Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

The green microalga Botryococcus braunii is considered a promising biofuel feedstock producer due to its prodigious accumulation of hydrocarbon oils that can be converted into fuels. Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

million to fuel cell manufacturers Nuvera and Plug Power ($650,000 apiece) a project testing the use of hydrogen fuel cell refrigeration units (transport refrigeration units, TRUs) in delivery trucks. This will be the first time that refrigerated trucks making deliveries have been equipped with a fuel cell, PNNL researchers believe.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

However, around the same time, SpaceX also installed two horizontal tanks that were also identified as LCH4 storage – giving the overall tank farm far more fuel storage than its oxidizer (LOx) tanks could match. By that time, a rough unofficial narrative had been constructed to explain the lack of progress on the farm’s fuel half.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have rewired the native metabolism of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica for superior production of lipids (lipogenesis). Traditional methods to increase lipids yield rely on nitrogen starvation to trick yeast cells into storing fat and materials.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The University of Michigan (U-M) and eight partner institutions will explore the use of ceramic ion conductors as replacements for the traditional liquid or polymer electrolytes in common lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and in flow cells for storing renewable energy in the grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2018

The sale includes all of Delek’s membership interests in AltAir Paramount, LLC which operates a 3,000 barrel per day renewable diesel and renewable jet fuel facility, Delek’s idled Paramount refinery, and associated pipelines and storage tanks. Earlier post.). Delek US Holdings, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2014

Enerpulse Technologies said that it has further identified the underlying mechanism by which its its pulsed energy ignition technology improves fuel economy, reduces emission and delivers higher torque in spark ignited (SI) internal combustion (IC) engines. Earlier post.) —Wes Helgeson, senior research engineer.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2022

In a partial response to those challenges, as previously discussed on Teslarati , SpaceX has taken lessons learned from Starbase, Texas and optimized the assembly process of a number of pad components to limit the amount of work that will need to be done at the pad itself. lb) of liquid methane (LCH4).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) has issued a request for information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0001420 ) on advanced thermal insulation for sub-ambient temperature alternative fuel onboard storage systems. The workshop will be held on 29 October 2015, in Dallas, Texas. Background.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2009

Nuvera Fuel Cells has sold 14 PowerEdge fuel cell systems, along with a complete PowerTap Hydrogen Generator and Hydrogen Station, to H-E-B in San Antonio, Texas. The fuel cell units will power Class II forklift trucks used for the company’s distribution center operations. Delivery is scheduled for September, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Buc-ee’s, a 37-store regional chain of rest stops in Texas, is the first company to sell the blend, marketed as a high-performance ethanol-free gasoline. The fuel quality standard for Biobutanol—ASTM D7862—also allows for a biobutanol blend of up to 12.5% biobutanol with gasoline. with gasoline.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

VG researchers say that the MDT approach increases the yields of oils stored and/or secreted by algal cells by 300%. We can manipulate plant cells so that they store oil and eventually release those reserves instead of burning the fat for fuel when glucose stores are low. The VG compound interferes with this process.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. In the best run, more than 13% by mass of the products were C 5+ hydrocarbons.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. The gravity batteries described in this story lift giant weights in the air or up mine shafts to store excess electricity, releasing the weights later on to recover the stored energy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

billion in cash (including the estimated value of hydrocarbon inventories and subject to post-closing adjustments) as part of a previously announced plan to reshape BP’s US fuels business. Fuel gases. The refinery supplies approximately 20% of the Southern California gasoline market and 50% of the jet fuel to the LAX Airport.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Application of Advanced Materials Processing to Enable Direct Production of Fast Reactor Fuel Alloys, $1,000,000. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). Scale-up and Business Aviation Test Flight of DMCO High-Performance Sustainable Aviation Fuel, $1,500,000. Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Utility Global (Houston, Texas).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Two possible projects highlighted in the application include: Pyrolysis-based Modular Energy Production Systems for conversion of wastes and biomass into fuels, chemicals and other products, with $3.2 The new process produces sugars that can be fermented to biofuels and a solid fuel suitable as a coal substitute.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“Over the past 15 years, the emphasis has moved toward using [these materials] less as high-temperature superconductors and more as high-field superconductors,” says Venkat Selvamanickam , who directs the Applied Research Hub of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

The group focuses on furthering the infrastructure for hydrogen-powered vehicles such as those powered by fuel cells. Participants in H 2 USA are working together to create ways to deliver affordable hydrogen fuel safely. Hyundai, Honda and Toyota are poised to sell fuel-cell cars within the next two years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Alon, which refines and markets transportation fuels and other petroleum products, is believed to be the first independent refiner of its size issuing a mandate to reduce corporate fuel use and environmental impact through a clean fleet program. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Factors such as size, population density, available fuels, types of businesses, climate, all play a role in both total and per capita emissions, the EIA noted. Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes in Texas (8.3%). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

OPIS DemandPro tracks actual weekly same-store gasoline volumes at more than 15,000 stations, aggregated on a national, regional and state level. Texas was off by just 18%. Although people talk about ‘demand destruction’, it’s actually been ‘demand contraction’ in response to the economic shutdown.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2011

Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. Their battery has a specific energy high enough to challenge the specific energies of fuel cells. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2014

The newly formed Scuderi Split-Cycle (SSC) Engine Consortium is having its first meeting at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas on 23 January. Essentially, the air tank stores energy in the form of compressed air, and reuses the air to enhance the combustion process. —Stephen Scuderi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. In 2011, the Alon Bakersfield Refinery resumed refining in numerous process units to convert gas oil produced by its affiliated refinery in Paramount, California into finished fuels. The existing refinery has been used as a petroleum refinery since 1932.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Currently, natural gas vehicles are fitted with on-board fuel tanks that are too large, cumbersome, and expensive to properly facilitate the widespread adoption of natural gas vehicles in the US and globally. Lower-pressure tanks are also safer, and they hold more fuel longer if there’s a puncture. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

World map of relative liquid fuel production potential from microalgae, with production potential increasing from blue to orange. The total global demand for liquid fuels can potentially be met by growing microalgae in an area of 1.92 The total global demand for liquid fuels can potentially be met by growing microalgae in an area of 1.92

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Teslarati

MAY 27, 2021

Tesla’s next generation of vehicles like the Cybertruck and the Made-in-Texas Model Y will likely be built with a structural battery pack. During Battery Day, Elon Musk explained that the use of structural batteries on electric cars could be compared to how passenger aircraft eventually used their wings to store fuel.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Thursday next week at 8pm Texas time — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2022. To this day, while the oxygen and nitrogen half of the farm are already storing thousands of tons of propellant and coolant, the fuel side of the same farm has yet to be filled with any methane.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

will demonstrate the benefits of integrating additional tools, such as the ability to store energy within the home after it is captured by solar panels. Examples of efficiencies include: Berry family: More than $1,200 saved in annual fuel costs with their C-MAX Energi.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It’s not the first major fire caused by Starship activities in South Texas, and it likely won’t be the last. Update: Fire crews are currently starting controlled burns in front of the main fire front in an attempt to starve it of fuel.

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EV Connect

JANUARY 8, 2024

According to the Alternative Fuels Data Center, there are 36,366 DC Fast charging stations available in the United States. DC is the type stored in batteries. Those that are taking the lead on alternative fuels, such as California, Texas and New York, have plenty of options to choose from in the more heavily populated areas.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Taking advantage of that, NASA astronauts and Artemis Program leaders recently took a tour of SpaceX’s South Texas Starship factory and launch pads – a massive hub of activity that the company has deemed Starbase. The pad’s massive tank farm has also yet to be filled with any liquid methane fuel (LCH4).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

For the most part, they look, sound and act like a traditional car, but there’s one major difference: their engines run on batteries and not on internal combustion powered by fossil fuels. The pros of going gasless include reduced maintenance costs, lower fuel expense and—most importantly—less pollution.

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