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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

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MAY 11, 2022

It identifies a path to achieve carbon neutrality over the next two decades while also assessing the progress the State is making towards reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. 10% of aviation fuel demand is met by electricity (batteries) or hydrogen (fuel cells) in 2045.

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WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A team of biologists and engineers modified Rhodopseudomonas palustris TIE-1 (TIE-1) so that it can produce a biofuel using only three renewable and naturally abundant source ingredients: carbon dioxide, solar panel-generated electricity and light. The results are reported in an open-access paper in the journal Communications Biology.

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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

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JUNE 5, 2023

Disadvantages of fossil fuels Fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy which depletes and are not produced as fast as the rate of depletion. These examples of alternative fuels for cars are tested and proven technology in the automotive industry. Hydrogen fuel is expensive and highly inflammable.

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Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

million) research project to investigate the use of alternative fuels that could offer customers the power and performance of modern internal combustion engines with environmental benefits comparable to an electric vehicle. Like liquefied petroleum gas, DME must be stored in a slightly pressurized tank. million (US$3.9-million)

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Cal Energy Commission to award ~$1.2M for center for alt fuels and advanced vehicle technologies

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JANUARY 16, 2015

The California Energy Commission Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP) is making up to $1,194,659 in grant funds available to develop a new center or expand an existing center for alternative fuels and advanced vehicle technologies in Central California. ( PON-14-606 ).

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Jülich evaluation of power-to-fuels recommends DME, OME3-5 and n-alkanes as diesel substitutes

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JULY 13, 2017

An evaluation of the implementation possibilities of power-to-fuel (PTF) technologies by a team from Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH in Germany recommends the PTF products DME, OME 3-5 and n-alkanes as suitable diesel alternatives for the transportation sector. A paper on the Jülich study is published in the journal Fuel.

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UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Although anaerobic digestion of organic material has been widely accepted as an important renewable energy technology, the production of Bio-SNG will required to move to higher levels of fossil fuel replacement, according to the report. Few other renewable vectors are as fungible, with so few demand-side constraints.

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Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

In a paper published in the journal Energy Policy , the team suggests that more effective policies would evaluate fuels at the refinery level, thereby creating incentives for GHG emissions to be lowered through competition as low GHG emission fuels have higher economic value to blenders. renewable fuel standards—and LCFSs.

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DOE TEF project finds US can eliminate petroleum and reduce GHG by more than 80% in transportation by 2050; less use, more biofuels, expansion of electricity and hydrogen

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MARCH 15, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released findings from a new project—Transportation Energy Futures (TEF)—that concludes the United States has the potential to eliminate petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by more than 80% in the transportation sector by 2050. Using less fuel in vehicles. Click to enlarge.

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To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

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JULY 20, 2011

However, when peak demand is not required the inefficiencies of idling coal, nuclear and gas powered power plants has become both very uneconomic and non-responsive to changes in demand for today’s market. Supplementing baseload coal-, nuclear- and gas-powered power pants in a grid strategy for tomorrow.

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Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

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JULY 23, 2018

Policies to entice consumers away from fossil-fuel powered vehicles and normalize low carbon, alternative-fuel alternatives, such as electric vehicles, are vital if the world is to significantly reduce transport sector carbon pure-emissions, according to a new study. Share of EDVs in 2050. —David McCollum.

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MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

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JUNE 9, 2011

However, with the rise in energy prices that began in 2008 and concerns over energy security, there is renewed interest in the conversion technology, the report notes. Researchers also examined whether CTL-conversion plants would use carbon capture and storage technology, which would lower greenhouse gas emissions but create an added cost.

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UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Both proposals have the additional advantage of generating funds which may be used to increase investments in low CI fuel technologies. Additionally, neither mechanism would compromise the greenhouse gas reduction goals set by Assembly Bill 32. In many respects, the LCFS is a first-of-its-kind regulation.

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IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

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APRIL 21, 2011

The publication was prepared jointly by the International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy Division (RED) and Energy Technology Policy Division (ETP). gigatonnes of CO2) of emission reductions in the transport sector.

Transportation

Transportation Fuel Conversion CO2

What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. Other automakers are watching closely, with announcements heralding their own electric intentions. Hydrogen and fuel cells remain decades from meaningful deployment, even their supporters concede.

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CARB releases 2022 draft Scoping Plan update

WUSTL researchers demonstrate solar-panel-powered microbial electrosynthesis to produce n-butanol from light, CO2 and power

List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

Ford Europe leading project investigating DME and OME1 as low carbon, near zero particulate fuels; power-to-liquids pathways using CO2

Cal Energy Commission to award ~$1.2M for center for alt fuels and advanced vehicle technologies

Jülich evaluation of power-to-fuels recommends DME, OME3-5 and n-alkanes as diesel substitutes

UK study finds Bio-SNG could offer 90% reduction in lifecycle CO2; lower cost of carbon abatement than electrical solutions for transport applications

Study finds renewable fuel mandates alone not likely to lower carbon intensity of biofuels; the importance of localized LCAs and optimized low carbon fuel standards

DOE TEF project finds US can eliminate petroleum and reduce GHG by more than 80% in transportation by 2050; less use, more biofuels, expansion of electricity and hydrogen

To Store or Not to Store: That is the Question

Study finds behavior-influencing policies remain critical for mass market success of low-carbon vehicles

MIT study concludes that absent climate policy, coal-to-liquids could account for around a third of global liquid fuels by 2050

UC Davis report finds LCFS compliance costs may rise rapidly; recommends offsetting measures

IEA roadmap concludes biofuels can provide up to 27% of world transportation fuel by 2050

What about the Pickens Plan?

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