Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will soon begin using renewable natural gas for the first time at the 25 utility-owned natural gas vehicle fueling stations across its service territory, as well as at six fueling stations in the San Diego area. into SoCalGas pipelines. into SoCalGas pipelines.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2015

A new study by Energy Environmental Economics (E3) consulting suggests that low-carbon gas fuels are a viable option for meeting California’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals and can simultaneously help achieve pollution emission reduction targets. —Rodger Schwecke, vice president of customer solutions for SoCalGas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

It will also examine how regenerative fuels affect the pollutant emissions of the existing fleet and the function of vehicles and individual components. In order to achieve the given climate goals, we need an intelligent mix of different alternative drives. The Energy Lab 2.0,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power.

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Russia Power Powered Emissions 458

Green Car Congress

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. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase 268

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The shipping industry has been trying to cut its carbon emissions for years, and with little to show for it. Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 144

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

For the last 18 months, a fleet of 6 methanol-fueled versions of the Geely Emgrand 7 cars have been in Iceland. The methanol fleet test is a collaboration between Geely, CRI and Brimborg, a local dealership and automotive service provider. Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

The researchers say that their findings, recently published in an open-access paper in the journal Science Advances , are key to understanding how the universe evolved with the growth of carbon compounds. Kaiser (2021) “Gas-phase synthesis of benzene via the propargyl radical self-reaction” Science Advances doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf0360.

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Cleaner Insight Engine Hawaii 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. Then add carbon. Finally, combine CO? Climate neutrality.

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Renewable Climate Fuel Gasoline-Electric 300

Green Car Congress

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. The hydrogen serves as a reduction gas, which releases and binds the oxygen from the iron ore. Unlike the use of coking coal, this does not produce CO₂, but water vapor.

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Supplies Mercedes North America Green 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., in this study the environmental impacts of delivering driven vehicle miles are compared for three different vehicle fleets, each powered either directly or indirectly by natural gas. . …

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Gas Li-ion Gas-Electric Conversion 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

ARPA-E’s Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear Assets (GEMINA) aims to develop digital twin technology for advanced nuclear reactors and transform operations and maintenance (O&M) systems in the next generation of nuclear power plants. Eight have closed in the last six years; 10 more are scheduled to be decommissioned by 2025.

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Maintenance Low Cost Fleet Design 223

Green Car Congress

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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CO2 San Antonio Carbon Gas-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2012

The US’ large resource base of natural gas can be used for cost-effective power generation, with environmental burdens coming primarily from fuel combustion, not resource extraction, according to a new Department of Energy (DOE) study. Historically, the price of natural gas has been volatile.

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Gas Supplies Energy Gas-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The selected projects, sponsored by private companies across seven different states, will develop novel technologies that enhance existing clean energy infrastructure, such as aircraft electrification, rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging, and advanced floating offshore wind turbine technologies. Award amount: $12,000,000). municipal utility.

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Wind Commercial Houston Clean 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2014

One will fund clean energy research that benefits electricity ratepayers. Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

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Alternative Fuels San Diego California Fuel 244

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Added wood biomass biofuel production pathways, considering carbon temporal effects. Updated CCLUB to include added four land use change (LUC) cases and associated soil organic carbon change (SOC) updates related to soybean biodiesel pathways. Also updated energy and water consumption for lithium-ion battery manufacturing.

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Transportation Pollution Alternative Fuels Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2019

The California Air Resources Board’s latest state inventory of greenhouse gas emissions shows that California’s GHG emissions continue to decrease. while the carbon intensity of its economy declined by 4.5%. In-State Hydro, Solar, and Wind Electricity Generation. Compared to 2016, California’s GDP grew 3.6%

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2017 2016 Transportation Emissions 230

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

If you’re working on increasing fuel efficiency or you already have an alternative fuel vehicle, you can lessen your carbon footprint by taking advantage of green car care, repair and insurance. You may be wondering if electric and hybrid cars are cheap to insure. Electric cars can cut your insurance. Electric Cars.

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Green Cars Maintenance Gas-Electric 77

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. Market forces and emerging public policies will continue to have an impact on energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. billion people are currently without access to electricity. Source: ExxonMobil.

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Oil-Sands Energy Hybrid Sale 309

Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

EV Mythbusting: EV Batteries Aren’t Actually Green Digging into the Heart of the Electric Car We’ve all heard the calls reporting the imminent danger we face from a changing climate. The battery is the heart of the modern electric vehicle. However, there are a number of critics out there.

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Green Batteries Battery Emissions 77

EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. At a high level, 15 states with 25% or more of electricity form renewable sources accounted for 53.5% of electric vehicle sales in the US.

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Coal West Virginia Power Powered 145

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

During this period, a hydrogen-powered bus will operate in regular service alongside the fleet of public buses currently operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Agency (BJCTA). This hydrogen bus fleet is the largest in the world. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. lb-ft) is available at approx.

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Audi Gas Standards Gas-Electric 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

The Green Dolphin concept design is a five-cargo-hold CSR (Common Structural Rules) double-hull bulk carrier that meets current and future expected air and water emissions regulations. Wash water holding tanks are also included. Speed at design draught. Green Dolphin. DNV outlook to 2020.

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2020 Design Concept Fuel 294

Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2022

FlyZero is the UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) project aiming to realize zero-carbon emission commercial aviation by 2030. Funded by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the project FlyZero began in early 2021 as an intensive research project investigating zero-carbon emission commercial flight.

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Hydrogen Carbon Emissions Green 369

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The Energy Commission also approved almost $16 million in research grants to help develop the next generation of energy efficient technologies for commercial and residential buildings; $11 million for projects to convert feedstock and waste into biofuels; and about $900,000 for natural gas innovations. Plug-in electric vehicles.

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric 150

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Most of the hydrogen on Earth exists in molecular forms such as water and organic compounds. As a gas hydrogen or H2. We can’t just dig Hydrogen up from the ground we must create hydrogen from either Water or from organic compounds, and this requires a lot of energy. This is classified as carbon free hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Separately, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its own report exploring the potential for a “golden age” of gas. Both reports also emphasized that although natural gas is the lowest carbon fossil fuel, it is still a fossil fuel. Source: IEA.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Waste heat is used by a heat exchanger to vaporize a working fluid with a boiling point lower than water (thereby enabling the exploitation of low grade waste heat). The gas expands over an expander, which drives a generator to produce electricity. The Opcon Powerbox is an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) implementation.

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Waste Diesel Emissions Mariner 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Carbon dioxide recycling in the methanol economy Source: Olah et al. Considering the need for diverse solutions for different types of transport fleets and the high likelihood of competition for fuels between all transport sectors. 2009, earlier post. Click to enlarge.

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Transportation CO2 Carbon Hydrogen 244

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The California Air Resources Board released the draft proposed first update to the AB 32 Scoping Plan, which guides development and implementation of California’s greenhouse gas emission reduction programs. Major transportation related policies already in place are: The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). Background. Transportation.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In coming months, the plan notes, the Department of Transportation will work with other agencies to further explore strategies for integrating alternative fuel vessels into the US flag fleet. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the US. of greenhouse gas emissions to 3% by 2020.

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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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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source: Hyundai Kia-owner Hyundai certainly isn’t in a big rush to go carbon neutral. Rather than plugging in the vehicle as you would for a battery-electric car, hydrogen fuel cells rely on compressed hydrogen. For the Nexo, a recharge can take you 380 miles, with its only emissions being water vapor.

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Waste Hyundai Hydrogen Las Vegas 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2010

The initial installation, which aims to utilize waste heat for production of electricity onboard, is expected to achieve a fuel saving of between 4-6%; it will be the first installation of the Opcon Powerbox onboard a ship. The entire global commercial shipping fleet is considered to account for between 4-5% of global carbon emissions.

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Waste Installation Mariner Fuel 220