Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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Oil Gas Oil-Sands Illinois 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2014

A research team led by The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded approximately $58 million to analyze methane hydrate deposits under the Gulf of Mexico. Post-cruise analyses will determine the in situ concentrations, the physical properties, the lithology, and the thermodynamic state of methane hydrate bearing sand reservoirs.

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Mexico Austin Oil-Sands Mariner 294

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). The configurations are differentiated by the presence of gas oil hydrocracking; fluid catalytic cracking (FCC); delayed coking; and residual hydrocracking. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson. Click to enlarge.

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Oil-Sands Emissions Oil Hydrogen 236

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The hot air is circulated through a network of pipes inside a sand-filled heat storage vessel. There is nothing special here!” Eronen says, laughing.

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands 83

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Currently, algae-derived-biodiesel is up to 2.5 tons/ha/year).

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Oil-Sands Production Grid Saudi Arabia 236

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2016

Catalytic pyrolysis company Anellotech, which focuses on producing cost-competitive BTX (benzene, toluene and xylene) from non-food biomass, revealed Toyota Tsusho Corporation as a multinational strategic equity investor and corporate partner in the renewable aromatic chemicals supply chain.

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Toyota Companies Oil-Sands Corporation 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The UT-led field study was a cooperative effort involving experts from the Environmental Defense Fund; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; BG Group plc; Chevron; Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.; During hydraulic fracturing, liquids that typically consist of water, sand and additives are injected at high pressure into low-permeability formations.

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Austin Gas Emissions Production 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

In a June speech at Georgetown University, President Barack Obama said that the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would only be built if the project “ does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” ( Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Future price volatility is to be expected.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The process also uses less than half the water per gallon than required for the production of gasoline from conventional crude, and about one-third to one-quarter of the water per gallon required for the production of gasoline from oil sands oil, Bolson said. On average, approximately 3.0

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Commercial Oil-Sands Water Gasoline 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Processes such as oil extraction from sources such as tar sands and deep-water offshore oil wells, as well as the expansion of first-generation biofuels such as corn-based ethanol are setting the stage for a “ water/energy collision ” of resource management policies. Electronics. Electric Power.

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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. Regulate the parties responsible for producing, importing, or supplying fuel. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The surfactant chemicals found in samples of fracking fluid collected in five states were no more toxic than substances commonly found in homes, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. —Thurman et al. —Michael Thurman, lead author.

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Oil-Sands Colorado Water Oil 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. You also repeat the "peak oil" argument that Ive been reading since the 60s. We have oil! Think Bakken and Alberta sands.

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Manufacturer Electric Cars Cars i-MiEV 34

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

An on-board computer system will indicate to the driver the remaining power supply and the nearest charging spot. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy! Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011.

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