Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% Gas production globally grew by 3.1%; the US recorded 7.7% The EU’s decline in gas production was the highest on record (-11.4%).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. billion in private capital cost share as part of the third round of the Department’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). Southern Company Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

(NRG) for the Parish Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture and Sequestration Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. The technology would apply to many additional coal-based electric power plants in the United States and throughout the world.

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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. Others are sugarcane molasses ethanol from Guatemala; mixed feedstock to biodiesel from Texas; and a new ARB-staff-developed pathway for North American landfill gas. Earlier post.) g CO 2 e/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2011

American Electric Power is terminating its cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy and placing its plans to advance carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to commercial scale on hold, citing the current uncertain status of US climate policy and the continued weak economy as contributors to the decision.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis. million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. Shell is also working to use natural gas as a fuel in its own operations. The new Mountains scenario: gas as the energy backbone.

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North America Transportation America Building 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. —Ren et al.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change. This was plain wrong.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted six new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathway applications to the LCFS public comment web site: corn ethanol; molasses ethanol (from Brazil); palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD) to biodiesel; and landfill gas to LNG, L-CNG, and CNG. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) gCO 2 e/MJ.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?” clean-tech legislation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Exelon Corporation intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a non-profit organization developing an advanced low-emissions coal demonstration facility to be located in Mattoon, Ill. The plant will be designed to capture carbon emitted by its operation and store it underground. It distributes electricity to approximately 5.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected six projects for funding that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. The project team plans to process CO 2 -laden flue gas from a Capital Aggregates, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Sales of battery-powered electric vehicles are 65% lower in the AEO2013 Reference case than the year before, with annual sales in 2035 estimated to be about 119,000. Reductions in battery electric vehicles are offset by increased sales of hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which grow to about 1.3 million, or less than one-half the 2.9

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, they’ll add equipment to spray tiny aerosol particles of calcium carbonate, the compound found in limestone, blackboard chalk, and Tums antacids. Keith is also the founder of Carbon Engineering, a Canadian firm building a sprawling facility in West Texas that will pull carbon dioxide directly from the air.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The combined company will be the largest owner and operator of natural gas pipelines and storage assets in North America with approximately 67,000 miles of natural gas transportation pipelines. million barrels per day of gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, natural gas liquids and crude oil through more than 8,000 miles of pipelines.

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El Paso North America Gas Purchase 225

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. Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX).

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Synthesize new molecular catalysts and light absorbers and integrate them into nanoscale architectures for improved generation of fuels and electricity from sunlight.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped or transported pretty much anywhere, using mostly existing infrastructure. It could power trucks, cars, planes, and ships and generate electricity, either in fuel cells or combustion turbines.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Their systems approach leads to synergies that have the potential to dramatically reduce corn ethanol’s carbon footprint. In addition to providing the heat for system processes, the CHP generator will provide 7.5MW of green electricity. There has been activity with biomass electrical power generation in the past several months.

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APRIL 13, 2023

What do people say about electric cars ? We have collected a few best quotes about electric vehicles. A collection of electric car quotes is presented here in this post. Read the following electric vehicle one-liners and share with your friends if you find them interesting! It’s about buying a better car.”

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EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

ISO 15118 is an un-intuitive name for something that seems unbelievably simple: a set of protocols that allows an electric vehicle to communicate with charging infrastructure (like a charging station) so that all you need to do to charge your vehicle is plug it into a compatible port. is also the second-biggest carbon emitter in the world.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. The World's First Clean Motocross Race On Electric. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for.

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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. carbon sequestration (capture and storage, i.e.).

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