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Researchers propose CO2 recycling to improve Fischer-Tropsch GTL efficiency and reduce total CO2 emissions

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Researchers in South Korea are suggesting two new carbon-dioxide-utilized Gas-to-Liquids processes (CUGP) to increase the overall efficiency of conventional Fischer-Tropsch GTL. Overview of the CUGP processes. Credit: ACS, Zhang et al. Click to enlarge. through catalytic hydrocracking.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

40 kWh battery EV is equal to diesel car. The batteries for electric vehicles and for other appliances cells are assembled in modules and packs which depends on what materials these are made of and how they are manufactured, also affect the battery’s CO2 footprint and climate impact. Potential to decrease the CO2 impact.

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Berkeley Lab study forecasts China energy use will peak within 20 years; 356 million private cars by 2050

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CCS at the current level of efficiency and from an integrated system point of view, however, will only have a small net CO2 mitigation impact of 475 million tonnes in 2050. The total national CO2 emissions mitigation potential of moving from a CIS to AIS trajectory of development is 3.8 billion tonnes in 2027.

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Will Korea cope with new emission standards?

Green Cars News

Earlier this week we told you that South Korea had implemented new fuel efficiency and carbon dioxide emission standards in our article South Korea outlines efficiency targets. From 2015, all cars sold in Korea must meet these requirements. However, will these new standards benefit the Korean car manufacturers?

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S. Korean researchers develop new catalytic pathway for direct conversion of CO2 to liquid hydrocarbon fuels

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Our direct CO 2 -FT synthesis is different from the CO 2 -to-diesel conversion process recently announced by Audi, which actually involves two steps—reverse water gas shift (RWGS) reaction to CO followed by CO Fisher-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. 2016.09.072.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

South Korea did that and Australia is going to be doing that. Generating electricity from wind and geothermal rather than a CO2 producing sources would help alleviate that problem. The intolerable act is to pretend that making cars into plug-ins will reduce CO2. We are facing a big problem with global warming.

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