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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9, the COVID19 pandemic, and now the Ukrainian War, economic stimulus packages were meant to put the world on a cleaner and greener path, but this is not at all evident in the CO 2 emissions data.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal

Battery recycling shatters the myth of EV waste – ET Auto

Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

A new analysis by Stanford University researchers, which is still under peer review, found that Redwood Materials’ recycling process produces up to 80% fewer emissions than the traditional supply chain using CO2 belching refineries. Closing the loop brings the total CO2 savings to 80%.

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Waste Auto Batteries Battery

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The average in-use emissions were calculated as 46 g CO2 per kilometer, accounting for the consumption of both fuels. Compared to gasoline or diesel methanol however offers much cleaner combustion, free of soot and emits no traces of sulphur or carcinogenic compounds which are formed in the combustion of liquid fossil fuels.

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable

Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave

Supercharged EV

JANUARY 6, 2021

A very good summary is provided with this chart : Lets talk about numbers: 1- manufacturing of a full-sized Tesla Model S rear-wheel drive car with an 85 KWH battery was equivalent to a full-sized internal combustion car except for the battery, which added 15% or one metric ton of CO2 emissions to the total manufacturing.

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Cleaner Lithium Ion Cars CO2

China lags in efforts to achieve 2025 green steel goals, analysts say – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

The global steel industry is responsible for around 8% of the world’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and more than half of all production takes place in China. DRI is a cleaner way of turning iron ore into iron, which can then be processed into pellets that can be used in EAF.

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China Auto Green CO2

Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now “ the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China ”. The power of EVs is electricity from the grid.

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Coal Gasoline-Electric Gasoline China

New $20M XPRIZE tackles conversion of CO2 into products

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Co-sponsored by NRG and COSIA (Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance), the 4-½ year competition will include two tracks, with the new technologies tested at either a coal power plant or a natural gas facility. While cleaner energy sources are on the rise, overall energy demand is expected to grow 37% by 2040.

Conversion

Conversion CO2 Production Oil-Sands

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Baua Electric

MARCH 2, 2024

The new findings come from the IEA’s annual update on global energy-related CO2 emissions and the just-released inaugural edition of the IEA’s new series , the Clean Energy Market Monitor, which will track clean energy deployment and broadly outline the implications for global energy markets.

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Global Oil Sale Coal

Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2013

The CO 2 removal technology was retrofitted to the SMRs, which produce hydrogen to assist in the making of cleaner burning transportation fuels by refinery customers on Air Products’ Gulf Coast hydrogen pipeline network.

Oil

Oil Hydrogen CO2 Production

RWE Power, BRAIN to Cooperate on Conversion of CO2 to Microbial Biomass or Biomolecules

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

An experimental plant is to be located at RWE Power’s Coal Innovation Centre, at its Niederaussem power plant site. RWE Power has made the Coal Innovation Centre at its Niederaussem site the center of its activities for cleaner power generation from coal. So we are positive about the future success of our co-operation. —Dr

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Conversion Power Powered Coal

IEA sees China lead the way in developing new cleaner coal technologies

Green Cars News

APRIL 20, 2009

”China’s coal sector has made remarkable progress over the last decade, fuelling rapid economic growth and bringing a better quality of life for China’s citizens”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Beijing at the launch of the new publication, Cleaner Coal in China.

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Cleaner Coal China Clean

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

High-efficiency combustion processes, such as modern power plants and cars that meet current standards, produce little or no CO, and are thus both more energy-efficient and cleaner. CO2 and its correlation with CO at a rural site near Beijing: implications for combustion efficiency in China, Atmos. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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CO2 Climate Change China Universal

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2019

We will be systematically aligning production and other stages in the value chain to CO2 neutrality in the coming years. Volkswagen is seeking to provide individual mobility for millions of people for years to come—individual mobility that is safer, cleaner and fully connected. Earlier post.).

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CO2 Electric Electrical All-Electric

GCP Carbon Budget Finds Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Rose 2% in 2008 Despite Global Financial Crisis; Natural Sinks Not Keeping Pace With Increasing Emissions

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The use of coal as a fuel has now surpassed oil and developing countries now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries, with a quarter of their growth in emissions accounted for by increased trade with the West. Emissions from coal are now the dominant fossil fuel emission source, surpassing 40 years of oil emission prevalence.

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2008 Emissions Carbon Climate Change

I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. They can talk all they want about how much cleaner their new plant will burn carbon, but that’s the same thing as talking about how much less of a drug overdose 3/4 of a needle causes compared to 100% full needle.

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Study suggests China urban passenger transport emissions could peak in 2030

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

Energy demand is able to peak at around 2020, with the peak amount ranging between 86 Mtce and 107 Mtce (million tonnes of coal equivalent), and energy consumption is likely to drop to 70–84 Mtce in 2050. Technical roadmap of bus,taxi, and car for peaking the CO2 emissions at 2030 or before.

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Transportation Emissions China Taxi

New study: US could store more than 50 years worth of CO2

Green Cars News

MARCH 20, 2012

The US has enough capacity to store at least a century’s worth of its carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations in underground saline aquifers, according to new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Store Massachusetts MIT CO2

Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Here are some of the key advantages of electric vehicles: Environmental Benefits: EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions, meaning they do not release pollutants like carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and other harmful gases into the atmosphere. 10 Are EVs eco-friendly since we generate electricity from coal?

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. The gas can power fuel-cell vehicles or gas turbines; it can be used directly in chemical processes or converted with CO2 to produce methane, methanol, and other substitutes for fossil fuels. Why all the hype about hydrogen?

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric

PNNL team develops least costly to date carbon capture system with conversion to methanol

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

As described in an open-access paper in the journal Advanced Energy Materials , the new system is designed to fit into coal-, gas-, or biomass-fired power plants, as well as cement kilns and steel plants. Creating methanol from CO2 is not new. The team brought the cost of capture down to $47.10 per metric ton of CO 2 in 2021.

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Conversion Carbon Cleaner CO2

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In the 450 Scenario, oil demand falls between 2010 and 2035 as a result of strong policy action to limit carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions; oil demand peaks before 2020 at just below 90 mb/d and declines to 78 mb/d by the end of the projection period, over 8 mb/d, or almost 10%, below 2010 levels. —WEO 2011. Other Findings from WEO 2011.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet

Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Reply ↓ ↑ report 17 DRK_ILLIDAN 1:09AM (4/24/2009) Stop makin f*kn battery powered cars there not gonna work, yeah woo zero emissions remember where the powers coming from rite now nim rods, you still have tins of co2 at the power plant. As more renewables come online, battery electrics just keep getting cleaner and greener.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. Having centralized energy production in that way allows for centralized pollution control measures, filters, so-called "clean coal" rather than depending on X number of cars, manufacturers, and consumers to deal with pollution control.

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Recharge Plug Electric Vehicles 2009

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? Email Neal.

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The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 4, 2009

Each day, the oceans absorb 30 million tons of CO2, increasing their acidity. China uses more coal than the U.S., EU, and Japan combined, but it now has a policy to close an old coal plant for each new cleaner burning plant that turns coal into a gas before burning it.

Future

Future Climate Change Coal Iraq

EV Driven

Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

Battery recycling shatters the myth of EV waste – ET Auto

Renewable-methanol fueled Geely cars in fleet testing in Iceland; 70% reduction in WTW CO2 compared to gasoline

Cleaner Cars from Cradle to Grave

China lags in efforts to achieve 2025 green steel goals, analysts say – ET Auto

Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

New $20M XPRIZE tackles conversion of CO2 into products

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that’s curbed oil demand – IEA

Air Products heralds successful operation of project to capture CO2 from hydrogen production for use in enhanced oil recovery

RWE Power, BRAIN to Cooperate on Conversion of CO2 to Microbial Biomass or Biomolecules

IEA sees China lead the way in developing new cleaner coal technologies

Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

Volkswagen Group now planning 22M EVs in ten years; 70 new electric models by 2028

GCP Carbon Budget Finds Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Rose 2% in 2008 Despite Global Financial Crisis; Natural Sinks Not Keeping Pace With Increasing Emissions

I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Study suggests China urban passenger transport emissions could peak in 2030

New study: US could store more than 50 years worth of CO2

Must Read 40+ Electric Vehicle Interview Questions & Answers

Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

PNNL team develops least costly to date carbon capture system with conversion to methanol

IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be

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