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JUNE 25, 2011

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech has modified the surface of conventional anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable operation at lower temperatures (750 °C) with carbon-containing gases—e.g., gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. note in their paper.

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Methanol in China.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Volvo Cars is the first car maker to sign up to the SteelZero initiative , which aims to increase demand for fossil-free steel and accelerate a transition to carbon neutrality in the global steel industry. Low embodied carbon steel, with a defined specific emissions intensity which takes into account the proportion of end of life scrap.

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JUNE 8, 2023

In the new process, the supplier uses hydrogen and electricity from 100% renewable energy sources instead of coking coal in steel production. Unlike the use of coking coal, this does not produce CO₂, but water vapor. The hydrogen serves as a reduction gas, which releases and binds the oxygen from the iron ore.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

After a project with an annual output of 50,000 tons of lithium hydroxide is put into operation, the total designed capacity of battery-grade lithium hydroxide in the plant will reach 81,000 tons; it can also produce 15,000 tons of lithium carbonate, 12,000 tons of lithium chloride and other compound products each year.

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MARCH 20, 2013

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has taken steps to transition out of the use of coal-fired electricity earlier than mandated by California state law. LADWP currently owns a 21% interest in the 2250 megawatt (MW) Navajo Generating Station, receiving 477 MW of coal-fired power from the plant.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

First, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress and also issued the targets for 2010. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). President Obama.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. New energy efficiency standards. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For FY 2014, the Hydrogen Production sub-program continued to focus on developing technologies to enable the long-term viability of hydrogen as an energy carrier for a range of applications with a focus on hydrogen from low-carbon and renewable sources.

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JUNE 2, 2009

The US Department of Energy has issued up to a $5-million Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000103) to solicit laboratory-level R&D projects to develop novel technologies for producing hydrogen from coal. Standard conditions are 150 psia hydrogen feed pressure and 50 psia hydrogen sweep pressure. CO tolerance. WGS activity.

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MAY 12, 2020

The GWP improvement was calculated using industry-standard software that examines multiple factors associated with a vehicle’s design, production and on-road performance. tons of coal burned in a power-generation plant. Among the highlights, FCA cut its water use by nearly 40%, compared with 2010. CO 2 e output from 7.7

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected eight projects to receive almost $25 million in funding to construct small- and large-scale pilots for reducing the cost of CO 2 capture and compression through DOE’s Carbon Capture Program. FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding up to $80 million for a six-year project to design, build, and operate a 10-MWe (megawatts electrical) supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO 2 ) pilot plant test facility in San Antonio, TX. Low cooling water consumption. Drawing of sCO 2 plant. Click to enlarge. Higher plant efficiency.

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JULY 20, 2014

The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) anticipates two awards being made: the first for $7 million in the area of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and fossil-fuel-based Clean Energy Systems (CES); the second for $2 million in the area of international oil and natural gas. Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Energy Systems.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 12 projects to receive funding through its Crosscutting Research Program’s Transitional Technology Development to Enable Highly Efficient Power Systems with Carbon Management initiative. Transitional Technology Development Awards. Lead organization.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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JULY 2, 2013

BASF, the Linde Group and ThyssenKrupp plan to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive basis for utilizing carbon dioxide as a raw material on an industrial scale. In the first step, an novel high-temperature technology will process natural gas to obtain hydrogen and carbon.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

the developer of a process for harvesting algae and cleaning up oil & gas water, announced that its second original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) agreement will target oil service companies in the Canadian oil sands market. OriginOil, Inc., LH was an early private investor in Athabasca Oil Corporation.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. Despite the growth in low-carbon sources of energy, fossil fuels remain dominant in the global energy mix, supported. Energy demand. Renewables. Energy efficiency.

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JULY 19, 2011

impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. emissions capture and storage, new emissions controls regulations, and increasing capital costs.

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JULY 11, 2013

Renault’s comparison of the carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles over production, operation and end of life. Emission standard. water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) The EV footprint (Fluence Z.E.) is shown with both UK and French grid mixes.

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APRIL 1, 2019

According to an independent study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), more than 674 million Indian citizens are likely to breathe air with high concentrations of PM 2.5

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

This approach maintains standardization for manufacture while minimizing development and design time when scaling up, the company said. The EU Fuel Quality Directive states that fuels in Europe must reduce their carbon emissions by 6% by 2020. The modular design of ITM Power’s electrolyzer systems enables scale-up. t CO 2 (US$13.27/t

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JUNE 10, 2011

Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. ” The MIT report said that natural gas should be seen as a “ bridge ” to a low-carbon regime, rather than as the ultimate long-term solution itself.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

Right now, 5-nm chips are the standard. FASER won’t attempt to detect the particles directly; instead, it will search for the more strongly interacting Standard Model particles created when dark matter interacts with something else. Carbon-Neutral Cryptocurrency? a cryptocurrency for carbon removal.

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JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. In addition, global carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis system uses proprietary technology to convert a variety of methane-containing feedstocks—biogas, natural gas (including stranded gas and flare gas), coal bed methane, and landfill gas—into AA grade methanol that meets ASTM D1152 specifications. —Jeff Harrison, Maverick’s Chief Engineering Officer.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The AP1000 is a 1,117 to 1,154 MWe pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant that is an extension of the older AP600 design. (It It is considered a Generation III Advanced Light Water Reactor.) That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Governments and the industry itself are starting to worry what this expansion might mean for chip-making’s carbon footprint and its sustainability generally. Moore: So let’s start with, just how big is the carbon footprint of the semiconductor industry? For instance, the extraction of coal for electricity production.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Currently, China produces most of its methanol from coal.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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DECEMBER 15, 2013

Driven by increasing population, urbanization and rising living standards, the world will require some 35% more energy in 2040, according to ExxonMobil’s annual forecast report: Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040. Market forces and emerging public policies will continue to have an impact on energy-related carbon dioxide emissions.

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MARCH 13, 2016

Additionally, vehicle freight efficiency improvement must be achieved within the constraint of prevailing federal emission standards and applicable vehicle safety and regulatory requirements. Energy and Water. Building Energy Efficiency. Clean Vehicles.

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MARCH 31, 2014

In terms of carbon monoxide (CO) emissions during the operation of the vehicle, a significant improvement was achieved over the 2007 predecessor. The CO emissions of the new C-Class during operation are 76 % below the level stipulated by the Euro 6 standard that comes into effect in 2015. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 30, 2011

He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.

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