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Audi of America launches Internal Carbon Price program to support goal of lowering CO2 footprint 30% by 2025

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Audi of America is among the first in the automotive industry to implement an internal carbon price program as a key initiative in the brand’s pursuit of lower CO 2 emissions. Waste generation. Employee commuting. Fuel consumed by Audi of America fleet vehicles. Building heat & energy. Purchased goods and services.

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Study suggests that decarbonizing US transport sector by converting waste CO2 to fuels would require economical air-capture of CO2

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Kreutz used two examples of CCTF systems in his analysis: biodiesel from microalgae and Sandia National Laboratory’s S2P process (an effort to utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels, earlier post ). emissions. their CO 2 (e.g. ~90%) natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy, etc.).In

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CO2-to-chemicals company Liquid Light raises $15M Series B financing; process scale-up and application validation

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Customers can benefit from a lower cost of production, while harnessing their current waste stream; reduce their dependence on cyclically-priced petroleum feedstocks; and can reduce their carbon footprint.

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Stanford team proposes method for electricity production from oil shale with in situ carbon capture to provide transportation energy with reduced CO2 emissions

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These emissions estimates raise a question: is the energy content of shale effectively “off limits” in a GHG constrained world, or is there a way to extract the stored chemical energy from oil shale with greatly reduced CO2 emissions? secondary use of waste heat. Waste heat from conversion. —Mulchandani and Brandt.

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North America just got its first recycled Li-ion battery materials plant

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Photo: Green Li-ion Green Li-ion has launched North America’s first commercial-scale plant to process unsorted battery waste, or “black mass,” from used lithium-ion batteries. They have hundreds of pre-vetted solar installers competing for your business, ensuring you get high quality solutions and save 20-30% compared to going it alone.

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T&E concludes that diesel cars emit more CO2 on a full lifecycle basis than gasoline cars

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The average diesel car is driven longer, however, only 4% of this is due to the lower fuel price (rebound effect). The composition of the biodiesel itself uses the average shares of rapeseed oil (48%), palm oil (27%), waste oils (15%), soya oil (5%), tallow & grease (4%), etc. l/100 km (37.3 mpg US) and 7.1 l/100 km (33.1

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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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On the other hand, drivers of other vehicles waste considerable time making special trips to refuel their internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles at the liquid fuel station or their battery electric vehicle (BEV) at the rapid recharging station. BEVs have an ongoing problem with range anxiety. [ 23 ] , [ 24 ].

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