Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Population Growth: The world population is expected to grow to 8.4

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JUNE 23, 2016

The impact of rising oil prices on North American light tight oil (LTO) production is said to be a “Catch 22”, the title of Joseph Heller’s popular 1961 novel set in WWII. Too many analysts continue to believe drilling and service has the same problem with rising oil prices. by David Yager for Oilprice.com.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2012

Performance in the study is measured by such metrics as: (1) required selling price of the fuel; (2) crude oil price when the process will become economically viable; (3) the Well-to-Wheels (WTW) life cycle GHG emissions profile of the diesel fuel; and (4) the water usage associated with the facility.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The Proposed Final Program makes available areas containing approximately 70% of the economically recoverable resources in the OCS. The plan focuses lease sales in the best places – those with the highest resource potential, lowest conflict, and established infrastructure – and removes regions that are simply not right to lease.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Methanol, like ethanol, is an alcohol with inherent issues such as its solubility in water and corrosiveness. China has abundant coal resources, and for more than a decade the country has increased its capacity to manufacture methanol using coal as a feedstock. Methanol in China.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The European Union (EU) market, which is home to about 30% of algae activity, will be limited initially by the industry’s focus on university research, and later by insufficient access to water, land, and nutrient sources. Ultimately, algae potential is greatest in regions where there is an abundance of land, water, and sunlight.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). percent of GDP in 2014. Natural gas data from Gazprom). billion respectively).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2017

billion barrels of conventional oil were discovered, roughly 45 days of global crude consumption or 0.2 Russia’s exploration activities, which were hit not only by plummeting oil prices but also by a targeted sanctions regime, suffered a double blow during this period. In 2016, only 3.7 percent of global proved reserves.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Such economic benefits could be realized earlier through effective policies which reduce first mover costs in the short term and promote rapid take-up once non-ICE vehicle price premiums reduce to levels that make them affordable to. The analysis is based on central forecasts of oil price, electricity. This is primarily due to.

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PHEV Oil Prices Australia Price 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2011

Chevron’s focus on optimizing the thermal management of the Kern River field has resulted in a steady drop in the steam:oil ratio (barrels steam water per barrel oil), resulting in improved economics of the field even with slowly declining production. Worldwide heavy oil reserves by country. Data: California DOGGR.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The cost of fossil-fuel subsidies has been driven up by higher oil prices; they remain most prevalent in the Middle East and North Africa, where momentum towards their reform appears to have been lost. Oil demand reaches 99.7 — WEO-2012. mb/d in 2035, up from 87.4 as the number of passenger cars doubles to 1.7 Renewables.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. 2010, to above 140 $/bbl in constant 2010 dollars).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The report, “ Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2014 ”, concludes that biomass, hydropower, geothermal and onshore wind are all competitive with or cheaper than coal, oil and gas-fired power stations, even without financial support and despite falling oil prices. Source: IRENA. Click to enlarge. kWh in Africa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2011

However, consumers’ willingness to purchase flex-fuel vehicles and use E85 instead of lower blends of ethanol in their vehicles will likely depend on the price of ethanol and their attitude toward biofuels. If competition for bioenergy feedstocks intensifies because of low supply, the price will likely increase.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2009

Virent Energy Systems is receiving one of five 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards (Small Business Award) for its BioForming process—a water-based, catalytic method to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from the sugar, starch, or cellulose of plants that requires little external energy other than the plant biomass.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Projected output of the Clinton Project is a maximum 13,000 barrels of diesel per day (15,800 barrels of oil equivalent per day or 5.3 Syngas projects about a 10% ROI at US$60/barrel of crude, which higher returns at higher oil prices. The Project is located 120 km north west of Adelaide, in South Australia.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Sandia’s analysis included land use, water availability, energy used to produce cellulosic biomass, transportation of feedstocks and other potential leverage points for the development and use of cellulosic biofuels. 60B gal of biofuels would require only 5% of total 2030 water consumption; food and feed production requires 75%.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Biofuels production has had mixed effects on US agriculture with respect to land use, crop selection, livestock production, rural economies, and food prices, the report found. Unless crude oil prices rise significantly, GAO found, the VEETC is not expected to stimulate ethanol consumption beyond the level the RFS.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. Technologies that stretch today’s assets and resources. These are “no-regret” technologies, as they represent actions that can be made today to make a significant impact on CO 2 , energy security and the optimization of local resources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Background colors of the cells represent the crude oil price required for economic feasibility. These synthetic fuels are economically competitive with petro-diesel when the crude oil price (COP) is at or above $86 per barrel (based on a 20% rate of return, in January 2008 dollars, with a carbon price of zero).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Given high initial costs, volatile oil prices, improving competition, an industry in poor financial shape and consumers who aren’t perfectly rational.who actually are quite risk averse.advanced technology may be a hard sell. The net effect of correcting this problem will be pressure on purchase prices first and operating costs second.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

Current high prices of food, oil and many other resources are indications of increasing scarcity. Global Resource Scarcities and Policies in the European Union and the Netherlands”, examines scarcity using a framework comprising three dimensions: physical, economic and political. Source: PBL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2009

A crude oil price of US$100/bbl results in an approximate cost of €0.56/L The reaction chamber is enclosed by a membrane wall, cooled with pressurized water and can accommodate feed with much ash. With ±30% estimate error, this is between €0.56 per liter (US$2.72-5.03/gallon gallon US) without tax for conventional motor fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2009

The RBAEF involves experts from 12 institutions, and is jointly led by Dartmouth College and the Natural Resources Defense Council and sponsored by the US Department of Energy, the Energy Foundation and the National Commission on Energy Policy. Require modest volumes of process water. Professor Lee Lynd, Dartmouth College. Lynd et al.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Known as the ‘food versus fuel’ debate, some experts believe that placing energy markets in competition with food markets for arable land will result in higher food prices. Further worries include the impact on water resources. There are concerns too about soil erosion and deforestation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Block flow diagram illustrating (top) water removal from wet ethanol vapor above the feed tray to produce pure fuel grade ethanol or (bottom) CADO of the same wet ethanol to fungible blendstocks. HE = heat exchangers. Hannon et al. GJ today with the potential to drop to $1.44/GJ GJ in the near future. GJ in the near future. Hannon, Lee R.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The DOS SEIS accordingly takes a detailed look at life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of petroleum products from Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) oil sands crudes compared with reference crudes and the potential impact the pipeline might have on climate change as well as on the future development of the oils sands resource in Canada.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate 250

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The production costs for most chemicals via microbial fermentation are currently high compared to oil-derived products primarily because of operating costs associated with feedstock and feedstock processing. One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. Jones, Alan G. Fast, Ellinor D.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

customers $600 a month to lease.Honda hasn’t revealed its production price. Oil prices are going to go up. Thehydrogen-powered car has a top speed of 105 miles per hour andtravels as far as 280 miles on electricity produced by its fuelcell stack. The vehicle costs U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Market analysis: cross-border pipeline constraints have a limited impact on crude flows and prices. The earlier 2011 Final EIS was developed contemporaneously with the start of strong growth in domestic light crude oil supply from tight oil formations, such as those formations found in North Dakota’s Bakken region.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

As oil prices fall, "the push for new energy technologies isbeing shoved aside by the nations other economic woes," Grove said. Add our RSS Feed to your favorite feed reader. Autoblog Green Cleantech Blog Cleantech Group CNETs Green Tech Earth2Tech EcoGeek Ecotality Green Inc. automakers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Globally, water demand is threatening to dangerously outpace supply, while in the US, dry states such as Texas and California are suffering from shortages and the future forebodes more suffering. For the North American shale boom, the lack of water is suffocating. How we can turn toilet water into tap water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2011

A commercially viable OCM process—which has been sought for some 30 years— would decouple the production of mainstream chemicals and fuels from crude oil and its current price instabilities, along with reducing energy consumed for processing. The ethane subsequently undergoes dehydrogenation to form ethylene and water.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study. camelina) and algae.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of. Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Cleantech Crunched Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Cars (and one SUV) for. SZ (1) 6753.T

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