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AUGUST 31, 2011

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The UW team is the first to try converting the entire young tree—leaves, bark and stems—into bio oil and ethanol using two separate processes. Additionally, other tree parts go to waste when only the trunk is used, making the process more inefficient and wasteful. That’s the problem.

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JULY 21, 2015

In addition to reducing lifecycle carbon emissions, Red Rock’s production process will reduce the risk of devastating forest fires in the western United States by decreasing the amount of waste woody biomass in surrounding forests. —Terry Kulesa, co-founder and CEO of Red Rock.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

However, the US military can play an important role in promoting stability in major oil producing regions and by helping protect the flow of energy through major transit corridors and on the high seas, the reports suggest. In the lead report, Bartis notes that global oil supplies are finite and thus, at some point, oil production must peak.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Global Bioenergies has also been selected by a consortium led by large Swedish industrialists, Preem and Sveaskog, to study the potential for converting forestry waste into renewable fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

between 2017 and 2021, as a combination of higher oil prices, emerging mandate. Multiple aims include the reduction of dependence on imported oil, mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and driving economic development. The number of off-take agreements with oil and chemical will increase, confirming the trend.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2009

BP and Martek Biosciences Corporation signed a Joint Development Agreement (JDA) to work on the production of microbial oils for biofuels applications. Martek, a nutritional products company, has developed and patented two fermentable strains of microalgae which produce oils rich in docosahexaenoic acid, DHA.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

DNV and GL merged in September 2013 to form DNV GL—the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. Ship electrification and renewables.

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MARCH 26, 2010

They extended the underlying Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database to separately identify ethanol (with four subsectors), biodiesel, five additional feedstock crops sectors, four vegetable oils sectors, fertilizers, and the transport fuel sectors. The team derived the 5.6%

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Cellulosic biofuels can compete with oil at $90/bbl without subsidy assuming: average conversion yield of 91 gallons per dry ton of biomass; average conversion plant capital expenditure of $3.60 Sensitivity analyses varying these assumptions individually gave potential cost-competitiveness with oil priced at $70/bbl to $120/bbl.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste. These cities will require extensive improvements in infrastructure including construction, water and sanitation, electricity, waste, transport, health, public safety and internet and cell phone connectivity.

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APRIL 30, 2016

For the longer-term (beyond 2030), the study indicates that the only fuel and vehicle combinations technically suited to achieving “ultra-low carbon emission mobility” are: Highly-efficient conventional powertrains (Mild- and full-Hybrid) fueled with advanced and waste based biofuels/-gases (for passenger cars (PC) and commercial vehicles (CV)).

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JUNE 22, 2009

Preliminary analysis suggests that Virent’s BioForming process can compete economically with petroleum-based fuels and chemicals at crude oil prices of $60 a barrel. An independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society selected the winners from nearly 100 nominated technologies.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

As an example, the end-of-life directive in Europe compels automakers to minimize the waste created when a vehicle reaches the end of its useful life. These laws.also challenge OEMs to find innovative solutions to comply with them and still stay profitable. —Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Sandeepan Mondal.

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JUNE 20, 2011

Genomatica expects Bio-BDO to be competitive at oil prices of $45 per barrel or at natural gas prices of $3.50 Polymer membranes are used in a variety of purification processes including reverse osmosis water desalination; water ultra-purification; salt recovery, and waste acid recovery. per million Btu.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

For example, adding a biofuel subsidy with a consumption mandate fails to increase ethanol consumption but instead subsidizes oil consumption. Other findings from the study include: Ethanol policy can have a substantial impact on corn prices. However, production costs of US corn-ethanol are very high.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Will be competitive at an oil price of $45 to $90 at their commercial date. Waste-to-fuel. The production of transport fuel from waste is a nascent technology, largely in the lab and pilot stages of commercialization at present. Accenture divided the technologies into three groups: Evolutionary. Marine scrubbers.

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MARCH 30, 2012

The report defines bio-based materials as industrial products made from renewable agricultural and forestry feedstocks, which can include wood, grasses, and crops, as well as wastes and residues. Castor Oil Based Nylon in the Radiator End Tank of the Toyota Camry.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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OCTOBER 5, 2009

RFS2 requires that US transportation fuel contain 36 billion gallons of biofuels in 2022; at least 16 billion of the 36 billion gallons of biofuels required in 2022 are to be made from such cellulosic feedstocks as perennial grasses, crop residue, and wood waste. specifies this year. per year for conventional ethanol.

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Plug In Partners

JULY 7, 2006

By preparing now for a future of scarce world oil supplies, we can build an economy with a more resilient foundation for jobs and prosperity. the buffer between supply and demand is much too small to absorb shutdowns of even a small part of the world's oil demand." A flex fuel plug-in car could be nearly oil free.

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MARCH 8, 2009

Scenarios integrating biological and thermochemical processing enable waste heat from the thermochemical process to power the biological process, resulted in higher overall process efficiencies on par with petroleum-based fuels in several cases. Achieve production costs consistent with gasoline when oil prices are at about $30 a barrel.

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MAY 25, 2011

aviation fuel at the scale or speed needed to achieve industry goals, the report focuses on a portfolio of options, including different conversion technologies and sources of potentially sustainable biomass, including oilseeds, forest residues, solid waste, and algae. environmental conditions and spur regional economies.

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APRIL 6, 2015

Wind, solar, biomass and waste-to-power, geothermal, small hydro and marine power contributed an estimated 9.1% billion, a 10-year low; biomass and waste-to-energy dropping 10% to $8.4 Another challenge was, at first sight, the impact of the 50%-plus collapse in the oil price in the second half of last year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. will be competing for the same finite supplies of oil and gas. must create a strong electric car industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2015

the developer of a process for converting municipal solid waste into low-cost sustainable aviation biofuel. Investing in alternative fuels is not only good for the environment, it’s a smart move for our company as biofuels have the potential to hedge against future oil price volatility and carbon regulations. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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JANUARY 23, 2011

In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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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. ” —James Bartis, lead author.

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APRIL 15, 2015

What it means for the oil and gas industry. How much oil and gas companies can save with new desalination systems. It’s more valuable than oil because at the end of the day, there is no oil without water. Advancements that finally make desalination commercially viable. How it’s already working-and where. per barrel.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. Then we are done! Email Neal.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 8, 2023

With average fuel prices creeping back up, you’ve undoubtedly seen a slew of articles trying to explain why. & Over the past week, countless media outlets published stories about how oil refineries have had to scale back production targets to contend with exceedingly high temperatures. Today’s U.S.

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