Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

Oil remains the world’s leading fuel, but its 33.1% Oil demand grew by less than 1%—the slowest rate amongst fossil fuels—while gas grew by 2.2%, and coal was the only fossil fuel with above average annual consumption growth at 5.4% The fossil fuel mix continues to change with oil, the world’s leading fuel at 33.1%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

received a project award from Apex Compressed Air Energy Storage, LLC for the supply of equipment to be used in a new 317 MW compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility to be constructed near Tennessee Colony, Texas in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market. Dresser-Rand Group Inc.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The machine, which can run autonomously or at the direction of a remote operator, goes around collecting the junk and gunk (like plastic bottles, oil spills, and algae) that float on the water, as well as detritus located up to 10 meters below the surface. Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. Texas A&M University.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. A profound shift in the transportation sector sees global demand for oil peaking in about 2035.

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North America Transportation America Building 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Other components of this system include an Ad Astra-designed solar and wind-based hydrogen production and storage system. Ad Astra is developing this system in collaboration with Costa Rica’s state-owned oil refinery, RECOPE. The electrical generator designed and manufactured by Cummins is part of an experimental 7.5

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Then came the shale gas revolution, pioneered in Texas.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000. Of that, $26.5 PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance 256

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

The 70’s oil crisis came and went; the loss of USA domestic market share occurred and a recent bankruptcy wave that hit the industry. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. in Texas, a 15% swing.) in West Virginia to $6.12

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Cars That Think

JULY 30, 2023

Jonas Ekstromer/AFP/Getty Images In the early 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted that global oil production would peak in the year 2000 and then fall into a steady decline. Company researchers were encouraged to look for oil substitutes, pursuing any manner of energy that didn’t involve petroleum.

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Lithium Ion Recharge Batteries Battery 93

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs have lower repair and maintenance costs than conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. [ ] Electric drivetrains provide higher reliability and lower costs because they have fewer moving parts and do not require frequent lubrication oil and brake component changes. 10 ] Electric Cars: A Tipping Point for Oil?

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Clean Cleaning Future Green 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber.

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2009 Engine Detroit Oregon 150

Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

In Quest for Cleaner Energy, Texas City Touts Plug-In Car John J. Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. Here's part of his story.

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Austin Wind Plug-in Buy 100

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. The interim report just published is intended to contribute to the energy, security and climate debate.

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Reducing equivalent: Hydrogen (or Electrons); Organism: anaerobe and aerobe; Product: Oil for biodiesel. from solar PV) to convert carbon dioxide into liquid alcohol fuels.

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 13, 2023

Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

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Electric Vehicles Electric Cars Vehicles Electric 98

Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

The other is that the hydrogen provisions are technology-neutral, meaning that there is no distinction between hydrogen produced by electrolysis with electricity from, for example, a wind farm or a nuclear power plant. It will come faster because conventional energy such as oil and gas will become scarcer and more expensive.”

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Hydrogen Economy Tax Credit Gas-Electric 109

Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches. Excluding hurricanes, of course, Florida doesn’t have sufficient wind power, either onshore or offshore, that, say, states in the US Northeast or Texas have to sustain a wind power industry.

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Florida Wind Tampa Climate Change 40

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. How communities in Texas can be spared drought. What it means for the oil and gas industry. by James Stafford for Oilprice.com.

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Water Oil Texas Gas 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

High-Speed Rail Unlocks Intermodal Potential Texas Excess Ford Expands Hybrid Success to Electric Vehicles ► March (17) Carbon Capture and Storage: To Be or Not To Be? Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Its better solar transfer/storage than a battery.

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The EDISON (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) research consortium will seek to match power generation from wind turbines on the island of Bornholm, Denmark, with the power consumption of charging plug-in electric cars. The project is partly funded by the government of Denmark.

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Wind Grid Green Electric Cars 34

Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

There is no catalytic converter that can fully scrub the toxics that result from burning oil. It’s ubiquitous, relatively price stable due to government regulation, and is created in many ways, increasingly including renewable – such as solar, wind and geothermal – sources. There is, however, an alternative path: Electricity.

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San Francisco Fuel Coal Cars 100

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array. Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April .

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Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry 52

Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

Clean energy projects, such as wind and solar farms, would see a windfall. So it's unclear just how much solar, wind, and batteries would grow. But, when renewables are the cheapest electricity in history , they make economic sense.

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Clean Cleaning Renewable Standards 99

Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Florida-based NextEra Energy is the fourth-largest US energy group after oil majors ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips. And it would be self-defeating for states like Texas, South Carolina, and Tennessee to work to repeal a law that’s creating jobs and bringing money into their states. But time will tell. Get started here. –ad*

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Tax Credit Tax Renewable Clean 52

Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

The 2024 Model Y (Source: Tesla) An EV roadshow is headed to East Texas next week, and the Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation is helping to spearhead it. In September 2023, the coalition drove an EV convoy through West Texas. Tesla, of course, has a gigafactory near Austin, and Texas is the US leader in solar and wind.

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