Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

By comparison, 69% of steel today is made at approximately 1,600 degrees Celsius (2,912 degrees Fahrenheit) using coal, emitting about two tons of carbon dioxide for every ton of steel produced. We also have a historic opportunity to decentralize the global iron and steel supply chain and re-shore manufacturing and mining jobs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. REEs are a series of chemical elements found in the Earth’s crust. Description.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Synthesis Energy Systems’ (SES) 95%-owned Hai Hua joint venture project in Shandong Province, China, has completed a successful commercial-scale gasification demonstration, converting lignite coal from the Inner Mongolia region of China to syngas. Earlier post.). Francis Lau, SES’ Chief Technology Officer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Sasol and General Electric (GE: NYSE)’s GE Power & Water have together developed new technology that will clean waste water from Fischer-Tropsch plants used to produce synthetic fuels and chemicals, while also providing biogas as a by-product for power generation. This then results in an overall efficiency improvement in the GTL process.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

From an environmental perspective, they note in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , lead-free SnTe would be preferable for solid-state waste heat recovery if its thermoelectric figure-of-merit could be brought close to that of the lead-containing chalcogenides.

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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. Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects aimed at reducing the energy and cost penalties of advanced carbon capture systems applied to power plants for further development. These penalties can add as much as 80’ to the cost of electricity for a new pulverized coal plant.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

China has officially opened a national clean energy research center, the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy. This plays to the strengths of the DICP, which has developed methanol-to-olefins conversion processes that help to reduce waste in the industrial processing of coal.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has successfully extracted valuable rare earth elements (REE) from waste at yields high enough to resolve issues for manufacturers while boosting their profits. The activation strategy is feasible for various wastes including coal fly ash, bauxite residue, and electronic waste.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

IBM Research is launching a 10-year project to support China in transforming its national energy systems and protecting the health of citizens. It now has an opportunity to lead the world in sustainable energy and environmental management. Chien, Chairman and CEO, IBM Greater China Group. Renewable energy forecasting.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Oxford Catalysts Group PLC, signed a definitive joint development agreement (JDA) with SGC Energia, SGPS, S.A. SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

Jiangsu Tianue Energy & Chemical Group Co. Ltd is building a high-efficiency gas turbine power plant to utilize coke oven gas (COG) into power and steam to meet increasing energy needs in its region. —Teng Daochun, chairman, Jiangsu Tianue Energy & Chemical Group Co.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The additional investment will further extend strip waste rock mining and support additional infrastructure development in the second phase of the South Wall Pushback project, to allow mining to continue into a new area of the ore body and deliver close to one million tonnes of refined copper between 2026 and 2032. billion in 2020 and $6.5

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APRIL 29, 2021

A new waste recovery scheme could add a tinge of green hydrogen to Wyoming's status as the biggest coal producer in the United States.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. The proposed solicitation will cover a broad range of advanced fossil energy projects. A Federal Quadrennial Energy Review. New energy efficiency standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

Major investments will be needed worldwide in the developing and scaling up of clean energy technologies; sustainable farming and forestry techniques; climate-proofing of infrastructure; and in technologies reducing non-biological degradable waste production, according to the report. Supporting a broad energy technology development.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2015

The Argonne National Laboratory’s Systems Assessment Group has released GREET 2015 models and associated reports. Shale oil: developed energy and GHG emissions intensities of U.S. Boiler emission factors: updated stationary combustion emission factors for coal and biomass boilers for industrial applications.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the country, President Barack Obama yesterday laid out three measures intended to work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce US dependence on petroleum. Third, the President’s Biofuels Interagency Working Group (BIWG) released its first report: Growing America’s Fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

and INFRA Technology LLC, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Greenway Innovative Energy (GIE), have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to jointly design and deliver Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plants combining their respective proprietary technologies: INFRA’s xtl and GIE’s G-Reformer. Greenway Technologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2014

million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the US Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. The UKCAER project, managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, was competitively selected for funding by the Energy Department in 2011. million for the 5-year project.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

A small but growing group of analysts, though, are pushing for a zero-emissions technology that already plows the oceans: nuclear propulsion. For shipping, nuclear is really the only abundant, realistic, carbon-free option, according to Håvard Lien, vice president of research and innovation at the Norwegian shipbuilding company Vard Group.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

For example, Lux included BP’s bioethanol JV plant with British Sugar, but we did not include BP’s research work with the Energy Biosciences Institute. On the other hand, Chevron invested in Codexis and LS9 with its concentration on genetic engineering; LS9 was acquired by Renewable Energy Group in early 2014.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

In this picture provided by the environmental group Greenpeace, Greenpeace climbers rappel down the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. It’s a shame they didn’t hold those plants hostage until they turn those plants into “clean coal&# plants. Stop global warming. House last month. In the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

In FY2017, IHI Group began, in partnership with Kobe University, the NEDO supported R&D project “Development of Production Technologies for Bio jet fuels / Pilot scale test on once through production process” to produce algae-based biofuel, using the hyper-growth Botryococcus braunii. Feedstock(s): Syngas.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2010

Osage Bio Energy (OBE) is a Virginia-based company that will use regional grain, primarily winter barley, to produce ethanol and high value co-products for East Coast markets via a fairly conventional pathway of converting starch to sugar, followed by fermentation. Click to enlarge. As a result, the carbon impact of the process is reduced.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We are heading high speed into an energy train wreck with a perfect storm of bad luck, bad policy and plain bad decision making. We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Smart Meters waste. Slashing gas storage facilities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

One might argue that the onus of reversing global warming should fall on the developed world, which on a per capita basis consumes much more energy and emits significantly more greenhouse gases. As India’s GDP and per capita income continue to climb, so too will its energy consumption. Yet in terms of energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Increased energy efficiency, nuclear energy and the growing contribution of renewable energy are not compensating for the globally increasing demand for power and transport, which is strongest in developing countries. Indexed global CO 2. emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per sector (1970 = 100).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. That plant was built in partnership with the US Department of Energy, Battelle Columbus Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Energy Markets in a State of Change. Dr. Paul still sees significant growth in the developing world.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

New research led by scientists at Penn State and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) demonstrates how a protein isolated from bacteria can provide a more environmentally friendly way to extract rare earth elements from unconventional sources such as mine tailings and e-waste and to separate them from other metals and from each other.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. The work will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. GoldSim Technology Group , Issaquah, Wash.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

The Canadian oil sands are not alone as a higher GHG source of crude, IHS CERA points out.they are part of a group of higher carbon-intensity crudes consumed within the United States, including Venezuelan heavy crude oil; Nigerian crude oils; and crude oils from mature assets that require steam for enhanced oil recovery such as California heavy oil.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

Their company, Farmers’ Ethanol , plans to combine energy and food production within the same facility and by doing so create a business that can survive the wild fluctuations in commodity prices that plague today’s corn ethanol business. Our goal is to combine agriculture with renewable energy. billion gallons/year of capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2011

Second, re-refining motor oil is less energy-intensive than producing motor oil from virgin crude. While this approach produced lubrication stocks, it also produced large volumes of petroleum-contaminated acid clay sludge, which became classified as a hazardous waste requiring proper management and disposal—hence increasing the host.

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