Cars That Think
MARCH 14, 2022
A possible answer, though, might lie in oil wells. The California-based Hyperlight Energy will be piloting an installation where they plan to use existing oil wells as solar thermal wellsprings, with the stored energy being converted back to clean electricity when required. But we can still reduce the carbon [cost] of that oil.”
Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2012
Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. point out in their paper. —Rooney et al.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2021
The goals of the test well program were to demonstrate that CO 2 , the main greenhouse gas that will be generated during the fuel production process, can be safely and securely stored deep underground and that the storage reservoir has sufficient capacity to store all the gas produced over the plant’s lifetime.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
The US Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is working with Ecopetrol, the largest oil company in Colombia, to process the residue from sugar cane and palm oil harvesting into fuel ethanol for blending with gasoline. NREL has a pilot plant at its Golden, Colo.,
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2019
Compact plants are to separate CO 2 from the ambient air directly in buildings and produce synthetic hydrocarbons which can then be used as renewable synthetic oil. The team presents this “crowd oil” concept in Nature Communications. The synthesized hydrocarbon fuels can be stored and/or transported for further utilization.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Today, most capture capacity is used to collect carbon dioxide from natural gas processing plants and used for enhanced oil recovery. In 2021, some 73% of captured CO 2 went to enhanced oil recovery operations. The destination for captured CO 2 is also due to change significantly from the status quo.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Instead of using H 2 , direct conversion of CO 2 with CH 4 (dry reforming of methane, DRM) to liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g. acetic acid) represents another promising route for both CO 2 valorisation and CH 4 activation. wind and solar power) to act as an efficient chemical energy storage localized or distributed system.
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