post.).

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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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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 17, 2009

I’m very proud to be a Greenpeace volunteer and supporter and I had a blast last night at the Greenpeace holiday party in Silver Lake with Southern California Field Organizer for Greenpeace, the amazing Jenny Binstock. I’m very excited about our plans for the year ahead.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

It is completely wrong,” Fatih Birol , Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has stated. Analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) argues that EVs are the quickest means to decarbonize motorized transport. This is not to imply in any way that electric vehicles are worthless.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. At that price, California miles are 16 cents each.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

and Alan Lloyd (President of the International Council on Clean Transportation and former Secretary of the California EPA)—includes leading national and international experts from government, industry, academia, and the non-profit sector. Thomas Cackette, California Air Resources Board. Wayne Eckerle, Cummins.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Thanks to a co-operative agreement with the US Department of Energy (DOE), Hydrogen Energy California LLC (HECA) will build a hydrogen powered electric generating facility in Kern County, California, with carbon capture and storage. The Federal cost-share is limited to $308million – just under 11 per cent of the total project costs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2013

A new spatially-explicit life cycle assessment of five different “sun-to-wheels” conversion pathways—ethanol from corn or switchgrass for internal combustion vehicles (ICVs); electricity from corn or switchgrass for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs); and photovoltaic electricity for BEVs—found a strong case for PV BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

times as efficient as the internal combustion engine of the small SUV ICV for highway driving. the other hand, electric transportation also provides a bridge to the use of conventional coal energy for transportation. This is largely due to fact that the small SUV BEV has an electric motor that is 3.1 Campbell et al.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 18, 2008

A study by EPRI , the California Air Resources Board, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and others (5.3MB PDF) concluded that plug-in hybrids produced substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions than either conventional gasoline cars or unplugged hybrids. 2) The U.S. 2) The U.S. Are the batteries ready?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The 400 kilowatt SOFC prototype system represents an important advancement in SOFC technology development and demonstration toward the ultimate goal of deploying SOFCs in highly efficient coal-based central generation systems with carbon capture. The University of California, San Diego. West Virginia University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

An industrial capital expenditure and fuel price adjustment for coal and residual fuel has been applied to reflect risk perception about the use of those fuels relative to natural gas. Updated modeling of LNG export potential, which includes a rudimentary assessment of pricing of natural gas in international markets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

For the test cycle, SwRI modified the California Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Drive Cycle by increasing the portion of high-speed driving to reflect longer average travel distances nationwide; increased speed by 8% to reflect current long-haul operating speeds; and added two segments with positive and negative grade (1% and 3%).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Up to 50% more liquid product per ton of coal. Source: Headwaters.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He’s tried the sugar and honey approach for ten years but instead of catching flies he’s caught hassles and obstructions from local Southern California city officials who haven’t kept up with modern technology and remain both ignorant and adversarial when it comes to helping their citizens go solar. “ Idiots !

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

FCA is used to evaluate the energy and GHG emission impacts of a wide variety of existing and proposed fuels, including fossil options (coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, unconventional petroleum) as well as electricity, gaseous fuels and biofuels from a range of feedstocks.

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