Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Proceeds will be used to advance the development of commercial-scale applications to decarbonize ammonia production and unlock its potential as a zero-carbon energy carrier.

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APRIL 16, 2024

The hybrid electric box truck they’ve come up with is carbon neutral. And in the aftermath of a natural disaster like a tornado or wildfire, the vehicle, called H2Rescue , can supply electric power and potable water to survivors while acting as a temperature-controlled command center for rescue personnel. A consortium of U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

RECLAIM: Electrochemical Lithium and Nickel Extraction with Concurrent Carbon Dioxide Mineralization ($2,999,997). First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

The project is expected to generate renewable electricity that would annually offset greenhouse emissions of about 83,000 cars (384,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent). The authorized solar facilities include 34.5 kilovolt overhead and underground collector lines; a 2-acre (0.8-hectare) Map of the approved project alternative.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

Decadal warming rates arising from (i) greenhouse gases and aerosols alone (black); (ii) that obtained including the stratospheric water decline after 2000 (red); and (iii) including both the stratospheric water vapor decline after 2000 and the increase in the 1980s and 1990s (cyan). Stratospheric water vapor and radiative processes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Advanced Water Splitting Materials. 19 projects will leverage the HydroGEN Consortium to accelerate the development of advanced water-splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. Advanced Water Splitting Materials.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We are not trying to treat the entire hydrocarbon [oil] content in the water—to turn it into carbon dioxide and water—but we are converting it into a form that can be retained by sand filtration, which is a conventional and economical process. Water from mining of oil sands and oil shale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

The projects selected include: Producing Algae and Co-Products for Energy (PACE), Colorado School of Mines. Colorado School of Mines, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Reliance Industries Ltd., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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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. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Water will be the primary byproduct.

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Green Car Congress

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. The Regents of the University of Colorado. Lead organization.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I live in Manitoba , a province of Canada where all but a tiny fraction of electricity is generated from the potential energy of water. The United States got the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado, and the dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Construction of large dams began before World War II.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

And hence, while electric vehicles themselves produce zero carbon emissions, charging them increases the amount of electricity generated from fossil fuel energy sources such as coal. But except for the state of Colorado, the other 11 states accounted for from 0% to 1.7% And so “EVs are bad.” of US EV sales in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

However, previous research has found that chemical reactions of the conventional carbonate electrolyte created a barrier on the surface of magnesium that prevented the battery from recharging. The artificial interphase enables the reversible cycling of a Mg/V 2 O 5 full-cell in the water-containing, carbonate-based electrolyte.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

The new institute pairs leading carbon fiber producers and suppliers—such as Materials Innovation Technologies, Harper International, and Strongwell—with key end users such as TPI for wind turbines and Ford, Honda and Volkswagen for automobiles. Adherent Technologies, Inc.; Honda R&D Americas, Inc.; TPI Composites, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

The process also can help reduce greenhouse gases because the biomass that is used in fuel gets combusted into carbon dioxide, which is food for future biomass. The result is that 90% of carbon emissions get recycled into new biomass. The particles in the solution are approximately one micron in diameter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

As areas with permafrost thaw and more old carbon is released, the carbon balance changes. Permafrost thaw will make potentially significant contributions to atmospheric concentrations of carbon more rapidly that previously thought, according to a new study published in the 28 May issue of the journal Nature. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

JILA a partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. The reaction combines the hydroxyl molecule (OH, produced by reaction of oxygen and water) and carbon monoxide (CO, a byproduct of incomplete fossil fuel combustion) to form hydrogen (H) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

The team will build on ORNL’s success in developing low-cost carbon-fibers, composites, smart polymer materials, and non-destructive evaluation methods by leveraging expertise of partners on coating deposition and robotic inspection tools for smart repair of gas pipes. University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Green Car Congress

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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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

switched to a heat pump, home energy use would drop by 31 to 47 percent on average, and national carbon dioxide emissions would fall by 5 to 9 percent, depending on how much electricity is provided by renewable energy. The study found that if every heated home in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and NASA recently launched the first test rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprising nanoscale aluminum powder and water ice (ALICE). It consists of an all-carbon-fiber, minimum-diameter high-power rocketry kit. Credit: Dr. Steven F.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The proposed MOC will use a hydrothermally stable formulation to promote high conversion efficiencies in low-temperature and high-water concentration environments.(Selection Colorado State University will develop technology to reduce methane emissions from lean-burn natural gas engines by reducing methane ventilation through the crankcase.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

The findings suggest that in addition to carbon dioxide, there are other compounds in need of attention and regulation. To make clouds, you need water to nucleate or freeze.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

a provider of carbonate direct fuel cell power plants, has acquired the remaining shares of Versa Power Systems, Inc. Versa), a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developer with research facilities in Littleton, Colorado, USA and Calgary, Canada. FuelCell Energy, Inc., Prior to this action, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A main component to help the algae grow will be carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion. For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. Carbon2Algae (C2A). Dr. O’Leary.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. In addition, carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events, because significant volumes of fluids are injected underground over long periods of time.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

At last month’s World Renewable Energy Forum 2012 in Denver, Colorado, researchers from the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory presented papers on two different approaches to upgrade pyrolysis oils to hydrocarbon fuels or fuel intermediates. Woody biomass gave up to 36% carbon conversion to pure hydrocarbons at optimum conditions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The results depend most sensitively on the grade of shale used, and the rate of carbonate mineral decomposition which causes inorganic CO 2 release, reports Brandt in a paper published online 25 August in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. The high temperatures can cause carbonate minerals within the shale to decompose. Credit: ACS.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. Tritium recovery is achieved by outgassing the recovered carbon pebbles. Colorado School of Mines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Most climate models have suggested that evapotranspiration, which is the movement of water from the land to the atmosphere, would increase with global warming because of increased evaporation of water from the ocean and more precipitation overall. Data indeed show that some areas are wetter than they used to be. —Jung et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2012

The DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), at its Colorado pilot-scale biochemical conversion facility, converted the biomass from Ceres’ hybrids into cellulosic sugars, which Amyris subsequently fermented into renewable farnesene. The inedible plant fibers of the sweet sorghum provided an additional source of cellulosic sugars.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, albeit a distant second. Observations from satellites and ground sites suggest that biomass burning—the burning of plant and other organic material that releases carbon dioxide and methane—contributed about 20% of the total methane released into the atmosphere in 2007.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

EOR, which involves using carbon dioxide, other gas, steam or chemical injection to release “stranded” or hard-to-recover oil, is currently providing about 13% of total US production. These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Colorado School of Mines — Hydrate Modeling & Flow Loop Experiments for Water Continuous & Dispersed Systems. Deepflex — Qualification of Flexible Fiber Reinforced Pipe for 10,000-Foot Water Depths. GE Global Research — Qualification of Flexible Fiber Reinforced Pipe for 10,000-Foot Water Depths.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

The Creative Greenius says you can now expect a bold United States policy on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a rapid shift away from carbon-based fuels to renewables and a science-based approach to water policy and other critical resources. The drought is causing the city to push water conservation and discuss possible penalties.

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