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MAY 15, 2014

In the study, the Ford team derived regional CO 2 targets for new LDVs while still providing an integrated view of the global LDV fleet—a perspective critical to the planning needs for global automotive firms. They converted from an absolute amount to scale relative to 2000. The cumulative CO 2 emissions 2000?2060

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The three main pathways to negative emissions (removing CO 2 from the atmosphere) for California are restoring natural ecosystems, converting waste biomass to fuels while capturing the CO 2 generating during processing, and direct air capture machines. It serves as a resource for policymakers, government, academia and industry.

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JULY 20, 2020

Despite the digital revolution, a sharp increase in global parcel volumes supports the global paper production. Further, the final fuel product, similar to the contents of jet fuel, has a low freezing point compared to gasoline and diesel, and has a high energy density, being sutiable to bio-aviation fuels. 2020.112728.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This new global emission estimate is startling. Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. Beaulieu et al. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1011464108.

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JUNE 12, 2019

The increasing concerns over global climate change have motivated great interest in the utilization of renewable biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals. C and and 6 MPa H 2 , cellulose was completely converted, and the ethanol yield reached 43.2 Under a reaction condition of 245 ?C Yang et al. 2019.05.020.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The project uses a 25,000-liter photobioreactor within a pilot-scale algal biorefinery to recycle carbon dioxide and other airborne industrial pollutants into algal biomass that can be further converted into sustainable products, including renewable biofuels and biomaterials.

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JULY 29, 2010

Controlling soot from fossil fuels and solid biofuels may be a faster method of reducing Arctic ice loss and global warming than other options, including controlling CH 4 or CO 2 , although all controls are needed, according to a new study by Dr. Mark Z. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power.

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MAY 10, 2024

The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Currently, biomass contributes 10% (5 x 10 -19 kJ) to global energy consumption.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

A paper and subsequent formal comments and responses in the journal Climatic Change highlights the conceptual differences and the impact on policy. In a Commentary published in Climatic Change , Robert De Kleine and his colleagues argue that the assumptions used by DeCicco and his colleagues are invalid. earlier post ).

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MARCH 25, 2023

Recent studies have indicated that contrails likely contribute to global radiative forcing at a level that is roughly equivalent to that of the CO 2 emissions from the entire aviation sector, which is estimated to be about 2% of total global CO 2 emissions. Earlier post.)

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MAY 10, 2011

Ranges of global technical potentials of renewable energy sources derived from studies analyzed in SRREN report. This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 °C—an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention’s Cancun Agreements. Source: SRREN.

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APRIL 19, 2011

A new study led by Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology has found that the expansion of sugarcane crop in Brazil in areas previously occupied by other Brazilian crops cools the local climate. The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. —Scott Loarie. —Greg Asner.

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JUNE 15, 2016

The new open-access report, “Reconciling Food Security and Bioenergy: Priorities for Action”, published in the journal Global Change Biology – Bioenergy , shows that the underlying assumptions in previous studies led to inaccurate conclusions. —lead author Keith Kline of ORNL’s Climate Change Science Institute.

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JULY 11, 2018

A “well-to-wheel” life cycle assessment (LCA) by a team from synthetic fuels producer Greyrock ( earlier post ), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has determined the potential reduction of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutant emissions from the use of synthetic fuels directly converted from flare gas. billion liters (18.8

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JULY 20, 2012

Global emissions of CO 2 increased by 3% last year, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO 2 emissions”, released by the EC Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). At 3%, the 2011 increase in global CO 2 emissions is above the past decade’s average annual increase of 2.7%.

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MAY 8, 2013

Selected projects will be intended to support program goals to determine the (1) likelihood of methane hydrates as a potential energy resource and (2) their role in the natural environment. A frequently quoted estimate of the global methane hydrate resource is 20,000 trillion cubic meters, or about 700,000 trillion cubic feet.

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JULY 8, 2015

The Resnick Sustainability Institute is Caltech’s studio focused on breakthroughs that can positively alter global sustainability. Mika Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland): Resonate Award recipient for pioneering a CO 2 sequestration process that converts a low-value steel-manufacturing by-product into a valuable resource for industry.

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MARCH 13, 2013

Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6 million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Effects of BC on climate, as compared to GHGs. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1702. Kimberly M.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The largest global oil shale deposits—estimated to be equivalent to 1,500 Gbbl oil equivalent—are found in the Green River formation of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Brandt (2009) Converting Oil Shale to Liquid Fuels with the Alberta Taciuk Processor: Energy Inputs and Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. The cost-effectiveness of measures to address climate change is enhanced through a multisector perspective. The team used a model (Global Energy Transition, GET-RC 6.1) Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP.

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MARCH 1, 2012

An alternative, according to the study to be published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , would be to convert more than 80% of managed rangeland, or nearly 60% of total rangeland, to biofuel crops. The authors reported that both options would significantly reduce the amount of food US farmers produce. —Smith et al.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Global demand for critical minerals needed to decarbonize the nation’s economy is expected to increase by 400-600% over the next several decades and the US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources, some adversarial, for many of the processed versions of these minerals. Earlier post.)The Harvard University. Idaho National Laboratory.

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JUNE 13, 2015

The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. US production has risen almost 50% in the past 10 years, and global demand for gas is anticipated to outpace all other fossil fuels. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

All told, global consumption of fossil fuels rose significantly from 2005 through 2014: about 7.5% About 65% of global greenhouse gas emissions are derived from fossil fuels, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. The last several decades have seen limited global progress in tackling these policy problems.

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JUNE 16, 2016

With prices set to double by 2018, we’ve seen the bottom of the uranium market, and the negative sentiment that has followed this resource around despite strong fundamentals, is starting to change. It’s impossible to find another natural resource that is so fundamentally necessary and yet has carried such negative sentiment as uranium.

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APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Together, SLCPs represent about 12% of California’s total annual greenhouse gas emissions inventory. Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Rapid melting of the Arctic region could carry a minimum global cost of US$2.4 trillion by 2050, according to a new report, “An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Services Due to Changes in the Arctic Cryosphere”, released by the Pew Environment Group.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

It can also convert captured anthropogenic CO 2 , generated by burning fossil fuels, to CO and O 2 via high-temperature electrolysis. One third of the global industrial sector’s annual emission of 1x10 10 metric tons of CO 2 is released in the production of metals and chlorine. Licht, 2009. Click to enlarge. doi: 10.1021/jp9044644.

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MAY 8, 2009

We found that converting biomass to electricity rather than ethanol makes the most sense for two policy-relevant issues, transportation and climate.” The optimal pathway for biomass will also depend on how efficiently other feedstocks can be converted to both liquid fuels and electricity. Resources. Elliott Campbell.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Among the increasing challenges is that while the sourcing, processing, and delivery of clean water is becoming more energy-intensive, the extraction and refining of fossil fuels and their substitutes is trending towards increasing water requirements per unit of fuel produced as energy companies work with progressively lower grade resources.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

After you connect your car’s battery to a DC rapid charging station, AC or alternating current from the grid is converted and stored inside the vehicle in the form of DC or direct current. For this purpose, you either have an AC-DC converter inside the EV or a built-in converter inside the charger. Emergency Power Reservoir.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

converting short-chain fatty acids to their corresponding alkanes (gasoline) by introducing a novel synthetic pathway and optimization of culture conditions. coli, which we hope will serve as a basis for the metabolic engineering of microorganisms to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable resources. —Professor Sang Yup Lee.

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APRIL 27, 2012

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 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Miettinen, J.,

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

In one pathway, butanol is directly produced from carbon source (“hot channel”); in the other, butanol is converted from the acids produced earlier in fermentation process (the “cold channel”). Jang Y-S, et al. 2012) Enhanced butanol production obtained by reinforcing the direct butanol-forming route in Clostridium acetobutylicum.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the tropics likely drove a global increase in atmospheric methane in 2007 and 2008 after a decade of near-zero growth, according to a new study. Earlier post.) Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, albeit a distant second. Dlugokencky, E.

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