Carbon, Comparison and Energy

ORNL team develops carbon-nanotube-based superlubricity coating

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JUNE 8, 2023

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a coating composed of carbon nanotubes that imparts superlubricity to sliding parts. In comparison, when dry metals slide past each other, the coefficient of friction is around 0.5. Kumara et al. We tried it without oil; it didn’t work.

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Nucor investing in start-up company Electra developing zero-carbon iron technology

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Nucor Corporation, a North American manufacturer of steel and steel products, has made an equity investment in Electra , a Colorado-based start-up developing a process to produce carbon-free iron that can be used to make steel. Electra’s process results in zero carbon dioxide emissions.

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Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

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MARCH 10, 2022

Based on the work, Keliber’s lithium hydroxide will have a smaller carbon footprint than most of the competitors’ products. The ore is extracted and processed at less than 70 kilometers from the lithium chemical plant, where the refining process is energy-efficient. In the comparison, Keliber shows the lowest emission intensity of 4.38

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ArcelorMittal publishes concept for global low-carbon emissions physical steel standard

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JUNE 22, 2022

ArcelorMittal published a concept for a low-carbon emissions steel standard to help incentivize the decarbonization of steelmaking globally and support the creation of market demand for physical steel products which would be classified as lower, and ultimately near-zero, carbon emissions steel. Dual scoring system.

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Standards Carbon Emissions Concept

Researchers use carbon-based anodes with “bumpy” surfaces for Li-ion batteries that last longer in extreme cold

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JUNE 10, 2022

The resulting 12-sided carbon nanospheres had “bumpy” surfaces that demonstrated excellent electrical charge transfer capabilities. The resulting 12-sided carbon nanospheres had bumpy surfaces that demonstrated excellent electrical charge transfer capabilities. —Lu et al.

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Li-ion Carbon Lithium Ion Batteries

Fraunhofer researchers developing ammonia-based systems for mobile energy in infrastructure, transportation and industry

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM are developing ammonia-based systems for a mobile, decentralized energy supply in the infrastructure, transportation and industry sectors. However, it is also a high-quality energy carrier, particularly as a storage medium for hydrogen.

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Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

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MARCH 3, 2022

European Energy , a Danish developer and operator of green energy projects, has ordered a 50 MW electrolyzer from Siemens Energy for use in developing the first large-scale commercial e-Methanol production facility. —Knud Erik Andersen, CEO of European Energy.

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MTU carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cell (CSSFC) delivers enhanced power density at lower operating temperatures

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APRIL 9, 2023

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) offer high energy efficiency and fuel flexibility, but require high operating temperatures. low-temperature SOFCs (LT-SOFCs) with hydrocarbon fuels suffer from polarization losses caused by temperature drop and carbon deposition (coking). S⋅cm −1 at 550 °C. —Su et al.

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Carbon Fuel Power Powered

ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

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MAY 30, 2020

The program is designed to support early stage, transformative energy technologies. Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Oceanwater (DOC); $2.0 Direct Removal of Carbon Dioxide from Ambient Air (DAC); $2.0 In comparison to removal of CO 2 from point sources, DAC has the advantage of being location-independent.

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Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

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JUNE 23, 2023

Major ridesourcing companies Uber and Lyft have promised all-electric fleets by 2030 in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint. Overall, electrification reduces net external costs to society by 3–11% (5–24¢ per trip), depending on the assumed social cost of carbon. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. —Mohan et al.

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Fleet All-Electric Carbon Emissions

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

In February 2022, GTI Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) launched the Open Hydrogen Initiative (OHI), a collaboration to further transparency into the environmental impact of hydrogen production and help unlock its full potential as an important driver of energy transitions.

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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Energy Fuels Inc. Energy Fuels expects to process this monazite at its 100%-owned White Mesa Mill starting in Q1-2021, recover the contained uranium, and produce a marketable mixed REE carbonate, representing an important step toward re-establishing a fully-integrated US REE supply chain. —Mark S.

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Utah Commercial Energy Fuel

Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. and China account for more than half of all carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

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MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. We think biology plays a significant role in creating a sustainable energy infrastructure. —Farshid Salimijazi, first author.

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Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

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AUGUST 13, 2021

“Blue” hydrogen—produced through steam methane reforming (SMR) of natural gas or coal gasification, but with CO 2 capture and storage—is being described as having low or zero carbon emissions. The open access paper by Cornell’s Robert Howarth and Stanford’s Mark Jacobson is published in the journal Energy Science and Engineering.

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Hydrogen Gas Coal Exhaust

National labs team delivers techno-economic analyses of H2 DRI scenarios for green steel

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AUGUST 22, 2023

Hydrogen-based direct reduced iron (H 2 -DRI) is an alternative pathway for low-carbon steel production. To enable this comparison, a detailed techno-economic analysis, supported by rigorous process modelling, is conducted. … doi: 10.1039/D3EE01077E

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Green Hydrogen Gas-Electric Gas

SGL Carbon produces prototypes of fully integrated composite battery enclosures for NIO; battery swapping

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MAY 14, 2019

In collaboration with SGL Carbon, Chinese automotive manufacturer NIO has developed prototypes for battery enclosures made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) for its NIO high performance electric vehicles. In comparison, the CFRP battery enclosure is around 40 percent lighter.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Batteries Battery

Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra has raised $85 million to produce Low-Temperature Iron (LTI) from commercial and low-grade ores using zero-carbon intermittent electricity. Electra’s process emits zero carbon dioxide emissions and carries zero green premium, meaning it will cost the same or less than existing production methods powered by fossil fuels.

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Coal Boston Carbon Green

Proposed CA LCFS pathways for corn starch ethanol with carbon capture and sequestration: as low as 37 gCO2e/MJ

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

North Dakota-based Red Trail Energy (RTE), which since 2007 has operated an ethanol production facility with annual production of about 60 million gallons per year, is proposing sequestration of CO 2 produced from starch fermentation to lower the overall carbon intensity of the fuel for the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS).

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Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Blastr has entered into a Letter of Intent with Nordic energy company Fortum that provides Blastr exclusive rights to utilize the existing industrial site located in Joddböle, Inkoo in Finland, 55 km west of Helsinki. With the green steel produced in Inkoo, we aim to reduce carbon emissions by 4.6 Inkoo power plant.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

A team at Imperial College London has examined the relative costs of carbon mitigation from a lifecycle perspective for 12 different hydrogen production techniques using fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable sources. An open-access paper on their work is published the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Resources.

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Cost Of Carbon Production Hydrogen

ARPA-E to award up to $44M to develop net-zero or net negative processes to grow minerals supply chain: MINER

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $44 million in funding ( DE-FOA-0002707 ) to support projects developing commercial-ready technologies that give the United States a net-zero or net negative emissions pathway toward increased domestic supplies of critical elements required for the transition to clean energy.

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DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Given the nature of wet waste resources that requires dedicated waste management practices to collect, store, treat, and dispose of the waste, shifting the waste resources from going through conventional waste management practices to utilization as feedstocks for energy production may represent an avoided cost of waste management and disposal.

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Waste Diesel Renewable Convert

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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Toshiba researchers use TiNb2O7 anodes for high-energy, fast-charging, long-life Li-ion batteries for EVs

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JULY 6, 2018

A team at Toshiba’s Corporate Research & Development Center in Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a high-density TiNb 2 O 7 (HD-TNO) composite electrode consisting of micro-size spherical TNO secondary particles coated with carbon. These cells had a high energy density of 350 Wh L -1 , a high input-power density of 10 kW L ?1

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Li-ion Lithium Ion Energy Charging

Goodyear unveils 90% sustainable-material demonstration tire, approved for road use

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JANUARY 6, 2023

Lower rolling resistance means this demonstration tire has the potential to offer better fuel savings and carbon footprint reduction. These carbon black technologies target reduced carbon emissions, circularity and the use of bio-based carbons, while still delivering on performance.

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Oil Carbon Polymer Renewable

Carbon Trust awards £2M to ACAL Energy and ITM Power to support major reduction in cost of automotive fuel cell systems

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

The UK’s Carbon Trust recently awarded £1.95 million) to two UK fuel cell companies—ACAL Energy and ITM Power—to help deliver a step change reduction in the cost of the technology to about $35/kW. As a result, the Carbon Trust is investing £1.1 As a result, the Carbon Trust is investing £1.1 ACAL Energy.

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Ricardo to host conference on energy generation and management in low carbon vehicles

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Ricardo will host a conference on the challenges and potential solutions for auxiliary power units (APUs), waste energy recovery, and parasitic loss reduction in electric and other low carbon vehicles. The conference will conclude with a comparison of range extended electric vehicles to other low carbon powertrain architectures.

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U Delaware team demonstrates efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for vehicles

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AUGUST 25, 2019

The researchers started by analyzing the economics of hydrogen-, nitrogen-, and carbon-based fuels made by carbon-neutral pathways in a post-fossil world in which only water, air, and renewable electricity are available for fuel synthesis. They found that ammonia has the lowest source-to-tank energy cost by a significant margin.

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Delaware Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles

Stanford team develops new ultrahigh surface area 3D porous graphitic carbon material for improved energy storage

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1.

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NREL develops novel method to produce renewable acrylonitrile; carbon fibers from renewable biomass

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have devised a novel catalytic method to produce renewable acrylonitrile (ACN) using 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP), which can be biologically produced from sugars. Conceptual process diagram for renewable ACN production from biomass sugars.

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Carbon Fiber Renewable Carbon Eaton

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Then the energy is extracted from the CO 2 in a turbine.

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Grid Power Powered CO2

UC Riverside study finds emissions benefits for E15 blend in California

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JUNE 12, 2023

Total hydrocarbons (THC), non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and carbon monoxide (CO) showed either marginally or statistically significant reductions for E15. Although no strong differences were found for carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions, E15 showed lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings when compared to E10. Durbin, Kent C.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Group) will invest a total of US$45.5 Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel

Review of co-processing of biocrudes in oil refineries

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JANUARY 1, 2023

In an open-access paper in the journal Energy & Fuels, a team from VTT Technical Research Center of Finland, with colleagues from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Ghent University, provides an overview of co-processing options for such bio-liquids. The biocrude is more viscous but less dense than FPBO. 2c04238.

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Oil Fuel Water Finland

Responsible Battery Coalition and U Michigan launch study to compare electric and gas vehicle lifetime costs

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Our research partnership with RBC will enable us to conduct a more in-depth analysis of EV costs in comparison with internal combustion engine vehicles by considering vehicle type, user behavior, and where the vehicle is purchased and operated. Refueling patterns based on driver time valuation. Anticipated driving patterns.

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Michigan Gas-Electric Gas Batteries

Hydrogen Council report finds cost of hydrogen solutions to fall sooner than previously expected

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JANUARY 22, 2020

As scale-up of production, distribution and equipment manufacturing continues, cost is projected to decrease by up to 50% by 2030 for a wide range of applications, making hydrogen financially competitive with other low-carbon alternatives and, in some cases, even conventional options.

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Hydrogen Cost Of Renewable Japan

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

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JULY 21, 2021

In addition to its regional and temporal scope, this study is distinct from earlier LCA literature in four key aspects: This study considers the lifetime average carbon intensity of the fuel and electricity mixes, including biofuels and biogas. Source: The ICCT.

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Hydrogen Fuel Batteries Battery

Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

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AUGUST 15, 2021

The built environment is a big contributor to carbon emissions, global energy demand, resource consumption and waste generation. In the US, it accounts for 39% of all greenhouse gases emissions, while in the European Union, it accounts for 50% of all extracted materials and 42% of the final energy consumption.

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Honda to advance fuel cell system as core of its hydrogen business; expansion to other areas; new FCEV in 2024

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Honda said that it will take a proactive approach to increase the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and strive to expand its hydrogen business, in addition to continuing to electrify its products. Honda held a press briefing in Tokyo on its hydrogen business initiatives.

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Honda Hydrogen Fuel North America

New inventory of black carbon emissions from China finds 2007 levels higher than previously reported

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JULY 8, 2012

A new black carbon (BC) emissions inventory from China found BC emissions levels in 2007 of 1,957 Gg BC—higher than reported in earlier studies. Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Credit: ACS, Wang et al.

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2007 Carbon China Emissions

Waterloo researchers use MgB2 as Li-S battery cathode host to improve performance

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, despite their high theoretical specific energy, face practical challenges including polysulfide shuttling and low cell-level energy density. The surface-mediated polysulfide redox behavior results in a much higher exchange current in comparison with MgO and carbon. 2018.09.024.

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Lithium Sulfur Li-ion Batteries Battery

Metallic glass to improve performance of methanol fuel cells

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

Thin films of palladium-based metallic glass, with gold and silicon additives (Pd 79 Au 9 Si 12 ) are prospective materials for the production of energy generation catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells. Our results considerably broaden the area of search for new materials for the energy sector. Metallic glass, microscopic image.

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ORNL team develops carbon-nanotube-based superlubricity coating

Nucor investing in start-up company Electra developing zero-carbon iron technology

Keliber says studies show its lithium hydroxide will have smaller carbon footprint than most of the competition

ArcelorMittal publishes concept for global low-carbon emissions physical steel standard

Researchers use carbon-based anodes with “bumpy” surfaces for Li-ion batteries that last longer in extreme cold

Fraunhofer researchers developing ammonia-based systems for mobile energy in infrastructure, transportation and industry

Siemens Energy secures 50 MW electrolyzer order from European Energy for first large-scale eMethanol project

MTU carbonate-superstructured solid fuel cell (CSSFC) delivers enhanced power density at lower operating temperatures

ARPA-E adds five new funding topics to FOA to advance critical energy innovation

Study finds all-electric rideshare fleet could reduce carbon emissions, but increase traffic issues

Cohort of new stakeholders joins Open Hydrogen Initiative

Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

Study finds total greenhouse gas footprint of blue hydrogen “quite high” due to fugitive methane

National labs team delivers techno-economic analyses of H2 DRI scenarios for green steel

SGL Carbon produces prototypes of fully integrated composite battery enclosures for NIO; battery swapping

Electra raises $85M to advance Low-Temperature Iron process; electrochemical refining at 60?C

Proposed CA LCFS pathways for corn starch ethanol with carbon capture and sequestration: as low as 37 gCO2e/MJ

Norwegian startup Blastr plans €4B green steel plant in Finland

ICL team assesses relative costs of carbon mitigation for 12 H2 production paths; trade-off between cost and level of decarbonization

ARPA-E to award up to $44M to develop net-zero or net negative processes to grow minerals supply chain: MINER

DOE researchers investigate economic and environmental impacts of converting wet waste to renewable diesel

Study finds GHG emissions from corn ethanol now 46% lower than gasoline

Toshiba researchers use TiNb2O7 anodes for high-energy, fast-charging, long-life Li-ion batteries for EVs

Goodyear unveils 90% sustainable-material demonstration tire, approved for road use

Carbon Trust awards £2M to ACAL Energy and ITM Power to support major reduction in cost of automotive fuel cell systems

Ricardo to host conference on energy generation and management in low carbon vehicles

U Delaware team demonstrates efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for vehicles

Stanford team develops new ultrahigh surface area 3D porous graphitic carbon material for improved energy storage

NREL develops novel method to produce renewable acrylonitrile; carbon fibers from renewable biomass

Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

UC Riverside study finds emissions benefits for E15 blend in California

Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

Review of co-processing of biocrudes in oil refineries

Responsible Battery Coalition and U Michigan launch study to compare electric and gas vehicle lifetime costs

Hydrogen Council report finds cost of hydrogen solutions to fall sooner than previously expected

ICCT LCA study finds only battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs have potential to be very low-GHG passenger vehicle pathways

Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

Honda to advance fuel cell system as core of its hydrogen business; expansion to other areas; new FCEV in 2024

New inventory of black carbon emissions from China finds 2007 levels higher than previously reported

Waterloo researchers use MgB2 as Li-S battery cathode host to improve performance

Metallic glass to improve performance of methanol fuel cells

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