Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

In a pre-response to that speech, having successfully advocated for plug-in hybrids like the forthcoming Chevy Volt, we propose that the President follow that speech up with a “realistic and conservative” roadmap to halve our oil use in 10 years. Oil is holding us all hostage, economically and physically. Finally, it’s time to begin.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

bp has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd (GBF), the UK’s largest provider of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO). GBF’s products are made from renewable feedstocks such as vegetable oils, animal oils and fat. It is fully compatible with gas oil and significantly cleaner than EN590 (automotive diesel fuel).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The flight marks Malaysia Airlines’ commitment to make SAF the cleaner and more viable energy option for regular flights by 2025. Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel is produced from sustainably-sourced, 100% renewable waste and residue raw materials, such as used cooking oil and animal fat waste.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

ReactWell , LLC, has licensed a novel waste-to-fuel technology from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to improve energy conversion methods for cleaner, more efficient oil and gas, chemical and bioenergy production. It can be used by refineries to upgrade their feedstock or to convert biomass to oil.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. In addition, the President has directed his Administration to purchase cleaner alternatives to HFCs whenever feasible and transition over time to equipment that uses safer and more sustainable alternatives.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2012

Other successful initiatives—highlighted in Ford’s 13th annual Sustainability Report—include reductions in water use, waste-to-landfill and CO 2 emissions as well as improvements in vehicle fuel economy and safety. The company also announced plans to reduce usage another 25% on a per-vehicle basis by 2016.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The company will produce its XRD renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. UrbanX holds a license for Chevron Lummus Global’s patented ISOCONVERSION process which produces the cleaner fuel from waste feedstock, in a joint development with Applied Research Associates.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Neste Oil and SHV Energy have agreed that SHV Energy will market and sell biopropane to be produced at Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery. LPG already provides our customers with a cleaner rural energy choice to the high-carbon fuel alternatives many are dependent on in off-grid areas. Earlier post.) A €60-million (US$76.5-million)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2010

and scientists and engineers at Columbia University, Iowa State University (ISU) and the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to support work on production and testing of bio-dispersants that can replace the chemical dispersants currently used for oil spill management. Tags: Biomass Oil Synthetic Biology.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Like the issue of oil drilling in Hermosa Beach. The classic slogan that Stop Hermosa Beach Oil movement has created, Keep Hermosa Hermosa” couldn’t be more right-on, because over the years Hermosa has been kept Hermosa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

has signed an EPA Test Vehicle Agreement with Waste Connections of Colorado, Inc. In addition, the introduction of natural gas through APG’s dual fuel system does not impact diesel engine power or pulling torque and will assist in extending the engine’s oil life as natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel compared to diesel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2021

LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) – a cleaner burning fuel, LNG-fueled propulsion systems emit less CO 2 and 97% fewer particulates than normal fuel oil used on ships. Waste to Energy – newly developed Micro Auto Gasification System (MAGS) reduces onboard waste volume, resulting in lower incineration emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2009

An EU-funded research project is seeking to develop new technologies that will enable the sustainable production of diesel miscible biofuels (DMB) from cellulosic biomass wastes in Europe and Latin America. oxygen content, resulting in a significantly cleaner burning diesel fuel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2018

The European Parliament last week endorsed a series of proposals setting targets for cleaner, more efficient energy use. MEPs also want a ban on the use of palm oil from 2021. Among those was a proposal for a binding EU-level target of a 12% share of energy from renewable sources in transport, by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2020

When a car burns gas while sitting at a stop light or idling at the curb, it’s wasting the valuable high-octane fuel better used for acceleration. Aromatics are gasoline components derived from crude oil. Reducing the amount of these particles is a priority for newer, cleaner-burning fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

The Hardstaff OIGI (Oil Ignition Gas Injection) is a dual-fuel system developed to substitute natural gas for diesel in light- and heavy-duty engines. The vehicle can still run on diesel, providing flexibility, but most of the time is running on biomethane gas which is a much cleaner and less polluting fuel.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 27, 2022

The organization announced steps recently, along with Shell and Pennzoil, the official fuel, motor oil and lubricant sponsors of the NTT IndyCar series. KERS is where kinetic energy, which is present in the waste heat created by the car’s braking process, is stored and converted into power that can be called upon to boost acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2019

The Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership, a World Bank initiative, notes that billions of cubic meters of natural gas are flared annually at oil production sites, wasting valuable energy resources and contributing to climate change by releasing millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2017

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), India’s flagship national oil company and LanzaTech signed a Statement of Intent to construct the world’s first refinery offgas-to-bioethanol production facility in India. The basic engineering for the 40-million liter per year (10.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

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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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

A strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. That’s right—eight years. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

Oil-less carbon-air bearing system. Bladon suggests that in an hybrid vehicle application, with no water-cooling system, oil or catalytic converter, the Micro-Jet engine can provide vehicle weight savings of up to 15%—with a consequent reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions—compared to a piston engine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2022

It has been designed to use less uranium and produce almost a third less long-lived radioactive wastes compared with water reactors in operation today. This will not only provide cleaner energy for vital British industries to move away from expensive fossil fuels, but could also be used for cleaner power, transport and potentially heat.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

INFRA Technology group has developed and patented a proprietary Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) technology (INFRA.xtl), based on the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis process, for the production of light synthetic oil—which is close to a product, characterized by Shultz-Flory alpha of 0.77—and

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2013

In the final RFS2 rule, EPA established biogas as an advanced biofuel type when derived from landfills, sewage waste treatment plants, and manure digesters. Renewable CNG/LNG produced from biogas from waste treatment plants and waste digesters is still classified as an advanced biofuel. Advanced butanol pathway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2011

Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the US. Chesapeake Energy Corporation plans to create a $1.0-billion Chesapeake also announced $305 million in two initial investments for CNGV: $150 million to Clean Energy Fuels Corp.

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Gas Fuel Energy Cleaning 218

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2017

UFF (U-landshjälp från Folk till Folk i Finland rf), a Finnish non-profit environmental and development organization, will use Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced entirely from waste and residues, to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced in UFF’s logistics chain.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

Porvoo is the first city in Finland to start using Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced 100% from waste and residues, in all of its diesel-fueled vehicles during this year. Its leading properties ensure cleaner combustion and reduce engine noise and local emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

The three are also urging the G-20 to make commitments to reduce methane emissions in the oil and gas sector and to improve the environmental performance of heavy-duty vehicles. Enhancing trilateral collaboration on greening of government initiatives including the purchase of more efficient products, cleaner power, and clean vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The UOP Ecofining process technology converts waste oils, fats, and greases into Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, a drop-in replacement for jet fuel. When using a feedstock such as used cooking oils, lifecycle GHG emissions can be reduced by 80% at this stage compared to conventional petroleum jet fuel.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2017

Its leading properties ensure cleaner combustion and reduce engine noise and local emissions. Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology can be used for producing premium-quality renewable diesel and other renewable products from almost any waste fat or vegetable oil.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2014

For the topic of future road mobility these are the development of alternative and decarbonized fuels and energy carriers; and higher powertrain efficiency leading to cleaner mobility and reduction in resource demand. Hydrotreated vegetable oils’ (HVO), BtL diesel and sugar-to-diesel technologies) will be important. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2013

The new method will lead to innovations in industry, new cleaner production processes and less harmful emissions. This byproduct of oil production often is difficult to transport from remote locations. Apart from the waste of gas, flaring produces many substances that are harmful to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Fuel suppliers know that California has established a large and certain market for low-carbon fuels though 2020, and we expect to see many more proposals for even cleaner fuels in the coming years. used cooking oil (with and without cooking), and corn oil biodiesel. —ARB Chairman Mary D. sugar industry as a feedstock; and.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

It completely removes the crankshaft constraint placed on piston movement that actually hinders efficient combustion, and allows piston motion to be optimized to deliver a cleaner, more efficient combustion process. —Libertine CEO, Sam Cockerill.

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