Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The new Phoenix 10kW waste oil generator will be powered by Cyclone’s WHE-25 engine—a compact, scalable waste heat engine—using a specially designed, clean emissions combustion chamber.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

The FOA topics will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s (BETO) objectives to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Smoke emissions from residential wood heaters are a significant national air pollution and health issue.

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Waste Conversion Fuel Pollution 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The two prevalent commercial methods for extracting lithium are hard rock mining and evaporation ponds. Mining is environmentally harmful—it scars landscapes, adversely affects ecosystems and habitat, is water- and energy-intensive, and can pollute air and water resources.

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California Water Manufacturer Nevada 221

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

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South Africa Convert Waste Production 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Solar 371

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2018

The goal of the pilot facility is to test the technical and economic feasibility of scaling-up the technology to commercialize the separation and extraction process. Conventional rare-earth recovery methods require an expensive, difficult and messy extraction process that generates large volumes of contaminated waste.

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West Virginia Coal Virginia Waste 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2018

Since it first began operation in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” truck has logged nearly 10,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles while emitting nothing but water vapor. This time we’re looking at commercial viability.

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Long Beach Toyota Hydrogen Los Angeles 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

This could reduce the mining of ore which reduces costs, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. This technology could cut energy usage by 85 billion BTUs/year, waste generation by 8.5 is being recognized for developing and commercializing Instinct, an additive that reduces fertilizer nitrate leaching ground and surface waters.

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2016 EPA Green Indianapolis 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2016

These fuel cells exhibit stable performance at 80–160 ˚C with a conductivity decay rate more than three orders of magnitude lower than that of a commercial high-temperature PEM fuel cell. One is the class of low-temperature fuel cells that require water for proton conduction and cannot operate above 100 °C.

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Fuel Water Polymer Waste 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

Menetrez of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division. microorganisms, enzymes, chemicals), will determine the quantity and nature of waste produced.It Pollution control and remediation. —Menetrez 2012.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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Oil Universal 2008 Waste 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Maritime traffic on the world’s oceans has increased four-fold over the past 20 years, likely causing more water, air and noise pollution on the open seas, according to a new study quantifying global ship traffic. Ships powered by fossil fuels dump oil, fuel and waste into the water and pump exhaust into the air.

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Sri Lanka Global Somalia Pollution 225

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

The study also found that shows that water use for algae cultivation is much less if algae are grown in the US regions that have the sunniest and most humid climates: the Gulf Coast, the Southeastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes. The paper is published in the journal Water Resources Research.

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Oil Water South Carolina Climate 281

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

million to help 17 New York State companies develop and commercialize innovative new transportation technologies intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, decrease reliance on fossil fuels, and create jobs. The product is biodegradable, reducing landfill waste, and uses farm refuse normally thrown away. Earlier post.).

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Diesel Transportation New York Pollution 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2010

Cobalt Technologies, a company using strain development and bioprocess technology to optimize biobutanol production for commercially viable renewable fuels and chemicals, formally launched its pilot facility in Mountain View, California. Butanol has a higher energy content than ethanol and is less polluting. Source: Cobalt.

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California Water Gasoline 2008 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects will focus on technologies such as revolutionizing fuel cells for light- and heavy-duty vehicles, and technologies to generate less nuclear waste and reduce the cost of fuel. The system takes three main inputs: ambient air, water, and a sustainable energy source, and produces butanol with high selectivity.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 284

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The awards recognize pioneering chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators who are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. billion in 2011 to $98.5 billion by 2020. billion by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 Outreach will focus on commercial and public fleet owners and managers. tmdgroup, Inc. tmdgroup is based in Sacramento. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.

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California Los Angeles Transportation Sacramento 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention sponsors the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute and other members of the chemical community including industry, trade associations, academic institutions, and other government agencies.

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EPA Green Polymer Water 150

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

cents from newer plants that have additional pollution-control equipment, the cost of solar energy has dropped to 2.7 But there is another way for India to move faster toward its decarbonization goal: by focusing the renewable-energy push in India’s commercial and industrial sectors. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity.

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India 87

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. According to its website, the LEED system gives points for certain building practices that address: carbon, energy, water, waste, transportation, materials, health, and. indoor environmental quality.

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Charging Climate Change Tax Building 76

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000. This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel.

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

If we are serious about cutting carbon pollution then nuclear power must be part of the solution. Some of the designs for SMRs use little or no water for cooling, which would reduce their environmental impact. Perhaps most importantly, investing in nuclear energy will position America to lead in a growing industry. Earlier post.].

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My Energi

APRIL 13, 2021

That’s why we’re launching #TheGreenReset – a national initiative challenging householders worldwide to swap their wasteful ways for environmentally friendly alternatives. Over a third of the money spent on energy bills is goes towards heating and hot water costs. Reduce food miles & minimise waste. What’s not to like?

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Green Mariner Buy Waste 98

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

In addition, growing a single species of algae in a pond requires large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, much of which ends up as pollution after the crop is harvested. The amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, light and carbon dioxide in each tank, as well as the water temperature, will be tightly controlled.

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Waste Grant Universal Climate Change 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

505,381 to San Francisco-based Mission Motor Company to help it bring its prototype electric vehicle components to commercial production. Each of the commercial refineries could create an additional 20 jobs. Each electric truck that replaces a diesel model can save an estimated 75 tons of CO2 a year. Electric vehicles components.

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Gas-Electric San Jose Gas California 236

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Along with CO 2 emissions, road traffic also produces significant levels of particle pollution. The efficiency of the filtration system increases further when there is a higher level of particle pollution. SUSTAINEER: front module and underbody filters improve air quality in the city.

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Mercedes Electrical Electric All-Electric 221

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

They found that the produced nanopowders are more reactive with CO 2 than standard commercial powders. This reactor was operated in a controlled atmosphere (N 2 or Ar flow) at a reduced pressure (about 20 kPa, 0.2 bar) and a reaction temperature of about 1600 °C. Zn can be oxidized by CO 2.

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Fuel CO2 Conversion Solar 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The location allows the proposed Rialto Facility to take advantage of established infrastructure including access to water, wastewater disposal and zoning.

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California Power Powered Building 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

The purpose of this Phase III program is for the grantee to pursue commercial applications of work that derives from, extends, or logically concludes effort(s) performed under prior (Phase I/II) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding agreements. saline water).

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Fuel Motors Motoring Motor 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation.

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Transportation Emissions California Ozone 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Responding to the needs of drivers on China’s roads, who contend daily with traffic, pollution and difficult parking situations, Ford also will continue to implement cameras and sensors that help drivers steer through traffic, monitor traffic signs and stay safely in their lane. —John Lawler, chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China.

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China Ford Connect Connected 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. Click to enlarge.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2013

An overview of the current science of climate change in the draft includes an expanded discussion of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane and black carbon. Waste Management. Recommended transportation actions beyond 2020. The focus areas include: Energy. Transportation, Land Use, Fuels, and Infrastructure. Agriculture.

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Climate Change 2020 Climate Transportation 220

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

Project: Next Generation Water-Cooled Low-Pressure Die for the Production of Automotive Wheels. The University of British Columbia and CAPTIN will work together to develop an advanced water-cooled low-pressure die for the production of automotive wheels. Partners: University of British Columbia and Canadian Autoparts Toyota Inc.

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Canada Auto Universal Convert 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

That report, authored by group co-chairs, Agriculture and Energy Secretaries Vilsack and Chu, and EPA Administrator Jackson, lays out a strategy to advance the development and commercialization of a sustainable biofuels industry to meet or exceed the nation’s biofuels targets. Biobutanol from corn starch complies with the 20% GHG threshold.

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