Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal. cited one study showing that the full lifecycle (well-to-wheel) CO 2 emissions from M85 (with coal-derived methanol) are 2.5 Methanol in China.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 247

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

It is estimated that the miles per gallon (mpg) of light duty vehicles improved by 1.0% (20.4 Since 1949, the 2011 decline in coal generation of more 6% is second only to the decline in 2009 of almost 12%. As recently as 2005, coal’s share of electric power sector generation was more than 51%. per gallon. mpg) from 2010 to 2011.

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2011 Emissions Energy CO2 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Credit: ACS, Wallington et al.

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Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

FCA is used to evaluate the energy and GHG emission impacts of a wide variety of existing and proposed fuels, including fossil options (coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, unconventional petroleum) as well as electricity, gaseous fuels and biofuels from a range of feedstocks. —DeCicco (2014). DeCicco (2014). Click to enlarge.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Climate 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol from non-renewable coal or natural gas could be used as a bridging.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, the iron demand is less because the share of steel is less, while the bauxite demand increases because of the higher light alloy share. Where energy resources are concerned, lignite, hard coal and uranium figure principally in car production.

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Mercedes CO2 2007 MPG 252

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

Efficiency standards that at least double miles per gallon of automobiles and light trucks over current vehicles (CAFE); and a reduction of miles driven (VMT) through road pricing, pay-as-you-drive insurance, and by encouraging transportation alternatives. For electric power. For buildings and appliances. Samaras et al.

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Market CO2 Coal 2009 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

If successful, new battery technologies developed under this program will give electrified light-duty vehicles range, performance, lifetime, and cost required to shift transportation energy from oil to the domestically powered US electric grid. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The City of Los Angeles, California is launching a citywide program to distribute free compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) to every household in Los Angeles as part of ongoing efforts to reduce the City’s carbon footprint. The LADWP CFL replacement program is projected to save $61.3

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Los Angeles CO2 2007 Coal 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. The decision also fits with our overall strategy.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

For decades, Sasol has been using its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert low-grade coal and gas into synthetic fuels and chemicals. There are two ways to convert CO 2 into a useful range of products using FT chemistry.

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Convert Hydrogen Commercial Green 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. The US moves steadily towards meeting all of its energy needs from domestic resources by 2035. Contributions to global oil production growth. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. Technology and oil.

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Oil 2013 Energy Emissions 275

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It also updated the costs and sizes of electric and plug-in hybrid electric batteries and revised downward light-duty vehicle travel demand due to the adoption of a new estimation technique. Beyond 2020, CAFE standards for both passenger cars and light-duty trucks are held constant. —EIA Administrator Richard Newell.

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Gas 2011 Price Energy 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The DOE Office of Fossil Energy’s Strategic Center for Coal supports research and development of SCO 2 power cycle systems technologies in light of their potential advantages over conventional steam cycles.

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Energy Power Powered CO2 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Grown in photobioreactors made of polycarbonate or glass, and using only light, wastewater and CO2, the algae can be harvested every 24 to 48 hours. At the end of the growth cycle, the algae is harvested using OriginOil’s Algae Appliance and then processed into a bio-feedstock that has nearly the same energy value as coal.

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Oil-Sands Oil Cleaning Clean 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Here we propose a new path to CCU—direct CO 2 conversion to liquid fuels with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting… Thus, CO 2 emitted from industrial sources like coal power plants, steel mills, or chemical plants is captured and reacts with H 2 generated from solar hydrogen plant to produce liquid fuels in a single step.

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Conversion Fuel CO2 Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

It does include the revised handling of fuel economy standards to reflect the proposal for light-duty vehicles in model years 2012-2016. New light duty vehicle efficiency reaches 40 mpg by 2035. per year, assuming no new policies to reduce energy-related CO2 emissions. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Renewable Oil 2010 Energy 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

This study sheds light on the urban passenger transport sector in China, which accounted for around 20% (188 MtCO 2 ) of the total carbon emissions of the transport sector in 2016, and aims to answer whether the CO 2 emissions from the urban passenger transport sector can reach its peak before 2030 and how to reach the peak.

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Transportation Emissions China Taxi 316

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Areas of interest here include Transitional Technology for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs); SSL Products made from Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs); and “Core” Technology for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). Buildings Technologies. Geothermal Technologies.

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Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In addition, unconventional resources (including biofuels, oil sands, extra-heavy oil, coal-to-liquids, and gas-to-liquids) from both non-OPEC and OPEC sources are expected to become increasingly competitive in the reference case. million barrels per day. World production of unconventional resources, which totaled 3.1 percent per year.

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2006 Emissions Energy Oil-Sands 150

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. Passenger light-duty vehicles.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Energy 247

Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. These include low-cost solutions such as using more efficient light bulbs and lowering the temperature of your air conditioner. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Solar 98

Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

EVs help you lead by example Municipalities and local governments can lead by example when they choose to electrify their fleets , says Andrew Light, a clean energy specialist with the World Resources Institute. Why Install EV Charging? That’s because without internal combustion, EVs have no tailpipe emissions.

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Charging Fleet Installation CO2 96

All Cars Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

According to their studies conducted back in 2008, CO2 emissions could drop by as much as 450 million tons annually if only 60 % of light.

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EPRI Emissions Coal CO2 44

Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020. fleet of light vehicles.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles West Virginia Electrical 110

Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

For the transportation sector, electrification means replacing fossil fuels with electricity as the means of powering light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses. Globally, the transportation sector contributes about 25% of all CO2 emissions. What is the potential for reducing emissions? But again, location matters.

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Transportation CO2 Grid Fleet 52

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

One surprise to me from her presentation is the fact that street lights are the number two user of electricity in Los Angeles. Kreigh spoke about how organics, like grass clippings in landfills, drive methane production and he reminded us that methane is a greenhouse gas that is 20 times more potent than CO2. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Green Climate Change Climate Los Angeles 150

Blink Charging

JUNE 13, 2023

EVs help you lead by example Municipalities and local governments can lead by example when they choose to electrify their fleets , says Andrew Light, a clean energy specialist with the World Resources Institute. Why Install EV Charging? That’s because without internal combustion, EVs have no tailpipe emissions.

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Charging Fleet Installation CO2 52

Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Witte: So I was actually pretty interested in this topic for a couple years now, and then really started diving deeper into it maybe a year-and-a-half ago when Microsoft had signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the big CCS projects that is called Northern Lights. I don’t think anybody’s really considering that anymore.

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Carbon Store Climate Change Light 87

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Still, the instant torque of the electric motor is a rush you get to experience all the time in city driving; each time you pull away from a red light and stop sign youre wondering why gasoline engines ever became popular. So, Nimrod, didnt you realize that FCVs would cause CO2 emissions as well? Small size. New technology.

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Dodge Circuit Dodge Electric Cars Chrysler 45

EV Info

MARCH 26, 2021

With two Electric cars, at the time a Nissan Lean and Mitsubishi Outlander, we use a considerable amount of electricity but not much petrol, so already we were a reasonable way down the less CO2 road. The solar panels attach to the roof and convert solar light into electrical energy. Tons of CO2. . Tons of CO2. .

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Solar Power Powered Grid 81

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. and tap clean, renewable energy sources.

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Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

Hydrogen production as mentioned above is based on electrolysis, a chemical process that produces hydrogen which is a universal, light, and highly reactive fuel. According to the IEA, this way of creating green hydrogen would avoid the 830 million tonnes of CO2 released annually when the hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels.

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Hydrogen Green Cars Gas-Electric 40

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Soot—black and brown particles that absorb solar radiation—comes from two types of sources: fossil fuels such as diesel, coal, gasoline, jet fuel; and solid biofuels such as wood, manure, dung, and other solid biomass used for home heating and cooking around the world. Dessler et al., 2008] and methane [Schutz et al.,

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Global Ozone CO2 Pollution 230

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Or in other words we are reliant on Putin to keep the light on and at his mercy on the cost of the gas. Most CO2 is a by-product of making fertilisers. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link].

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Power Powered Gas-Electric Gas 98

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Note the clarification of Zero Co2 at the point of use. It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement. Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and with high oxygen mix are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faint plume of the Space Shuttle Main Engine. Zero CO 2 at point of use.”

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Hydrogen Power Powered Gas-Electric 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58