Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

Through the High-Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program, selected teams will help manufacturers shrink their carbon footprint, streamline their processes, and increase innovation—from optimizing the performance of equipment used in chemical manufacturing to improving the fuel efficiency of vehicles. All Selectees.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Element 1 Corporation has entered into a global agreement with NEXA Capital Partners LLC to accelerate the adoption of its methanol-to-hydrogen generators ( earlier post ) for fuel cell applications in aerospace and particularly electric vertical aircraft (EVA). —Dave Edlund, President and CEO of Element 1.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

CWind, a leading provider of project services, crew transfer vessels (CTVs) and GWO-accredited training courses to the offshore wind industry, and part of the Global Marine Group (a market leader in offshore engineering), has delivered the world’s first hybrid-powered Surface Effect Ship (SES), the CWind Pioneer. At a speed of 43.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

The falling cost of making hydrogen from wind and solar power offers a promising route to cutting emissions in some of the most fossil-fuel-dependent sectors of the economy, such as steel, heavy-duty vehicles, shipping and cement, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). Abatement cost with hydrogen at $1/kg (7.4/MMBtu).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Government of Canada is investing up to C$222 million (US$162 million) over the next eight years to support these initiatives through its Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), which supports large-scale, transformative, and collaborative projects that will help position Canada to prosper in the global knowledge-based economy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

These include: The use of low-cost materials that, unlike many other electrolyzers in the market today, are free of iridium and other highly expensive platinum group metals; Ease of mass manufacturing; High-current architecture that uniquely enables individual hydrogen production modules in the hundreds of megawatts each; and.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Report highlights include: Cape Wind’s troubles. Source: IRENA.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. A critical element of the transition is to reduce our use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are expensive and environmentally destructive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) is awarding $6.6 million to seven research teams—six from Stanford and one from Carnegie Mellon University—to advance research on technologies for renewable energy conversion to electricity or fuels and for capturing CO 2 emissions and converting CO 2 to fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The projects include the development of a wide range of hydrogen-related technologies including concentrating solar thermal, electrolysis, biotechnology, carrier synthesis, thermochemical processes, fuel cell development and energy generation. CSIRO Methane Fuel Carrier – $1,085,553. CSIRO Liquid Fuel Carrier – $1,010,021.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. The lines tend to be concentrated around fossil-fuel reserves and population centers but are also shaped by historic utility alliances. The value of linking regional networks is widely accepted globally.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2016

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced up to $30 million in funding for a new program for technologies that use renewable energy to convert air and water into cost-competitive liquid fuels. ( The production, transport and use of carbon-neutral liquid fuels for energy delivery.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

For several months now, 20 teams of Australian high-school students have been designing fuel-cell cars to compete in the country’s inaugural Hydrogen Grand Prix. The task: make the most of a 30-watt fuel cell and 14 grams of hydrogen gas. The coming fuel-cell trucks will trim its diesel consumption. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Made from widely available domestic feedstocks and advanced refining technologies, energy-dense biofuels provide a pathway for low-carbon fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions throughout the transportation sector and accelerate the bioeconomy. Currently, SAF is typically blended with fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2022

Bioenergy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) – captures and stores carbon from organic materials, converting it into useful energy such as heat, electricity, liquid or gas fuels. The carbon dioxide can then be permanently stored or used in various products or applications. The biochar is rich in carbon and can be used as a fertilizer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, has joined an $8-million funding round for CoolPlanetBioFuels , a start-up company developing a technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuels, including gasoline, and carbon that can be sequestered. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

IACMI is dedicated to overcoming these barriers by developing low-cost, high-production, energy-efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for composites applications. In the wind energy industry, advances in low-cost composite materials will help manufacturers build longer, lighter and stronger blades to create more energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

Lithium demand is expected to continue growing with the shift from fossil-fuel powered vehicles to electric vehicles (EV), in addition to the steady growth of lithium-ion batteries for electric devices. Olaroz hosts a JORC/NI43-101 (mineral reserves reporting standards) compliant, high quality, low-cost and long life resource.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

This research article focuses on a highly favored route to the synthesis of controlled nanostructures at high rate, high yield, and low cost by molten carbonate electrolysis. Pulverized coal is often used as the flame fuel, and fuel is also added to heat and drive the calciner and preheaters. Licht (2017).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2014

This is far from certain, they acknowledge in a new NextSTEPS whitepaper, as hydrogen faces a range of challenges, from economic to societal, before it can be implemented as a large-scale transportation fuel. Hydrogen fueling infrastructure has been a major challenge. —“The Hydrogen Transition”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams are developing CCS retrofits to existing power generators as well as greenfield systems that intake fossil carbon-containing fuel like natural gas or bio-gas and output electricity. Phase 1 FLECCS projects are: GE Global Research. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. Raleigh, N.C. Niskayuna, N.Y.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. PETRO aims to create plants that capture more energy from sunlight and convert that energy directly into fuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Left, global light-duty fleet in the electric-favoring case; right, the hydrogen-favoring case. In both electric- and hydrogen-favoring cases, availability of low-carbon electricity and hydrogen prolonged the use of petroleum-fueled ICE vehicles. The team used a model (Global Energy Transition, GET-RC 6.1)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In the USA, the demand is being driven by the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

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Wallbox

JANUARY 4, 2021

The proportion of grid electricity generated by renewables such as wind and solar energy fluctuates depending on how hard the wind is blowing or how strong the sun is shining. A smart EV charger will enable an EV to be charged when weather conditions allow and there is a surfeit of low carbon, low cost power available.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

World primary energy demand by fuel in the IEA high gas scenario. The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. Source: IEA.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Paired with renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or other energy sources, facilities can use the BES system to store and harness solar power or as a backup power source by storing energy from the grid. This is accomplished using bidirectional electronic converters that link the electrical network to EV batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

As a reduced cost concept, it aims to make more intelligent use of electrical energy to achieve the desired reduction in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Potentially this low-voltage technology combination could be applied to something approaching 50 million vehicles per year, CPT said. SpeedStart.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also establishes an interagency council to ensure an integrated federal response to adapting to the effects of global warming. Clean Fuels and Vehicles. The draft establishes a new low-carbon transportation fuel standard (LCFS) to promote advanced biofuels and other clean transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

percent of energy consumption to come from non fossil fuels [ earlier post ]. Globally, more than 100 nations have established renewable energy targets. Closer to home, the federal fuel economy standards require the average fleet fuel economy of OEMs that sell vehicles in the USA to be 35.5 mpg by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The 2018 edition of BP’s Energy Outlook considers the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition. The global energy mix is the most diverse the world has ever seen by 2040, with oil, gas, coal and non-fossil fuels each contributing around a quarter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

The world has a viable pathway to building a global energy sector with net-zero emissions in 2050, but it is narrow and requires an unprecedented transformation of how energy is produced, transported and used globally, according to a new special report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2022

H2Carrier developed the P2XFloater concept in a close co-operation with leading maritime and process engineering companies in Norway, thus building on decades of experience and competence from the oil & gas sector, the marine industry and the offshore wind installation industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. The target liquid fuel is isooctane, which fits well into the existing transportation fuel system in the United States. OPX Biotechnologies Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Ionomer-Free Electrodes for Ultrahigh Power Density Fuel Cells - $3,220,310.

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