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ExxonMobil to invest >$1B in Antwerp refinery to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oil into diesel, other products

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plans to invest more than $1 billion to install a new delayed coker unit at its Antwerp refinery to convert heavy, higher sulfur residual oils into transportation fuels products such as marine gasoil and diesel fuel. The investment addresses an industry shortfall in capability to convert fuel oil to products such as diesel.

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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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Specific recommendations include: Invest in clean renewable energy, in particular taking advantage of solar and wind power resources and reducing reliance on coal, oil, and gas. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 The most disturbing finding was the increase in deaths from ambient air pollution.

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Lawrence Livermore publishes state-by-state energy/water Sankey diagrams

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Some water resources also flow up to energy resources (petroleum, biomass, natural gas, and coal). coal, natural gas, geothermal and nuclear) into electricity. Hydropower: The gravitational potential energy of water which fell as precipitation on elevated land is converted to electricity in hydroelectric turbines.

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

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In a paper published in the journal Atmospheric Environment , they report on the findings from a suite of scenarios designed to quantify the effect of both the magnitude of EV market penetration and the source of electricity generation used to power them. coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Winter while PM 2.5 2019.04.003.

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IEA: time to tap into hydrogen’s potential to play a key role in a clean, secure and affordable energy future

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The in-depth study, which analyzes hydrogen’s current state of play and offers guidance on its future development, was launched by Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA’s Executive Director, alongside Mr Hiroshige Seko, Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, on the occasion of the meeting of G20 energy and environment ministers in Karuizawa, Japan.

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New $20M XPRIZE tackles conversion of CO2 into products

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Teams are challenged to develop breakthrough technologies that convert the most CO 2 into one or more products with the highest net value. Founded in 1995, XPRIZE creates and manages incentivized prizes in five areas: Learning; Exploration; Energy & Environment; Global Development; and Life Sciences.

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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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