Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2015

The Algenol fuel production process is designed to convert 1 tonne of CO 2 into 144 gallons of fuel while recycling CO 2 from industrial processes and converting 85% of the CO 2 used into ethanol, gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. The algal bio-oil can be used to produce biodiesel, renewable diesel, or other bio-oil-derived products.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. Methanol purification: In distillation column(s) the crude methanol is separated into methanol (at design purity/quality) and water for re-use or disposal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

CO 2 + water + renewable energy → e-diesel. Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. Using concentrated solar energy, they were able to produce kerosene from water vapor and carbon dioxide directly from air. Finally, the syngas is processed to kerosene in the gas-to-liquid unit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

First, an electric potential will be applied to water to simultaneously produce acidity and alkalinity. The carbonation reaction will convert REE-bearing silicate minerals to REE-bearing carbonate minerals. The technology is based on robust acid-base chemistries and renewable electricity as the power source.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In mid-2022, the International Renewable Energy Agency counted 32 countries that had adopted hydrogen strategies and 11 others that were preparing such plans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Actions such as the debt tender offer and the issuance of 0% convertible notes earlier this year, together with anticipated broader access to capital from the new sustainable financing framework, are consistent with Ford’s objectives to further strengthen its balance sheet and financial flexibility and return its credit ratings to investment grade.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

In May, the Lenfest Center and Risø DTU hosted a one-day conference—“Sustainable Fuels from CO 2 , H 2 O, and Carbon-Free Energy”—addressing technologies that can be used to recycle CO 2 into carbon-neutral liquid hydrocarbon fuels using renewable or nuclear energy. The co-electrolysis process was featured in several of the talks.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

‘Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

high overpotentials are needed to convert CO 2 because the first step in CO 2 conversion is the formation of a “CO 2 ? formation is very negative in water and in most common solvents. Twenty years ago, Bockris and co-workers proposed that. intermediate. In this context the term “CO 2 ? ” necessarily a bare CO 2 ? The equilibrium.

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JULY 26, 2020

Inspired by naturally occurring processes, a team of Boston College chemists used a multi-catalyst system to convert carbon dioxide to methanol at the lowest temperatures reported with high activity and selectivity. Methanol is a promising renewable fuel that can be adapted to the current liquid fuel infrastructure. Rayder, Enric H.

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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. Calculated potential needed to electrolyze carbon dioxide or water. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Methanol Solar. High temperature is accessible through excess solar heat. Licht, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. “We Elliott Campbell. Campbell, D. Lobell, C.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Selected projects are aimed at increasing the availability of alternative fuels and biobased products that are produced from a diverse group of renewable sources of biomass. The self-contained process uses minimal water and no acids or chemical additives. Projects selected for award include: BIOFUELS AND BIOBASED PRODUCTS. USDA Awards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power. Black carbon converts sunlight to heat and radiates it back to the air around it. Warming of the air by any chemical, including soot, enhances natural surface emissions of water vapor [e.g., Dessler et al.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

The carbon footprint of the energy cost to produce the CNTs from CO 2 is insignificant when nuclear or solar, wind or hydro renewable energy is used to drive the electrolysis, and is only a small fraction of the electricity generated when natural gas is used to drive the electrolysis. Licht et al. Click to enlarge. —Licht (2017).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, the researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat CO 2 and convert it into products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel. A paper on their work appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Ding et al.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

This is the second post of our renewable energy and EV charging series. Sources of clean and renewable energy are increasingly being integrated by utilities around the world. What is Renewable Energy? Basically, renewable energy , also known as clean energy or green energy, never runs out. Renewables & EV Charging.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

Increasing evidence suggests that biomass can be used much more efficiently (and therefore with less environmental impact) through direct combustion to generate electricity and heat, rather than being converted to liquid fuels such as ethanol. However very few studies include water use impacts. Ravindranath et al.

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JUNE 8, 2015

MRC lists the amount of chemical usage on its website, monitors chemicals in the water table, doesn’t use the herbicide within the watercourse protection zones, and plans to phase out the use of the chemical by 2020. Looking down to the water from the bridge, one can see fish flitting about in the clear water. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The process also solves common problems associated with generating electricity from renewable sources such as solar, wind or wave energy. The new method allows larger-than-ever quantities of hydrogen to be produced at atmospheric pressure using lower power loads, typical of those generated by renewable power sources.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. Hence its supply would not be cheap, renewable nor sustainable in the long term.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons. Their goal is to significantly improve electrical energy storage capacity by developing a novel assembly for batteries and facilitate progress toward 100% renewable energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. How PHEV provides Smooth Transitions from fossil fuel to renewables.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water. The eventual replacement of oil with fuels generated from sustainable and carbon-neutral sources is necessary if we are to avoid harmful climate change due to the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. Well Sunpower and Sanyo are first tier, meaning in the field they’re converting at about a 16% efficiency rate I believe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

Heinz Frei of the Physical Biosciences Division, reported the first direct temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in water oxidation using the Earth-abundant catalyst cobalt oxide (Co 3 O 4 ). The oxidation of water to molecular oxygen is a four-electron process involving multiple steps. —Heinz Frei.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. The 2015 winners are Algenol; Lanzatech; Renmatix; Professor Eugene Y.-X.

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JULY 17, 2017

The new findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change , have implications for long-term emissions and climate modeling, as well as climate policy. Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail. —Adam Brandt. a, Heavy oils.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The awards were made through the Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program awards. The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

million for two major research and development (R&D) initiatives that will support the expansion of renewable transportation fuels production. These reactors have not yet been evaluated for use with renewable feedstocks such as pyrolysis oils. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $16.5 With funding of up to $4.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. But there’s much more automakers can do beyond fuel efficiency to reduce our environmental impact by adopting energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout our operations. We work every day on these issues. —Ryan Harty.

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