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Researchers Suggest That Although CCS and Other Technologies Could Reduce Oil Sands GHG Emissions to Near Zero, That Strategy May Not Make Sense

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Examples of emerging oil sands related technologies and trade-offs. The paper is an examination of how various choices about the scale of the life cycle analysis applied to oil sands (i.e., The source material is neither oil nor tar but bitumen, but is most generally described as an example of ultraheavy oil.”.

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Alberta publishes report assessing non-combustion uses for bitumen, opens $2M call for projects

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Following a 2017 report that identified potential products that could be made from Alberta oil sands bitumen, this new study identifies the top potential uses to help Alberta diversify its economy outside of conventional fuels and chemical feedstocks. Vanadium flow batteries for electricity storage. fly ash and coke).

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Suncor & ATCO’s New Hydrogen Project Is More Fossil Fuel Hydrogen Hype

CleanTechnica EVs

Two major players in Alberta’s oil and gas industry announced a new hydrogen project recently. Suncor is one of the last remaining oil and gas majors in Alberta’s oil sands. It’s a vertically integrated oil and gas company, […]. The details say otherwise.

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Will Elon Musk End The Fossil Fuel Industry? Tesla vs. Exxon

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Are oil and car executives hiding their heads in the sand? Looking for more oil reserves perhaps?) Is Musk right about the end of the fossil fuel industry? UK-based research and analysis group Rethink Energy (no affiliation with RethinkX) believes so.

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Argonne releases updates to GREET models; LiMn2O4 replaces cobalt for Li-ion batteries

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The vehicle specifications have been updated to include three vehicle types: a passenger car, a sport utility vehicle, and a pick-up truck and five vehicle propulsion technologies: an internal combustion engine vehicle with a spark-ignition (SI) engine, a grid-independent hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) with an SI engine, a plug-in HEV (i.e.,

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2035 Canberra ICE ban an important step, but a drop in the EV ocean

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And yet I must admit I felt a twinge of something adjacent to admiration for our capital, a country town that’s always willing to go for woke, this week when it announced that new fossil fuel-powered vehicles would be banned in the ACT from 2035.

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Nissan Introduces 7th Generation Patrol with New 5.6L V8

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It allows the driver to quickly switch between four drive modes: sand, on-road, snow and rock, with the flick of a switch. In sand mode, owners are able to drive safely, quickly and skillfully in sand and dirt, just like professional rally drivers. I want electric car (to) mean Renault or Nissan, period,” he said.

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