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DOE ROD for coal-based Texas Clean Energy Project sets in motion $450M of federal funding

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This project, managed by FE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), will be partially funded with $450 million from DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The plant will produce power by converting sub-bituminous coal into hydrogen-rich synthesis gas (syngas) and CO 2.

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Geely invests in Carbon Recycling Intl.; vehicles fueled by methanol from CO2, water and renewable energy

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Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Methanol in China. Delving into the emissions side, Chen et al.

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.) Quantifies the quantity of energy (crude oil, coal.) Further, due to the variation in the power grid mix from one country to another, the benefits of the EV varies significantly based on that grid mix. consumption. ?.

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Better Carbon Sequestration With AI

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People have also looked at storing CO2 in old mineshafts, and the approaches that are most seriously looked at now, or already used in practice, actually, is storing CO 2 in old oil and gas-depleted reservoirs or in deep saltwater aquifers that are a couple kilometers below the surface. Philip Ringrose said, “Think of it as olive oil.”

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Can the same basic physics be harnessed to replace wires today?

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Alternative is no longer an alternative.

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