Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

Estimated consumption subsidies, industrial and developing countries, fossil fuels and renewables. Fossil fuel subsidies continue to far outweigh support for renewable energy, according to new research conducted for the Worldwatch Institute’s Vital Signs Online service. Source: Worldwatch. Click to enlarge. in 2020 and 5.8%

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Renewable International Fuel Energy 312

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2023

Aluminum is a critical element used in thousands of important products, but it can often interfere with quick and effective extraction of valuable rare earth elements (REEs) from coal waste byproducts. The new NETL-developed sensing material is a metal-organic framework (MOF) thin film made of copper linked by 2-aminoterephthalic acid.

Coal 170

Coal Waste Wind Water 170

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The MMT process developed by FFI and Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization ( CSIRO ) ( earlier post , earlier post ) is key to producing high-purity hydrogen from the ammonia cracking process.

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Hydrogen Energy Grid Ireland 488

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Canada’s SMR Action Plan seeks to advance the safe and responsible development and deployment of SMRs through a pan-Canadian approach in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous peoples, organized labour, utilities, industry, innovators, academia and civil society.

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Canada Coal Environment 2018 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

EIA expects coal consumption to decrease by 3% in 2022 and by 4% in 2023, as 24 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants retire by the end of 2023. EIA expects renewable energy to provide 24% of US electricity generation in 2023, up from 20% in 2021. At the same time, refinery capacity in the United States has decreased since 2019.

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Gas-Electric Coal Gas Solar 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Hydrogen is a rising star in the changing energy landscape, particularly when it comes to pursuing robust decarbonization through renewables. Fully integrating hydrogen into the energy mix will be a complicated endeavor. —Mario Azar, president of Black & Veatch’s power business.

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Hydrogen Energy Carbon Coal 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2020

Australia-based Woodside has signed an agreement with Japanese companies JERA Inc, Marubeni Corporation and IHI Corporation to undertake a joint study examining the large-scale export of hydrogen as ammonia for use decarbonizing coal-fired power generation in Japan. Green hydrogen is produced from renewable energy using electrolysis.

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Hydrogen Carbon Corporation Japan 321

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

CRI, founded in 2006 in Reykjavik, Iceland, is developing technology to produce renewable methanol from clean energy and recycled CO 2 emissions. Geely is committed to achieving the long-term goal of zero emissions mobility through a diverse suite of new energy solutions, including renewable methanol vehicle technology. Earlier post.).

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Iceland CO2 Gasoline Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

Ignite Energy Resources (IER), developer of a supercritical water technology, and TRUenergy have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a commercial demonstration plant that will apply IER’s direct coal-to-oil and upgraded dry coal process to the brown coal at TRUenergy’s Yallourn mine in Australia.

Coal 150

Coal Water Energy Australia 150

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. If an EV is charged with electricity that is generated from renewable sources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric), then there are no fossil fuel emissions associated with that charging or driving process. of total U.S.

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Emissions Nashville Electric Electrical 123

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

While the energy transition proceeds, underinvesting in oil and gas before renewables and other low-carbon technologies are ready to scale up to meet energy demand could create recurrent energy crises of the kind we saw in Asia and Europe over the last few months, resulting in elevated prices and adverse economic consequences.

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Price Oil Asia Gas 416

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But hold them up I do because their work – like the work of the the scientists, activists, organizers, volunteers and other climate hawks I admire, enlightens and inspires me to do the work I do. They don’t expect to have any parades held in their honor, or to be held up as anybody’s hero. That’s not the way I roll.

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Al Gore Maldives Gore Climate Change 286

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

First, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress and also issued the targets for 2010. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). President Obama.

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Obama Coal Clean Cleaning 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

Coal 210

Coal Oil Water Oil Prices 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2018

With assets exceeding US$270 billion, China Energy has set a number of world records including being the largest producer of coal, thermal power, renewable energy, and coal-to-oil and coal chemical products. Clean energy, including hydrogen, is a key focus of the Group.

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Hydrogen China Fuel Energy 170

Cars That Think

MAY 5, 2022

With this very broad footprint, we can help to bring together organizations working on various aspects of climate change and possible solutions. For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. If you use less electricity, you will burn less coal.

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Climate Change Climate Coal Solar 96

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The AHEAD concept for bringing power to off-grid areas in Africa is to make modest use of renewables where it makes sense, and to drive mass deployment of ammonia and hydrogen along with small engine generators, microturbines and fuel cell systems. Coal and water could be used as input where natural gas is not available.

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Carbon Fuel Coal Gas-Electric 240

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 145

Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2013

Most of this growth will come from non-OECD (non-Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, where demand is driven by strong population and economic growth; energy intensity improvements moderate this trend. Renewable energy and nuclear power are the world’s fastest-growing energy sources, each increasing 2.5%

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2010 Transportation Fuel Energy 317

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue will continue to partner with Carbonfund.org—a leading US-based nonprofit carbon reduction and climate solutions organization. JetBlue has agreed to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and a pioneer in renewable jet fuel, starting in 2020.

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Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources. Credit; ACS, Whipple and Kenis. Click to enlarge.

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Conversion CO2 Hydrogen Carbon 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

IBM has developed an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. This will enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid, the company says. This project contributes to China’s 5-year plan to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Wind Solar Grid Power Grid 306

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

Toshiba will join eight other organizations in the research, including Bright Green Hydrogen Ltd., a Fife-based nonprofit organization that promotes a hydrogen future, and Fife Council, the Fife local authority.

Hydrogen 150

Hydrogen Power Powered Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2018

UK-based renewable power generator Drax will pilot the first bioenergy carbon capture storage (BECCS) project of its kind in Europe, which, if successful, could make the renewable electricity produced at its North Yorkshire power station carbon negative.

Carbon 150

Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Emissions 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

CCAT is currently leading several significant alternative fuel efforts—a $20-million, five-year coal/biomass to fuel program that tests technologies critical to creating alternative fuels from biomass and fossil sources for the U.S.

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Connecticut Grant Alternative Fuels Fuel 186

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.

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

In the 8 th edition, the China Energy Group researchers have amassed an enormous trove of data from firsthand sources and organized much of it into a relational database, making it far more useful for research and analytical purposes. They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more.

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Environment Energy Coal United States 210

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. The decision also fits with our overall strategy.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Hermosa Beach has a golden ticket to do just that and I’m now working in my capacity as Organizer of the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group to help them keep that oil exactly where it belongs – in the ground.

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Climate Change Climate Chevron Oil 358

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Additionally, the 22 MW Neal Hot Springs, Oregon plant received the GEA Honors Technological Advancement Award in 2013 for being the first commercial, supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) binary power plant. In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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Costa Rica El Salvador Industrial Industry 310

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 15, 2024

The work of organizations like Mark Z. For several years I’ve been iterating The Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work. Jacobson’s Stanford team around energy and Carbon Drawdown’s around everything are excellent in different ways, but also indigestible to most people. The short list really is that. It’s.

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Climate India Carbon Energy 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels. Hydrogen-to-fuels.

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Cost Of North Carolina Conversion Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

million additional cars on US roads are likely as a result of EPA inaction on finalizing the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rules, according to a new white paper issued by The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). new coal-fired power plants. Increased greenhouse gas emissions equal to 4.4

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EPA Emissions 2014 2013 236

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

World production of unconventional resources (including biofuels, oil sands, extra-heavy oil, coal-to-liquids, and gas-to-liquids), which totaled 3.9 Renewable energy is projected to be the fastest growing source of primary energy over the next 25 years, but fossil fuels remain the dominant source of energy. million barrels per day.

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Oil-Sands Oil 2008 Oil Prices 220

Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

And while the energy grid is slowly becoming more “clean” as suppliers switch to renewable sources, business owners can also make a difference. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory states in one report , “The emissions benefits of workplace charging increase as the carbon intensity of the grid is reduced.

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Charging CO2 Grid Carbon 73

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150