Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. DOE Investment: $1,000,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $391,000. Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group.

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Coal Carbon Gas-Electric Gas 250

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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Waste Gas Design Fuel 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Oxford Resource Partners, LP, a low-cost producer of high-value steam coal in Northern Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. Oxford markets its coal primarily to large electric utilities with coal-fired, base-load scrubbed power plants under long-term coal sales contracts.

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Ohio Coal Columbus Illinois 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. lower cost) and gasification/F-T processes (e.g.,

Gasoline 150

Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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2019 Industrial Industry Production 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The plants are designed to be low-cost, highly efficient facilities optimized to generate an attractive project rate of return. At this scale, the Maverick Oasis system is the first commercially proven technology that converts low-value gas feedstocks into methanol and higher-value products.

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Gas Affordable Waste Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Under the agreement, Genomatica will create proprietary, specially-designed organisms and complete manufacturing processes to efficiently and economically convert syngas into chemical products. Syngas is produced from natural gas or liquid hydrocarbons, and through the gasification of coal, biomass, and waste materials.

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Waste Gas-Electric Renewable Convert 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Engineering E.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

million to six research projects to help find ways of converting CO 2 captured from emissions of power plants and industrial facilities into useful products. Total value of the projects, including cost sharing, is approximately US$5.9 The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$4.4 million over two to three years.

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Conversion Carbon Rhode Island Massachusetts 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8 PPG Industries, Inc. Cheswick, PA – up to $3.0 SkyFuel, Inc.

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Solar Power Powered Molten Salt 240

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2017

A team from Saudi Aramco Research and Development Center has developed a novel low-cost, high-octane gasoline blend component it calls SuperButol. Unreacted butenes are recycled to the reactor until all the butenes are converted to the isomers of butanols and iso-octane. It is mandated for use in gasoline in many countries.

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Low Cost Gasoline Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have created a new system—the least costly to date—that efficiently captures CO 2 and converts it into methanol. The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton.

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Conversion Carbon Cleaner CO2 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel. The diesel made from biomass will be a direct substitute for ultra low-sulfur diesel (defined by ASTM D 975). The biomass waste will first be converted into pyrolysis oil and then upgraded to diesel.

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Each megasat could then convert gigawatts of power into a microwave beam aimed precisely at a big field of receiving antennas on Earth. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity. It would take two or three of these giant satellites to replace one large retiring coal or nuclear power station.

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Power Powered Solar Fusion 123

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Applications are sought to develop electrochemical energy storage technologies that support commercialization of micro, mild, and full HEVs, PHEVs, and EVs. It is also being tested for stationary source applications such as remote power supplies (gensets) and coal-fired power plants.

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Engine Fuel Hydrogen Batteries 253

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy. Centennial, CO, developing technology to biochemically convert coal to methane at large scale and low cost.

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Energy Li-ion Coal Low Cost 225

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. And my project topic is matrix converter bidirectional contactless charger for EV. The algorithm should take care of the energy cost. -It Power Electronic converters 3. Battery manufacturing etc. pollutes the environment.

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IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electrical 98

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. The convenience and low cost of this concept alone merit attention.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Establishing dealer network.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45