Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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AUGUST 14, 2021

Javelina controls approximately sixty million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) of hydrogen production through a combination of hydrogen entrained in the refineries’ waste gas that the facility processes, and hydrogen produced through a steam methane reformer process. Howard closed on the purchase of Javelina in February of this year.

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San Antonio Hydrogen Convert Mexico 170

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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. In short, bio-oil needs to be upgraded to produce a fungible liquid transportation fuel.

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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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JANUARY 28, 2014

The California Air Resources Board announced nearly $1 million in penalties against 3 companies for late or inaccurate reporting of their greenhouse gas emissions for 2011. This action marks the second time the Air Resources Board has issued fines for violations of California’s Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting regulation.

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Las Vegas California Emissions Chevron 246

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JUNE 20, 2014

PROD3 has carried out geotechnical and geohazard investigations on more than 200 sites for Anadarko in Mozambique and recovered more than 20 tons of seabed material including sediments and carbonate rock cores.

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Water Mozambique Tanzania Houston 210

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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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Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

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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

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

he ZFI Gasoline produced by the MKS Process will be a 92 octane, carbon-neutral alternative to conventional gasoline produced from petroleum sources. CORE BioFuel Inc., Given our participation in the biofuels industry over the past 7 years, the addition of a ‘green’ biomass gasoline marketing component to our current.

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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. University of Houston.

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Fusion Energy San Diego Los Angeles 249

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JULY 10, 2010

a process engineering and design firm ( earlier post ), has filed a patent application for a new technology for making biofuels from microalgae that focuses on the production of fatty acids rather than the extraction of algal oil. de-oiled algal biomass. Synthesis gas and hydrogen from infrastructure fuels. Serge Randhava.

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Renewable Fuel Production Oil 199

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MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. Natural gas as a vehicle fuel. GM, said Akerson, is doing a much better job optimizing mass efficiency.

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Fuel Economy Economy GM Gasoline 210

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MAY 22, 2012

million 13 projects aimed at reducing risks while enhancing the environmental performance of drilling for natural gas and oil in ultra-deepwater settings. University of Houston — Smart Cementing Materials and Drilling Muds for Real Time Monitoring of Deepwater Wellbore Enhancement.

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Mexico Water Concept Oklahoma 186

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Brown, analyzed the exhaust from more than 200 commercial vessels, including cargo ships, tankers and cruise ships, in the Gulf of Mexico, Galveston Bay, and the Houston Ship Channel. Organic pollutants and sooty, black carbon, which make up the other half of emissions, are not directly targeted by today’s regulations. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 20, 2011

Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Genomatica expects Bio-BDO to be competitive at oil prices of $45 per barrel or at natural gas prices of $3.50 Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas. per million Btu.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 20, 2010

Concerns about carbon emissions and their impact on climate change plus high and volatile oil prices are increasing the popularity of hybrid and electric vehicles despite their higher costs. Toyota uses nickel-metal-hydride batteries for the current Prius hybrid but has decided on lithium-ion batteries for future plug-in models.

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Toyota Argentina Nickel Metal Hydride Lithium Ion 124

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JULY 5, 2011

Energy Technology Ventures (ETV)—a GE-NRG Energy-ConocoPhillips venture—has invested in Houston-based Glori Energy , whose enhanced oil recovery technology leverages microbes to help extract trapped oil from mature oil fields, significantly boosting well production. The S2 Phase generally takes 1-2 months.

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Low Cost Energy Oil Houston 210

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Fuels technology is a critical area of research for Saudi Aramco where we are leveraging on our leading position in integrated oil and gas production and refining to invest in innovative solutions that will significantly improve efficiency and lower emissions from the (production) well-head to the (car) wheel.

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Saudi Arabia Detroit Fuel Engine 150

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JANUARY 27, 2011

CoolPlanetBioFuels , Camarillo, CA, developing technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuel and carbon that can be sequestered. The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

You lose the flexibility of the hybrid being able to fuel up nearly instantaneously at a gas station, and pay an additional $10k for that loss. It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent.

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Volt Green Electric Cars 2009 42

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world. The infrastructure is already there.&#

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Next post States’ Proposals for Gas Taxes Sputter 11 Comments 1. Next: a carbon tax. Air travel will be limited to extremely expensive intercontinental and military flights to conserve oil, and nuclear developments will be for military purposes only for national security. — Jeff U 6. link] — Adam Carter 11.

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