Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Darling and Valero jointly announced that their 50/50 joint venture, Diamond Green Diesel (DGD), has received approval from both companies’ Boards of Directors to proceed with the construction of the renewable diesel production facility to be located at Valero’s Port Arthur, Texas refinery. billion gallons per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2017

Researchers with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, led by Dr. Ying Li, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are developing a photocatalyst to convert CO 2 into renewable hydrocarbon fuels. There are two different ways to quantify the efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

Topping the list for absolute emissions in 2010 was Texas (652.6 Examining 2010 energy-related CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector, the report found California was the top transportation emitter (214.0 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9 million tonnes CO 2 ), followed by Texas (194.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

John Goodenough at the University of Texas at Austin and colleague Kyu-Sung Park have written a perspective paper on Li-ion batteries (LIBs), published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. More recently, at the University of Texas, Austin, Dr. Goodenough patented a new class of iron phosphate materials. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2022

ExxonMobil is planning a hydrogen production plant and one of the world’s largest carbon capture and storage projects at its integrated refining and petrochemical site at Baytown, Texas, supporting efforts to reduce emissions from company operations and local industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A large-scale CO 2 capture technology made possible through support from the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and National Energy Technology Laboratory has captured and transported its 4-millionth metric ton of CO 2. Earlier post.). Injected CO 2 can dissolve and displace oil residue that is trapped in rock pores.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design. Neither approach is practical.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 10, 2022

On a recent trip across Texas, I found myself needing to get a charge in Houston. I remembered a previous article about Phillips 66 installing their first DC fast charging station at their flagship store … which just happens to be in Houston. Plus, I haven’t charged at a Freewire station before, so it seemed […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

Now, a team led by researchers from Texas A&M AgriLife Research has identified the first committed step in the biosynthesis of hydrocarbon oil in B. Microalgae are a promising next-generation source of feedstocks for biofuel production with the potential to serve as a practical alternative to petroleum-based transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Maven is now offering its first all-electric fleet of cars for use in the gig economy; 20 Chevrolet Bolt EVs are available for freelance drivers in Austin, Texas to earn money on their own schedules. Austin is a perfect partner for this launch because of the city’s commitment to innovation and sustainable transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

OPIS DemandPro tracks actual weekly same-store gasoline volumes at more than 15,000 stations, aggregated on a national, regional and state level. We can see a new preference for driving your car instead of public transportation or a short-range flight, and people do want to get out. Texas was off by just 18%.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2011

Summit Power Group, LLC and Blue Strategies, LLC have signed a 15-year CO 2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum Corporation for some of the CO 2 that will be captured by Summit’s Texas Clean Energy Project ( TCEP ), a coal gasification with carbon capture polygen project being developed in Penwell, Texas, outside Odessa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects selected projects as part of the MINER program are: University of Texas at Arlington. Mineralization reactions occur only in pores occupied by CO 2 ; thus, understanding CO 2 transport and distribution in rock porosities is key to efficient mineralization and sequestration. The University of Texas at Austin.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Of the five, only one is directly transportation-related: Commuters will be able to quickly access personalized recommendations that help them avoid the congestion issues they routinely face and help them get where they need to go in the fastest time. Also on the list of five is the arrival of advanced batteries, including air batteries (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

the routes over which the crude oil will be transported. headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating primarily in the South Central, Southwestern and Western regions of the United States. Alon USA Energy, Inc., Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Teslarati

JULY 13, 2021

Not long after the latest line of propellant storage implements was transported from SpaceX’s Boca Chica, Texas factory to Starship’s first orbital launch pad, the company officially closed the one highway to the pad and nearby beach. NASASpaceflight pic.twitter.com/RyNpZqiNV8 — Mary (@BocaChicaGal) July 13, 2021.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The reason had to do with the nature of jobs in different cities and who was actually using public transportation before the pandemic, said Luyu Liu, lead author of the study and doctoral student in geography at The Ohio State University. Fitted curve and key parameters for an example public transit agency (Capital Metro in Austin, Texas).

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Houston chapter leads toward clean energy in Texas. I remember one guy who was irate just because he had to drive around us as he left a box store.” Texas understands how to set up energy markets, Douglass said. “We This shows you the power of the dealers association in Texas , ” explained Douglass. No Teslas allowed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

million to fuel cell manufacturers Nuvera and Plug Power ($650,000 apiece) a project testing the use of hydrogen fuel cell refrigeration units (transport refrigeration units, TRUs) in delivery trucks. and for a San Antonio, Texas, food distribution center for the H-E-B grocery store chain. Fuel Cells Hydrogen'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Alon, which refines and markets transportation fuels and other petroleum products, is believed to be the first independent refiner of its size issuing a mandate to reduce corporate fuel use and environmental impact through a clean fleet program. Independent refiner Alon USA Energy, Inc. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2018

For example, you arrive home from the grocery store and realize you forgot the milk. That’s now two trips back and forth to the grocery store where there might have only been one. In 2012, a study by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found that traffic congestion was responsible for 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide pollution.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2012

In February 2011 BP announced plans to refocus its refining and marketing business on its northern US refineries and find buyers for Carson and the Texas City Refinery in Texas. BP will also retain ownership of the ampm convenience store brand and franchise it to Tesoro for use in the Southwest. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2013

Skyonic Corporation, developer of the SkyMine mineralization process which can serve as a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology ( earlier post ), recently awarded the $117M construction contract for the Capitol SkyMine plant in San Antonio, Texas, to Toyo-Thai-USA Corporation (TTUS).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2010

Whole Foods Market, the largest retailer of natural and organic foods, with more than 270 stores throughout North America and the UK, has installed its first Coulomb ChargePoint Networked Charging Station for Electric Vehicles (EV). The charging station is located at Whole Foods Market flagship store in Austin, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2020

If oil cannot be sold or stored, it cannot be produced. Transportation constraints and lack of access to every available tank will prevent the utmost maximum level of storage capacity being reached. bbl on the physical market. And Canadian heavy crude oil sold for less than $6/bbl.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

The effort is in parallel with an ongoing technology development to store hydrogen affordably. Established in 2005, Ad Astra Rocket Company is the developer of the VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) engine, an advanced plasma space propulsion system aimed at the emerging in-space transportation market.

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Setec Powerr

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Southwest Electric, which supplies power to 14 countries across the country, was overwhelmed by the cold downfall, with the hardest hit being Texas, where it nearly noway snows. At one point, the original temperature dropped to-19 °C, the lowest since 1989. Large-scale power outages have left millions of people in the dark in the deep snap.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

The captured CO 2 will be treated, compressed, and then transported by pipeline to proposed injection sites located near the capture facility. During the operation phase, AEP plans to permanently store the entire amount of captured CO 2 in two separate saline formations located approximately 1.5 Earlier post.). miles below the surface.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. While in Cairns, she visited a store that sold purses and clothes made by Melamchi villagers.

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Teslarati

JULY 20, 2022

How is the 4680 ramp going, and is Giga Texas producing cells yet? Is Tesla still planning a software development kit and app store for third-party developers to make and sell Tesla apps? Can you speak w/some level of precision on the 4680 ramp, expected vs. actual yield at this point in time? Disclaimer: I am long TSLA.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2010

NRG) for the Parish Post-Combustion CO 2 Capture and Sequestration Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Parish Generating Station located in Thompsons, Texas. Sequestration will begin in 2014, with project completion set for 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2013

One possible solution is adsorbed storage; the interest is so keen, that ARPA-E awarded a combined $10.875 million in 2012 to four different projects (led by Ford, GTI, Texas A&M and SRI) to develop new sorbent materials for on-board natural gas storage. Earlier post.). Natural gas has huge benefits.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

Located a stone’s throw from the Gulf of Mexico in Boca Chica, Texas, the first iteration of SpaceX’s Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) is nearly complete and could host Starship’s orbital launch debut in a matter of months. SpaceX began constructing Starship’s Texas launch site in earnest in late 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

and Dallas, Texas, from US Development Group (USD), and the formation of a joint venture to coordinate access to these terminals, other assets KMP already owns and operates, and other projects under development. KMP is a leading pipeline transportation and energy storage company in North America. Baltimore, Md.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Account for the entire quantity of CO 2 that has been transported to geologic storage sites.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2009

A small Texas company, Renew Blue, will use 18 ocean Seadog pumps from parent Independent Natural Resources Inc. Renew Blue has a lease from the state of Texas to place the facility in 25 feet of water about a mile off the coast from Freeport. Houston Chronicle. Ocean Energy: Global Technology Development Status (IEA, March 2009).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

The Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded The University of Texas at El Paso grants totaling nearly $1.3 million for research to improve the efficiency of engines and creating technologies for detecting, capturing and storing carbon emissions. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Chintalapalle V. Ramana, Ph.D.,

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