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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

Sparton Resources Inc. and NuCoal Energy Corporation recently executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) wherein Sparton and NuCoal will jointly evaluate the potential of NuCoal’s lignitic coal holdings in Saskatchewan to host commercial germanium and uranium mineralization. NuCoal presently controls over 1.8

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Africa is part of a global toll taken by air pollution, which killed an estimated 6.7 Specific recommendations include: Invest in clean renewable energy, in particular taking advantage of solar and wind power resources and reducing reliance on coal, oil, and gas. Only AIDS causes more deaths.

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MAY 6, 2021

Part of the IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, the report underscores that the mineral requirements of an energy system powered by clean energy technologies differ profoundly from one that runs on fossil fuels. Strengthen international collaboration between producers and consumers. Source: IEA.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech. Roe-Hoan Yoon.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Currently, hydropower contributes two-thirds of the electricity generated from renewable sources worldwide, according to the International Energy Association, with thousands of new hydroelectric facilities either planned or under construction across the globe. —Ocko and Hamburg (2019). Ocko and Steven P. 9b05083.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

As part of Japan’s WE-NET (World Energy Network) research program of the New Sunshine Project begun in 1993, Kawasaki and its other industrial colleagues in Japan have been considering the large-scale marine transportation of liquid hydrogen for some time (e.g., Resources. Click to enlarge. Nakamura, I.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The commitment was made as part of wider efforts by the global energy industry to ensure that natural gas continues to play a critical role in helping meet future energy demand while addressing climate change. —Tim Gould, Head of Supply Division, World Energy Outlook, IEA.

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MAY 14, 2018

A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications. trillion) in 2014. trillion) in 2014.

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW. The international geothermal power industry is poised to place between 500 and 1,000 MW on line per year for the rest of the decade, said GEA. Successful Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) projects in the US were led by Calpine Corp.,

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JULY 13, 2021

Easton Park is a 2,400-acre community southwest of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, as per the Austin Business Journal. SunHouse at Easton Park will be a small part of the community featuring homes equipped with Tesla Solar and Powerwall, the company’s home battery storage system.

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MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. These are: Advanced internal combustion engine and powertrain systems. The principal DOE coordinator of CERC activities within DOE, and internationally with the Chinese, is DOE’s Office of International Affairs (IA).

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MAY 15, 2015

Four of the charges are the direct result of the massive coal ash spill from the Dan River steam station into the Dan River near Eden, North Carolina, in February 2014. As part of their plea agreements, Duke Energy Business Services LLC, Duke Energy Carolinas LLC and Duke Energy Progress Inc. million tons of coal ash).

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Source: IRENA. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

The China Energy Group of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) recently released the eighth edition of the China Energy Databook —the most comprehensive publicly available resource known to exist covering China’s energy and environmental statistics. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 27, 2022

Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from end-of-life vehicles into graphene via the university’s flash Joule heating process ( earlier post ). The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced flash Joule heating in 2020 to convert coal, petroleum coke and trash into graphene.

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JULY 19, 2011

For the report, central-station generation refers to >100 MW, with the exception of some renewable-resource-based technologies. impacts on existing generating plants from pending or anticipated environmental rules on emissions, use of water resources, and coal ash handling and disposal. Source: EPRI. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 17, 2017

The study, by a team from Duke University, Tsinghua University, Duke Kunshan University and Peking University, appears in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. parts per billion (ppb), corresponding to outdoor concentrations ranging from 4.3 The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

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MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. Any pollutants in the upper troposphere will play a very different role than they do in the boundary layer (the lowest part of the troposphere, directly impacted by the presence of the earth’s surface). —Mingyi Wang.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. ones that burn coal) still see a significant amount of emissions from workplace EV charging. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. I can’t do it with the climate clock ticking so loudly now and with so many critical parts of the math equation in my own South Bay backyard. It’s already figured into their companies value and stock price.

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JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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MARCH 5, 2013

To service oil and gas and other industrial customers in Texas and Louisiana, Shell is expanding its existing relationship with fuels and lubricants re-seller Martin Energy Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Martin Resource Management Corporation (MRMC). Image courtesy of Harvey Gulf International Marine. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

Based on Anellotech’s innovative proprietary CFP technology, patents licensed from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Axens’ proprietary post-treatment hydrotreating process, this new technology will open the way to a competitive production of bio-aromatics from renewable resources with lower energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Bansal, Chairman, IndianOil, said IndianOil was looking at innovative options in augmenting its energy resources to meet the growing demand of the Indian economy. LanzaTech, which has key investment from Khosla Ventures, is already collaborating on several international projects in the steel, coal and chemicals sectors.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Beginning with its February Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA incorporated revisions to historical international liquids consumption data into the STEO’s international liquid fuels market balances. Source: EIA and Argus Media group, China Methanol to Energy Study , January 2017. Click to enlarge. Background.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue also announced plans to start flying with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in mid-2020 on flights from San Francisco International Airport. JetBlue is continually exploring SAF options and views SAF as a critical part of the industry’s transition to a lower-carbon model. Types of carbon offsetting projects selected by JetBlue.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

In line with the government’s plan to develop a national e-vehicle industry, the project will support the establishment of an e-vehicle parts industry, battery supply chain, and charging stations, including five off-grid solar charging stations. More than 40% of Chhattisgarh’s 21 million residents live below the poverty line. million.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. Burning natural gas is about one-half as carbon-intensive as coal, which can make it a “bridge fuel” for many countries as the world transitions to even cleaner sources of energy.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

New analysis by an international team led by MIT researchers shows that Asia now releases a surprisingly large amount of anthropogenic mercury. Such models estimate mercury emissions for a region by considering factors such as the amount of coal burned in a power plant and the types of equipment in a plant used to control emissions.

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APRIL 18, 2013

In a fairly bleak assessment of global progress towards low-carbon energy, the International Energy Agency (IEA) concluded that, despite a few bright spots such as the rapid expansion of renewable technologies and the growth of hybrid and EV sales, the progress is far below that required to achieve a 2 °C pathway—i.e., Source: IEA.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

The Rentech MOU contemplates the production and purchase of approximately 250 million gallons per year of synthetic jet fuel derived principally from coal or petroleum coke, with the resultant carbon dioxide sequestered and the carbon footprint potentially further reduced by integrating biomass as a feedstock. ASTM Certification.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. billion in private capital cost share as part of the third round of the Department’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The US Department of Energy has selected three new projects with a total value of $3.18

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. Resource-poor Asian neighbors such as Japan and Korea are also counting on Aussie green hydrogen to help get them off fossil fuels in the decades ahead. It’s all part of a green-hydrogen wave that’s spreading worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The global energy map is changing significantly, according to the 2012 edition of the Internal Energy Agency’s (IEA) World Energy Outlook ( WEO-2012 ). barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. Energy demand.

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JULY 8, 2015

million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Geely Auto has invested significant resources in the development and promotion of methanol-fueled engines and vehicles over a long period and has already made progress with this technology in China. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Group) will invest a total of US$45.5 and Gong, H.

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MAY 9, 2009

UK researchers have published a new estimate of total crude oil extracted in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology that suggests we may have used more than we think. Resources. Oil, Gas and Coal Technology , 2009, 2, 199-200 doi: 10.1504/IJOGCT.2009.024887. 2009.024887. 2008.016731.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The study, which also involved the University of East Anglia (UK) and other global institutions, is part of the annual carbon budget update by the Global Carbon Project. Resources. Global carbon dioxide emissions show no sign of abating and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University of Exeter (UK).

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