Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2013
The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. What Keystone XL would carry. Earlier post.) Greenhouse gas LCA analysis.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 15, 2013
The growth reflects an expected 90% increase in electricity use, led by developing countries where 1.3 billion people are currently without access to electricity. Over the same period, electric and plug-in vehicles are expected to grow to about 70 million cars, or less than 5 percent of the total fleet. Transportation.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 23, 2009
Consumptive freshwater use for ethanol and petroleum gasoline production. In many cases, the Argonne team noted, crude oil production is increasingly water dependent. Consumptive freshwater use for switchgrass ethanol and petroleum gasoline production. Data: Wu, ANL/ESD/09-1. Click to enlarge. Data: Wu, ANL/ESD/09-1.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 28, 2011
Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. BW consumption intensities of gasoline from conventional crude oil and Canadian oil sands range from 0.41 Credit ACS, Mishra and Yeh. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Average values for WTW GHG emissions for oil sands and other crudes, tight boundary. When the oil sands products refined in the United States are considered—a mixture of oil sands and lower-carbon blending components—the GHG emissions are, on average, 9% higher than the average crude processed in the US.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Credit: ACS, Tessum et al. Click to enlarge. the contiguous US).
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2011
Gasoline section shows results for fuel derived from both conventional oil and oil sands. In the United States, there has been a rapid increase in natural gas (NG) production from shale formations due to recent advancements in drilling technologies, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
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