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Topsoe to build demonstration plant to produce cost-competitive CO2-neutral methanol from biogas and green electricity

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The technology heats the process using green electricity from wind turbines or solar panels instead of natural gas. The demonstration plant will be located at Aarhus University’s research facility in Foulum, Denmark, and receives funding from EUDP (Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program). Resources.

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Risø DTU Investigating Production of Synthetic Transportation Fuel from Renewable Electricity and CO2

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Risø DTU, the National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy at the Technical University of Denmark - DTU, is heading an effort to transform CO 2 and renewable electricity into synthetic fuels for transportation. The vision is to be able to build small, modular plants, with one standing beside each wind turbine in the local area.

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Letter from Copenhagen

Revenge of the Electric Car

Two weeks in on a trip to Denmark and my perspective on weather and transportation had shifted. Sure, an electric car would be nice, but that would have been last Sunday, when the nearly 80 electric vehicles in a “CO2 Race&# combed the streets of Copenhagen. But what I really wanted was…a bicycle. They were long gone.

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Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

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Slovenia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, India, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Germany and the United Kingdom all have 2030 deadlines. Successful schemes should be designed to capture CO2, fuel economy, NOx and safety benefits. There are at least 31 countries and U.S. states with fossil fuel car bans in place. Japan has a 2035 deadline.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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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. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. — Dean Hewitt 20.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

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Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. There is significant cause vs. effect debate on CO2. The problem for the left is that NG is still a carbon based fuel (note: you are a carbon based lifeform and exhale 12 liters of CO2 a minute.).