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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the report also assesses a number of other environmental impact categories, ranging from resource use, including cumulative energy consumption, mineral and metal resource depletion and water scarcity, to airborne pollutant emissions (like particulates and nitrogen oxides), and human- and eco-toxicity.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The new paint shop incorporates technologies such as air recirculation, dry separation and exhaust air cleaning that enable a significant reduction in the use of resources. Heating energy and water consumption per car are reduced by 20%. Five‑percent less waste (paint sludge) is created for each car that is painted. —Prof.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

The report represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy and is intended as a resource in helping countries assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy for electricity, heat and transport. Harvest levels of wood resources. Water use and efficiency.

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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. gallons of water per mile driven.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Population Growth: The world population is expected to grow to 8.4

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Joule’s Helioculture platform uses engineered microorganisms directly and continuously to convert sunlight and waste CO 2 into infrastructure-ready fuels, including ethanol and hydrocarbons (n-alkanes) that serve as the essential chemical building blocks for diesel. Audi is testing different blends of the e-fuels as well as 100% fuel.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

Gas chromatography comparison of Conoco fuel and a Conoco-CoolPlanet blend. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. This excess carbon is highly porous and has beneficial water and nutrient retaining capabilities. Source: Cool Planet. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 Net water use in oil sands production averages four barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for mining operations and 0.9

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APRIL 10, 2014

Use of the Atkinson cycle provides an increased expansion ratio and reduces waste heat through a high compression ratio (13.5), resulting in superior thermal efficiency. The new features, combined with idling stop and other functions, will lead to fuel efficiency gains of approximately 15% by comparison with current vehicles, Toyota said.

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Gasoline Toyota Engine Fuel 273

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Algenol Biofuels’ Direct to Ethanol technology is based on an intracellular photosynthetic process in cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) that produces ethanol that is excreted through the cell walls, collected from closed photobioreactors as a dilute ethanol-in-water solution, and purified to fuel grade ethanol. Algenol algae.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Well-to-wheel GHG estimates for palm hydrotreated renewable diesel (HRD) fuel, with and without direct LUC, and diesel fuel included to enable comparisons. Algae have the potential to produce large volumes of fuel per unit area of production on marginal lands using saline water unsuitable for food crops. Credit: ACS, Vasudevan et al.

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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

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Data describing emissions to air compiled from two official sources result in simulated concentrations in air, soil, water, and foliage that tend to fall close to or below the minimum measured concentrations of phenanthrene [PHE], pyrene [PYR], and benzo(a)pyrene [BaP] in the environment. Accounting for evaporative emissions (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. A carmaker creates positive (or negative) Sustainable Value if it earns a higher (or lower) return than its peers with its available economic, environmental and social resources. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

By comparison, the theoretical yield of ethanol from a dry ton of corn is 124.4 The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al. Click to enlarge.

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MAY 6, 2010

Forest resources (forest thinnings, wood chips, wood wastes, small diameter trees, etc.); Urban wood wastes; Oilseed crops; Animal waste; and. Feedstocks or combinations of feedstocks that will be considered include: Agricultural residues; Energy crops (switchgrass, miscanthus, energycane, sorghum, poplar, willow, etc.);

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Conversion Waste Renewable Production 199

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JULY 15, 2011

Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. Zhang proposes using a simple biomass-to-wheel (BTW) energy efficiency analysis to help make a more informed decision for how to utilize (limited) biomass resources more efficiently. Huang and Zhang. Click to enlarge. Zhang 2009.

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MAY 26, 2010

The oxygen reduction reaction takes place at the fuel cell’s cathode, creating water as its only waste. These nanoparticles, the researchers concluded, are promising new catalysts for practical fuel cell applications. Miaofang Chi and Karren More at the Oak Ridge Laboratory also contributed to the paper.

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APRIL 23, 2020

100% reduction in solid waste. They have never been mined on a commercial scale, and plans to develop these ocean resources have been met with opposition from ocean-conservation NGOs concerned about disruptions to seabed ecosystems and inhabitants. Reinjection of deep seawater used for vertical transport in the mid-water column.

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Batteries Battery Tonga Water 269

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Halophytes thrive in arid land and can be irrigated with sea water, making them suitable for biofuel development; Abu Dhabi is thus a viable location for conducting a lifecycle-analysis study on the plants. Halophytes can be productive sources of biomass energy; for example, salicornia seed is 32% oil by mass. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

This separation process involves low energy and reagent requirements and does not contribute to waste generation. Reaction temperature is controlled via a water bath, recirculation is carried out through a gear pump, and crystallization of metal salts occurs on the nucleation scaffold. —Stetson et al. atmospheres. Stetson, C.,

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. If taken from such sources, hydrogen is a fossil fuel, and is not a renewable resource. The cost of platinum makes hydrogen fuel cells an expensive proposition even in comparison to lithium-ion batteries.

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MARCH 3, 2021

The semi-conductor shortage, sourced largely from problems at the world’s biggest semi conductor maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), due to a reported water shortage, and a huge boost in home electronics demand due to Covid, has crippled car production in the US and in Europe and Asia for the last few months.

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MAY 10, 2011

As a comparison, 314 Exajoules is more than three times the annual energy supply in the United States in 2005, which is also a similar level of supply on the Continent of Europe according to various government and independent sources. However, the substantial increase of renewables is technically and politically very challenging.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By combining High Efficiency Clean Combustion (HECC) and Waste Heat Recovery (WHR), each demonstrating greater than 10% improvement in BTE, together with other technologies, it should be possible to improve BTE by 20% to achieve the original DOE target of 50% peak BTE. Finding 3-1. Two of the project teams (Cummins, Inc. Navistar, Inc.

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MARCH 8, 2009

The RBAEF involves experts from 12 institutions, and is jointly led by Dartmouth College and the Natural Resources Defense Council and sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the Energy Foundation and the National Commission on Energy Policy. Require modest volumes of process water. Professor Lee Lynd, Dartmouth College. Lynd et al.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

The ATP retort has lower water requirements than previous surface retort designs, and can also utilize fine particles, thus reducing shale waste. For comparison, upstream consumption for reformulated gasoline produced from conventional oil is ~0.2-0.25 Combustion of refined liquid fuels. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

The largest ever study of the sustainability of car manufacturing of 17 of the world’s leading car companies found that Asian car manufacturers are outperforming their North American, and many of their European competitors, in using their economic, environmental and social resources more efficiently. billion from 1999 to 2007.

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Anthropogenic releases of mercury to water total 1000 tonnes at a minimum. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Schematic comparison between direct photosynthetic (top) and algal biomass (bottom) processes. The process is closed and uses industrial waste CO 2 at concentrations 50–100 times higher than atmospheric. Source: Robertson et al. Click to enlarge. Source: Robertson et al. Click to enlarge. —Robertson et al. Robertson, Stuart A.

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DECEMBER 26, 2011

Researchers at the Universities of Calgary and Alberta are collaborating on a project for the microbial remediation of oil sands tailings—the waste byproducts of oil sands surface mining that are collected in large manufactured settling basins called tailing ponds. Those consortia of biofilms are able to, slowly, detoxify the water.

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Oil-Sands Oil Environment Water 244

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MAY 5, 2011

Joule says Lea County ideally meets it requirements for production, including high solar insolation, access to non-potable water and waste CO 2. Schematic comparison between direct photosynthetic (top) and algal biomass (bottom) processes. Joule Unlimited, Inc., —Bill Sims, President and CEO of Joule. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 4, 2017

This first example of a heptametallic Ru,Rh photocatalyst produces over 300 turnovers of H 2 upon photolysis of a solution of acetonitrile, water, triflic acid, and N,N-dimethylaniline as an electron donor. A paper on the work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. —lead author Gerald Manbeck. 7b02142.

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MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. for biomass wastes. Solubles were almost free from water and ash. —Li et al. The carbon basis soluble yields were 19.4−31.2% —Li et al.

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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. Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles.

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