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JULY 19, 2012

Celanese Corporation has entered into a Joint Statement of Cooperation to advance the development of fuel ethanol projects with Pertamina, the state-owned energy company of Indonesia. However, the company last year created a different business unit to help orchestrate and organize a potential fuel ethanol new line of business.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

South Africa-based Sasol and Japan-based ITOCHU Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly to study and to develop the market and supply chain for green ammonia with a focus on its use as bunkering fuel and for power generation. The product can also be cracked back to hydrogen gas for further applications.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. Fossil fuel plants are the ones dispatched in response to new charging load.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Alaska Native corporation Cook Inlet Region Inc. Laurus Energy have formed Stone Horn Ridge LLC, a company created to commercialize syngas from underground coal gasification (UCG). The Anchorage, Alaska-based joint venture is developing syngas for power generation, synthetic liquid fuels and other industrial applications.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nikola Corporation and KeyState Natural Gas Synthesis , a clean hydrogen and chemicals production facility under development, are working together to create Pennsylvania’s first low-carbon hydrogen production value chain, which includes full integration of commercial carbon capture and storage.

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Hydrogen Carbon Pennsylvania Gas-Electric 199

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation and Weyerhaeuser Company signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibilities of collaborating in the biomass-to-energy business. Bio-pellets are a renewable and carbon-neutral fuel made from biomass, which can include by-products from forest management.

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Mitsubishi Corporation Energy Coal 199

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JANUARY 21, 2011

Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., The company also announced its intention to explore opportunities in China and other countries for the application of its technology in the global fuel industry. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

The Licella bio-crude, which has an energy density of 34-36 MJ/kg and oxygen content of around 10 wt% or less, can then be refined into drop-in fuels. The company’s new commercial demonstration facility at Somersby in New South Wales was just opened by the Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Total and Chevron are the most active corporate investors in the fermentation domain.

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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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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

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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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

Sparton Resources Inc. and NuCoal Energy Corporation recently executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) wherein Sparton and NuCoal will jointly evaluate the potential of NuCoal’s lignitic coal holdings in Saskatchewan to host commercial germanium and uranium mineralization. NuCoal presently controls over 1.8

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Coal North Dakota Commercial Gasoline-Electric 199

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APRIL 25, 2010

Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc. These pumps will be used on DME fueled buses that will operate in Shanghai. Shanghai Diesel Engine Company is owned by Shanghai Automotive Industrial Corporation (SAIC), one of the top three automotive corporations in China. Alternative Fuel Technologies, Inc.

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Alternative Fuels Diesel Engine Companies 231

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JULY 31, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 7 projects that will help develop low-cost solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for central power generation from fossil energy resources for further research. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The projects include: ?. Boston University. University of Connecticut.

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MARCH 13, 2013

million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels. Energy-efficient electrocatalysts for renewable fuels and chemicals.

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Conversion Carbon Fuel Energy 210

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JULY 22, 2011

The TCEP would integrate coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and. Whiting will be the first in the Permian to purchase CO 2 from a power project that will be produced through the coal-gasification process. The TCEP integrates coal gasification, combined-cycle power generation, CO 2 capture, and.

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Coal Texas Oil CO2 186

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JUNE 20, 2009

The MIT Energy Initiative has released a new report on reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal plants. There is no credible pathway toward prudent greenhouse gas stabilization targets without CO 2 emissions reduction from existing coal power plants. Wayne Leonard, chairman and CEO of Entergy Corporation.

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Coal MIT CO2 Emissions 150

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JUNE 20, 2012

From a cost perspective, the potential of alternative fuels is of limited, if any value, according to the lead report written by James Bartis, a RAND senior policy researcher. While DoD and the services will have access to the wholesale fuel supplies they require, the purchase price may be uncomfortably high. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

A core group of 15 commercial airlines has signed non-binding memoranda of understanding (MOUs) for negotiating purchases from two different producers of synthetic jet fuel: AltAir Fuels LLC and RenTech Inc. These alternative fuels will be more environmentally friendly, on a life cycle basis, than today’s petroleum-based jet fuels.

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Purchase Fuel Coal Alternative Fuels 225

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APRIL 1, 2011

China Energy, a Hong Kong-based limited liability corporation, has been formed by Zhongjixuan Investment Management Ltd. ZJX will assist SES in the development of new joint venture businesses to deliver energy based on lower cost/lower grade coals such as lignite. ZJX) of Beijing for the purpose of investing in SES.

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China Energy Coal Low Cost 218

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Mascoma Corporation has entered into a feedstock processing and lignin supply agreement with Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), a division of Chevron USA, Inc. CTV is developing proprietary technology and catalysts for the conversion of lignin into hydrocarbon components for transportation fuels. Chevron and lignin for fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steam hydrogasification reaction is one component of a three-step process for the production of fuels. The process has high carbon conversion rates at lower temperatures, and can be used to make numerous liquid transportation fuels (i.e., Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). diesel, gasoline, jet) at low cost.

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Waste Grant Fuel Gas-Electric 210

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Further, the fossil fuel share of primary energy consumption falls from 82% in 2011 to 78% in 2040 as consumption of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls, largely because of the incorporation of new fuel efficiency standards for light-duty vehicles. Renewable fuel use grows at a much faster rate than fossil fuel use.

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

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MARCH 5, 2013

Shell and its affiliates will build two additional small-scale natural gas liquefaction units to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel for marine and heavy-duty on-road customers in North America. Shell is also working to use natural gas as a fuel in its own operations. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast. Lawrence Seaway.

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North America Transportation America Building 218

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JULY 23, 2016

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation; Ohio State University; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Purdue University; and the University of Michigan. The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, with its consortium partners, has pledged an equivalent amount of resources, bringing the total bilateral effort to $50 million over 5 years.

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Climate Change China Chinese Obama 150

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MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. The CI of a fuel is determined by the sum of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, processing and consumption of a fuel (its pathway). Earlier post.)

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Renewable California Carbon Diesel 236

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JULY 10, 2011

Under the scheme, around 500 of the largest emitters in Australia—facilities that have direct greenhouse gas emissions of 25,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent per year or more (excluding emissions from transport fuels and some synthetic greenhouse gases)—will need to buy and surrender to the Government a permit for every tonne they produce.

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Tax Credit Fuel Tax Carbon Australia 199

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Capstone Turbine Corporation released the CR200 Low Btu microturbine product; landfill gas applications are a key market for the Capstone CR200 200 kW. Capstone microturbines are capable of burning waste gases with methane contents as low as 30%, which can be challenging for competing combustion technologies.

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Gas Emissions Waste Exhaust 218

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AUGUST 12, 2013

IBM has developed an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. It will also allow energy organizations to easily integrate other conventional sources such as coal and natural gas.

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Wind Solar Grid Power Grid 306

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JULY 8, 2015

According to the application, the plant would gasify blends of petroleum coke and coal to produce syngas that would fuel a combustion turbine to produce electricity.

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Grant California Hydrogen Energy 150

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MAY 13, 2011

As it announced during its investor conference earlier this week, Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, has increased its 2013 earnings growth objectives to adjusted earnings per share of at least $6.00, or operating EBITDA of at least $1.7 Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Future Production Coal Hydrogen 210

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APRIL 17, 2010

IGCC and carbon capture technologies have been commercially demonstrated and will need to be widely deployed to enable low cost power generation from domestic fossil energy resources, while at the same time achieving significant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions globally.

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Commercial China Tampa Coal 186

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JUNE 13, 2015

The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. US production has risen almost 50% in the past 10 years, and global demand for gas is anticipated to outpace all other fossil fuels. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 18, 2009

The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) fuels team will flight test a 50:50 blend of hydrotreated renewable JP-5 (HRJ5) and petroleum-based JP-5 in an F/A-18 Super Hornet at Patuxent River, Md., The static tests will probably take place in the December-January time frame, according to Rick Kamin, Navy fuels lead. Rick Kamin.

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Renewable Fuel North Dakota Oil 199

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MARCH 14, 2011

The large number of new vehicle fuels and technologies being developed to meet market and legislative pressure for improved efficiency and reduced emissions offer major opportunities for progress, according to a new report published by the Special Committee on Emerging Technologies (SCET) of the Health Effects Institute ( HEI ). Source: HEI.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for C6 Resources. DOE Share: $3,014,666).

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