Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

Neste Oil celebrated the grand opening of its ISCC-certified renewable diesel plant in Singapore. The start-up of the Singapore plant, which produces NExBTL renewable diesel, took place in November 2010; production at the world’s largest renewable diesel plant has run smoothly since.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2012

Consequently, neither palm oil-based biofuel qualifies as meeting the minimum 20% greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction performance threshold required for renewable fuel under the RFS program. requires a 20% reduction in lifecycle GHG emissions for renewable fuel produced. Palm oil lifecycle GHG emissions summary. Source: EPA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually. The field work was conducted by Meo Carbon Solutions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2010

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. The facility will be located within Wilmar’s new integrated manufacturing complex now under construction in Surabaya, Indonesia, and is expected to come online in 2011. Earlier post.). (ERS) Earlier post.). In December, ERS had received a $2.5 In December, ERS had received a $2.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2019

Hydrogen can help to tackle various critical energy challenges, including helping to store the variable output from renewables like solar PV and wind to better match demand. A wide variety of fuels are able to produce hydrogen, including renewables, nuclear, natural gas, coal and oil.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2014

Monthly US biodiesel and renewable diesel imports. Total US imports of biomass-based diesel fuel—biodiesel and renewable diesel—reached 525 million gallons in 2013, compared to 61 million gallons in 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Still, the price of nickel has dropped considerably in recent months as the market is flooded by fresh supply from Indonesia, sparked by Chinese investments and “technological breakthroughs,” according to Bloomberg. To reduce your carbon footprint and live more sustainably, consider going solar.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

On the road to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, the company wants to use 100% renewable energy at its overseas factories by 2045 and in every facility by 2050—and it says hydrogen will plan an important role in that. Hyundai is already testing Waste-to-Hydrogen in Indonesia. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

All conclude that while carbon losses from biomass replacement and land clearance are considerable, it is the large and sustained CO 2 emissions from drained peat that contribute most to overall emissions and biofuel carbon debts. greatly reducing or stopping carbon inputs to the peat from biomass. —Page et al.

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Oil Carbon Emissions Europe 239

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Even if the current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are fully implemented, the carbon budget for limiting global warming to below 2 ˚C will be about 80% depleted by 2030. Given currently available carbon budget estimates, the available global carbon budget for 1.5 ˚C C will already be well depleted by 2030.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

Semiconductors, green hydrogen, renewable energy, electronics, MSMEs, and electric mobility are some of the focus areas for the summit. We are constructing the world’s largest Renewable Energy Park at Khavda and investing Rs 2 lakh crore in Gujarat.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. Percentage of land for which soil quality, in particular in terms of soil organic carbon, is maintained or improved out of total land on which bioenergy feedstock is cultivated or harvested. Click to enlarge. Environmental pillar.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 30, 2023

Similar to what is happening in the automotive world, farm machines will become more reliant on state-of-the-art technology with automation, satellite navigation, data collection, and making the move to electrification or renewable fuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Indonesia and Malaysia will more than double production of palm oil biodiesel, while Germany will remain the largest producer of biofuels in Europe, according to the analysis. Brazil will grow domestic supplies by 30% and more than double export volume. billion gallons) by 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Subsequently, two geothermal energy projects led by researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) were selected to receive funding from the US Department of Energy•s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Under a more aggressive growth forecast scenario, Pike says, total worldwide capacity could reach 25.1

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )—a byproduct of fossil fuel burning—and 12.2 molecules of carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere last year and stayed there—slightly less than the 2.2 When related climate affects are taken into account, methane’s overall climate impact is nearly half that of carbon dioxide.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

This geographically diverse group comprises Brazil and Mexico in the Americas; South Africa and Nigeria in Africa; Egypt and Turkey in North Africa/Mediterranean; Saudi Arabia and Iran in the Middle East; as well as Thailand and Indonesia in Asia. Renewables in total will account for about 15% of energy demand in 2040.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Honeywell’s UOP—a major international supplier and licensor of technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and major manufacturing industries—has also been an early leader in developing technologies for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels. Earlier post.) Hydroprocessing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2020

Hydrogen—a more versatile commodity than electricity—can be stored and used for a wide range of applications, eliminating carbon emissions from maritime transport, agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, tourism, leisure, Petro-chemicals, road transport, rail transport and grid balancing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

May, 2007 : An international team of researchers concluded that the ability of the Southern Ocean to absorb carbon dioxide had slowed by about 15% per decade since 1981 ( earlier post ), and projected that at the present rate of deterioration, it will have lost two-thirds of its ability to store carbon by 2050.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

The Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing, held this week in Washington DC, highlighted a range of developing pathways for the production of renewable drop-in hydrocarbon fuels for transportation. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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Green Cars News

APRIL 17, 2009

Biofuels could have doubled the carbon dioxide emissions of the fossil fuels they replace - equivalent to putting half a million extra cars on the road - since a new law adding them to UK fuel came in a year ago, new research published by Friends of the Earth shows. million tonnes of extra carbon dioxide emissions.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

PwC analysis finds a need for global carbon intensity to drop an average of 5.1% The analysis is based on a carbon budget that would stabilize atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at 450 ppm and give a 50% probability of limiting warming to 2 °C. per year through 2050. Click to enlarge. a year from now to 2050.

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JULY 13, 2023

Supply disruptions could impact the speed of the energy transition in the short to medium term, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) warns. All data refer to unprocessed ores and concentrates, except for lithium, where we rely on data for lithium carbonates and lithium oxide and hydroxide.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 16, 2022

We EVangelists have gotten used to smugly pointing to the steadily declining costs of batteries (and renewable energy). We have already achieved this for cobalt with a partnership with Glencore, and [we’re exploring it] with VKTR in Indonesia for nickel. Farewell to falling prices. The future’s still green.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

The Earth continues to experience record-breaking temperatures caused by increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs). WHY A REDUCTION IN CARBON EMISSIONS SHOULD NOT BE THE FOCUS. Donovan, CEO of Renergie, Inc. It’s about time we changed course.

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