Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have formed the Clean Energy Partnership to accelerate the development and deployment of coal conversion, emissions capture and carbon storage technologies.

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Coal Conversion Chinese Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2009

Genome Alberta is a not-for-profit organization based in Calgary which initiates, funds, and manages large-scale projects in genomics and other related areas. Gerrit Voordouw at the University of Calgary, will sample and explore the biological processes at work in oil wells, oils sands, tailings ponds, and coal beds.

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Oil-Sands Oil Coal Production 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The CNG is offloaded and used to replace fuel-oil and propane which can save customers up to 40% on fuel costs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 26%. Companies burning coal can reduce their CO2 emissions by 50% when converting to natural gas. compression facility and the newly-opened Pembroke, N.H.,

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Clean Cleaning Energy CO2 239

Green Car Congress

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. However, in contrast to other processes which partially condense the volatile gases to form pyrolysis oil, in the Altex system, the volatile gases are fed directly to a second non-catalytic reactor.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2013

The Netherlands-based TNO research organization and the Russian A.V. TIPS has developed a novel method of conversion for gas, biomass and coal to liquid hydrocarbons (XTL) that is more efficient and easier to apply on small scale than the commonly used Fischer-Tropsch process. Earlier post.). Kolesnikova, E.; Biryukova, E.;

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Gas Companies Conversion Commercial 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. In 2009, ARPA-E began its electrofuels program ( earlier post ) , providing $49 million in funding to 11 academic institutions and an additional two companies to develop microbial organisms capable of converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into liquid fuels. Source: Lux Research.

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Cost Of North Carolina Conversion Hydrogen 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue will continue to partner with Carbonfund.org—a leading US-based nonprofit carbon reduction and climate solutions organization. Landfill Gas Capture (LFG): Landfill gas is a natural byproduct of the decomposition of organic material in landfills. Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6

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Carbon 2020 Emissions San Francisco 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum creating an Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to develop a comprehensive and coordinated federal strategy to speed the development and deployment of advanced lower-emission coal technologies. Biomass Crop Assistance Program.

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Obama Coal Clean Cleaning 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

The Maverick Oasis system uses proprietary technology to convert a variety of methane-containing feedstocks—biogas, natural gas (including stranded gas and flare gas), coal bed methane, and landfill gas—into AA grade methanol that meets ASTM D1152 specifications. —Jeff Harrison, Maverick’s Chief Engineering Officer.

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Gas Affordable Waste Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Under the agreement, Genomatica will create proprietary, specially-designed organisms and complete manufacturing processes to efficiently and economically convert syngas into chemical products. —Tim Cesarek, managing director of Organic Growth at Waste Management.

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Waste Gas-Electric Renewable Convert 186

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Lead organization. Description. Ginkgo BioWorks. (UC

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Carbon Li-ion Batteries Battery 249

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

ARPA-E is seeking new ways to make liquid transportation fuels—without using petroleum or biomass—by using microorganisms to harness chemical or electrical energy to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuels. Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States.

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Carbon Plug-in Energy Fuel 199

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

for GTI’s Integrated Hydropyrolysis and Hydroconversion (IH 2 ) technology, which converts biomass directly into cellulosic gasoline and diesel hydrocarbon blendstocks. Fast Pyrolysis Oil IH 2 product. Compatibility with crude oil or refinery products. Property comparison. Heating value. 6,560 Btu/lb. 15,248 kJ/kg.

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Diesel Production Gasoline Renewable 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. The Natural Gas Initiative has begun funding early stage, exploratory research, following a “seed grant” model used by Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, one of NGI’s hosting organizations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

California’s LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation’s energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil—our nation’s largest source of crude—and ethanol produced in the American Midwest. By regulating the fuel pathway of transportation fuels—i.e., NPRA President Charles T.

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California Oil-Sands Oil 2005 199

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2014

35 tonnes of CO 2 ; around 19 kilograms of non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC); around 25 kilograms of nitrogen oxides (NO x ); and 37 kilograms of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ). Where energy resources are concerned, lignite, hard coal and uranium figure principally in car production. Use of tires with optimized rolling resistance.

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Mercedes CO2 2007 MPG 252

Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

Biodiesel is a renewable source of energy produced from veritable oil, animal fat, etc. It is a liquid alcohol fuel produced from a variety of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, or even carbon dioxide. Here is a list of top 9 alternative energy sources for a vehicle. #1

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

So, I think it would be a better option to be a part of an organization that focuses on electric vehicles. #2 It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels. They include components such as inverters, converters, and motor controllers.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric Electrical 52

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

This project will develop and evaluate a new process for converting biomass waste into diesel fuel. The biomass waste will first be converted into pyrolysis oil and then upgraded to diesel. The process uses a new approach to upgrading pyrolysis bio oil and does not produce excessive by-products. Lynntech Inc.,

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Emissions EPA Waste Exhaust 225

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Once further optimized and energy conversion elements, such as thermoelectric converters, are added, the cell could produce electricity. One thing that frustrates me to no end, is that I don’t know how to convert this energy directly. Jan Marwan, symposium organizer. Tadahiko Mizuno, Ph.D.,

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s. The second reason is that the grid we have is built out to places where there were coal mines and hydropower dams, not where there’s the best wind and sun.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 109

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Up to 50% more liquid product per ton of coal. Source: Headwaters.

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Coal Diesel Hydrogen Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2011

The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , could aid the direct production of biofuels from engineered organisms. Typical hydrocarbon content of the organism is approximately 30-40% of the dry weight of the cells.). braunii can grow in both freshwater and brackish environments.

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Kentucky Oil Fusion Coal 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. CARBON CAPTURE. DOE Share: $2,251,183).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Oil is the alternative. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Alternative is no longer an alternative.

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Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. April 10, 2009 10:06 pm Link I make, convert and drive EV’s and have for 13 yrs. Read more in this blog post: [link] — Gregory Hancock 5. If you charge with solar, is way less. — Jeff U 6.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58