Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have demonstrated a room-temperature method that could significantly reduce carbon dioxide levels in fossil-fuel power plant exhaust, one of the main sources of carbon emissions in the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Rhodium Group, an independent research provider, estimates that, after a sharp uptick in 2018, US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 2.1% An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. Coal-driven decline.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced earlier this year, was highly competitive and resulted in awarding $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts Ultimately, this might enable a closed-loop, emissions free CO 2 -to-fuel process. volts to –0.5?volts

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2019

Scientists from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have taken the first images of carbon dioxide molecules within a molecular cage—part of a metal-organic framework (MOF), with great potential for separating and storing gases and liquids. The MOF they studied is called ZIF-8.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

A multi-institution team of researchers has developed a novel class of materials that enable a safer, cheaper, and more energy-efficient process for removing greenhouse gas from power plant emissions. They have significant performance advantages over the carbon-absorbing materials used in current CCS technology. —Vericella et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers. Business as usual.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 19, 2024

continued] The post Dirt Cheap Batteries Enable Megawatt-Scale Charging Without Big Grid Upgrades Right Away appeared first on CleanTechnica. We’re seeing commercial, scaled, price points that we didn’t expect to see until 2030 or later. That has big implications for electric trucking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Without a bold change of policy direction, the IEA warned at the launch, the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. China’s per-capita emissions match the OECD average in 2035. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Syngip is a third-generation industrial biotech start-up created in 2014 in the Netherlands that has developed a process to convert gaseous carbon sources such as CO 2 , CO, and industrial emissions such as syngas, into various valuable chemical compounds.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

million (US$19 million) in research funding for 28 projects in four key areas of sustainable development: Carbon Capture and Utilization; BioEnergy and BioFuels; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Materials. Carbon Capture and Utilization. Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) has awarded S$27.5

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 2, 2007

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. Zero Emission Vehicles don't pay bridge tolls during commute hours in California, so I saved about $5 each way zipping past the toll collectors.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

At the same time, per capita emissions in the state decreased by 12%. On an absolute basis, California’s total GHG emissions fell only slightly in 2015, down 0.34% from 2014. California has experienced tremendous success implementing policies that incentivize innovation in business, technology and carbon reduction.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Steel production could be made with almost no carbon emissions through $278 billion of extra investment by 2050, according to a new report from research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). Hydrogen and recycling are likely to play a central role in reducing emissions from steel production. Source: BloombergNEF. BAU is business-as-usual.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The growing momentum pushing a rapid transition to zero-emission vehicles, combined with a genuine need for range comparable to diesel powertrains and quick refueling, means massive automotive players like Toyota, Hyundai, GM, and Daimler are continuing to pump millions into improving fuel cell system technology and bringing down costs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Our biofuel is important for mitigating CO 2 emissions because it is derived from biomass and it has higher density (or volumetric heat values) compared with conventional aviation fuels. This resulted in a 71% isolated carbon yield—a 5% increase from the product yield in their initial work.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2022

It suggests that the economics will be as cheap as cars, but a lot faster, and time has value. . There was a real knee in the curve at 40% that led to much even more value for smaller aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

It keeps claiming hydrogen buses have been a success and are cheap, but cities keep canceling their plans for them as. continued] The post Canada’s Hydrogen Bus Trials Canceled Due To High Costs & Emissions appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Both regions will benefit from rapidly expanding biofuels markets, ample land and water resources, and cheap labor, Pike suggests. Latin America and Asia Pacific, which are home to fewer projects in operation today, are set to gain significant market share in the long run. the Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2019

The Dapozol MEA is optimized for operating temperatures of 120-200°C, high carbon monoxide concentrations and no requirements for humidification. The methanol fuel cell system has zero in-use emissions of criteria pollutants, thereby providing a solution to the problems with air pollution that cities around the world are currently facing.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2017

Natural gas vehicles were first promoted starting in about 2000 as a way to reduce reliance on imported oil and cut tailpipe emissions. The domestic fuel promised to cut carbon-dioxide.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 14, 2025

Gasoline-only variants have been eliminated to make room for more hybrids, which Toyota believes will help it adhere to increasingly strict emissions regulations. However, that market already saw the current E210 Corolla go hybrid only in 2022 to better comply with regional emission laws. liter M20A-FKS if desired.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

The arrival of cheap battery storage will mean that it becomes increasingly possible to finesse the delivery of electricity from wind and solar, so that these technologies can help meet demand even when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. trillion to other zero-carbon technologies such as hydro and nuclear.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2023

The world is undergoing an energy transition to reduce CO 2 emissions and mitigate climate change. The oxygen could be used to increase the efficiency of power generation with oxy-combustion and to facilitate the capture, use, and storage of carbon (CCUS). The hydrogen is liquefied where electricity is cheap. Montanari, P.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The current proposals by developed countries on the table for the upcoming climate negotiations in Copenhagen to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions do not yet suffice to limit global warming to a rise of 2 °C (based on a long-term 450 ppm concentration of GHG), according to a new report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

In recent years, all six Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain—have begun to challenge the notion that citizens are entitled to cheap energy. Policymakers hope higher energy prices can produce a number of helpful effects, the authors said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2020

Burning increases carbon emissions and dispersants are terribly harmful for marine wildlife. The key is a nanocomposite coating of magnetic nanostructures and a carbon-based substrate that is oleophilic (attracts oil), hydrophobic (resists water), and magnetic. Skimmers don’t work in rough waters or with thin layers of oil.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In a perfect world, cheap green hydrogen would slash carbon and methane emissions. We don't live in a perfect world quite yet.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Addressing the worldwide problems of escalating energy demand and rising CO 2 emissions will require an increase in the use of carbon-neutral, sustainable energy sources. A burgeoning effort by chemists studying many areas of catalysis has focused on ‘cheap metals for noble tasks’. 1 and low overpotentials of 160–220 mV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Calculated over the whole fuel chain, from production to use on roads, the new technology could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 80% in the long term compared to traditional diesel operation, if biogas and 100% biodiesel are used, Volvo says. Methane gas is currently a relatively cheap fuel in many markets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Robert Dorner. Scott Shaw. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Data centers use so much concrete that the construction boom is wrecking tech giants’ commitments to eliminate their carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The production of 5 million metric tons of green ammonia produced per year would eliminate 13 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the equivalent of taking 9 million gasoline-fueled cars off the road. At 5GW, this would be the largest electrolyzer reservation of any type. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

This technology has the best chance of actually reducing carbon emissions while producing cheap fuel in the process. Algenol has recently commenced initial operations of a pilot commercial module at its Florida development campus, which builds on the successful launch of a demonstration project in India.

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