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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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Global fossil CO 2 emissions are expected to grow 1.0% (with an uncertainty range of 0.1% Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. CO 2 emissions from oil use are expected to grow 2.2% [0.9% Fossil CO 2 emissions in the USA are projected to increase by 1.5% (range -1.0%

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3 Years Of Painful Cuts Sets Oil Markets Up For Serious Supply Crunch

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Total global oil production could decline for the next several years in a row as scarce new sources of supply come online. According to data from Rystad Energy, overall global oil output will fall this year as natural depletion overwhelms all new sources of supply. A sharp rise in oil prices would spur new investment and new drilling.

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Pike Research forecasts surge in investment and growth in advanced biorefineries through 2022

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In its tally and projections, Pike includes conventional ethanol and biodiesel facilities targeting commodity-based feedstocks, such as corn starch, sugarcane, soy, palm oil, and rapeseed. Earlier post.).

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Scientists design adaptive material with tunable transparency and wettability; applications in pipelines, textiles, optical systems

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Sitting at rest, the material is smooth, clear and flat; droplets of water or oil on its surface flow freely off of the material. A whole range of surface properties can now be tuned, or switched on and off on demand, through stimulus-induced deformation of the elastic material ,” Aizenberg said.

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Headwaters and University of Utah Form JV for Carbon Storage

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Headwaters Incorporated has formed a joint venture with the University of Utah—Headwaters Clean Carbon Services LLC (HCCS)—which will provide a full range of services for CO 2 geologic storage and CO 2 used for enhanced oil recovery and enhanced coalbed methane recovery. Brian McPherson.

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NSF Awards NCSU Team $2M For Research on Deriving Drop-in Renewable Hydrocarbon Fuels from Algae

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The first of many parallel steps for the research effort is to mass-culture the best oil-producing strains of Dunaliella , and then to map the Dunaliella genome and identify the genes responsible for regulating the quantities and qualities of the produced fatty acids. Earlier post.). It has to be cost-competitive, or none of this makes sense.

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Pike Research forecasts global biofuels market value to double to $185B by 2021

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Pike projects that by 2021, the production of biofuels derived from a range of feedstocks will reach 65.7 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.

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