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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Generation 3 avoids the need for the Haber-Bosch process entirely by direct electrochemical conversion of N 2 to NH 3. The process generates H 2 from natural gas or coal through steam reforming and combines it with N 2 , which has been separated from air by a cryogenic process, to form NH 3. Generation 2. MacFarlane et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $30 million to help lower the costs of the onshore production of rare earths and other critical minerals and materials from domestic coal-based resources. ( However, rare earth elements occur naturally, including in domestic coal and coal wastes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Their analysis is published in the journal Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. The break-even crude oil price for a delivered biomass cost of $94/metric ton when hydrogen is derived from coal, natural gas or nuclear energy ranges from $103 to $116/bbl for no carbon tax and even lower ($99–$111/bbl) for the carbon tax scenarios.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

A crude oil price of US$100/bbl results in an approximate cost of €0.56/L The pyrolysis oil is mixed with pyrolysis coke from the process to create a biocrude slurry for transport and subsequent gasification to syngas and subsequent catalytic conversion to chemicals and/or fuels. With ±30% estimate error, this is between €0.56

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

UC Berkeley chemists created the first such carbon-capture MOF in 2015, and subsequent versions have proved even more efficient at removing carbon dioxide from flue gases, such as those from a coal-fired power plant. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely. Haiyan Mao et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

The new PNNL carbon capture and conversion system brings the cost to capture CO 2 down to about $39 per metric ton. As described in an open-access paper in the journal Advanced Energy Materials , the new system is designed to fit into coal-, gas-, or biomass-fired power plants, as well as cement kilns and steel plants.

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Green Car Congress

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. —Christopher Knittel.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

In the assessment, the team used The Energy and Resources Group Biofuel Analysis Meta-Model (EBAMM) to consider scenarios covering a range of feedstocks and energy conversion technologies including corn and cellulosic ethanol, and four different vehicle classes: small- and mid-size cars and small and full-size SUVs. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

While compressed natural gas (CNG) will play a role, particularly for high-mileage fleets, the report suggests that the chemical conversion of gas into some form of liquid fuel may be the best pathway to significant market penetration. MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Natural gas to fuel conversion processes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. Current research efforts in the electrochemical conversion of CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Conversion kits also will be available to switch medium-duty gasoline vehicles to run on propane. PERC estimates that operating costs of a propane fleet typically range from 5 to 30% less than a gasoline-powered fleet, when capital costs (vehicle and infrastructure) and operation and maintenance costs are all taken into consideration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E requests innovative proposals which can overcome these challenges through the utilization of metabolic engineering and synthetic biological approaches for the efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to liquid transportation fuels. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The costs of these alternative energy technologies are falling rapidly, and they are on the path to becoming cost-competitive within the next five to ten years, if not sooner. Base case economics for EVs in North America are very challenging, absent significant disruption in oil price or battery cost. BCG, November 2010).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Despite problems with its characteristics (toxicity; handling, storage and delivery requirements; and materials compatibility), methanol attracted a great deal of interest in the 1970s and later as an alternative fuel, partly because it can be produced from a number of raw and renewable resources. —Fan et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Because the use of natural gas for transportation requires compressing, liquefying, or conversion, it is important to determine the best use of natural gas as a transportation fuel. Cost considerations on the total infrastructure or cost of ownership were also outside the scope of this work but are nevertheless important, they team noted.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Conventional thermal decomposition production of lime (left) versus STEP direct solar conversion of calcium carbonate to calcium oxide (right). at below current market values; the low cost of the cogenerated. As a result, the authors suggest, STEP Cement can produce lime at less cost. Click to enlarge. The CO is produced.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Pyrolysis bio-oils are produced by the thermal decomposition of biomass by heating in the absence of oxygen at more than 500 °C; fast pyrolysis of biomass is much less expensive than biomass conversion technologies based on gasification or fermentation processes. Credit: Science , Vispute et al. Click to enlarge. —Vispute et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To answer this question, we gathered data on (i) the quantity and location of emissions released from tailpipes and from upstream processes to produce and operate vehicles, (ii) the externality costs of damages caused by the release of these emissions, and (iii) estimates of externalities and other costs to the US associated with oil consumption.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Energix Research executed the GTL process via the syngas and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis route at a high conversion rate (87%) and selectivity rate (99%). Energix expects to develop affordable, micro GTL plants to monetize underutilized resources, such as abandoned natural gas fields, coal bed methane (CBM) fields, flared gases, etc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity. Pulverized coal is often used as the flame fuel, and fuel is also added to heat and drive the calciner and preheaters. Molten carbonate electrosynthesized boron-doped CNTs exhibit high electrical conductivity. —Licht (2017).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In addition, the application of high-performance computing (HPC) and simulations to engine design can reduce the time and cost of integrating new technologies. As ICE technologies are proven and refined, the primary barriers to their adoption include cost, consumer acceptance, resource constraints, capital requirements, and turnover rates.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If you ask a bunch of experts to predict the cost of a technology 10 years from now, they’re all over the map—9 out of 10 are wrong, and you don’t know which one is right. I engaged in integrated resource planning for the two investor-owned utilities in Oregon—PGE and Pacific Power. A year ago, we weren’t even having this conversation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The Wind and Water Power Program is seeking Phase III proposals that will enhance the commercialization potential of utility-scale technologies that significantly decrease the cost of energy and/or improve the reliability of wind power systems. saline water).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. The committee also separately derived a range of values for damages from climate change; the wide range of possibilities for these damages made it impossible to develop precise estimates of cost. Coal accounts for about half the electricity produced in the US.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2013

The committee supports consistent R&D to advance technology development and to reduce the costs of alternative fuels and vehicles. Well before 2050 the cost of FCEVs could actually be lower than the cost of an equivalent ICEV, and operating costs should also be lower. —Douglas M. l/100 km) for the midrange case.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Source: Headwaters. Click to enlarge. Axens DCL process. Source: Axens.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . Hydrogen ions are highly acidic and thus highly corrosive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

million) toward a $30-million underground coal gasification (UCG) project with Swan Hills Synfuels of Calgary. Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. In the second study, for the next 20 years, even if, worst-case, we still use lots of coal, nationwide air quality for other emissions will also improve. You dont have to plug it in.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Significant tax incentives encourage the conversion of trucks and heavy-duty fleets to natural gas vehicles. The bill provides more than $7 billion annually to improve transportation infrastructure and efficiency, including highways and mass transit systems. Provides a national limitation amount of $3 billion. The American Power Act.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2012

Just as the cost of crude oil has a heavy influence on current petroleum fuel prices, the cost of biomass is the largest single contributor to the final price of biomass-derived fuel and becomes more so as plant capacity increases, they found, leading to the need to improve methods of biomass gathering and delivery.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

He’s a great resource and wonderful guy and he’s a old solar hippy. And by that do you mean they were fronting the costs of the rebates and then not recouping them from the utilities? I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

conversion to fuel molecules or to electrons—depends on market and regulatory contexts that are outside the scope of attributional life cycle assessments (LCA). Bioelectricity that displaces coal-fired electricity could reduce GHG emissions, but bioelectricity that displaces wind electricity could increase GHG emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies.

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