Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2020

In comparison, the global average is about 3,800 kilometers. The researchers modeled globally the distances between production and the consumer for both normal production conditions and scenarios where production chains become more efficient due to reduced food waste and improved farming methods. —Pekka Kinnunen, lead author.

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Universal Global Waste North America 307

Green Car Congress

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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Water Waste Energy Emissions 218

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Cyclone Power Technologies and its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) have announced positive results of preliminary emissions testing of the combustion system of the Phoenix 10, the first small-scale waste oil power generator. Acceptable emissions of SO 2 and NO x required by many state environmental agencies are below 5 tons per year.

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Phoenix Waste Oil Power 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

The area has excellent conditions for industrial activities: a deep-water harbor and an excellent electricity transmission network. We will systematically address all parts of the value chain to reduce overall carbon footprint, reduce waste and develop circular solutions. The production is planned to start by end of 2026.

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Finland Green Coal Hydrogen 437

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Promising avenues include weight savings and extension of the cruising range in comparison with battery-powered solutions; fuel cell concepts may represent an attractive option for long-distance hauling, which requires heavy loads and large cruising ranges. As a result, the charge air coolers used must be resistant to ionized water.

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Commercial Fuel Vehicles Water 223

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Despite this, research on the environmental and health impacts of tire wear has been neglected in comparison to the research and innovations dedicated to tackling fuel emissions. Tire wear particles pollute the environment, the air we breathe, the water run-off from roads and has compounding effects on waterways and agriculture.

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Pollution Transportation London Environment 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Green hydrogen is a carbon-free method that uses an electrolyzer to split water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. The low efficiency of available electrolyzers means that most of the energy in the water-splitting step is wasted as heat, rather than being captured in the hydrogen.

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Hydrogen Production Store Design 448

Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

The comparison was made with the previous-generation Wrangler Unlimited, as powered by its only available engine—FCA’s award-winning 3.6-liter Among the highlights, FCA cut its water use by nearly 40%, compared with 2010. 2020 Jeep Wrangler Freedom Edition.

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Jeep MPG 2020 Fuel Economy 269

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. A total of 37 fabrics now meet the requirements and have been incorporated into Ford vehicles.

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2016 Ford Manufacturer Energy 256

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. The recuperator improves the overall efficiency of the system.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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. This comparison helps to prevent possible production flaws in the electronic quality process, with support from an electronic quality inspection.

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Audi Water Energy CO2 150

Green Car Congress

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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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. It was in service from 1962 to 1972, but its pressurized light-water reactor (LWR) proved too complex and expensive for the ship to operate profitably. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water.

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Molten Salt Mariner South Korea Water 145

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. gallons of water per mile driven.

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Oil Water South Carolina Climate 281

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Outlines the approach for collecting and analyzing the data needed to evaluate the indicator and for making relevant comparisons to other energy options or agricultural systems. Water use and efficiency. Water quality. Percentages of bioenergy from yield increases, residues, wastes and degraded or contaminated land.

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Transportation Global Water Pollution 244

Green Car Congress

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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Conversion Renewable Water Gasoline 308

Green Car Congress

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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Audi Diesel Fuel New Mexico 285

Green Car Congress

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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Oil-Sands Oil 2010 Production 186

Green Car Congress

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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Climate Change Water Climate Global 310

Green Car Congress

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

Green Car Congress

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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Carbon Gasoline Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric 246

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

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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MIT Oil Water Minneapolis 250

Green Car Congress

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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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

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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Oil-Sands Oil Emissions Pollution 220

Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Just be careful to conserve your water consumption because if you leave your hose running and spray water for hours on end, you’ll waste so much water that you’ll have a net loss on your going green efforts. Washing your own vehicle can use less electricity than using an automated car wash.

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Green Cars Maintenance Gas-Electric 77

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

70% of the energy from burning fossil fuel is wasted as heat, while only 30% goes to turn your wheels. So after we use all that electricity pumping oil out of the ground, refining it, transporting it, we then waste 70% when we burn it. These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient.

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Petrol Diesel Vehicles Oil 59

Green Car Congress

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.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

Green Car Congress

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

Green Car Congress

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.

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Fuel Hydrogen Tennessee Commercial 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2011

Comparison of biomass-to-wheel (BTW) efficiency for different biomass utilization scenarios. Because of the same input and output in all cases, an increase in energy conversion efficiency nearly equals impact reductions in carbon and water footprints on the environment. Huang and Zhang. Click to enlarge. Zhang 2009. Click to enlarge.

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Virginia Fuel Hydrogen Gas-Electric 246

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. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Hydrogen Petrol Gas-Electric Lithium Ion 52

Green Car Congress

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.

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Idaho Waste Gas Water 243

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

100% reduction in solid waste. Polymetallic nodules are hard, compact lumps of matter formed through precipitation and interactions of water contained in seafloor sediments (pore waters) and more oxidized seawaters. Reinjection of deep seawater used for vertical transport in the mid-water column. 94% less land use.

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Batteries Battery Tonga Water 269

Green Car Congress

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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Renewable Fuel Industrial Industry 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

billion, in comparison with BMW, which having used all the resources considered necessary to create value doubled its sustainable value to €2.8 The ranking of the 17 manufacturers based on the Sustainable Value Margin. Click to enlarge. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87 billion from 1999 to 2007.

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Automobile Manufacturer Automobile BMW Manufacturer 278

Green Car Congress

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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