Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Researchers from the University of Houston (UH) have developed a cobalt(II) oxide (CoO) nanocrystalline catalyst that can carry out overall water splitting with a solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of around 5%. The generation of hydrogen from water using sunlight could potentially form the basis of a clean and renewable source of energy.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2012

has signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based PACE to collaborate with oil field operators in Texas and elsewhere to improve petroleum recovery and water cleaning for re-use at well sites, using a process it originally developed for algae harvesting. In the United States, the average is 7 barrels of water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2015

The DERA funding covers engine replacements, repowers and idle reduction technologies to clean up a variety of older diesel engines, including those in heavy-duty trucks used at ports, delivery trucks, long haul trucks, marine vessels, school buses, and even agricultural equipment. Louis Clean Cities is replacing six school busses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. —Yu et al.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The officials also have yet to assess Tesla’s plans for cleaning up wastewater. Tesla executives admitted during the Q3 2021 Earnings Call that they did not expect either Gigafactory Berlin or Gigafactory Texas to begin production by the end of 2021. Only then can the plant receive the necessary pemits.”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city, according to a study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Recent reports suggest several EVs caught fire due to water damage caused by severe flooding in the most heavily impacted areas. Learn more about how and why they sometimes catch fire and how EV owners can prepare themselves for potential water damage in their vehicles. The Effects of Water Damage in EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

An enhanced footprint has the potential to reverse a longstanding pattern in the area of situating polluting industrial projects near low-income communities of color. The negative impacts on human and environmental health have been substantial.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2011

Data collected during a major 2010 state-federal atmospheric research project show that the first-in-the-nation regulation requiring ocean-going vessels to use clean fuel when near the California coast has been extremely effective in reducing sulfur dioxide pollution from ships, according to the California Air Resources Board (ARB).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

E) will award $39 million in funding to 16 projects across 12 states to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for the clean energy transition. The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Columbia University.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Most accepted carbon transactions in the world today occur based on standards that originated from the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. the Nature Conservancy; Audubon Texas; Applied Ecological Services Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

Geographical distribution of Clean Cities Recovery Act awards. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 25 cost-share projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Clean Energy Coalition’s CEC Michigan Green Fleets Initiative.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Buc-ee’s, a 37-store regional chain of rest stops in Texas, is the first company to sell the blend, marketed as a high-performance ethanol-free gasoline. There are two Clean Air Act provisions that allow for blending of up to 12.5% Isobutanol is a four-carbon alcohol traditionally produced via high-cost petrochemical routes.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

Emergency response efforts are focused on ensuring the safety of the community members and the response workers, addressing community concerns and the clean-up process. The air quality does not likely present a human health risk, with the exception of the high pooling areas, where clean-up crews are working with safety equipment.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. The NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT) will pursue high-performance and easy-to-deploy water treatment systems that can turn both wastewater and seawater into clean drinking water.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. Clean air and clean water are on everyone’s minds right now,” Douglass said, explaining that city officials have been hard at work adapting alternative energy sources. Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We No Teslas allowed.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

Linear Labs was founded in 2014 in Texas by Brad and Fred Hunstable. Brad and Fred Hunstable invented the HET while working to design a device capable of pumping clean water and providing power for small communities in underdeveloped regions of the world. Numerous discoveries morphed into a new electric motor.

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Commercial Motor Motors Motoring 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2011

Between five and ten percent of the water injected in these systems is lost as it travels through the pore spaces. As this happens, more water must be added, perhaps from municipal sources that have little to spare. Their work has shown that supercritical CO 2 is better than water at mining heat from the subsurface.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Green Energy Oilfield Services, located in Fairfield, Texas, will use the trucks to service XTO Energy, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and major producer in the Freestone play oilfield in Freestone County, Texas. Clean Energy will provide the LNG fuel for the vehicles. The trucks are expected to enter operation in April.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

one of the largest US-based, publicly-traded water utilities, is going to transition portions of its larger vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG). CNG makes sense economically because of it is less expensive than fossil fuels and environmentally because it is a clean-burning fuel and thereby reduces carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

CB&I, The Woodlands, Texas and Albemarle are being recognized for developing and commercializing safer technology to produce alkylate, a clean gasoline component produced at about 30 billion gallons per year, 60% of which is produced in North America. Dow AgroSciences, LLC of Indianapolis, Ind.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

—Daniel Shantz, a chemical engineering professor at Texas A&M University and co-editor or report. Product clean up and conditioning. Reactor product clean up and conversion. Non-thermal water separations. Dan Shantz, Texas A&M University; Mukund Karanjikar, Technology Holdings National Science Foundation.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

EPA issued an order to ExxonMobil, pursuant to the Clean Water Act, directing the company to take a number of clean-up and restoration activities as a result of an oil spill into the Yellowstone River. More than 300 people are along the river banks today to clean up oil. Earlier post.). Current status.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

This time around, though, the emphasis is on “green hydrogen”—that is, hydrogen produced using clean energy such as solar or wind power. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2009

Widespread algae farming in the southeast, from Florida to east Texas, could produce up to half of the transportation fuels for the entire nation. It would not involve the food-for-fuels tradeoff, and it would not require arable land or clean water.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

A fuel cell can potentially provide a clean, quiet and efficient alternative by powering the electric motor. and for a San Antonio, Texas, food distribution center for the H-E-B grocery store chain. —Kriston Brooks. That truck will make deliveries for a Sysco Corp. food distribution facility in Riverside, Calif.,

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Let's build a scenario Let's say you want to purchase a 2023 Chevy Bolt in Texas. It builds white-label websites and tools for Auto OEMs, utilities, fleets, and other greentech stakeholders to promote their thought leadership in the electrification of consumer and fleet vehicles.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Environmental Protection Agency , in implementing the 1970 Clean Air Act , was struggling to establish baselines for air-quality levels, she says. “To

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water. The process will also yield clean water than can be recycled for beneficial use, and marketable salt byproducts. The total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Reclaimed water system. Other partner companies such as Sony, Whirlpool, Oncor and Intel provided Mueller residents with forward-looking smart grid and clean energy products and services. OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2009

University researchers will investigate the chemistry and physics of advanced turbines, with the goal of promoting clean and efficient operation when fueled with coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and hydrogen fuels. Texas A&M University. University of Texas-El Paso. The projects include: Pennsylvania State University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

New research by a team from the US, China and Japan focusing on the Houston, Texas area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea. Credit: UCAR. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The Rice University lab of chemist James Tour and scientists at M-I SWACO, a Texas-based supplier of drilling fluids and subsidiary of oil-services provider Schlumberger, have produced functionalized graphene oxide to alleviate the clogging of oil-producing pores in newly drilled wells. They found a few issues that needed to be dealt with.

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