Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. For the North American shale boom, the lack of water is suffocating. How communities in Texas can be spared drought.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The UT Austin technique is aimed at the latter.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Despite its size, the assembly plant at Blue Oval City is designed to have as minimal an impact as possible on the surrounding environment—and even to generate positive impacts. The assembly plant’s goal is to have a regenerative impact on the local environment through biomimicry in design of the facility. Our time is now.

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Teslarati

JUNE 1, 2021

Tesla has updated the Giga Berlin application it submitted to the Brandenburg State Environment Agency. According to the revised application, Tesla Giga Berlin’s water consumption will be far less than anticipated. . Tesla supplier developing dry electrode tech to establish facility in Texas.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2016

ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. E-ffiliates fosters collaboration with industry in pursuing energy and environmental innovation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2013

Approximately 4,500 barrels of oil and water (189,000 gallons US) have been recovered. The Pegasus pipeline is a 20-inch (51 cm), 858-mile (1,381-kilometer) link from the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Illinois to Nederland, Texas. It carries 90,000 barrels of oil per day, almost exclusively Western Canadian crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. Texas Tech University. CATHODE (CATHode scintillatOr Detector for Electrochemistry) - $1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When methane hydrates are “melted,” or exposed to pressure and temperature conditions outside those where the formations are stable, the solid crystalline lattice turns to liquid water, and the enclosed methane molecules are released as gas. The University of Texas at Austin. Earlier post.). DOE Investment: approximately $480,000 ?.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. —Yu et al. 13, 3439-3446 doi: 10.1039/D0EE00921K.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2012

TEMA) received its eighth consecutive ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award for its continued leadership in protecting the environment through energy efficiency and management. Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana (Princeton); Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (San Antonio); and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia (Buffalo). .);

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2024

SpaceX has responded to a critical report from CNBC alleging that it has repeatedly polluted waters in Texas this year. As per the private space company, the publication’s allegations about its launch operations in South Texas were factually inaccurate. It ensures flight safety and protects the launch site and surrounding area.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Methane hydrate—natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—occurs in both terrestrial and marine environments.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Previous attempts at such bi-functional catalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen have generally resulted in poor performance in one of the two functions. Alkaline fresh water/seawater electrolysis was then systematically studied using the two-electrode electrolyzer Fe 0.01 -Ni&Ni 0.2 N (Fe 0.01 -Ni&Ni 0.2 Fe 0.01 &Mo-NiO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

These projects include: GE Global Research (Niskayuna, NY) - NORM Mitigation and Clean Water Recovery from Marcellus Frac Water. The process will also yield clean water than can be recycled for beneficial use, and marketable salt byproducts. The total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

On June 3, 1979, the 2-mile deep exploratory well, IXTOC I, blew out in the Bahia de Campeche, 600 miles south of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico. The Obama Administration has declared the Deepwater Horizon incident a Spill of National Significance (SONS). Projections are that the oil slick will reach Louisiana shoreline areas today.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2012

The latest sale builds on the Western Gulf of Mexico lease sale held by BOEM in December 2011 that made available more than 21 million acres, attracted more than $337 million in high bids, and included 20 companies submitting 241 bids on 191 tracts comprising more than a million acres offshore Texas. in previous Central lease sales.

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Teslarati

MAY 20, 2022

Environmentalists and activist groups are setting their sights on Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas. In a letter to Mayor Steve Adler, the groups called on the city to withhold permits for the electric vehicle maker, including Giga Texas’ dedicated battery cathode facility. Read the group’s full letter to Giga Texas below.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2011

EPA issued an order to ExxonMobil, pursuant to the Clean Water Act, directing the company to take a number of clean-up and restoration activities as a result of an oil spill into the Yellowstone River. EPA has initiated air and water quality sampling and will make the results available to the public as soon as the data are available.

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Teslarati

APRIL 23, 2024

Tesla has used a new law passed in Texas in September to remove its massive production facility east of Austin from city environmental regulations. Senate Bill 2038, approved on September 1, 2023, now allows landowners on the outskirts of major Texas cities to petition for removal from Austin’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Fermentation requires no organic solvent, and the water used is recycled. Furthermore, the Bio-BDO fermentation process operates near ambient pressure and temperature, thus providing a safer working environment. Greener reaction conditions: Kraton Performance Polymers, LLC, Houston, Texas. The biggest benefits are during use.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

IH 2 produces significant amounts of export energy in addition to the renewable transportation fuels, while minimizing impact on the surrounding environment by manufacturing its own hydrogen and recycling the water used in the process.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2013

The survey found that two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor building the pipeline, which would transport oil from Canada’s oil sands region through the Midwest to refineries in Texas. 23% oppose construction of the pipeline. Support for the pipeline spans most demographic and partisan groups, according to Pew.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

At a water depth of approximately 1,900 meters (6,234 feet), the current field development is located in Mississippi Canyon Blocks 778 and 822, in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico environment. Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas, USA, will perform the overall project management. BP Exploration & Production Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Successful technologies will significantly increase the confidence that CO 2 placed in geologic formations is being accurately tracked and remains permanently stored, thus protecting human health and the environment. Fusion Petroleum Technologies , The Woodlands, Texas. Columbia University , New York, N.Y.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

With the massive factory still awaiting its final approval, some of Giga Berlin’s critics have reiterated concerns about the electric vehicle factory’s water consumption. Elon Musk has been asked about Giga Berlin’s water consumption in the past. The factory just is not a very intense consumer of water per square meter. “The

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

—Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. Volkswagen of America chose to include carbon reduction efforts in California and in Texas with projects geared towards forestry conservation and landfill gas capture. 3Degrees and carbon offsets. McKinney Landfill.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2014

John Mullet, Texas A&M University, College Station. Genomics of Energy’s Water Use Efficiency / Drought Resilience Goal: Increase the water use efficiency, drought resilience, and yield of high biomass energy Sorghum and other C4 bioenergy grasses. 2014 Biomass Genomics Resarch projects. 1,230,600.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2009

The harsh high-pressure, high-temperature environments found in deep onshore and offshore deepwater wells require special imaging technologies and were the reason for the development of the SeismicPULSER system. No drill bit seismic-while-drilling system available today has the full capabilities of the new system, according to the DOE.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2019

.; the Nature Conservancy; Audubon Texas; Applied Ecological Services Inc.; Texas Parks and Wildlife; the Texas Coastal Exchange; the New Mexico Department of Agriculture; GSI Environmental Inc.; When completed, the working group’s concept will be available and open to anyone who wants to buy or sell carbon.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

While the facility’s development has been largely overshadowed by the progress of projects such as Gigafactory Texas, the last official step for Giga Berlin’s final approval has begun through a virtual hearing by mail. Tesla assured that Gigafactory Berlin would not be detrimental to the drinking water supply of the area.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Methane hydrate can form in Arctic and marine environments. Researchers at the University of California at San Diego will design, build, and test an electromagnetic (EM) system designed for very shallow water use and will apply the system to determine the extent of offshore permafrost on the US Beaufort inner shelf. Source: DOE.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Scientists from IBM Research - China and other experts across IBM are developing new insights into traffic and predictions that will serve as the foundation for new transportation services to deal with this complex environment. By having water flow so close to each chip, heat can be removed more efficiently.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Texas-based Noble Energy, Inc. Leviathan-1, located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery. Noble Energy’s Eastern Mediterranean exploration. Source: Noble Energy. Click to enlarge. Wurmser.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Save RGV argued that the water deluge system SpaceX uses during launches at Starbase near Boca Chica Beach was releasing untreated wastewater during launches. However, the water deluge system is designed to reduce the effects of Starship rocket engine blasts during liftoff or static fire engine testing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2015

One of these, the Engineering Research Center for Power Optimization for Electro-Thermal Systems (POETS), aims to enhance or increase the electric power density available in tightly constrained mobile environments by changing the design. The two other new ERCs are: Off-grid drinking water. Nature-inspired soil engineering.

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