Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In February 2022, GTI Energy, S&P Global Commodity Insights and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) launched the Open Hydrogen Initiative (OHI), a collaboration to further transparency into the environmental impact of hydrogen production and help unlock its full potential as an important driver of energy transitions.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

million) to five demonstration phase projects for low-carbon hydrogen production. The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. The company will also develop further plans for large scale production of electrolyzers. Led by Cranfield University.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

million in funding to eight university and industry projects to develop biomass feedstocks to produce affordable biofuels and bioproducts that reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Aequor’s Algal Crop Protection Treatment This project will test and develop treatments to prevent algae crop productivity loss caused by pests.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Mining giant Rio Tinto will invest around $1 billion over the next five years to support the delivery of its new climate change targets and a company objective for net zero emissions from operations by 2050. The production of aluminium, copper and high-grade iron ore will play a part in the transition to a low carbon economy.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Some of the world’s leading automotive industry suppliers, including SSAB steel, Hydro renewable energy, ZF electric powertrains, ZKW control systems and Autoliv safety equipment, are joining forces with intent to collaborate on the Polestar 0 Project, which aims to develop a truly climate-neutral car by 2030 ( earlier post ).

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APRIL 8, 2023

ArcelorMittal is moving forward on the path to climate-neutral steel production at its Eisenhüttenstadt site. The electrolysers will produce hydrogen for direct use in steel production. The oxygen also generated during electrolysis is to be reused on site in production, for example in the hot rolling mill.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. of hydrogen is currently produced via water electrolysis and only a fraction of this production is powered by renewable energy.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K. These will also have to be decarbonized.

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APRIL 10, 2023

New analysis has found increasing emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals despite their production being banned for most uses under the Montreal Protocol—and a loophole in the rules is likely responsible. But because they’re potent greenhouse gases, they still affect the climate.

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JULY 1, 2022

Beginning in 2025, MAN Truck & Bus will manufacture high-voltage batteries for electric trucks and buses in large-scale production at its Nuremberg site. To this end, the company will invest around €100 million over the next five years at its production site for combustion engines.

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MARCH 10, 2013

Conversion of large swaths of Brazilian land for sugar plantations will help the country meet its needs for producing cane-derived ethanol, but it also could lead to regional climate effects, according to a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The electrocatalytic conversion of CO 2 using renewable energy could establish a climate-neutral, artificial carbon cycle. Excess energy produced by photovoltaics and wind energy could be stored through the electrocatalytic production of fuels from CO 2. In contrast, pure copper foil produces C 1 products but hardly any C 2+ products.

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MAY 14, 2022

Urban Production is an international architecture competition organized by the BMW Group in close cooperation with the City of Munich. The aim is to realize outstanding, future-ready production in the urban setting of the company’s home plant in Munich. BMW Group Plant Munich future Vision Urban Production with neighborhood.

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MARCH 16, 2023

The Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components (PEM) of RWTH Aachen University has successfully completed the anfaHair research project after two years. The results from anfaHair are now to be further exploited in the form of scientific and industrial projects.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Other elements of the executive order include: State Investments: California has an investment portfolio of more than $700 billion through CalPERS, CalSTRs, and the University of California Retirement System. California is also a major purchaser of products across its agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Electrolytic hydrogen production powered by renewable energy is seen as an environmentally friendly means to ameliorate global climate and energy problems. The material can be used as either an anode or a cathode, and demonstrates high activity and stability in the production of hydrogen and oxygen in the electrolysis of water.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will collaborate with the University of Michigan (UM) to use additive manufacturing and machine learning to create an advanced burner that will eliminate 99.5% of the methane encountered during oil production. of the methane in gas flares used by the oil and gas industry.

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JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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APRIL 3, 2022

This finding has the potential to change predictions for climate change, though it is unclear at this juncture if the mismatch will result in more or less carbon dioxide being accounted for in the environment. What we found is that the models of the ecosystem’s response to climate change need updating.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

The German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) has commissioned the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to plan a pilot plant for the production of electricity-based (electrofuel) renewable kerosene for aviation. But for this we need several million tons of climate-neutral fuel by 2030. —Prof.

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MAY 19, 2021

Volkswagen Auto Group CEO Herbert Diess is voicing his distaste for using hydrogen to solve global climate issues. ” The Handelsblatt report that Diess cited shows that a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has concluded that hydrogen cars are not the way to achieve climate neutrality.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Aerosols are tiny particles released into the atmosphere by human activities; they have proven negative effects on air quality—damaging human health and agricultural productivity. In many cases, the strongest climate effects of aerosols are felt far from where the aerosols are emitted. This work is part of a larger $1.5-million

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Researchers from the University of Birmingham have designed a novel adaptation for existing blast furnaces that could reduce CO 2 emissions from the steelmaking industry by nearly 90%. If implemented in the UK alone, the system could deliver cost savings of £1.28 billion in 5 years while reducing overall UK emissions by 2.9%. 2023.135963.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin, and including engineering and environmental testing firms URS and Aerodyne Research, is conducting a major field study to measure methane emissions from natural gas production, about which little empirical data exist.

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APRIL 2, 2019

A new study finds that environmental damage caused by corn production results in 4,300 premature deaths annually in the United States, representing a monetized cost of $39 billion. Production-weighted national average human mortality per million tonnes of maize produced, by pollutant and supply chain stage. a, Absolute mortality.

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MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Both the transportation and the storage contribute considerably to the hydrogen price.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

A new study by a team from San Jose State University and Stanford University has found that—even under heightened damage estimates—the additional mitigation costs of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C C results in a net loss of gross world product of roughly US$40 trillion relative to 2 °C and achieving either 1.5 °C

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AUGUST 27, 2012

Airbus and Tsinghua University have formed a partnership to complete a sustainability analysis of Chinese feedstocks, and to evaluate how best to support the development of a value chain to speed up the commercialization of aviation bio-fuels. By the beginning of 2013, the full sustainability analysis should have been completed.

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JUNE 27, 2017

According to a new study led by a team at Duke University, airborne particulate matter and dust are cutting solar photovoltaic energy output by more than 25% in certain parts of the world, with roughly equal contributions from ambient PM and PM deposited on photovoltaic surfaces. —Michael Bergin. 7b00197.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

However, a new lifecycle study by a team from Stanford University and Cornell University has concluded that total greenhouse gas emissions from the production of blue hydrogen are quite high, particularly due to the release of fugitive methane. —Howarth and Jacobson.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Knowing the exact structure of the activated CO 2 is essential because its structure dictates both the end product of the reaction and its energy cost. This reaction can start from many initial steps and go through many pathways, giving typically a mixture of products.

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AUGUST 30, 2020

A new study led by Colorado State University predicts significant climate benefits stemming from the use of advanced biofuel technologies. These results affirm the climate mitigation logic of biofuels, consistent with their prominent role in many climate stabilization scenarios. —Field et al.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We are firmly convinced of this, and this is also borne out by this investment, which heralds a new era for steel production in the Ruhr region. The DRI must then be melted down into a hot metal-like product so that it can be further processed into high-quality steel. The liquid product is processed into the proven steel grades there.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In addition to TECO 2030, Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited and Shell International Exploration and Production BV, the HyEkoTank project involves partners Ektank AB, Blom Maritime AS, TECO Solutions AS, Umoe Advanced Composites AS (UAC), FKAB Marine Design, Neste Oyj, and UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.

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MAY 15, 2014

While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University. —Newell and Raimi.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Eight German partners are collaborating in a project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, to develop new technologies and components that can be used to produce lithium-ion batteries more efficiently and in a way that conserves resources.

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