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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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Colorado State University has obtained a 5-year, $5-million grant from BP to study mechanisms involved with technology for oil recovery from “watered-out” wells. Upward of 70% of the petroleum can remain in the rock formations of many watered-out wells. 2000) Water Control. Bill Bailey et al. Oilfield Review.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49% in the last two decades, according to the latest figures from the Global Carbon Project. Total emissions—including fossil fuel combustion, cement production, deforestation and other land use emissions—reached 10 billion tonnes of carbon (36.7

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a new study, Harvard University researchers found more than 90% of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury (MeHg) in food webs near indigenous communities. The methylmercury moves into the water and animals, magnifying as it moves up the food chain.

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JANUARY 10, 2021

The process involves subjecting methane to pressurized steam in the presence of a catalyst, creating a reaction that produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide, as well as a small amount of carbon dioxide. In the last step, pressure-swing adsorption, carbon dioxide and other impurities are removed, leaving behind pure hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2018

Plus if we are able to develop this system on a larger scale, the same unit would be able to treat the waste and to remediate the soil and water that has been contaminated. In previous research, Gude studied the use of microorganisms in wastewater treatment, and he has recently turned his focus to building biosensors from similar species.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Their quantitative lifecycle assessment of the environmental merits of liquid hydrocarbon fuels produced from CO 2 , water and energy compared to alternative fuel production routes is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —van der Giesen et al.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario. Widespread implementation is achievable with existing technology but would require significant strategic investment and institutional arrangements, the study found. Click to enlarge. °C (within a likely range of 0.2-0.7

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MARCH 3, 2017

Their study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study, which was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, showed how the metals are emitted mainly in an insoluble form but slowly become soluble after mixing with sulfate. —Fang et al.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

A team of researchers from the US and India has found that airborne black carbon aerosols, or soot, from India is a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30% of this sum. Change in annual linear snow cover from 1990 to 2001.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Bars for different years in the same pathway represent improvements in the costs of the specific pathway, based on specific reference data for the appropriate year and pathway. Distributed production options under development include reforming of bio-derived renewable liquids and electrolysis of water. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault’s comparison of the carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles over production, operation and end of life. The study used the series production versions launched in 2011, with the assumption of operation for 150,000 km (93,205 miles). water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) The EV footprint (Fluence Z.E.)

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Broadly, the study by Stephanie Searle, Francisco Posada Sanchez, Chris Malins, and John German concludes that (a) technical barriers do not prevent the use of higher blends of ethanol, and (b) slow uptake of blends such as E15 and E85 is due to other factors, including high cost, legal and warranty issues, and consumer awareness and acceptance.

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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. Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

A study by a team at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) found that higher compression ratios in a spark-ignition engine improved performance of both an E22 blend (78% gasoline, 22% ethanol) as well as neat hydrous ethanol. This product is referred to as hydrous ethanol—approximately 93% ethanol and 7% water.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

In 2014, Volkswagen of America announced that starting with the launch of the zero-tailpipe emissions battery-electric 2015 e-Golf ( earlier post ), it would invest in projects to offset the carbon emissions created from the e-Golf on a full lifecycle basis: production, distribution and up to approximately 36,000 miles (57,936 km) of driving.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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MARCH 10, 2009

Researchers at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem warn that if atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches double pre-industrial levels, coral reefs can be expected to not just stop growing, but also to begin dissolving. Aragonite saturation at different atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. Ken Caldeira.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

A study of isopentanol—a five-carbon, long-chain alcohol (C 5 H 12 O)—by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories as a fuel for homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engines found that isopentanol has superior physiochemical properties compared to ethanol and very similar HCCI combustion properties to gasoline.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Often referred to as a “drop-in” fuel, reformate is an ingredient in gasoline and jet fuel that can be added during the regular refinery process. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. The main catalysts are proprietary modified ZSM-5 catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

As described in an open access paper in the journal NPG Asia Materials , the system is an intermediate between a battery and a fuel cell, and is accordingly referred to as a hybrid fuel cell. The herein-reported device is an intermediate system between batteries and fuel cells and is thus referred to as a hybrid fuel cell. mm was used.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the atmosphere, emissions of soot are known as black carbon. The solution also can apply to other high-temperature conditions, such as interstellar space, where large quantities of carbon-dust particles are formed, she said. Making soot is more like baking a cake than it is like condensing water. — Hope Michelsen.

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JUNE 16, 2017

The researchers experimented with different proportions of STF and other materials used in concrete—cement, sand and water—before finding the optimal mix, which includes 0.35% tire fibers, according to researcher Obinna Onuaguluchi, a postdoctoral fellow in civil engineering at UBC. Relative to a plain reference mixture, 0.4%

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JULY 31, 2017

An international research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a light-activated material that can chemically convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide without generating unwanted byproducts.

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MARCH 2, 2013

The DOS SEIS accordingly takes a detailed look at life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of petroleum products from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) oil sands crudes compared with reference crudes and the potential impact the pipeline might have on climate change as well as on the future development of the oils sands resource in Canada.

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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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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The QCL also works in a far more compact laser cavity than earlier carbon dioxide lasers. A gold-plated silicon wafer was used as a beam splitter to reflect a small portion of the pump beam into the reference gas cell, while the rest entered the terahertz cavity. Schematic of the experimental setup.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

Comparison of the percent differential for WTW (well-to-wheel) GHGs from gasoline produced from WCSB oil sands using different production processes relative to gasoline produced from reference crudes. The NETL study serves as a key input for analyses conducted by EPA and DOE. Source: FEIS, Appendix V. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

Using low-carbon fuels or biofuels as the source of heat energy to process lithium and manufacture li-ion batteries would cut carbon emissions by half as per world banks study. [4] Thier technical development unit has examined how the carbon footprint of electric cars in compares with that of internal combustion engines.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

A GOVERNMENT-BACKED push to heat millions of homes using hydrogen boilers risks increasing carbon emissions and speeding up global warming, a new academic paper suggests, in a blow for Boris Johnson’s green agenda. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water. ” What does the EC think?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. The system uses electricity to heat air, which is then circulated through an exchanger that heats water and distributes it to multiple buildings in the city’s Hiedanranta district (Figure 2).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

For the report, central-station generation refers to >100 MW, with the exception of some renewable-resource-based technologies. impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. The capital cost learning curve. Source: EPRI.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dead zones are commonly observed in the nearshore waters of the western and northern Gulf of Mexico in summer, but not normally in the deep water layer (3,300 – 4,300 feet) where the lowered oxygen areas in this study occurred. A dead zone is an area of very low dissolved oxygen that cannot support most life.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The ORR is the chemical reaction in the process that converts hydrogen and oxygen into water and electricity in a fuel cell and it limits the efficiency of the process. Hydrogen is considered a promising energy source for low-carbon and sustainable mobility. —Di Paola et al.

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APRIL 19, 2016

The 2015 papers provided technical details on the high performance fuel-cell (FC) stack; specific insights into FC separator, and stack manifold; Mirai’s newly developed boost converter; and the new high-pressure hydrogen storage system with innovative carbon fiber windings. The 2016 paper by Hasegawa et al. Fuel economy.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

For example, there is an air battery that uses zinc as the negative electrode, sodium hydroxide as the electrolyte, and the cathode is porous activated carbon, so it can absorb oxygen in the air to replace the oxidant in general dry batteries. (6) 6) Ternary lithium battery: Advantages. Flow field plates are usually made of graphite.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide in seawater is already increasing along the California coast decades earlier than existing models predict. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Ecosystems.

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