Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. While coal is a cheap and abundant resource, the continued reliance upon coal as an energy source could potentially have serious consequences in terms of global warming.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2011

Chemists at the University of Illinois report the development of a nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that could more effectively support the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass as well as improved liquefaction of coal. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science. —Sergeev and Hartwig.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Renewable hydrogen can be made by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, using electricity generated by cheap wind or solar power. Carbon prices and emission policies will still be essential to drive hydrogen use, particularly in locations with very cheap coal and gas. Abatement cost with hydrogen at $1/kg (7.4/MMBtu).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2009

During the first half of 2009, the Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla ( earlier post ) ran four major production campaigns each of which has seen further improvements in plant performance, according to the company. Peter Bond, Linc Energy CEO.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

The Fischer-Tropsch process is used for producing fuels from synthesis gas, which in turn is made from natural gas, biomass or coal. After two years of hard work they achieved a cheap, reliable, efficient and, most importantly, scalable method for synthesizing spherical core-shell catalyst particles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new report shows that building new renewable power can be cheaper than running old coal plants. California regulatory documents show range estimates for the new Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid. Automakers join forces to lobby for extending electric-car tax credits. And California preps for half a million electric cars.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2016

Peabody Energy—the world's largest private coal company—filed for bankruptcy this week. The company cited a variety of factors, including lower-than-expected demand for coal, and increased production of cheap natural gas obtained through "fracking" in the U.S. Peabody is also saddled with debt from its $5.2

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. A paper describing the work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. other parts of the US and the world could be different.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2022

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The fundamental problem with the tokamak is that you cannot blanket and shield a toroidal (doughnut shaped) vessel cheap enough to make an economical reactor. According to the UW team’s analysis, their new sustainment method may lead to fusion power that is cost competitive with coal. Resources. Sutherland et al. 2014.03.072.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

But if you care about our children and our childrens’ children, then do not count on the members of today’s United States Senate to do the ethical, moral or honest thing when it comes to global warming because they will not.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2014

At these times other load is likely to be low, and coal plants would likely need to be cycled, adding costs and emissions that could be saved with smart charging of PEVs. We need to keep in mind that fossil fuel plants are typically cheap to operate, so reducing cost can sometimes result in increased emissions.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 9, 2011

We really don’t need more cheap gas cars. Largely dependent on domestic coal, cities are smothered in smog. Factories, including a solar panel plant I know of, have had to curtail production because coal can’t be shipped fast enough to supply electricity generation plants. Shanghai and Wuhan are enshrouded in poison.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Photo: China News Service Renewable energy costs in Asia last year were 13% cheaper than coal and are expected to be 32% cheaper by 2030, according to a new study. This is significant because it marks a shift toward making renewables increasingly competitive with coal, a mainstay in APAC’s energy mix. Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Making hydrocarbons out of CO 2 must overcome two challenges—chemical stability of the CO 2 molecule and a cheap and renewable hydrogen source. Proposed carbon capture and utilization (CCU) system based on catalytic CO 2 conversion to liquid hydrocarbon fuels with hydrogen supplied from solar water splitting. Source: Choi et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The F-T wax can be manufactured using renewable energy and any carbon-containing resources including biomass, CO 2 , natural gas, coal—and the resulting carbon residue from the hydrogen-depleted wax. Important efforts have been made previously to liberate pure hydrogen from the catalytic decomposition of the lightest alkane, methane.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2016

Dr. Wolfgang Schuhmann of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum describes the results of their work together with colleagues from the Max-Planck-Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr and the Technical University of Bratislava in an open-access paper published in Nature Communications. Ulf-Peter Apfel and Prof. —Konkena et al.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. These pilot programs will need to scale up without eating profits—something that eluded the coal industry when it tried CCS decades ago.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. produced fuels was further reduced by an accelerated shift away from coal, which in 2020 was down to 11 percent of primary supply, from 18 percent in 2000. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2015

Furthermore, they are generally synthesized from coal or biomass (e.g., Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes. coconut shell, rice husk) containing a large amount of impurities. —Zhenan Bao.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

The Georgia Public Service Commission just this week approved utility Georgia Power’s plan to build three new methane and oil-burning plants, as well as to buy energy from sister company Mississippi power, delaying retirement of one of that company’s coal-fired plants, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

Cheap gas prices and a strong economy are creating increased goods movement and prompting Californians to drive more. The decade-long nationwide slide in emissions from power production reflects the electric power sector shifting away from coal and toward less carbon-intensive fuels. billion in 2014, up 0.08% from the previous year.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

The Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla has enjoyed its most successful operation to date producing high quality synthetic hydrocarbon products throughout May. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news coal gasification to liquids Linc Linc Energy Limited syngas.

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Spark Powered

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of the biggest complaints about electric cars is that they supposedly require the increased consumption of coal and other fossil fuels to power them. However, which cheap abundant electricity even the battery issue becomes somewhat solved. If you are excited about electric vehicles, this is great news.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Sand is efficient, nontoxic, portable, and cheap!”. “We There is nothing special here!” Eronen says, laughing.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Vikings Solar-plus-Storage is designed to take cheap daytime solar power and store it for use during more expensive peak demand times, like late afternoons and evenings. The battery storage system can quickly respond to changes in demand, helping tackle critical grid needs.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. And it’s cheap—there’s not a lot of competition with anyone looking to buy mercury. Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Countries need to plan for a solar-powered future to make the most of the cheap power this technology can provide.” Ember’s analysis also finds that solar capacity additions in 2024 will likely surpass the entire global increase – 540 GW – in coal power capacity since 2010.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. railways replacing cars and trucks, weatherizing homes, etc.),

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Sorry, but electrics and electric power plants are so efficient that CO2 emissions are less than gassers even when the electricity comes from coal - and a lot of electricity doesnt come from coal. Or maybe just snap up the engineers.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive. Customer convenience will be predicated on the ability to charge quickly while on the road in many locations. (By

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The US has 1,750 MW of PV planned for 2011 and currently employs 100,000 people, more than coal mining or steel manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Liam Halligan, a columnist for the Telegraph, says “the real danger” of closer Russian-Chinese ties is not a bust-up between China and the US, which could threaten crucial shipping routes for China-bound coal and LNG, but its impact on the US dollar. “If Rise of the Yuan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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