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APRIL 10, 2012

Recent reports in the scientific literature and popular press have produced confusion about the climate implications of natural gas. On the one hand, a shift to natural gas is promoted as climate mitigation because it has lower carbon per unit energy than coal or oil. This would eventually be offset by a modest benefit.

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JUNE 1, 2010

An alliance of industry, academic and government organizations has formed to commercialize technologies that will utilize concentrated solar energy to convert waste CO 2 into synthetic fuels. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Solar. Source: Sandia. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 13, 2022

Vertimass and European Energy have completed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to integrate technologies for capturing carbon dioxide and converting it into hydrocarbon products around the world. The team completed an initial proof of concept laboratory research for coupling their technologies earlier this year.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 One compliance option is to pay into the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund at $15/tonne. million (US$36.6 Funding for the CCEMC comes from the Government of Alberta, which collects it from industry.

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MARCH 20, 2023

This marks the first investment made through the US$100-million Yamaha Motor Sustainability Fund established in June last year specifically for investing in early stage companies working to address climate change. The company’s delivery platform uses seeds as safe vessels for microorganisms.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. GTI led a team of engineers and scientists to produce a blueprint for converting an existing biomass facility into an RNG production site, using the wood waste feedstock and some of the existing infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct. Accounting rules.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Dairies produce about 25% of California’s methane emissions and have become targets of carbon regulations aimed to reduce climate change. Our 60 million gallon ethanol plant is capable of using biogas to replace petroleum natural gas to produce a lower carbon biofuel and generate additional Low Carbon Fuel Standard credits.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 50%–85% by 2050 to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (four degrees Fahrenheit). Like bioenergy, hydrogen sits at the center of NREL’s strategy for a transportation system decoupled from carbon emissions.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Without decisive action, climate change this century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to Professor Chris Field of Stanford University, and a leading member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Chris Field.

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APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. —Report to Congress on Black Carbon. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Their cost-effective synthesis procedure, coupled with the high stability of the photocatalyst, provides an economically feasible way to convert waste carbon dioxide and water into useful hydrocarbon fuels using sunlight. —Prof In. 2020.119344.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Start-up Mote is establishing its first facility to convert wood waste into hydrogen fuel while capturing, utilizing, and sequestering CO 2 emissions resulting from its process. Mote’s proprietary integration of proven equipment in a novel process is the basis for this carbon removal and clean energy generation facility.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

UK-based B9 Coal, established in 2009 with the objective of developing projects combining Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and alkaline hydrogen fuel cells, is bringing together a consortium including WSP Group, AFC Energy and Linc Energy to develop such a project.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum produce biofuel on a commercial scale by chemically converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into transportation fuels. has been expanding investments in green businesses and technologies to achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in response to global climate change. Founded in Pleasanton, Calif.,

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

The reaction for carbon dioxide splitting into carbon monoxide with aromatic aldehydes as oxygen acceptors. The resulting CO can be used to convert water to hydrogen via the water gas shift reaction. Carbon dioxide, however, is highly stable, and splitting the O=C(O) bond to generate carbon monoxide requires large energy input.

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APRIL 8, 2022

United Airlines Ventures (UAV) and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures (OLCV) announced a collaboration with Houston-based biotech firm Cemvita Factory to commercialize the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) intended to be developed through a new process using carbon dioxide and synthetic microbes.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Converting oil shale to gasoline via the Alberta Taciuk Processor (ATP)—an above-ground shale retort—results in fuel-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of ~130-150 g CO 2 equivalent/MJ of gasoline produced, according to a new analysis by Dr. These emissions are 1.5 The high temperatures can cause carbonate minerals within the shale to decompose.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? In fact, some 74 percent of those polled indicated they were already “proud of what [they are] currently doing” to combat climate change.

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MARCH 4, 2013

Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) ( earlier post ) has issued a $35-million open innovation international challenge to create new, carbon-based products and markets. The CCEMC invests the money collected into the discovery, development and deployment of clean technology.

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

Through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, Google introduced an online suite of beta software that leverages cloud computing to track worldwide land-use changes such as deforestation. Tags: Climate Change Policy. 1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. CLASlite) software.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Oberon Fuels, a producer of ultra-low-carbon, renewable dimethyl ether (rDME) transportation fuel, and SHV Energy, the world’s largest distributor of propane fuel, are partnering to accelerate the use of renewable DME to reduce the carbon footprint of transportation fuel. —Rebecca Boudreaux, Ph.D., president of Oberon Fuels.

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JUNE 11, 2019

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. Ding et al. —Ding et al.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Rio Tinto has shown the effectiveness of a low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and is now planning the development of a larger-scale pilot plant to further assess its potential to help decarbonize the steel value chain. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. Stronger, more stress resistant & cheaper by weight than steel, C2CNT carbon nanotubes avoids > 160 ton CO 2 per ton steel replaced. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 25, 2009

Two ethanol trade groups—the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy—have filed a complaint in Federal District Court in Fresno, California, challenging the constitutionality of the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). grams of carbon dioxide-equivalent per megajoule (gCO 2 e/MJ), compared to ARB’s range of 47.4

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AUGUST 24, 2017

The benefit to the climate of using biofuels as a substitute for fossil fuels has been sharply contested for years; much of the disagreement is based on the assumptions underlying the carbon accounting in the lifecycle analysis. earlier post ). The analysis presented by DeCicco et al. relies on three key assertions.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The team made measurements of black carbon (BC) with a high-sensitivity laser-induced incandescence (HS-LII) instrument and a single particle soot photometer (SP2); measurements were conducted upwind, downwind, and while driving on a highway dominated by gasoline vehicles. derived emission factors. Credit: ACS, Liggio et al.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Using these leases in combination with land cover maps, the team estimated future land-clearing and carbon emissions from plantations. Kimberly M.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Our work with Synthetic Genomics on algae biofuels continues to be an important part of our broader research into lower-emission technologies to help reduce the risk of climate change. We are excited to take this next significant step as we journey together toward a renewable, scalable, and low-carbon biofuel. Earlier post.).

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JULY 26, 2013

International agreements on the need to combat climate change, the fluctuating but generally rising costs of marine fuels which account for a large proportion of the running costs of a ship, and developments on a number of other fronts have led many in the industry to question whether the present methods of ship propulsion are sustainable.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

UK-based ITM Power has been awarded a grant by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a £100k (US$160k), 12-month engineering feasibility study of producing synthetic methane using carbon dioxide from industrial processes and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.

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JULY 1, 2023

Since 2017, British Lithium has carried out drilling and exploration on Imerys-owned land in Cornwall and developed a unique process and pilot plant to produce battery-grade lithium carbonate. The transaction has been approved by the UK Government, under the National Security Investment Act protocol. Mineral background.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

As ICE technology is predicted to be slowly fading away, there has been a boom around H 2 ICE in China to combat pollution and climate change. China aims to achieve the carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 at a time when green and low-carbon development has come to be accepted worldwide.

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