Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 18, 2023

When Should You Dump Your Gas Guzzler? Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk What are the environmental and other pros and cons of ditching the gas guzzler for an electric vehicle (EV)? greenhouse gas emissions, making the switch to EVs a welcome change for environmental advocates. — S.H.,

Gas 52

Gas Gas-Electric Gasoline-Electric Renewable 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

The proposed projects focus on reducing petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions through biomethane or natural gas, and installing alternative fuel infrastructure for fleets. USA Waste of California ($489,040 - Match Share $1,051,021). USA Waste of California ($489,040 - Match Share $1,051,021).

Gas 210

Gas California Hydrogen Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. This CO is either utilized for energy production in boilers, or it is flared.

South Africa 150

South Africa Convert Waste Production 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million for projects that address barriers to modular chemical process intensification to enable development of breakthrough technologies that can boost energy productivity and energy efficiency in industries such as oil and gas, pulp and paper, and chemical manufacturing.

Waste 170

Waste USA Manufacturer Renewable 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

ArcelorMittal has inaugurated a new, energy recovery and reuse boiler that recycles waste gas generated through its blast furnace process (for ironmaking) and uses it to generate electricity to help power the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor steel manufacturing plant in East Chicago, Indiana—the largest steelmaking complex in North America.

Manufacturer 246

Manufacturer Gas Indiana Chicago 246

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2015

The Audi e-gas plant in the city of Werlte in Lower Saxony ( earlier post ) produces CO 2 neutral-fuel (synthetic methane from water, renewable electricity and CO 2 ); it now also contributes toward stabilizing the public power grid. This therefore considerably increases the overall efficiency of the Power-to-Gas/biogas plant.

Grid 150

Grid Audi Gas Market 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

SGCE) for the demonstration and commercialization of the Group’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology, primarily for Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) and Waste-to-Liquids (WTL) applications. The biomass gasifier at this facility will also be used to supply synthesis gas for conversion to fuels via the Group’s FT demonstration unit. Earlier post.).

Waste 262

Waste Commercial Austria Conversion 262

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

Energy 139

Energy Climate Waste Wind 139

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

AOI 05: Improved Efficiency of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Natural Gas and Propane (LPG) Engines. Development of a Heavy-Duty Direct-Injection Spark- Ignition Natural Gas Engine. Gas Technology Institute. Field Demonstration of a Near-Zero, Tier 5 compliant, Natural Gas Hybrid Line-Haul Locomotive. Waste Not, Want Hot?

Lithium Ion 236

Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal 236

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Reducing EMbodied-Energy and Decreasing Emissions (REMADE) Manufacturing Institute announced approximately $35 million to support research and development (R&D) that will enable US manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics, metals, electronic waste, and fibers.

Manufacturer 207

Manufacturer Iowa Waste Plugin 207

CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Diesel-to-electric conversions are helping to ease the electric truck bottleneck while contributing to the sparkling green economy of the future.

Gas-Electric 119

Gas-Electric Conversion Economy Gas 119

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. ArcelorMittal USA plans to design an industrial-scale solution for carbon capture from blast furnace-based steelmaking operations at its plant in Burns Harbor, IN.

Carbon 236

Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas 236

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Fossil fuels currently meet this majority demand, raising concerns due to potential CO 2 (a major greenhouse gas) doubling compared to preindustrial levels (approximately 285 ppm for about 400 000 years before the industrial revolution and reached 376 ppm as of 2005 and is still increasing). Carbon dioxide cycle of biomass-based fuels.

Fuel 52

Fuel Auto Oil Conversion 52

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

India has released a report on its greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, becoming the first “non-Annex I” (i.e. Net Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from India in 2007 (emissions with land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF), were 1727.71 The emissions of USA and China are almost 4 times that of India in 2007, he noted.

2007 210

2007 India USA Russia 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2012

are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons-grade plutonium (W-Pu) in a proposed GEM*STAR accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide the process heat and steam for the Fischer-Tropsch production of synthetic diesel from natural gas and other carbonaceous feedstocks (e.g., Muons, Inc. ,

Molten Salt 320

Molten Salt Fuel Production Coal 320

Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

will partner with LLNL to develop a multiphase CFD model for turbulent bubbly flow in airlift bioreactors in a project titled “Innovative Bioreactor Designs for Process Intensification in Biological Natural Gas Conversion.”. LanzaTech Inc. Arconic, Inc. Applied Materials, Inc., Applied Materials, Inc., Arconic, Inc. Arconic, Inc.

Manufacturer 170

Manufacturer Ford Sierra Waste 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Chemrec, a Swedish company providing technology for black liquor gasification, has formed a US subsidiary, Chemrec USA. Chemrec’s black liquor gasification (BLG) technology converts the black liquor waste stream from the paper pulping process into synthesis gas.

Sweden 150

Sweden USA Waste Gas 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2014

The biogas is then transported to the refinery, where it can be converted to hydrogen via known methods including, but not limited to autothermal reforming (ATR), steam methane reforming (SMR) and additional water gas shift reactions. The hydrogen can then be fed into refinery hydrogenation or desulfurization processes for fuels.

Renewable 199

Renewable Hydrogen Transportation Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Founded in 1989, Chemrec AB along with its subsidiary Chemrec USA is a pioneer of the black liquor gasification biorefinery process and holds a patent on the technology. Earlier post.).

North America 218

North America America Sweden Milwaukee 218

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

Sundrop Fuels will convert sustainable forest residues and thinnings as feedstock combined with natural gas into bio-based “green gasoline” by using a commercially-proven production path that integrates gasification, gas purification, methanol synthesis and a methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process. Sundrop Fuels, Inc.,

Fuel 210

Fuel Conversion Coal Convert 210

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 2, 2023

The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.

Transportation 65

Transportation Waste Energy Climate Change 65

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2011

Linc says the Pyromex process produces good quality syngas with almost no CO 2 gas emissions, and without the need for the consumption of high volumes of water or power. PowerHouse now offers integrated waste and biomass-to-energy systems on a turnkey basis. —Don Schofield, President of Linc Energy’s USA operations.

Coal 186

Coal Energy Companies North Dakota 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Emissions will be further reduced by the use of an advanced dual-fuel marine engine with direct injection and exhaust gas treatment. These are used exclusively for the Volkswagen Group in a round trip scheme across the North Atlantic serving the markets of Canada, the USA, Mexico and Europe.

Fuel 210

Fuel Mariner Cars North America 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2011

This has the potential to accelerate the commercial production of biofuels from crop waste and inedible plants, the partners said. Biofuels make up around 4% of transport fuel in Europe, and 3% in the USA. Low-carbon, sustainable biofuels will be increasingly important in the global transport fuel mix. —Peter Voser, Shell CEO.

Brazil 210

Brazil Gasoline-Electric Waste Gasoline 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. At present PHEVLERs, PHEVs and conventional gasoline engine vehicles in the USA all use a liquid fuel blend comprising 90% gasoline and 10% biofuel.

Clean 150

Clean Cleaning Future Green 150

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why would your Creative Greenius walk away from his high-paying, highly rewarding executive role at CBS EcoMedia where I was working to fund environmental, education, and wellness projects all across the USA, just as the company hit more growth milestones and was likely to pay generous bonuses?

Climate Change 358

Climate Change Climate Oil Chevron 358

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2009

integrating biological and thermochemical processing to produce biofuels and/or power could offer similar, if not lower, efficiencies and costs and very large reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum-derived fuel, according to a comparative analysis of 14 mature technology biomass refining scenarios.

Emissions 170

Emissions Gas Fuel 2009 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 as a group, partly thanks to large emission reductions from economies in transition in the early nineties and more recent reductions due to the 2008-2009 recession, according to the report. increase in global CO 2 emissions between 2009 and 2010, according to the report.

Global 281

Global Emissions Industrial Industry 281

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) to lead the 10 th Manufacturing USA Institute to be stood up during the Obama Administration. Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on large-scale, energy-intensive processing.

USA 150

USA Manufacturer Obama Universal 150

Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Long Beach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. . Or maybe I have just yet to find my happy place and haven’t wanted to harsh anyone’s mellow.

Al Gore 247

Al Gore Gore Climate Maryland 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. Southeast Asia.

Oil 239

Oil Carbon Emissions Europe 239

Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

Tomorrow morning I’ll be in Long Beach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. . Or maybe I have just yet to find my happy place and haven’t wanted to harsh anyone’s mellow.

Al Gore 150

Al Gore Gore Climate Maryland 150

Current EV

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Volvo Car USA has teamed up with The Harris Poll to deepen insights into the American opinion across four core themes: design, safety, technology and environment. We encourage you to use these statistics freely, properly sourcing Volvo Car USA/The Harris Poll.

Volvo 52

Volvo America Purchase Insight 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

For $100 million in one year, we’ll demonstrate how to rapidly reduce use of oil in transportation with safe, warrantied retrofits of tens of millions gas-guzzlers. We now have a sprinkling of promising companies working to get funded to convert gas-guzzlers. In the key area of transportation, we submit our Drive Star proposal.

Oil 252

Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands 252

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

Energy 138

Energy Wind Solar Building 138

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

About 85% of the CO 2 from the process stream will be captured and over 5 million tons sequestered into a depleted oil or gas field. CEMEX USA will partner with RTI International to demonstrate a dry sorbent CO 2 capture technology at one of its cement plants in the United States. DOE Share: $3,014,666). C6 Resources.

Carbon 210

Carbon Industrial Industry Coal 210

Green Cars News

JULY 13, 2009

The issue of investment in hydrogen fuel cells may rage on in the USA, but that hasn’t stopped Colorado-based Proterra LLC providing a hydrogen fuel cell hybrid bus for use in a US Department of Defence pilot project.

Hydrogen 39

Hydrogen Fuel Lithium Ion Colorado 39