Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6 The goal is to design a novel fuel cell that uses coal and water to generate hydrogen, water and a stream of carbon dioxide gas, which can be captured and sequestered. High-efficiency thin-film solar cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. —Daniel Kammen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

CoolPlanetFuels’s proprietary biofractionator modules can produce a range of high-value hydrocarbon fuel components at low cost. Today, biofuels are only a tiny portion of that market, but are poised for rapid growth based on concerns about global warming and importing oil. Click to enlarge. —Basil R.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

“The Clean Energy Act of 2009” spends $20 billion over the next 10 to 20 years to fund a series of loan guarantees; nuclear education and workforce training assistance; research into nuclear reactor lifetime-extension; and the development of solar power, biofuels, and alternative power technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Geothermal Power Generation Solar Wind'

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Green Car Congress

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. The team used a model (Global Energy Transition, GET-RC 6.1) Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. Gas is the only answer. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on. So that leaves gas with the task of keeping the lights on.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. Source: IEA.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. Until recently most power stations relied on coal and gas to power generators. Now countries’ electrical grids are increasingly powered by renewables.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. from solar PV) to convert carbon dioxide into liquid alcohol fuels. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Electrofuels.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. The glamorous vision has inspired numerous futuristic proposals.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The 2018 edition of BP’s Energy Outlook considers the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition. The global energy mix is the most diverse the world has ever seen by 2040, with oil, gas, coal and non-fossil fuels each contributing around a quarter.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share). will partner with GE Global Research, EPRI, Southern Company, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy to design and test a high temperature nickel-based superalloy thick-walled header for cycling and flexible plant operation in new and existing plants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Pulverized coal is often used as the flame fuel, and fuel is also added to heat and drive the calciner and preheaters.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets. Their business model dictates that they pursue the lowest-cost power source and charge the highest premiums they can for the product in an open, but federally controlled, market. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. mpg by 2016. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The committee was formed last year to coordinate the organization’s response to the global crisis. About one-third of emissions globally are produced through electricity generation, and Rahman said his mission is to help reduce that amount through engineering solutions. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector with net-zero emissions in 2050, but it is narrow and requires an unprecedented transformation of how energy is produced, transported and used globally, according to a new special report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also establishes an interagency council to ensure an integrated federal response to adapting to the effects of global warming. The draft promotes development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to establish a continuing place for coal in the US energy mix. Clean Fuels and Vehicles. light duty vehicles—e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Renewables account for approximately 10-15% of the global energy infrastructure investment and according to New Energy Finance renewables have been hit hard by the global recession with a 47% in Q1 2009 vs. Q1 2008 ($13.3 The US is in a race for global dominance in the new energy economy with China. Billion vs. $28.3

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

However, the report advises, long-term solutions to global challenges remain scarce; as one example, the report sees global CO 2 emissions rising by 20% to 37.2 China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. Gt by 2035. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2011

The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy. Centennial, CO, developing technology to biochemically convert coal to methane at large scale and low cost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GE: The global stimulus bellwether FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- Warren Buffett is famous for his rules of investing: When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is usually the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. If you charge with solar, is way less. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. We need to stop BURNING fuel in our cars.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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