Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Using this approach, they found that converting a fleet of cars from gasoline to CNG would result in decades of more rapid climate change because of greater radiative forcing in the early years after the conversion. This would eventually be offset by a modest benefit.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2018

CO 2 capture from emission sources is an attractive option for mitigating climate change, but it is an expensive process that harvests a product without commercial value. 1 ), low cell voltages, and high single-pass CO conversion, leading directly to concentrated product streams. —Ripatti et al. —Matthew Kanan.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Jiang et al. Kuznetsov and P.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Researchers in China have developed a one-pot process for the direct conversion of cellulose to ethanol with a yield of 43.2 The increasing concerns over global climate change have motivated great interest in the utilization of renewable biomass for the production of fuels and chemicals.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

With a high-torque drive motor and an AMT gearbox, the high-power fuel cell stack features an energy conversion rate of more than 50%. At the 2020 United Nations Climate Change conference, Chinese President Xi Jiping proposed that China’s carbon dioxide emissions should peak in 2030 and that carbon neutrality should be achieved by 2060.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led off a day-long symposium on advances in CO 2 conversion and utilization being held at the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting, which began today in Washington, DC. Earlier post.). Robert Dorner. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Scott Shaw.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois and startup Dioxide Materials has developed an electrocatalytic system for the reduction of CO 2 to CO—a key component of artificial photosynthesis and thus an enabler for the conversion of CO 2 to synthetic fuels—at overpotentials below 0.2 intermediate. In this context the term “CO 2 ? ”

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

The STEP process occurs at solar energy conversion efficiency greater than attainable by photovoltaics alone. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Methanol Solar. Stuart Licht (2009) STEP (Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo) Generation of Energetic Molecules: A Solar Chemical Process to End Anthropogenic Global Warming.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2010

Researchers at the University of Oxford are developing a method for the homogeneous conversion of CO 2 to methanol (i.e., upon the addition of CO 2 (1 equiv) to a 1:1 mixture of TMP/B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 (4 equiv) in C 7 D 8 under an H 2 atmosphere, quantitative conversion into CH 3 OB(C 6 F 5 ) 2 via 2 was observed after 6 days at 160 °C.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The company anticipates entry into commercial service in 2025 with a certified retrofit conversion kit for existing ATR 72 and De Havilland Canada Dash-8 regional airliners and a green hydrogen fuel services offering. Full-scale prototype of Universal Hydrogen's gaseous hydrogen module, with one capsule removed.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Recent research in electrocatalytic CO 2 conversion points the way to using CO 2 as a feedstock and renewable electricity as an energy supply for the synthesis of different types of fuel and value-added chemicals such as ethylene, ethanol, and propane.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

This is an important development because there is little time available to reduce CO 2 emissions sufficiently to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2. —Rob McGinnis. —Rob McGinnis.

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Innovation News Network

JULY 5, 2024

McGill University has pioneered a catalyst for CO2 conversion that could be a ‘game-changer’ in the fight against climate change. The post McGill University develops revolutionary CO2 conversion catalyst appeared first on Innovation News Network.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

And one last thought – on the subject of cowardice, which E&B has introduced into the conversation. . They know full well what the climate models predict based on a continued burning of their product. . I’m talking about heroes like climate scientist Michael E. Mann , The Monkey Wrench Gang.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Premier of Québec François Legault, and the Minister of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change and Minister responsible for the Laval region, Benoit Charette, unveiled the 2030 Green Economy Plan (PEV 2030) and its first 2021-2026 implementation plan, with an envelope of $6.7 billion over five years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2009

Researchers at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have developed a catalytic process for the conversion of CO 2 to methanol under mild conditions (room temperature). Ying (2009) Conversion of Carbon Dioxide into Methanol with Silanes over N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts. Click to enlarge. Yugen Zhang.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Our Rail Decarbonization Action Plan sets out to make our passenger railways emissions free by 2035, but to maximise our climate change ambitions, there is also a requirement to look at what we do with retired stock. If we can bring those back into use in a carbon-neutral way, there are huge climate gains to be made.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) awarded 16 organizations a share of £2 million (US$3.1 The project aims to demonstrate the conversion of surplus electricity into methane for distribution via the existing natural gas grid; effectively storing electricity by making, then storing, methane.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2019

in addition to Opus 12, they are: WILDCOAST (Imperial Beach, California) is working to secure a resilient coastline to help protect communities, economies and ecosystems from climate change impacts in the Gulf of California. Each of the 10 2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners will receive $25,000 in prize money.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

GLBRC is working to increase the efficiency of biomass conversion. Designing new platform microbes capable of producing targeted bioproducts from conversion residues created when producing specialty biofuels. valerolactone (GVL), a chemical derived from plants themselves. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

This, they assert, erroneously treats all uses of bioenergy as carbon-neutral, renewable energy regardless of the source of the biomass, and could create strong economic incentives for large-scale land conversion as countries around the world tighten carbon caps. Earlier post.). In this way, RFA said, biofuels “recycle” organic carbon.

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APRIL 25, 2010

He took his time and had a brief but unrushed conversation with each person who came by. I really enjoyed getting to table for 350.org org at the same table author, Bill McKibben , was signing copies of his new book “Eaarth.&# What I dug most was the way Bill personally connected with each person who had a book for him to sign.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2011

A new study led by Praveen Kumar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, details the links between the hydrologic cycle and large-scale land conversion for the cultivation of bioenergy crops, both now and as growing conditions change in the future. Phong et al. —Phong et al. Le, Praveen Kumar, and Darren T.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2010

Researchers at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, in collaboration with Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, DTU, are investigating the high-temperature co-electrolysis of CO 2 and H 2 O using solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) to produce a syngas for conversion into liquid hydrocarbon fuels.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

There is increasing attention being focused on the conversion and utilization of CO 2 for the production of fuels and chemicals; the 238 th American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting in August featured a day-long symposium on advances in the area. Tags: Catalysts Climate Change Emissions Fuels Hydrogen. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Our findings indicated that displacement of gasoline with ethanol produced from biofuels yields greater greenhouse gas benefits than are generally recognized and that prior analyses of the payback period for conversion of land to corn production should be updated. gCO 2 e/MJ (range of 37.6

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JUNE 1, 2010

In August 2009, at an ACS meeting symposium focused on the conversion and utilization of CO 2 for fuels and chemicals, Sandia researches noted that significant advances have been made in the field of solar thermochemical CO2-splitting technologies utilizing yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ)-supported ferrite composites. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

The research, backed by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), was conducted as an Institutional Research Program of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and as part of the Technology Development Program to Solve Climate Changes of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 20, 2022

Chris Bowman is no stranger to petro-masculinity–powered BBQ conversations. He has been interested in climate change and electric propulsion for many years. I had a chance to interview him at the recent Gympie Enviro Tech day, where he was using his IONIQ 5 to provide power. He tells me that he first got into an […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature Climate Change that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.

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Innovation News Network

AUGUST 18, 2022

Electric mobility is part of the solution to tackling climate change and building a green economy. The post How cobalt is powering the conversion to green technologies appeared first on Innovation News Network. Cobalt is a raw material that […].

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2011

The study is published in the second issue of Nature Climate Change. The research team, led by Carnegie’s Scott Loarie, is the first to quantify the direct effects on the climate from sugarcane expansion in areas of existing crop and pastureland of the cerrado, in central Brazil. —Scott Loarie. —Greg Asner.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

These funds will be fully reinvested in initiatives to fight climate change, including facilitating the conversion to renewable energy, promoting energy efficiency, improving industrial processes, and preparing Québec society to adapt to the impacts of climate change. billion in revenue by 2020 in Quebec.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

The plant will use a proven conversion process, leveraging recent process improvements and technologies to increase sustainability and efficiency. Additionally, the JV is seeking to enable use of green energy to power the conversion process, thereby minimizing and eventually avoiding reliance on natural gas as is the conventional approach.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The goal of this project is to develop a hybrid perovskite-silicon solar cell that significantly improves the light-to-energy conversion efficiency of conventional cells. Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells. Electrochemical conversion of carbon gases to sustainable fuels and chemicals.

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