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Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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Researchers from Northwestern University and Princeton University have explored the impact on US air quality from an aggressive conversion of internal combustion vehicles to battery-powered electric vehicles (EVs). This despite evidence that suggests air pollution impacts from the transportation sector exceed those from greenhouse gases. …

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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SGH2’s gasification process uses a plasma-enhanced thermal catalytic conversion process optimized with oxygen-enriched gas. The SPEG process extracts all carbon from the waste feedstock, removes all particulates and acid gases, and produces no toxins or pollution. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important.

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Discovery of mechanism for atmospheric particle formation suggests need for ammonia emission regulations

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When the temperature gets colder, they can actually go through the gas to particle conversion process, creating new particles and increasing the overall particle number concentration. There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. The emission sources are limited up there.

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Argonne releases GREET 2020

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The SCSA takes the life-cycle analysis approach to identify energy consumption and environmental sustainability hotspots that could be mitigated through improved process materials and energy conversion efficiencies. Electricity generation efficiency and criteria air pollutant emission factors. Lithium pathway updates and additions.

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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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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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New energy vehicles are increasingly needed by people

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Advantage 1: less pollution, more environmentally friendly. Pure electric vehicles can achieve zero pollution during operation, and do not emit harmful gases that pollute the atmosphere at all. The traditional fuel vehicle consumes about 10 kilograms of standard coal based on the fuel consumption of 10L per 100 kilometers.

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IHS Markit: 2020 low-sulfur requirements for marine bunker fuels causing scramble for refiners and shippers

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The IMO fuel sulfur content regulation will have a significant global impact on both the refining and the shipping industries. Because of its high sulfur content, maritime shipping accounts for 8% of global emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), making the industry an important source for acid rain as well as respiratory diseases.

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