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Tesla Megapacks go live in Oahu, garnering visit from executive

Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

On Friday, Drew Baglino, Tesla Senior VP of Powertrain and Energy Engineering, posted a photo on X from the Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) project site in Oahu, noting that the 185 MW Megapack project had successfully reached its Commercial Operation Date (COD).

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Hawaii Tesla Energy Storage United Kingdom

Clean Global Energy in JV for $400M Underground Coal Gasification Project in China

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ltd of Beijing, China (GX) and Goldbridge Clean Tech Energy of East Sussex, United Kingdom (GB) to undertake a US$400M commercial UCG (underground coalgasification) project on GX’s Inner Mongolia coal deposit. Underground coal gasification. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Mongolia Clean Cleaning

First 100% Synthetic Fuel Passenger Jet Flight

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2010

The fuel, produced by Sasol’s proprietary Coal to Liquids (CTL) process, is the only fully synthetic jet fuel to have received international approval as a commercial aviation turbine fuel, Sasol said. To date, most of the aircraft leaving O.R. Tambo International Airport have flown using Sasol’s semi-synthetic jet fuel.

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Battelle wins $6M in contracts to advance carbon management and shale development

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

The projects are co-funded by The Development Services Agency's Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) for promoting clean use of Ohio coals. billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management and technology commercialization. Department of Homeland Security, and the United Kingdom.

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Carbon Ohio Coal United Kingdom

EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The average emission of new light commercial vehicles in 2015 was 168.3 The United Kingdom showed the largest decrease of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. According to the EEA, the average CO 2 emissions level of new cars sold in 2015 was 119.5 g CO 2 /km, well below the 2015 target of 130 g CO 2 /km.

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2015 Emissions Transportation Gas

Algae.Tec Signs MOUs for China and Australia to Deploy Algae Bioreactor Technology

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

As commercial plants will ideally be built on the site of large scale CO 2 emitting companies, such as coal-fired power stations, the number of modules on each site will be dependent upon the CO 2 available.

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Australia China United Kingdom 2010

MIT study estimates ~7,500 early deaths per year in UK from PM2.5 from transport

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2012

concentration due to combustion emissions from (a) power generation; (b) commercial, institutional, residential, and agricultural sources; (c) industry; (d) road transport; (e) other transport; and (f) all UK combustion sources. Barrett (2012) Public Health Impacts of Combustion Emissions in the United Kingdom. Click to enlarge.

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MIT Transportation United Kingdom Emissions

China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

While many countries explored the possibility of using fast breeder reactors early on, only one of the breeder reactors built in France , Germany, the United Kingdom, or the United States survived into the 21st century before it, too, was shut down. Weapons-grade plutonium can be separated chemically from the blanket.

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The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s true of social networks, transportation networks, commercial networks, and, especially, communication networks. In the 18th century, the United Kingdom built a network of canals that enabled, rather suddenly, the delivery of raw materials, coal for power, and access to ports for the finished goods.

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UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

The past decade was the first in two centuries with increasing CO2 emissions intensities, owing to a “coal revival”, in contrast with the rapid conversion to natural gas in the 1990s. These trends, which are diametrically opposed to declared greenhouse gas mitigation goals and targets, are by no means limited to emerging economies.

Global

Global Energy Green Coal

OPG, GE Hitachi to deploy small modular reactor at Darlington station in Canada

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

OPG and GE Hitachi will collaborate on the SMR engineering, design, planning, preparing the licencing and permitting materials, and performing site preparation activities, with the mutual goal of constructing Canada’s first commercial, grid-scale SMR, projected to be completed as early as 2028. GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd.,

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Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2015

The report, Projected Costs of Generating Electricity: 2015 Edition , also shows that new nuclear power plants generate electricity more cheaply than other established “baseload” sources—mainly coal- and gas-fired power plants—over the full lifetime of facilities when financing costs are relatively low.

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Cost Of Renewable South Africa Power

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

There’s good reason for this hustle: The United Kingdom wants to add 34 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, en route to decarbonizing its grid by 2035. In our view, this is purely a deployment question,” says Aaron Smith , chief commercial officer for the floating wind-tech developer Principle Power , based in Emeryville, Calif.,

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Wind Global Water Oil

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Tesla Megapacks go live in Oahu, garnering visit from executive

Clean Global Energy in JV for $400M Underground Coal Gasification Project in China

First 100% Synthetic Fuel Passenger Jet Flight

Battelle wins $6M in contracts to advance carbon management and shale development

EU greenhouse gas emissions from transport increased for the second year in a row in 2015; on-road up 1.6%

Algae.Tec Signs MOUs for China and Australia to Deploy Algae Bioreactor Technology

MIT study estimates ~7,500 early deaths per year in UK from PM2.5 from transport

China’s New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts

The Chain Reaction That Propels Civilization

UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

OPG, GE Hitachi to deploy small modular reactor at Darlington station in Canada

Joint IEA-NEA report details plunge in costs of renewable electricity; nuclear competitive with other baseload power sources

Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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