Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Remember when the dot.com bubble burst in 2000 and, seemingly overnight, some companies ceased making millions hand-over-fist? Unlike other established markets the solar industry is still a tiny fraction of the overall energy production worldwide. kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. HTL uses subcritical water as the chemical driving force to convert biomass to a carbon-rich biocrude. However, for high water content biomass, such as algae, the energy costs of dewatering may offset the energy demand of liquefaction processes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2011

The report, authored by Christopher Yang, Joan Ogden, Dan Sperling and Roland Hwang, was commissioned by the California Energy Commission (CEC). Additional reductions in energy use would accrue if options to control travel demand were also included. The first is that the cost of batteries for larger vehicle sizes (i.e.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The Ricardo Kinergy high-speed, hermetically-sealed flywheel energy storage system. The high power density and long-life potential of Kinergy technology combines both simplicity and effectiveness, avoiding the need for vacuum pumps and seals typically associated with high-speed carbon fibre based flywheel systems., Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2014

While natural gas can reduce greenhouse emissions when it is substituted for higher-emission energy sources, abundant shale gas is not likely to substantially alter total emissions without policies targeted at greenhouse gas reduction, according to a new study by two researchers at Duke University.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. Pecan Street Project (TX).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2009

The UK has launched a new research program aiming to strengthen the supply chain for the UK’s aero-engine industry and accelerate the development and introduction of low carbon aircraft engine technology. The total cost of the project including government and industry investment is expected to be around £90 million (US$148 million).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive as conventional diesel (bottom). 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.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2010

Technologies can include, but are not limited to, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC); Polybenzimidazole (PBI) Fuel Cells; Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cells (PAFC); and Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells (MCFC) for stationary power applications. DOE is specifying four areas of interest in its RFI: Balance of Plant (BOP).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Energy prices reflected this shift: oil peaked at $144 per barrel in July, then fell to $34 per barrel in December. With four times the population and a vast demand for economic development to raise standards of living, developing countries will see energy use rise further. in 2008 to reach 27.4 Oil production reached 10.7

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 9, 2021

The running cost of Jitendra’s new electric scooter is now 20 paise per kilometre. Jnevt is committed to supporting the Indian Government’s vision of reducing the carbon footprint from traditional fossil fuels. More than 2000 employees are engaged in taking the group forward. . Also, watch the related video here.

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Cars That Think

JULY 7, 2024

The book explores how new sources of energy are disrupting long-held beliefs and assumptions on how energy should be generated, transmitted and distributed. What did you find in terms of cost reductions in different types of renewable energy as a result? Unless U.S. Unless U.S.

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Plug In India

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Demand for the element is so great for applications including electric vehicles, portable electronic devices, and stationary energy units, that lithium mining companies are struggling to keep up. The big issue with sodium-ion batteries is that they can store only about two-thirds of the energy of Li-ion batteries of equivalent size.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects for continuation within the Department’s Solid State Energy Conversion Alliance (SECA) Program research portfolio. The selections were based upon an assessment of demonstrated progress in developing high-performance, low-cost SOFC technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

The difference in outcomes under the two scenarios and thus the opportunity cost of not realizing the Asian Century scenario is huge, especially in human terms. Asia’s long-term competitiveness will depend heavily on how it controls the intensity of its resource use, including water and food, and manages its carbon footprint.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide (Gt CO 2 eq)—comparable to total current annual emissions from transport, estimated at around 6-7 Gt annually. W m -2 relative to 2000. A new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) projects that by 2050, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) could be responsible for emissions equivalent to 3.5

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EV Connect

JULY 8, 2021

Because 2018 emissions from faculty, staff, and student commuting represented 10% of their overall carbon footprint (32% of Scope 3 emissions), Union planned to improve their EV charging infrastructure and encourage EV adoption hoping to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

BATT is funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Vehicle Technologies and is managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of its Carbon Cycle 2.0 These projects focus on developing next-generation anodes to increase the energy and decrease the cost of lithium batteries while maintaining safety and cycle life.

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Setec Powerr

APRIL 10, 2024

Moreover, due to rising demand, new emission regulation policies, and overdue infrastructure upgrades, the cost of electricity in many parts of North America continues to climb. In most cases, “energy resilience” refers to the ability to maintain power supply during localized outages.

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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. Still, there were problems.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

(Fourteen production aircraft were manufactured, but one was scrapped in 1994 and another crashed in 2000.). While the Concorde successfully overcame the technical hurdles standing in the way of supersonic passenger service, it succumbed to economics: The cost of fuel and maintenance was especially high for these planes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. The findings were particularly relevant because many emissions reduction calculations had assumed that the Earth’s natural carbon sinks would maintain a relatively uniform rate of carbon uptake as greenhouse gas emissions increased.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2010

Coiled platinum before (left), and after (right), carbon capture @ 750 °C in molten carbonate. Carbon dioxide fed into the electrolysis chamber is converted to solid carbon in a single step. split carbon dioxide, fed into a molten lithium carbonate electrolyte, via electrolysis.it Credit: ACS, Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2016

Swedish-Finnish steel company SSAB, mining company LKAB and power company Vattenfall have launched an initiative to develop a steel production process that emits water rather than carbon dioxide. Blast furnace ironmaking or any ironmaking process requires more energy and releases more CO 2 than any other process to produce steel.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Short-haul flights on battery power, while undoubtedly convenient, would amount to a mere rounding error, not only for this metric but for the related one of carbon emissions. trillion pkm by the year 2000, a 100-fold rise. During the past 30 years the maximum energy density of batteries has roughly tripled.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. I’ve been amazed that most companies seem to front the cost, even start ups. That’s correct.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $49.4 The new program-wide funding opportunity ( DE-FOA-0000991 ) ( earlier post ), was announced by Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at the Washington Auto Show. High cost of high-strength aluminum alloys such as high performance 6xxx and 7xxx series. Carbon Fiber Composite Targets.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The proposals are part of a £250m strategy, seen by the Guardian, spelling out a revolution in Britains road transport network based on ultra-low carbon vehicles. Something like 35% of all our carbon emissions are caused by domestic transport," he said. "Of Of that, 58% of the emissions are caused by motor cars." My Web del.icio.us

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

However, ABE fermentation production suffers from relatively low production efficiency as well as the high cost of component recovery; the product mixture typically has an A:B:E ratio of 3:6:1. isopropanol shows a higher energy density than acetone (23.9MJ/L vs 22.6 1 compression ratio). Engine speed was fixed at 1200 rpm.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

It’s not sexy and it doesn’t make a bunch of old school, balding, white, male, carbon collaborators stinking filthy rich, so it’s no wonder they’ve done every evil and despicable thing in their power to keep this weapon from being aimed at them. Won’t that be fun?! The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When we spoke to customers interesting in driving a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, many wondered what the cost of hydrogen would be. Because of the inherent weight and cost of batteries, and the chemistry and physics that drive slow recharge times, today’s electric vehicles have practical limits for many consumers, Hyundai suggested.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), as amended by the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), and EPA is proposing national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards under the Clean Air.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

In just two decades, the share of the global lighting market held by gallium-nitride-based light-emitting diodes has gone from zero to more than 50 percent, according to a study by the International Energy Agency. The data came from the International Energy Agency, Statista, and other sources. First, consider breakdown field strength.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. Cost increments for a plug-in hybrid compact vehicle will be 10-20% more than a regular hybrid: $2000-3000 extra for a sedan; $5000 for an SUV. You dont have to plug it in.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

The engine should yield fuel efficiency gains of more than 50% compared to a downsized, turbo-charged gasoline direct injection engine, while reducing the overall cost of the powertrain system, said Fabien Redon, Vice President, Technology Development at Achates Power. Don Hillebrand, director of the Energy Systems Division at Argonne.

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

By definition this issue is not just a transport issue, it’s also an energy issue. Acknowledging a rapidly changing context for the electricity sector As we have already stated, a National EV Charging Strategy depends on the ability of the electricity system to produce, transmit, and distribute enough renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

HRI), which were commercialized with support from the US Department of Energy and industrial clients. billion from 1975-2000 to develop DCL technology. Headwaters says that compared to ICL, the DCL process can result in: 30% lower capital cost for a comparably sized plant. The installed capital cost of this plant is $1.5

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