Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These 50,000 dead weight tonne vessels will be built with MAN ME-LGI flex fuel engines running on methanol, fuel oil, marine diesel oil, or gas oil. Earlier post.). Of the ships being built, MOL, Marinvest/ Skagerrak Invest and WL will each own two, plus one optional vessel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2010

Orocobre Limited , an Australian minerals exploration company with a focus on developing “best of class” Lithium, Potash and Boron resources in Argentina, and a Toyota Group Company, Toyota Tsusho Corporation, will establish a joint venture to develop Orocobre’s flagship Salar de Olaroz Lithium-Potash Project in Argentina.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Processes such as oil extraction from sources such as tar sands and deep-water offshore oil wells, as well as the expansion of first-generation biofuels such as corn-based ethanol are setting the stage for a “ water/energy collision ” of resource management policies. Climate change. Electric Power.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2010

First LNG exports are planned to commence from 2014, underpinned by agreements in Chile, China, Japan and Singapore for the purchase of up to 9.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent—with 2P (proved plus probable) reserves now estimated at 7 tcf. Those contractors include: Bechtel Oil and Gas, Inc., mtpa of LNG. Become a 2.5%

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Coal Gas Australia Water 210

Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Koch Industries-backed Standard Lithium said last October it had drilled a Texas brine well with lithium concentrations nearly as high as those found in parts of Chile, which has the world’s largest lithium reserves. The path is even murkier for water that is extracted alongside crude oil.

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Arkansas Auto Louisiana Texas 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

With 8 million tons, Chile has the world’s largest known lithium reserves, followed by Australia (2.7 The good news is, most analysts suggest it will never see the shortages, cartels or sales restrictions that oil does. Battery metals vs. oil as a source of tension and instability. Lithium is abundant on five continents.

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