Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2013

The extra waste heat generated from buildings, cars, and other sources in major Northern Hemisphere urban areas causes winter warming across large areas of northern North American and northern Asia. At the same time, the changes to atmospheric circulation caused by the waste heat cool areas of Europe by as much as 1 degree C (1.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

With steel, in particular, we are leading the way by sourcing low-carbon steel for our plants in Europe in the future. BMW Group press plants in Europe process more than half a million tons of steel per year. This green hydrogen will replace the coal currently used in the conventional blast-furnace process.

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Carbon BMW Boston Hydrogen 293

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

The money will help projects further develop their greenhouse gas removal technologies, which include a machine that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, a plant to convert household waste into hydrogen for use in the transport industry, and a system to remove carbon dioxide from seawater. Lapwing Energy Limited, “Reverse Coal”.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Waste 305

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

For e-car batteries and energy storage alone, Europe will for instance need up to 18 times more lithium by 2030 and up to 60 times more by 2050. A number of raw materials are essential for Europe to lead the green and digital transition and remain the world’s first industrial continent. —Maroš Šef?ovi?,

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Europe International Supplies Africa 365

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This process can be applied on emissions from various sources, from gas, coal, cement, refineries, and waste-to-energy through to hydrogen and other process industries. Aker Carbon Capture’s proprietary carbon capture process uses a mixture of water and organic amine solvents to absorb the CO 2.

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Carbon Hydrogen Coal Waste 199

EV Central

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There is, of course, some kind of cursed crossover in the Ven diagram that includes both the Rick rollers of coal and the people who hate science, but anyway, let’s digress. He is, however, a lover of culture wars and would thus no doubt be a big supporter of rolling coal types. and yet Tony Abbott.

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Climate Change Coal Saudi Arabia Climate 98

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The company is also in discussions with other entities to acquire additional supplies of monazite and is working with the US Department of Energy to evaluate the potential to process other types of REE and uranium bearing ores at the White Mesa Mill produced from coal-based resources. Energy Fuels currently has 1.5

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Utah Commercial Energy Fuel 417

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2020

While long-term policies to reduce air pollution have been shown to be effective in many regions, notably in Europe and the United States, there are still regions that have dangerously high levels of air pollution, some as much as five times greater than World Health Organization guidelines, and in some countries air pollution is still increasing.

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Pollution 2016 Universal 2010 259

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2022

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene. The lab has since adapted the process to convert plastic waste into graphene and to extract precious metals from electronic waste. That’s with only 0.1% by weight or less of graphene. Wyss, K.M.,

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F-150 Vehicles Ford Waste 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

The “Trends and Projections in Europe” package includes an assessment of progress towards the EU’s climate targets, preliminary EU greenhouse gas emissions estimates for 2017, a specific analysis of trends and projections in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and briefing summarizing the recent GHG trends and projections in Europe.

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Emissions Transportation 2017 2016 257

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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Energy Coal Oil Gas 101

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

The UK government’s Clean Growth Strategy outlines ambitious new policies to phase out the use of high carbon fossil fuels such as heating oil and coal typically used off the gas grid for domestic heat during the 2020s. For example, in Europe there are around 40 million households in rural areas beyond the gas grid.

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Renewable Market Grid Coal 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The funding for this project strongly supports our ambition to make Porvoo the most sustainable refinery in Europe by 2030. ECOPLANTA aims to convert non-recyclable fractions of municipal solid waste to chemicals and biofuels. —Peter Vanacker, President and CEO at Neste. The project will produce approximately 1.2

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Hydrogen Carbon Green Tango 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2012

At the Power Control and Intelligent Motion (PCIM) event in Europe, Transphorm Inc. Transphorm’s solutions cut energy waste by 50% today and simplify the design and manufacturing of a wide variety of electrical systems and devices, including motor drives, power supplies and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles.

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2012 Production DC Waste 218

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2015

Although a tried-and-tested process, direct methanol synthesis has not as yet been used in combination with a utility power plant and under load-flexible operations, notes project partner Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe (MHPSE). MHPSE is acting as the system integrator. There is no difficulty to up-scaling the system, MHPSE said.

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Hydrogen Convert Gas Supplies 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

The report aims to establish a consensual well-to-wheels (WTW) energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions assessment of a wide range of automotive fuels and powertrains relevant to Europe in 2020 and beyond. Biogas, particularly from waste materials, has a very low GHG impact, whether the biogas is used to fuel cars or produce electricity.

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Gas Fuel Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 277

Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

More than 90% of air pollution-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, followed by low- and middle-income countries of the Eastern Mediterranean region, Europe and the Americas. In some regions, sand and desert dust, waste burning and deforestation are additional sources of air pollution.

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Pollution Africa Asia Europe 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

This enables the production of hydrogen and solid carbon; the latter may potentially be used to replace hard coal in the coke and steel industries. With the process operating at very high temperatures, the innovative reactor design ensures that the correspondingly large amounts of waste heat are recycled immediately into the process.

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Hydrogen Production CO2 Climate Protection 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

He noted that DME is more widely produced and accepted in Europe and Asia. DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Chemrec pioneered the Fuels-from-the-Forest biofuels biorefinery concept, which can produce BioDME. Earlier post.).

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North America America Sweden Milwaukee 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

Measurements reported by the following regional networks were used: the Asian Clean Air Initiative for Asia, and Airbase for Europe. Afr: Africa; Amr: America; Emr: Eastern Mediterranean; Eur: Europe; Sear: South?East Percentage of city population experiencing increasing and decreasing PM 10 annual means, by region. and middle?income;

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Global Pollution 2014 2012 239

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Six research institutions and seven industrial partners from Europe will participate in the new BioBoost project, aimed at converting residual biomass into energy carriers for the production of high-quality and engine-compatible fuels and chemicals as well as for the generation of electricity and heat.

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Conversion Energy Kits Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

GMIO’s performance reflects both newer plants, as compared to those in Europe and North America, as well as cultural practices, high productivity and preferences. This agreement also eliminates the use of coal, saves money and reduces GHG emissions by 57,000 metric tons. The latest data show that GMIO’s average total energy usage is 1.07

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2013 GM Carbon Energy 271

EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal.

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Hydrogen Gas-Electric Coal Gas 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

Bartis and RAND colleague Lawrence van Bibbe were the authors of a 2011 RAND report concluding that if the US military increased its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there would be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces.

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Price Oil-Sands Turkey Fuel 225

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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. With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route.

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Power Powered Gas-Electric Gas 98

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

It is a liquid alcohol fuel produced from a variety of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, or even carbon dioxide. Ethanol blended fuels are widely used in Brazil, the United States, and Europe. . #2 Methanol Methanol is another alternative fuel that can be used in vehicles.

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Alternative Fuels Gasoline Fuel Gasoline-Electric 98

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Most of the activity is in Europe , where there are at least 10 major offshore wind and hydrogen projects , including demonstration systems being built or planned in the North Sea, the Atlantic, and off the coast of Ireland. In 2021, global hydrogen demand was 94 million tonnes, most of it used in refining and in chemical industries.

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Wind Hydrogen Grid Gas-Electric 98

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it. In Europe it is even better at 56%. In Europe it is even better at 56%.

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

Across ArcelorMittal Europe - Flat Products operations, the company is investing in a broad range of initiatives to reduce carbon emissions from the blast furnace. XCarb green steel certificates.

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Carbon Coal Renewable Waste 199

Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. The oxygen comes from the air, while the hydrogen comes from a tank.

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Hydrogen Green Cars Gas-Electric 40

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Production Ohio Waste Financing 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2011

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. Lifecycle benefits of re-refined oil vs. virgin crude.

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Oil Motors Motoring Motor 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Source: UNEP.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

So let me get this straight - while those of us who are trying to lead greener lives, have been cutting our carbon footprints and working with our cities, states and the rest of the USA to help them do likewise, Killer Coal has been playing us for chumps and wiping out all our efforts every single second of every day.

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Coal Carbon Climate Tax 199

Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

Just like their larger counterparts, SMRs will produce nuclear waste. According to one recent Stanford and University of British Columbia study , SMRs yield more nuclear waste than even conventional nuclear plants.) What will nuclear authorities do with that waste?

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Future Russia Waste Energy 114

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

According to a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the margin of error in measuring emissions by DOEs can be as high as: 10% for the cement and fertilizer industries; 60% for the oil, gas, and coal industries; and. 100% for some agricultural processes.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255