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Canada Launches Heavy Oil Working Group to Promote Cleaner Fossil Fuels

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The Government of Canada has established a Heavy Oil Working Group. Comprising countries such as Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Venezuela, the Heavy Oil Working Group will collaborate on clean energy research to reduce the impact of fossil fuel development. Minister Paradis. Minister Paradis.

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IFQC annual ranking of gasoline sulfur standards sees progress around the world; US drops to 46th

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Colombia jumped 40 spots, from 98 th to 58 th , while Croatia moved up from 57 th to 37 th and Russia improved from 60 th to 51 st. Sulfur is found naturally in crude oil. Overall, the majority of countries are moving toward low-sulfur, cleaner fuels. The United States placed 46 th , down two slots.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

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A bit more processing, grinding, and mixing turns those pellets into powdered Portland cement, which accounts for about 90 percent of the CO 2 emitted by the production of conventional concrete [see infographic, “Roads to Cleaner Concrete”]. The exhaust from those fires generates 35 to 50 percent of the cement industry’s emissions.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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That AC-DC conversion is important because a host of technologies that aim to be a part of the cleaner energy future, including the electrolyzers that create hydrogen fuel, EV charging stations, and energy storage, all require lots of transformers, and they all need DC power. But those efforts wont ease the logjam soon. manufacturers.