Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

As we increasingly electrify our homes, transportation, and factories, utility companies’ choices about transmission will have huge consequences for the nation’s economy and well-being. A transmission network contains webs of connections, which create a reliable, redundant power-supply system of massive scale.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

The US State Department has issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership to enable construction of the Alberta Clipper pipeline for the transport of crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to US refineries. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. USDA Regional Roadmap. 2.0% (mostly woody biomass).

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JUNE 27, 2012

Taking into consideration limitation in transportation infrastructure and refining capacity, and environmental barriers to development, the United States could still increase oil production by 3.5 The extraction technologies are not new, but the combination of technologies used to exploit shale and tight oils has evolved.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $34 million to 19 industry- and university-led research projects that will advance technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 25, 2015

Much of the US’ new abundant domestic oil and gas supply is being produced from unconventional resources—particularly light sweet crude oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, as well as the Eagle Ford and Permian Basins in Texas. The great majority of this crude oil transport takes place without incident.

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JULY 22, 2011

More than 3,000 miles of CO 2 -dedicated pipeline currently transports and distributes geologic CO 2 throughout the Permian Basin. Captured CO2 will be further cleaned and compressed, and then transported by pipeline to an existing regional CO 2 pipeline or, potentially, to a nearby EOR field. produce urea.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Notable changes since the prior Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement include an expanded analysis of potential oil releases; an expanded climate change analysis; an updated oil market analysis incorporating new economic modeling; and an expanded analysis of rail transport. million bpd in 2010 to 6.5 million bpd in 2012 and 7.5

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

GE Oil & Gas has received a contract to supply the ORegen system to NRGreen Power, which is coordinating the project. The Alliance Pipeline transports approximately 1.6 GE has supplied all of the compression equipment for the mainline pipeline system, including 16 gas turbine-driven compression systems.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Brigham, based in Austin, Texas, has a strong position in the Bakken and Three Forks tight oil plays in the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana. Brigham has drilled 88 consecutive producing North Dakota wells, with an average early 24 hour peak production rate of approximately 2,800 boe per day.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Getting a handle on power supply and demand in real time helps address the variable nature of wind and solar power, he said. Better balancing electricity supply from wind or solar energy with demand means that utilities do not need to build "stand-by" power plants that can delivery electricity reliably, Schurr said. "If Look at the T.

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