Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Electra’s process emits zero carbon dioxide emissions and carries zero green premium, meaning it will cost the same or less than existing production methods powered by fossil fuels. We also have a historic opportunity to decentralize the global iron and steel supply chain and re-shore manufacturing and mining jobs.

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Coal Boston Carbon Green 360

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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Coal Hydrogen Fuel Power 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2013

In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015) Earlier post.]

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Coal Pollution China Gas 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Australia-based underground coal gasification (UCG) company Linc Energy ( earlier post ) has signed an exclusive agreement with the UK-based alkaline fuel cell technology company AFC Energy Plc and its related company, B9 Coal ( earlier post ).

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Coal Companies Power Powered 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Genscape reported that January 2013 coal-fired power generation in the US surged 8.9% Both coal and gas-fired generation supplied the additional power needed for this increased demand with gas increasing its output by 1.7% Coal and gas had equal power sector output levels in April of last year. above January 2012 levels.

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Coal 2012 Gas Price 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

In the comparison, Keliber shows the lowest emission intensity of 4.38 The CO 2 emissions are more than 16 tonnes/produced tonne, due to the dominance of coal as the energy source.?. In addition, Keliber’s location near potential European customers positively effects on the emissions created in the production chain.

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Carbon Chile Australia Emissions 418

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

This year has brought a significant shift in the generating cost comparison between renewable energy and fossil fuels, according to detailed analysis by technology and region, published this week by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In the US, coal and gas are still cheaper, at $65 per MWh, against onshore wind at $80 and PV at $107.

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Wind Solar Coal Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

These factors include: the environmental impact of fuel production and delivery; material use; and the vehicle’s own fuel consumption. The comparison was made with the previous-generation Wrangler Unlimited, as powered by its only available engine—FCA’s award-winning 3.6-liter 2020 Jeep Wrangler Freedom Edition.

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Jeep MPG 2020 Fuel Economy 269

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Jackson and his colleagues estimate that global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources—which represent roughly 90% of all emissions from human activities—will grow a projected 0.6% Although still a major factor in global emissions, coal has taken a hit, with global usage down 0.9% over 2018 emissions.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change 195

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

All large-scale energy systems have environmental impacts, and the ability to compare the impacts of renewable energy sources is an important step in planning a future without coal or gas power. Wind beats coal by any environmental measure, but that doesn’t mean that its impacts are negligible. Source: Miller and Keith (2018a).

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Wind Power Powered Climate 315

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2016

million in federal funding for cost-shared projects that will develop technologies that utilize CO 2 from coal-fired power plants to produce useful products. Another option is to use the CO 2 as a reagent to create useful products, such as cement, plastics, or liquid fuels. The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award approximately $6.7

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Convert Production Coal CO2 150

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Of the fossil fuel subsidies, $70.2

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Renewable Tax Credit Climate Change Fuel 338

Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses. —Cohan and Sengupta (2016).

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Gas-Electric Gas Transportation Coal 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

Third, the analysis offers a novel comparison of drivetrain and energy carrier production pathways based on natural resource categories. Included in the analysis are fuel cell, electric, hybrid-electric and conventional ICE drivetrains; energy carriers include gasoline, diesel, CNG, biogas, hydrogen and electricity.

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Alternative Fuels Emissions Fuel Switzerland 252

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

More than half of the funding ($15 million) will go to FuelCell Energy for a pilot scale project using one of the company’s Direct Fuel Cells for carbon capture and compression. In a typical DFC application, natural gas is combined with ambient air for the fuel cell power generation process. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Fuel Coal CO2 Exhaust 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely Group and CRI intend to collaborate on the deployment of renewable methanol fuel production technology in China and explore the development and deployment of 100% methanol-fueled vehicles in China, Iceland and other countries. —Li Shufu, Chairman of Geely Group. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Cheng of the Sloan Automotive Laboratory assessing the prospects for methanol as an alternative transportation fuel in the US concludes that methanol is a safe and viable transportation fuel, although it not as good as ethanol in terms of energy density and ease of handling. methanol using thermo-chemical processes.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Chicago MIT Tax Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The American Lung Association has been named the 2017 Clean Fuels Champion by Chicago Area Clean Cities (CACC), a nonprofit coalition dedicated to promoting clean-energy and clean-air solutions for transportation in the Chicago area impacting nearly 9 million people. Air pollution poses a serious threat to our nation’s health.

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Chicago Clean Cleaning 2017 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Climate 268

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JULY 8, 2012

Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Comparison of relative contributions from various sources to total BC emissions between China and other countries/regions including India, North America, and Africa.

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2007 Carbon China Emissions 271

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APRIL 18, 2018

Comparison of 2016 annual average PM 2.5 Millions of people around the world are also exposed to air pollution in their homes arising from the use of solid fuels (e.g., coal, wood, and dung) for cooking and heating. was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second. State of Global Air 2018. contributed to 4.1

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Pollution Coal 2016 India 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

An analysis of near-term spending plans on renewables by the biggest oil and gas companies shows that real investments in renewable energy will continue to pale in comparison to capex plans for greenfield fossil fuel projects. Let this sink in: In 2018, Big Oil spent less than 1% of its combined budget on green energy projects.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric 418

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Hertwich and Xiangping Zhang, is to obtain an easy to handle fuel with near-zero CO 2 emission and reduced land-use requirements compared to first and second generation biofuels. The researchers modeled the production of methanol, which can be used directly as transport fuel or as input for DME and FT-diesel synthesis. billion ha.

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Solar Molten Salt Fuel Production 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. By comparison, oil shale has NERs (or EROI) of 1.6−2.0 The team established a NER range of 2.7-7.3

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Oil-Sands Oil Energy Fuel 150

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reached a new all-time high in 2013, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO2 emissions”, released by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Joint Research Centre (JRC). in 2013, increasing its share in transport fuels by 0.3

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2013 Emissions Global CO2 240

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Substituting biofuels for marginal fossil-based liquid fuels results in the avoidance of significant GHG emissions that are not currently accounted for in the European Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC), according to a new analysis by the consultancy Ecofys. those that are marginally “not produced”. —van den Bos and Hamelinck 2014.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2014 Fuel 236

Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

Nearly all of the world’s ship fleet still runs on diesel fuel, with about a quarter of new ships on order being built to run on somewhat lower-carbon alternatives like liquefied natural gas, methanol, or hybrid propulsion. Shipping uses over 300 million tonnes of fossil fuels every year, producing 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 145

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Qiang Dai and Christian Lastoskie found that BEVs and FCVs in particular offer significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, especially if carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies are implemented at the fuel conversion facilities. Their study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. … —Dai and Lastoskie.

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Gas Li-ion Gas-Electric Conversion 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2012

The goal of their study was to understand how alternative fuels affect the primary PM emissions, the semi-volatile nature of the these emissions, and the potential for the emissions to form secondary PM. A paper on the results is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Properties of fuels used in the study.

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Emissions Engine Fuel Gas 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

These medium-duty postal and parcel delivery trucks operate in an urban environment in which a significant portion of their trip time is spent idling, resulting in low fuel economy. Is the electric truck cost-effective in comparison with the diesel truck? Urban delivery trucks may be a suitable application for electrification.

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Georgia Diesel Gas-Electric Electric 268

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

These synthetic fuels are economically competitive with petro-diesel when the crude oil price (COP) is at or above $86 per barrel (based on a 20% rate of return, in January 2008 dollars, with a carbon price of zero). The study used one feedstock of each type—bituminous coal and switchgrass—to evaluate the CTL/CBTL/BTL processes.

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Carbon Diesel Fuel Coal 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault’s comparison of the carbon footprint of EV and ICE vehicles over production, operation and end of life. The publication gives the opportunity for an “apples-to-apples” comparison between the environmental impacts of the two types of powertrains: same manufacturer, same model, same boundary conditions. Click to enlarge.

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Li-ion Gasoline-Electric Ozone Diesel 364

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

CO 2 emissions of the C 180 in comparison to its predecessor [t/car]. Where energy resources are concerned, lignite, hard coal and uranium figure principally in car production. Natural gas and crude oil are strongly influenced by fuel consumption during the use phase. Source: Mercedes-Benz. Click to enlarge. l/100 km (36.8

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Mercedes CO2 2007 MPG 252

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Consistent comparisons between emerging technologies such as EVs and their conventional counterparts are necessary to support policy development, sound research, and investment decisions.The production phase of EVs proved substantially more environmentally intensive. They investigated two types of batteries in the EV case: LiFePO 4 and LiNCM.

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Gasoline-Electric Vehicles Coal Gasoline 309

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

population weighted comparisons in annual mean PM 10 for a three?year year comparisons do not necessarily represent trends, in particular when changes are limited. Regional city?population year period, by region, for cities present in both versions of the AAP database. Source: WHO. Click to enlarge.

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Global Pollution 2014 2012 239

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

However, they also noted, high PTW efficiencies and the moderate fuel economies of current compressed natural gas vehicles (CNGVs) make them a viable option as well. The study investigated the the WTW energy and emissions from the use of natural gas in CNGVs with a range of CNGV fuel economy and natural gas compressor efficiency.

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Gas-Electric Gas Fuel Economy PHEV 345