Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The Blue Bird school buses, equipped with ROUSH CleanTech’s dedicated liquid propane autogas fuel system, reduce carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and total hydrocarbon emissions, and virtually eliminate particulate matter, when compared to conventionally fueled school buses.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2021

hydrogen, earlier post ; carbon black, earlier post ), has received conditional approval for a $1.04-billion Established via the Title XVII Innovative Energy Loan Guarantee Program, the loan will allow Monolith to expand its clean hydrogen and carbon black production facilities in Hallam, Nebraska. Data: Monolith.

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Hydrogen Nebraska Clean Cleaning 243

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

The locomotives will be used in rail yards in California and Nebraska, where they will be tested for performance in cold and warm weather, helping identify the locomotives’ capabilities and challenges for broader deployment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

ADM and Gevo signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and other low carbon-footprint hydrocarbon fuels. The isobutanol is expected to be produced at a proposed new facility in Decatur that would employ ADM’s carbon capture and sequestration capabilities.

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Fuel Columbus Nebraska Iowa 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2016

A regional interdisciplinary team led by Montana State University has received $6 million from the National Science Foundation to address questions about whether biofuels and carbon capture technologies can be sustainably introduced into the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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Grant Montana Missouri Carbon 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The Urban Air Initiative-led effort included the Clean Fuels Development Coalition, Nebraska Ethanol Board, Nebraska Ethanol Industry Coalition, Glacial Lakes Energy, Siouxland Ethanol, Prairie Horizons Agri-Energy, Little Sioux Corn Processors, South Dakota Farmers Union, and Nebraska Farmers Union.

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Fuel Economy EPA Nebraska Economy 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and under some conditions can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a major, multi-year study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team of researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Liska et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

The joint venture is called Heartwell Renewables and will result in the construction of a new production plant and more than 50 jobs in Hastings, Nebraska. The Love’s Family of Companies, Cargill and their affiliates have entered into a 50/50 joint venture to produce and market renewable diesel.

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Renewable Diesel Market Nebraska 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2023

The objective is to enter into a definitive rare earth supply agreement to support Stellantis’ commitment to build resilient supply chains and reach carbon net zero by 2038 and to help accelerate NioCorp’s path to commercial production of magnetic rare earth oxides in the US. Stellantis N.V. and NioCorp Developments Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Williston Basin (Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota): University of North Dakota plans to lead a coalition to drive the expansion and transformation of coal and coal-based resource usage within the Williston Basin to extract rare earth elements and critical minerals and produce non-fuel carbon-based products. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), with colleagues from North Carolina State University and the University of Connecticut, have engineered the hyperthermophilic anaerobe Thermotoga maritima to produce 46% more hydrogen per cell than the wild type. The team’s highest reported yield—5.7

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Hydrogen Production North Carolina Nebraska 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pending application proposes a new route through Nebraska. MMTCO 2 e annually.

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Climate Change Oil-Sands Nebraska Climate 250

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2020

Alkaline Carbon Capture and Expression-Streamlined Spirulina Cultivated in Air for Reliable Bioproducts, Oil, and Nutrition. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Electrochemical Production of Formic Acid from Carbon Dioxide in Solid Electrolytes. Biomolecular Films for Direct Air Capture of CO 2. MicroBio Engineering, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2018

violaceus plant’s biology and genetic makeup, researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, China, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln noticed the February orchid seed oils were unusual. Each of these elongation steps requires a four-reaction cycle to add the carbon units. While collaborating on the O.

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Oil Nebraska Indianapolis Universal 218

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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Climate Change Climate Nebraska Carbon 265

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2009

The Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven members of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, has begun collecting core samples from a new characterization well near Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson natural gas processing plant in British Columbia, Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2013

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released a new report, State-Level Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2000-2010. The report shows a significant variation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions across states on both an absolute and a per capita basis. Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. million tonnes).

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2022

Ford said in its letter that the goal is primarily focused on alleviating additional carbon emissions. “The purchase of the BEV Lease is to aid in our goal of delivering carbon neutrality by 2050 by controlling the vehicle battery through its life, keeping it in the Ford network.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The research was funded in part by the Nebraska Corn Board and through the Hatch Act (University of Nebraska Agricultural Research Division). Additional support for the project was provided by the State of Nebraska Transportation Services Bureau and The Shop, Inc. Cost per mile. Source: Hanna et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted two new fuel pathway applications submitted under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Method 2 pathway approval process: one for dehydrated Brazilian sugarcane ethanol produced by a company in Costa Rica, the other for domestic corn ethanol. Trenton Agri Products.

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Costa Rica California Fuel Nebraska 225

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

The plant’s target is to achieve a yield higher than 300 liters/tonne (79 gallons US/tonne), as well as to ferment sugars with five carbon atoms (C 5 ), opening the door to the next stage in the technological evolution of the process. The new plant will have an annual capacity of 100 million liters (approx. million gallons US).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2009

Researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska have identified one of the key proteins in microalgae responsible for concentrating and moving carbon dioxide into cells. CO 2 is used in photosynthesis in plants to manufacture sugars required for plant growth.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Tenneco’s diesel oxidation catalysts can reduce up to 90% of hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions and its diesel particulate filters can reduce particulate matter emissions by up to 95 percent. The components include catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters, diesel oxidation catalysts and selective catalytic reduction units.

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Emissions Fuel Nebraska Fuel Economy 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2015

3-acetyl-1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerols (acetyl-TAG) possess a particularly striking variation where the long-chain fatty acid at the sn-3 position of TAG is replaced by a two-carbon acetyl group. Some of these modified structures have added-value properties that are currently used in a range of industrial applications. —Liu et al.

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Oil Industrial Industry Nebraska 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

The group also developed a nutrient, water, and carbon mass balance model to assess best-practices and technologies for nutrient recycling. In addition to accomplishments in basic research, CAB-Comm engaged the commercial sector to develop and demonstrate the production of high-value, sustainable fossil fuel replacement products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

In addition to program in support of the coal and electric power industries, the center has expanded over time to address issues in carbon capture and management, electrochemical energy storage, biomass energy and biofuels, and other renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic and thermoelectric power. Herrick Laboratories; $11.6

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The key to increasing oil accumulation in these studies was to unravel the details of the biochemical pathways involved in the conversion of carbon into fatty acids, the storage of fatty acids as oil, and the breakdown of oil in leaves. —Changcheng Xu, research team leader.

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Oil Production Nebraska Conversion 257

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2009

The Lignite Field Validation Test is being conducted by the Plains CO 2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, one of seven regional partnerships under DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Program. The characterization phase (2003–2005), which defined opportunities for carbon capture and storage, has been completed.

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Coal CO2 North Dakota South Dakota 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2012

In addition, carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events, because significant volumes of fluids are injected underground over long periods of time. In the past several years induced seismic events related to energy development projects have drawn heightened public attention.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Carbon Capture (5 projects). Envia Systems, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, will develop high energy density, low cost next generation Li-ion batteries using novel nano silicon-carbon composite anodes and high capacity manganese rich layered composite cathodes discovered at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

identification of the genes that control cell-wall composition, plant architecture, cell size, cell division, reproduction, nutrient uptake, carbon flux, etc.) Mechanism of Carbon Partitioning Regulation by cpg13 in the Bioenergy Woody Crop Poplar. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, $390,000. University of Florida, $643,000.

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Georgia United States Universal Carbon 150

EV Connect

APRIL 12, 2021

The Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association , a not-for-profit cooperative power supplier working with 45 members — primarily in New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska — is just one example of an electric co-op working to secure wider access to EV charging. If the U.S. We’re getting there. However, we have a long way to go.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 14, 2024

If you’re in Nebraska or California , you’re probably paying a lot less or a lot more, respectively. Charging an e-bike has a much lower carbon footprint compared to fueling a car with gasoline. But that’s a rough average depending on who you ask and how you calculate it. Calculating the charging cost : To charge a 500Wh battery (0.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Richard Houghton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Dr. Rattan Lal, Ohio State University; Dr. Jason Tullis, University of Arkansas; and Dr. Brian Wardlow, University of Nebraska. Cassman, University of Nebraska; Dr. John R. Peer reviewers offered suggested discount rate values ranging from 0% to 7.9%.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The project will be the next step in CTDOT's zero emission bus deployment program with the goal to minimize the carbon emissions of Connecticut's bus fleet. City of Lincoln, Nebraska. million pounds of carbon emissions during the useful life of the buses. Delaware Transit Corporation. Vermont Agency of Transportation.

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Purchase St. Louis Jacksonville Fleet 191

Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

clip) “This research program will help link a low-carbon generation portfolio and a smart grid, which in turn will facilitate widespread adoption of electricity as an alternative transportation fuel,” Mansoor said. That’s why this relationship with EPRI and the utility partners is so important.” Sacramento Municipal Util.

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Green Cars News

JULY 23, 2009

The University of Florida has been awarded $643,000 to identify the metabolic competition for carbon that affects growth, cellulose biosynthesis and lignification. Michigan Technological University has been awarded $900,000 for a systems biology approach to elucidate regulation of root development in populus. -

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