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MARCH 23, 2022

This group of wind-turbine fan blades, fresh from Siemens Gamesa’s new RecycleBlade manufacturing process at England’s largest such factory, await shipment to the various points around the globe where they will serve 20- to 30-year stints generating electricity at wind farms before they’re recalled and reincarnated.

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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. Graphic by Tanyia Johnson/Rice University. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 22, 2018

West Virginia University (WVU) researchers are opening a new facility to capture rare earth elements (REEs) from acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mining. Additional processing and refining separates the oxides from their tight bonds and further groups them into light rare earths and heavy rare earths. —Paul Ziemkiewicz.

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MAY 23, 2012

Patterned portions represent GHG emissions associated with electric propulsion. Solid left bar = hydro electricity scenario.) A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto examines the impact of the interaction between driving patterns (distance and conditions) and the mode of electricity generation (e.g.,

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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MAY 11, 2020

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. The global transportation of ammonia by pipeline and bulk carrier is already a well-developed technology.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Researchers at MIT and the Ford Motor Company have found that depending on the location, lightweight conventional vehicles could have a lower lifecycle greenhouse gas impact than electric vehicles, at least in the near term. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Wu et al.

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JULY 23, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected Argonne National Laboratory to lead a consortium of university, private sector and national laboratory partners for a new, medium- and heavy-duty truck technical track under the US-China Clean Energy Research Center ( CERC ) Truck Research Utilizing Collaborative Knowledge (TRUCK) program.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

A new carbon capture technology sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) for economically capturing 90% of the carbon dioxide emitted from a coal-burning power plant has begun pilot-scale testing. megawatt-electric) testing using actual flue gas. and City Water, Light and Power.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium at West Virginia University (WVU) has received a $1.15-million By building and operating a new hydrogen fueling station in Morgantown, West Virginia University will demonstrate running automobiles on hydrogen fuel made from coal-powered electricity.

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MAY 5, 2022

Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. IEEE can also provide resources to its members so they can give talks to local schools about topics such as coal-burning power plants or solar energy. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal. It’s as simple as that.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. Top, without CCS and CSP; bottom, with CCS and CSP. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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JUNE 9, 2009

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. Samples of the findings include: Off-peak urban diesel buses has the largest energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT, followed by the three light-duty vehicles.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder projects the emission impacts of the widespread introduction of inexpensive and efficient electric vehicles into the US light duty vehicle (LDV) sector. In the BAU scenario, SO 2 emissions from electricity generation fall from 5 million tonnes in 2010 to 1.4

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. They are called breeder reactors because they produce more nuclear fuel than they consume.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Net emissions resulting from the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) depend on the efficiency of the conventional vehicle fleet; PHEV CD (all-electric, charge-depleting mode) efficiency; charging strategy; battery pack capacity; driving patterns; and generator mix used for charging. —Peterson et al. Peterson, J.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Columbia University , New York, N.Y.

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JULY 3, 2015

The same highly electrified scenarios, however, could not satisfy 80% GHG-reduction targets, even assuming 80% decarbonized electricity and no growth in travel demand. The study estimated national fuel and emissions impacts from increasing reliance on electrified light-duty transportation, and the resulting implications for advanced biofuels.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. The reactor would produce steam to spin turbines that would generate electricity to power motors.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) ( earlier post ) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation. Pennsylvania State University. Purdue University.

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MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. That’s why we’ve already doubled the number of alternative vehicles in the federal fleet, and that’s why, today, I am directing agencies to purchase 100% alternative fuel, hybrid, or electric vehicles by 2015. —President Obama.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Additional fees and charges added to electricity prices. On a good or windy day these produce around 20% of the UK electricity needs. What we have not done so well is to ensure that we have a solid base level of generation to supply electricity when there is no sun and no wind. No new nuclear power plants operational.

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MARCH 24, 2009

A new paper from the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concludes that while a market-based mechanism (e.g. A new paper from the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concludes that while a market-based mechanism (e.g. For electric power. For buildings and appliances. Samaras et al.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. It is classified as low carbon hydrogen; Green: made by using electricity from renewable sources to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement.

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MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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APRIL 18, 2022

When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent.  As we have quoted several times electric cars are great but battery-operated electric cars have a few disadvantages as well.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. Jenkins: We must at least be able to speak to society’s concerns, beyond just “Do the lights stay on?”

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APRIL 9, 2016

A US-wide county-level study comparing lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from several light-duty passenger gasoline and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has found that PEVs can have larger or smaller carbon footprints than gasoline vehicles depending on regional factors and the specific vehicle models being compared.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

The current vehicle footprint-based Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards create a financial incentive for automakers to increase vehicle size, except under certain limited conditions of consumer preference for vehicle size, according to a study by University of Michigan researchers Kate Whitefoot and Steven Skerlos. 10 11 –5.17×10

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. Soot—black and brown particles that absorb solar radiation—comes from two types of sources: fossil fuels such as diesel, coal, gasoline, jet fuel; and solid biofuels such as wood, manure, dung, and other solid biomass used for home heating and cooking around the world. Dessler et al.,

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JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. Historical scenario. (A) B) Demand for refinery inputs. (C)

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MAY 13, 2010

After the initial transition period, revenues go into a Universal Refund that will increase until all revenues not spent to reduce the deficit are refunded directly to consumers. It also establish pilot projects to determine the regional feasibility of light- and heavy-duty plug-in electric vehicles. Regulatory Predictability.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

In a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , Stanford University assistant professor Adam Brandt reviews a number of recent life cycle assessment (LCA) studies calculating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from oil sands extraction, upgrading, and refining pathways—the results of which vary considerably.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished. He received an implant in one eye in 2019 and remembers seeing the shining lights of Christmas trees that holiday season. Second Sight began with a flash of light. The surgeon inserted a second wire, and the man saw two spots of light. “If

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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JULY 28, 2014

FCA is used to evaluate the energy and GHG emission impacts of a wide variety of existing and proposed fuels, including fossil options (coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, unconventional petroleum) as well as electricity, gaseous fuels and biofuels from a range of feedstocks. —DeCicco (2014). DeCicco (2014). Click to enlarge.

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