Green Energy Consumers

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

support of Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. That was the first of two serious “oil shocks” to the economy in that decade. I’m old enough to have been taught in junior high school when Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Israel Corp. unit reports biomass fuel breakthrough Globes. a US subsidiary of Israel Corporation’s renewable energy unit IC Green Energy Ltd., has developed a gasification-based process to convert agricultural biomass into standard automotive fuels at a competitive production cost compared with the price of oil.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Israel has set a goal of reducing its use of oil for transportation by 60% in less than 20 years. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, in partnership with Bloomberg, is hosting a Fuel Choices Summit , 12-13 November in Tel Aviv, to explore the challenges, opportunities, and implications of this effort.

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MARCH 17, 2016

As part the Israeli Ministry of Environmental Protection’s (MoEP’s) action plan to reduce pollution in Haifa Bay in Israel, Israel Police are actively enforcing exclusion rules that bar heavy vehicles in downtown Haifa Bay at certain times of the day. Air pollution, Haifa. Photo: Ilan Malester. Source: MoEP. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2010

Biojet produced from castor varieties under development by Israel-based Evogene, Ltd. meets the key international standards for alternative aviation fuels, according to the company. The analysis was conducted by Evogene, Inc., a fully-owned US subsidiary of Evogene, Ltd., In April 2009 Evogene Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers are developing a process to hydrogenate carbon dioxide to produce a renewable alternative for crude oil. The “green feed” crude can be refined into renewable liquid fuels using established technologies and can be transported using existing infrastructure to gas stations.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

mpg US), fuel consumption is a substantial 13% less than that of the outgoing engine. The concept of combining the Atkinson cycle at part loads with the Otto cycle at full loads stretches back more than 30 years to a 1982 paper by a team of researchers from Tel-Aviv University and the Israel Institute of Technology. With a high 12.8:1

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Those nations are one of the global’s greatest oil exporters, and but, they’re marching into the unutilized power car transition. Up to now, Zeekr has entered Eu markets in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany, and signed commitments with companions in Israel and Kazakhstan. billion USD trade in with Saudi Arabia.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

ICG, Israel Corporation’s vehicle for investing in the alternative energy market, accepted an offer from REG European Holdings B.V. US-based biofuels producer Renewable Energy Group, Inc. is acquiring IC Green Energy Ltd.’s s majority equity ownership position in German biodiesel producer Petrotec AG.

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JULY 6, 2009

Seambiotic USA, the US subsidiary of Israel-based Seambiotic, has entered into an agreement with NASA Glenn Research Center to develop an on-going collaborative R&D program for optimization of open-pond microalgae growth processes. to reduce biomass process cost.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Primus Green Energy has produced fuel samples from a test plant, recently broke ground on an automated demonstration plant and is planning to break ground next year on a commercial plant in eastern Pennsylvania that will be designed to produce 4.8 million gallons per year of gasoline from wood pellets and non-food, herbaceous crops.

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

Petrol heads and EV cynics can’t stand the fact that multiple governments all over the world are phasing out Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles and promoting EV’s to achieve oil independence and promote clean air for their citizens. Why should the government interfere? Why should the government interfere? The answer is simple.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 26, 2011

In January 2007 it was reported from Davos that Shimon Peres was in talks to bring an electric car factory to Israel. If there's one country that ought to have long ago developed a domestic electric car industry it is Israel. No oil of its own should be reason enough. I wrote : It's about time.

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JANUARY 4, 2011

Virent’s fuel products can enter the market using existing pipelines to power current vehicles at high blend rates. Virent has proven it can transform cellulosic, non-food sugars into environmentally superior hydrocarbon fuels with the same energy content and performance as petroleum fuels. Virent Energy Systems Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The new nanoparticle-based catalyst could help oil refineries make the process of manufacturing gasoline more efficient, reduce the impact on the environment, and produce higher-octane gasoline. We have a way to make a better catalyst that will improve the fuels they make right now. Kiely, Israel E. —Michael Wong.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

Safety standards have required the implementation of systems that often won’t fit into older/smaller designs and loopholes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have resulted in manufacturers sizing up models to exploit regulatory blind spots. If you want to know all the details, check out the Federal Code of Regulations.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 21, 2008

Shai Agassi's ambitious Project Better Place takes a step forward today in Israel. The government will announce its support for the venture which has been developing between Agassi and Renault to bring electric cars to the virtual island that is Israel. As I have commented before, there is no better proving grounds for EVs than Israel.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

These ketones can be deoxygenated to paraffins; these paraffins—from pentane to undecane—are components of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Here we propose a chemical route to convert fermentation products from a variety of renewable carbohydrate sources into hydrocarbons that can be used for petrol, jet fuel and diesel.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

CoolPlanetBioFuels , Camarillo, CA, developing technology that converts low-grade biomass into high-grade fuel and carbon that can be sequestered. The joint venture’s initial investments are in: Alta Devices, Santa Clara, CA, improving the production economics of advanced materials for high-efficiency, low-cost solar energy.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Israel-based Rosetta Genomics has taken Rosetta Green , its plant biotechnology project, and formed it into a majority-owned subsidiary with Rosetta Genomics holding a 76% ownership position in the new company. Tags: Algae Biomass Biotech Ethanol Fuels. Rosetta Green has obtained $1.5

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Better Place is building stations in San Francisco, Hawaii, Israel, and Denmark to swap out 1,000 pound batteries in a car wash type set up. will become less common over the next 10-years and that a mix of alternative fuel vehicles including electric, biofuel, hydrogen and solar will and is now seeing tremendous market growth.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles [EV], plug-in hybrids [PHEV] and fuel cell vehicles [FCV] at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. Shai Agassi predicts that Israel will have over 100,000 electric vehicles in use by 2010.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

People-Oriented Development Current Status of REDD Financing the Fifth Fuel Peak Phosphorus - Commence Urine Recyling on Space. Driving range will no longer be an obstacle, because customers will be able to plug their cars into charging units in any of the 500,000 charging spots in Israel.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

While natural gas is often cheaper than oil and gives off fewer emissions, developing the resource comes with risks, especially for smaller nations. Cyprus faces serious shortages of both drinking water and energy; the nation uses fossil fuels to power water desalination, so the two problems are intertwined. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

No oil or other lubricants are needed, so maintenance is extremely low and the need to dispose of hazardous materials is eliminated. Earlier this year, a C30 liquid-fueled microturbine was successfully integrated into a Ford S-Max people carrier in the United Kingdom by Langford Performance Engineering Ltd. Earlier post.).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. Oil is the alternative.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Around the six Gulf states, together with oil majors Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, electrical vehicles account for simply 0.4% s top class Zeekr emblem have began promoting in Israel and planning to make bigger into extra international locations within the patch, together with Qatar and Bahrain. Chery Car Co.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Chairman Carlos Ghosn has gone further than any auto exec in making an alternative fuel choice for the future and it is unambiguously battery electric cars. Commitments have been made for tens of thousands of cars within a few short years for Israel and Denmark in cooperation with Shai Agassi's Better Place.

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