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JANUARY 21, 2011

a Chinese synthesis gas supplier, for the production of certain feedstocks used in Celanese’s advanced ethanol production process. Celanese Corporation, a global technology and specialty materials company, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Wison (China) Holding Co., Earlier post.).

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APRIL 1, 2022

Gas Technology Institute and partners will demonstrate storage of more than 54 megawatt-hours of energy as clean hydrogen produced using natural gas with carbon capture and storage—and its use for load—following in Southern Company Services’ Washington County Cogeneration Facility in McIntosh, Alabama.

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JUNE 13, 2015

Stanford University has launched a new research initiative to study comprehensively the development and use of natural gas. The new program will expand Stanford’s research on energy and the environment by focusing additional resources on the growing importance of natural gas. —Mark Zoback.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Petroleum is dwindling and you're going to need to make fuel out of coal, natural gas and biomass. The AAFEX tests are funded and managed by NASA’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program, which is part of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, DC.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. Within [the global energy] market, oil and gas are both indispensable and our core business. His talk was describing the energy company of the future.

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JULY 30, 2020

On the operational side, the PNNL team found that a number of changes could accommodate EVs: The additional generation for charging EVs is likely to be provided by natural gas combined cycle plants and combustion turbines predominantly throughout the WECC (85%–89% of all new generation).

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MAY 24, 2009

Washington Gov. Work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington that burns over one million tons of coal per year, TransAlta Centralia Generation LLC, to reduce emissions from the company’s coal-fired power plant near Centralia by more than half.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Today, the EPA signaled its intent to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, the Nissan Leaf Nismo popped out, and California may be the first place in America where gas engines are a distant memory. The big newsmaker today came not from Washington, D.C., but near the coal mines of Appalachia: EPA head Scott Pruitt.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. However, if an EV is charged using electricity that is generated by burning coal or in some other way that generates fossil fuel emissions, those emissions would be associated with that EV’s well to wheel emissions. of total U.S. They’re safer.

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JUNE 27, 2014

The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. Measurements of nitrogen dioxide from OMI depict the concentration of the gas throughout a column of air in the troposphere, Earth’s lowest atmospheric layer.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

2003 Washington Post article on crushing of EV1s. Ever since the 1970’s, when he and his brother would take turns sitting in gas lines on Saturday mornings during a severe gas shortage, Earl Cox had been interested in the development of a vehicle that could run on something other than oil-based fuel.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Obama Administration will push an energy plan that potentially includes production of oil shale, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a group of Western governors assembled in Washington at the National Governor’s Association meeting. Let’s put everything on the table.”. Colorado Gov.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the already widely-discussed (albeit without much detail) “Clean Power Plan” proposal, which mandates a national average 30% cut in greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants from 2005 levels by 2030. EPA is only proposing goals for states with fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

The combined company will be the largest owner and operator of natural gas pipelines and storage assets in North America with approximately 67,000 miles of natural gas transportation pipelines. million barrels per day of gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, natural gas liquids and crude oil through more than 8,000 miles of pipelines.

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Green Cars News

MAY 25, 2009

In the USA, an executive order has been issued by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire on a variety of actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington to reduce emissions. - To work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington to reduce emissions. -

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We have been thrilled with the performance of liquid injection in general—such good performance characteristics, gas mileage, emissions, service and warranty—that’s the wave of the future for OEM programs. Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also known as propane or autogas, can be used to replace gasoline and diesel.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. One of the other big business groups the WSJ is talking about is the motley group of US Senators and US Congress members who got their money directly from the oil, gas and coal industry.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Members of the team are Devaki Bhaya, Carnegie Institution of Washington; John H. The scientists will search Hawaiian volcanoes, American coal seam fires and German fire pits for the elusive heat-lover, in a bid to recover its lost potential. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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APRIL 11, 2012

A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at lower projected cost than the existing cement industry process. Thus no CO 2 is formed, to eliminate cement’s greenhouse gas contribution to anthropogenic climate change.

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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 At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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JULY 24, 2009

Expands reporting requirements for greenhouse gas emissions to imported electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel and will allow state to better track amount of greenhouse gases emitted in Oregon. This is similar to legislation passed in Washington and California. Senate Bill 38. House Bill 3463. Senate Bill 101.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

The primary goal is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and, ultimately, contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change on the planet. An additional 35% is from natural gas, which emits the least CO2 of any fossil fuel. What is the potential for reducing emissions? But again, location matters.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). —Ren et al. C2CNT and cement.

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JANUARY 10, 2010

Qatar Airways successfully conducted the world’s first commercial flight powered by a Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) fuel blend last October. Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. Qatar Petroleum is a state-owned corporation responsible for all phases of the oil and gas industry in Qatar.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

According to Forbes , studies have found that solar and wind power is often cheaper than power from fossil fuels, even without financial assistance, and their daily operations undercut even the most cost-effective coal plants. than gas-fueled vehicles. . Creating chargers for electric vehicles is our way of contributing to green tech.

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JUNE 3, 2012

A switch to new gas-fired power plants with higher efficiencies (?58%) 58%) could also reduce the vulnerability because of smaller water demands when compared with coal- and nuclear-fueled stations (with mean efficiencies of ?46%

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Another part of the cost equation normally not considered by manufacturers is that fuel cells can often be used to heat hot water in a building, which could save building owners on expenses such as hot water heaters and natural gas use.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins and his collaborators used the REPEAT energy model to project the greenhouse-gas reductions resulting from recent U.S. We probably have to maintain all of our existing natural gas capacity. C in this century.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Energy is added, and the gas breaks into ions and electrons, forming plasma. According to the UW team’s analysis, their new sustainment method may lead to fusion power that is cost competitive with coal. In a fusion reactor, the fuel—hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium—is injected into an evacuated containment vessel.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Lester says that it is essential to pursue parallel innovation strategies aimed at different timescales: changes over the next decade focused on efficiency improvements such as building insulation and gas mileage; midrange efforts to reduce the costs and risks of known low-carbon energy-supply and electricity-storage technologies; and.

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JULY 22, 2009

PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York.

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APRIL 30, 2010

of Washington). The novel pathway will use hydrogen gas to convert carbon dioxide into C-2 and C-4 compounds that will serve as precursors to biofuels, such as butanol. Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Lead organization. Description. Ginkgo BioWorks. (UC

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

New research by a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York suggests that gas-aerosol interactions can amplify the global warming impact of some greenhouse gases. Source: Shindell at al. Click to enlarge. Shindell et al. —Drew Shindell. More methane means less hydroxyl, less sulfate, and more warming.

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MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 times the average for fuel consumed in the United States. times larger than the average fuel consumed in the United States. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . Whitehead, J., & Washington, S. Lambert, F.,

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MAY 15, 2021

Originally published on RMI.org. By Christian Roselund, Ali Rotatori, Ben Holland With the promise of vaccines curtailing the spread of COVID, states and economies are beginning to open up again, and we find ourselves getting back not only the good but also some of the negative aspects of pre-pandemic life.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Washington University, St. Discover, understand, and control efficient chemical pathways for the conversion of coal and biomass into chemicals and fuels. Carnegie Institute of Washington. Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies. $10. Stanford University. Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center. $20.

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