Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Joule, the developer of a process for the solar conversion of CO 2 to liquid fuels, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with DNV GL, a leading provider of technical assurance and advisory services to the energy industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the long term, Audi is pursuing the vision of CO2-neutral mobility and aims to be climate-neutral throughout the company on balance by 2050. Since the end of 2018, the company has been conducting CO 2 workshops together with its suppliers to agree on effective measures. The solar-energy park will produce more than 9.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

Partially because of this heat, the Brayton cycle has the potential to be much more efficient at turning heat from power plants—nuclear, natural gas or even concentrated solar—into energy than the traditional steam-based Rankine cycle. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

Landsvirkjun , The National Power Company of Iceland, and German investment company PCC SE have agreed to explore the possibility of capturing and utilizing carbon emissions from PCC’s silicon metal plant in northeast Iceland. The silicon metal plant of PCC BakkiSilicon hf. in Iceland is operated with 100% green electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

The company’s early success led to its status as a finalist in the first Carbon Xprize, and in September 2021, global climate technology nonprofit investor Elemental Excelerator funded Dimensional as part of its 10 th cohort, which led to the company’s introduction to United.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. A solar tower or dish concentration system can deliver the required level of radiative flux. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. gallon without subsidies.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Tootbus, a prominent sightseeing bus company around Europe, has partnered with electric fleet specialist VEV to deliver more sustainable mobility across its entire operations. Tootbus is currently operating buses that run on hydrotreated vegetable oil but is adopting BEV and solar technology with VEV’s help.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

Estonian startup UP Catalyst, a company developing a method to produce sustainable carbon nanomaterials and graphite from CO 2 , has closed a successful pre-seed round of €500,000, in addition to €1.59 million in grant funding secured earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta. Solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity is used as a renewable energy source in the Soletair system to produce electricity especially for the hydrogen production unit—the most energy intensive part in the system. kW solar PV power plant at LUT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Novel chemical looping process for conversion of natural gas to pure hydrogen, $150,000 CanmetENERGY, Ottawa, Canada Glowink Inc., Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., New York, N.Y.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.) In addition, Joule’s process requires just marginal, non-arable land, no crops and no fresh water.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2018

Chemical reactor company INERATEC , a spinoff of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Spanish company GAS NATURAL FENOSA have built a plant in Spain that produces synthetic natural gas from CO 2 and renewable hydrogen. sewage sludge. —Tim Böltken.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

ltd has signed an agreement with Icelandic technology company Carbon Recycling International (CRI) to design a chemical plant based on CRI’s Emissions to Liquids (ETL) technology. These include products used for making solar panels and plexiglass. Chinese petrochemicals corporation Jiangsu Sailboat Petrochemicals Co. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The company is poised to begin construction of its first refinery located in Lakeview, Oregon in early 2016. departments of Agriculture, Navy and Energy, and the company has entered into substantial offtake agreements with Southwest Airlines and FedEx for the fuel that will be produced.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

The product, carbon nanotubes, worth about a quarter million dollars per ton, should be viewed as valuable materials for companies to consider using in their products. We have solved that problem by inexpensively transforming the CO 2 into a valuable product. Stuart Licht.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

Scientists at ETH Zürich and oil and gas company Total have developed a new catalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 and hydrogen directly into methanol. Offering realistic market potential, the technology paves the way for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals. ETH Zürich and Total have jointly filed a patent for the technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

a technology developer focusing on the conversion of carbon dioxide and methane to fuels, plans to produce samples of diesel fuel in an end-to-end process demonstration. steam reforming, partial oxidation, or autothermal reforming—according to the company. Overview of Carbon Sciences’ process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Further key elements for bringing down production cost for methanol from CO 2 include the use of electricity from wind farms that cannot be evacuated to the grid or employing solar electricity generated in isolated, but sun-rich regions for hydrogen and methanol production. 74 (2), 487–498 doi: 10.1021/jo801260f.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

Ford Motor Company is leading a €3.5-million They can be generated from fossil natural gas or bio-gas or through a power-to-liquids process that uses renewable sources such as solar or wind power together with CO 2 captured from the air. million (US$3.9-million)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The companies say they a vision for a larger role for methanol as a clean and sustainable fuel worldwide. The company is proactively working with partners across China to expand the use of methanol-fueled vehicles. Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

Researchers from the University of Michigan and McGill University in Canada report photochemical syngas synthesis using a core/shell Au@Cr 2 O 3 dual cocatalyst in coordination with multistacked InGaN/GaN nanowires (NWs) with the sole inputs of CO 2 , water, and solar light. under concentrated solar light illumination. 2121174119.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, electric vehicles basically are emission-free at least when they are powered by electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, etc. This means a battery’s CO2 footprint will be regarded the same no matter if it will allow 500 charge and discharge cycles or 5,000. Energy used in the battery value chain.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2015

General Electric Company. will partner with GE Global Research, EPRI, Southern Company, American Electric Power and FirstEnergy to design and test a high temperature nickel-based superalloy thick-walled header for cycling and flexible plant operation in new and existing plants. General Electric Company.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2009

a bioengineering startup, unveiled its Helioculture technology—a system that leverages highly engineered photosynthetic organisms to catalyze the conversion of sunlight and CO 2 to usable transportation fuels and chemicals. The company’s first product offering, SolarEthanol fuel, will be ready for commercial-scale development in 2010.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. A British company, ERM , plans to have a 10-megawatt demonstration project called Dolphyn up and running off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2026. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

One way to mitigate high feedstock cost is to maximize conversion into the bioproduct of interest. This maximization, though, is limited because of the production of CO 2 during the conversion of sugar into acetyl-CoA in traditional fermentation processes. Wiedel, Jennifer Au, Maciek R. Antoniewicz, Eleftherios T.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2013

Joule, the developer of a direct, single-step, continuous process for the production of solar hydrocarbon fuels ( earlier post ), has extended its solar CO 2 conversion platform to produce renewable gasoline- and jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. Earlier post.). gallon and $50/barrel respectively (excluding subsidies).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2014

Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. Driving the system using a solar-based heat source (100% renewable). Concept of the NCF process. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

These centers, involving almost 1,800 researchers and students from universities, national labs, companies, and non-profits from 36 states and the District of Columbia, will address the full range of energy research challenges in renewable and carbon-neutral energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, and cross-cutting science. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2019

Partners of the P2X Kopernikus project on the premises of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated the production of fuel from air-captured CO2 using—for the first time—a container-based test facility integrating all four chemical process steps needed to implement a continuous process.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. First Solar Inc. Framatome Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2012

An Israeli-Australian venture will use solar technology developed at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of brown coal. a subsidiary of the Australian company Greenearth Energy Ltd., a subsidiary of the Australian company Greenearth Energy Ltd., NewCO2Fuels Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. The Conversation [link] accessed 4/6/2020. Again, the hydrogen pathway represents a stupid energy pathway.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

The company operates from Bedford, Massachusetts and The Hague, The Netherlands with production operations in Hobbs, New Mexico. Free of feedstock constraints and complex processing, Joule’s process can achieve scalability, volumes and costs without the use of any agricultural land, fresh water or crops.

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