Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Energy consumption by light-duty vehicles in the United States, AEO2013 and AEO2014, 1995-2040 (quadrillion Btu). Some other key findings of the AEO2014 Reference case include: Low natural gas prices boost natural gas-intensive industries. Industrial shipments are expected to grow at 3.0% quadrillion Btu in 2012 to 12.1

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Oil Light Energy Vehicles 290

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. hydro, wind and solar) in BTU-equivalent values by assuming a typical fossil fuel plant heat rate."End Energy use in the residential, commercial, industrial and transportation arenas all declined by.22,09,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. Projected consumption assumes efficiency improvements in powertrain and vehicle are offset by increases in performance, size and weight.

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Coal Conversion Light Future 150

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Energy Solutions.

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Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California 448

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas. Support knows no party.

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Coal Costa Rica Gasoline-Electric Cars 100

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The UK has been a leader in deploying on and offshore wind turbines. 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. At the time of writing, mid-morning 21 Sept, we have: Wind 9%. Nuclear 15%. Biomass 5%. See [link].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). Earlier post.) Methanol in China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. This corresponds to about three quarters of the required electricity in the German plants.

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Green Car Congress

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. power plants and refineries) and in turn to the transportation, residential, industrial, and commercial end-use sectors.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

—Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. What was the maximum share of wind that we could have in the system without blowing it up—5 percent or 20 percent or 30 percent? What about the pitfalls with energy modeling?

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 83

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rice University researchers and colleagues at Princeton and Syzygy Plasmonics have developed a plasmonic photocatalyst for the direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide gas into hydrogen and sulfur, as an alternative to the industrial Claus process. A paper on the work appears in ACS Energy Letters. —Naomi Halas.

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Light Hydrogen Conversion Houston 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Continued growth of on-road travel increases energy use later in the projection period because current fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards require no additional efficiency increases for new light-duty vehicles after 2025 and for new heavy-duty vehicles after 2027. trillion miles in 2018 to 3.5

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Transportation Energy Fuel Economy 2018 207

Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

Well, as the automotive industry begins a long transition from combustion to electricity, there is arguably some utility in a metric that seems to offer a means of comparing the efficiency of an electric car with that of a conventional one. For an engineer, a question is immediately obvious.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

By 2040, hybrids are expected to account for about 35% of the global light-duty vehicle fleet, up from less than 1% in 2010. In 2010 China had only about five light-duty vehicles per 100 people, while India had less than two per 100 people; this compares to about 75 vehicles for every 100 people in the United States. Click to enlarge.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

I truly believe hydrogen is the UK’s best opportunity to build a world-leading industry which creates UK jobs, cuts emissions and is the envy of the globe.” It’s a tiny light atom that easily escapes confinement. Liquified hydrogen may be as light as petrol or kerosene, but keeping it at -257C requires much heavier apparatus.

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Hydrogen Power Powered Gas-Electric 52

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal power), biomass gasification, solar-driven high- temperature thermochemical water splitting, direct photoelectrochemical water splitting, and biological processes. The truncated light-harvesting antenna concept was applied to cyanobacteria, demonstrating that a ?cpc

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Hydrogen Renewable Carbon Production 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

The German government requested IEA and IRENA to shed light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to this level. Gt by 2050 to limit warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. Around US$3.5 trillion in 2015.

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Renewable Climate Climate Change Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Industrial Technology. Wind Technologies. Buildings Technologies. Geothermal Technologies. Office of Fossil Energy.

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Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Wind, solar and biofuels are expected to be the fastest-growing energy sources, increasing about 6% a year on average through 2040, when they will be approaching 4% of global energy demand. By 2040, natural gas is expected to account for more than a quarter of global energy use, surpassing coal in the overall mix. billion in 2040.

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Energy Global 2010 Oil-Sands 252

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out. Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. Three quarters of that mercury, the researchers suggested, would eventually wind up in the oceans.

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Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 100

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil. The C 6 to C 8 aromatic hydrocarbons can be high-octane gasoline additives or feedstocks for the chemical and polymer industries.

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Oil Convert Hydrogen Fuel 225

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The team used the lead particles’ isotopic signature to trace some of the lead’s origins to coal and metal ore found only in Asia. “ This work shows that we can use lead as a tracer for airborne particles within the growing Asian industrial plume. —John Christensen. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2009

A new paper from the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center concludes that while a market-based mechanism (e.g. In the meantime, in the absence of any other regulatory constraints, new coal or gas-fired generation will be built without CO 2 emissions controls. For electric power. For buildings and appliances. Samaras et al.

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Market CO2 Coal 2009 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

A carbon price will not apply to household transport fuels, light vehicle business transport and off-road fuel use by the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries. The Productivity Commission will undertake reviews relating to industry assistance, fuel tax arrangements and carbon pollution reduction activities internationally.

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Tax Credit Fuel Tax Carbon Australia 199

Cars That Think

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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Power Powered Grid IDEA 63

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Based on the work of the multidisciplinary team, with advice from a board of 18 leaders from industry, government and environmental groups, the report examined the future of natural gas through 2050 from the perspectives of technology, economics, politics, national security and the environment. It is clean and flexible.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power. He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase 268

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. CONCERNS REGARDING OFFSETS.

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

First, demand for passenger travel may be saturating in industrialized countries. Thus, in IDES, substitutes for conventional oil include NGLs; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); low-quality hydrocarbons such as bitumen and extra-heavy oil; coal-derived fuels (CTL); natural gas-derived fuels (GTL, CNG, LNG); biofuels; and electricity.

Oil 207

Oil Oil-Sands Fuel Economy Transportation 207

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

In addition, unconventional resources (including biofuels, oil sands, extra-heavy oil, coal-to-liquids, and gas-to-liquids) from both non-OPEC and OPEC sources are expected to become increasingly competitive in the reference case. Hydropower and wind power are the major sources of incremental renewable electricity supply.

2006 150

2006 Emissions Energy Oil-Sands 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. Market development RFI. Report to Congress.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

These zoning decisions blow in whatever direction the development winds are gusting in the city at the moment and there is no consistency, logic or equity in the decisions made. The second copy set you gave us is a little light. I want to change the industry here because I deal in a lot of cities, a LOT of cities.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

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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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Cars That Think

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. times as great as the combined growth in the commercial and industrial sectors.

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Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar 136

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). GHG emissions (grams CO 2 -eq)/VMT by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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