Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Even if you have 100 percent capture from the capture equipment, it is still worse, from a social cost perspective, than replacing a coal or gas plant with a wind farm because carbon capture never reduces air pollution and always has a capture equipment cost. In both plants, natural gas turbines power the equipment.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the non-road sectors, which collectively account for 95% of carbon emissions from energy use, 81% of emissions are untaxed, and rates are below a truly low-end estimate of climate costs of EUR 30 per tCO 2 for 97% of emissions. —“Taxing Energy Use 2018”. —“Taxing Energy Use 2018”.

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Climate Change Climate Energy Tax 170

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JANUARY 2, 2013

kWh—approximately 2–4 times current retail costs—for emission-free alternatives to fossil fuel electricity due to the cost of health impacts from fossil fuel electricity, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Energy and Climate Change Office, Region 9.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

million) toward a $30-million underground coal gasification (UCG) project with Swan Hills Synfuels of Calgary. Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage.

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APRIL 13, 2014

Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. Increased use of coal relative to other energy sources has reversed the long?standing WG III Summary for Policymakers.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 18, 2013

The IEA said that this reflects the continued domination of fossil fuels—particularly coal—in the energy mix and the slow uptake of other, lower-carbon supply technologies. The costs of most clean energy technologies fell more rapidly than anticipated. Coal technologies continue to dominate growth in power generation.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Furthermore, they write, if the relative cost of cutting emissions was high in a given sector, then growing emissions alone would not solely justify major focus on cutting in that sector alone. Yet, coal-fired emissions in Alberta receive relatively little attention from environmental organizations and the public.

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MAY 1, 2012

The costs of providing a low-speed leased BEV for local city use is far less than trying to replicate the current ownership model of all-purpose long-range ICE vehicle. Nature Climate Change 2, 328–333 doi: 10.1038/nclimate1429. —Tran et al. —Tran et al. Martino Tran, David Banister, Justin D. Bishop & Malcolm D.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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APRIL 11, 2012

and the remainder (30 to 40%) from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, to heat the kiln reactors to ~900°C.Here we show a new thermal chemistry, based on anomalies in oxide solubilites, to generate CaO, without CO2 emission, in a high throughput, cost effective, environment conducive to the formation of cement. —Licht et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2009

The five different fuel groups were those derived: from conventional petroleum; from unconventional petroleum; synthetically from natural gas, coal, or combinations of coal and biomass via the FT process; renewable oils; and alcohols. Weiss, Ian A. Waitz (2009) Near-Term Feasibility of Alternative Jet Fuels (TR-554-FAA).

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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. This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry.

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MAY 15, 2014

They also found that abundant natural gas can, however, help reduce the costs of achieving GHG reduction goals. If natural gas is abundant and less expensive, it will encourage greater natural gas consumption and less consumption of fuels such as coal, renewables and nuclear power.

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JUNE 15, 2013

However, the financial cost of the shift is causing concern. These costs are primarily borne by consumers. This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. To date, renewables have had feed-in priority over conventionally generated power from combined cycle and coal-fired power plants.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

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MAY 8, 2009

For the net transportation distance, several of the corn ethanol cases result in negative distances because the distance that could be traveled with the net fuel cycle inputs (petroleum via ICV and electricity, coal and natural gas via BEV) is greater than the distance that could be traveled with the gross ethanol output. Campbell, D.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Survey participants remain very concerned about the high cost of gasoline, with nearly 90% saying they expect prices at the pump to rise during the next six months, an expectation that is particularly strong among Republican voters. Support for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge edges out opposition, 38% to 32%.

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Austin Renewable Gas Climate Change 191

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MAY 18, 2017

The hot reaction zone is either gas-fired, coal-fired, or electrically heated in a furnace; the condensing section is water-cooled. The cost of producing Chinese-Pidgeon magnesium is $2.50/kg. The US Magnesium LLC cost, using a more environmentally sound approach, is approximately $3.31/kg.). kWh/kg and has emissions of 6.9

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APRIL 3, 2012

The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has launched a new competition for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology to drive down costs by supporting practical experience in the design, construction and operation of commercial scale CCS ( CCS Commercialization Programme ) with £1 billion (US$1.6 billion [US$10.4

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. Total cost of the new units is currently projected to be approximately $14 billion.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Natural gas or coal is used as the energy source of the ammonia industry. In industry, extensive purification of N 2 and H 2 is needed and this remarkably increases the overall cost of the process. tons of CO 2 is released per ton of ammonia produced. million tons) in that year.

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MAY 6, 2021

Not only is this a massive increase in absolute terms, but as the costs of technologies fall, mineral inputs will account for an increasingly important part of the value of key components, making their overall costs more vulnerable to potential mineral price swings.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. Altex has been working with the US Department of Energy (DOE) on developing a version of the process to convert a mixture of coal and biomass to jet fuel since 2012. Carbonaceous materials—e.g.,

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

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MARCH 20, 2017

The Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented international determination to act on climate. We are in a good position to transform the global energy system but success will depend on urgent action, as delays will raise the costs of decarbonization. Coal use would decline most rapidly. —IRENA Director-General Adnan Z.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

And what’s working for the Greenius and Mrs. Greenius will work for the rest of America, even the little brain people who aren’t sure if climate change is man-made or not and probably even the Stepford brainwashed pod people who think Al Gore is a bad man. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

China is about to become the largest oil-importing country and India becomes the largest importer of coal by the early 2020s. Together, these changes represent a re-orientation of energy trade from the Atlantic basin to the Asia-Pacific region, according to the report’s scenario.

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Oil 2013 Energy Emissions 275

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.),

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Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. —Christopher Knittel.

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Chicago MIT Carbon Tax 150

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The European Commission has adopted the European Energy Union package —a framework strategy for a resilient energy union with a forward-looking climate change policy. Today, we launch the most ambitious European energy project since the Coal and Steel Community. Climate Change Emissions Europe Policy Regulations'

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Transportation Europe Energy Climate 150

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

from the Bakken shale) are developed, but increasing reliance on oil imports elsewhere heightens concerns about the cost of imports and supply security. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Yet, reliance on oil is the greatest immediate threat to US economic and national security, and also contributes to the long-term threat of climate change. In addition, the application of high-performance computing (HPC) and simulations to engine design can reduce the time and cost of integrating new technologies. fleets).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. Their business model dictates that they pursue the lowest-cost power source and charge the highest premiums they can for the product in an open, but federally controlled, market. cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20

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APRIL 20, 2009

”China’s coal sector has made remarkable progress over the last decade, fuelling rapid economic growth and bringing a better quality of life for China’s citizens”, said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Beijing at the launch of the new publication, Cleaner Coal in China.

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