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AUGUST 19, 2024

Jacobson’s work in the USA and then internationally with his 100% Renewables by 2050 modeling laid much of the groundwork for this. For close to twenty years, it’s been clear that electrifying everything is a key climate change wedge.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

are proposing using spent nuclear fuel (SNF), natural uranium, or excess weapons-grade plutonium (W-Pu) in a proposed GEM*STAR accelerator-driven subcritical reactor (ADSR) to provide the process heat and steam for the Fischer-Tropsch production of synthetic diesel from natural gas and other carbonaceous feedstocks (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2012

Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Sundrop Fuels will convert sustainable forest residues and thinnings as feedstock combined with natural gas into bio-based “green gasoline” by using a commercially-proven production path that integrates gasification, gas purification, methanol synthesis and a methanol-to-gasoline (MTG) process.

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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. ArcelorMittal USA plans to design an industrial-scale solution for carbon capture from blast furnace-based steelmaking operations at its plant in Burns Harbor, IN.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why would your Creative Greenius walk away from his high-paying, highly rewarding executive role at CBS EcoMedia where I was working to fund environmental, education, and wellness projects all across the USA, just as the company hit more growth milestones and was likely to pay generous bonuses?

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Half of the world's economy has already reached peak gasoline and diesel demand while electric vehicle deliveries in every segment are shooting through the roof.

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

Global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production reached a new all-time high in 2013, according to the annual report “Trends in global CO2 emissions”, released by PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and the European Joint Research Centre (JRC). in 2013, increasing its share in transport fuels by 0.3

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A threat equal to or greater than any the Third Reich or Japanese Imperial Army ever posed to the men, women and children of the USA. They will burn every barrel of oil, every ton of coal, every fracked tank full of natural gas until they melt every frozen thing and literally cook this small island planet we all spin around the galaxy on.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Linc says the Pyromex process produces good quality syngas with almost no CO 2 gas emissions, and without the need for the consumption of high volumes of water or power. This royalty does not include any downstream profit exposure, such as may be achieved from gas-to-liquids production.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project. Decreased use of coal in China is the main reason behind the 3-year slowdown.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

a provider of carbonate direct fuel cell power plants, has acquired the remaining shares of Versa Power Systems, Inc. Versa), a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developer with research facilities in Littleton, Colorado, USA and Calgary, Canada. FuelCell Energy, Inc., Prior to this action, FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

Your Greenius opines that today’s oil, coal and gas companies are the modern equivalent of pre civil war plantation owners raking in massive profits off the backs of black slaves and treating them worse than the slave owners in Jhango Unchained did. Who can understand the rationale of the depraved?

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

And I’m especially happy and excited about how much this pisses off the worst of bad guys operating in the USA today. According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. That’s the real news here.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2011

228) that would bar the federal government from implementing any law or regulation related to climate change, whether it has to do with cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions or not. Dude was a physician before becoming the Senator from one of America’s dirtiest coal producing states.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016.

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OCTOBER 27, 2009

Under the terms of the JDA, SGCE will have lead responsibility for commercializing the Group’s FT technology for BTL, WTL and Coal-to-Liquids applications. The biomass gasifier at this facility will also be used to supply synthesis gas for conversion to fuels via the Group’s FT demonstration unit.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 27, 2024

In the past three seasons, we’ve been treated to some pretty wild off-road racing, with powerful electric cars bouncing over desert sand dunes , glaciers , beaches , and even an old coal mine. But an FCEV needs two more parts that a BEV doesn’t – a fuel cell stack and a high-pressure hydrogen tank.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

DME is synthesized from methanol, whether produced from coal, natural gas or biomass such as harvested forestry wastes. Chemrec pioneered the Fuels-from-the-Forest biofuels biorefinery concept, which can produce BioDME. It will produce up to 40 million gallons of BioDME or other renewable motor fuels a year.

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JUNE 8, 2023

As a living document, the strategy is still deeply flawed, but less flawed than the first one. If the DOE updates it every six months, and there's as much movement each time, then by 2025 or 2026 it could be a good strategy.

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APRIL 27, 2023

Our children and their children and their children's children will be paying that price.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The thermochemical process does not require enzymes or microorganisms; instead, the biomass is gasified under certain heat and pressure conditions producing synthesis gas, a carbon monoxide and hydrogen-rich gas that can be converted into high quality synthetic fuels, intermediate chemicals or electricity.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per region. emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production per sector (1970 = 100). Most major economies contributed to this increase, led by China, USA, India and EU-27 with increases of 10%, 4%, 9% and 3% respectively. Global CO 2. Source: JRC. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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JUNE 3, 2012

nuclear and fossil-fueled generating units) in Europe and the United States are vulnerable to climate change due to the combined impacts of lower summer river flows and higher river water temperatures. A switch to new gas-fired power plants with higher efficiencies (?58%) Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 3, 2008

A curious story ran in USA Today last week. Healey , USA TODAY The expected introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. Here is the headline and the lead: Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution By James R. gasoline use but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But energy leaders and experts recognize that as long as producing carbon pollution carries no cost, traditional plants that use fossil fuels will be more cost-effective than plants that use nuclear fuel. That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Elon Musk may be paying an estimated $15 billion in taxes this year due to his massive sale of part of his TSLA holdings, but his contributions to the US government may end up supporting the fossil fuel industry. The remaining 20% is allocated for coal. Conservative estimates put U.S.

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Green Cars News

MAY 25, 2009

In the USA, an executive order has been issued by Washington Governor Chris Gregoire on a variety of actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington to reduce emissions. - To work with the existing coal-fired plant within Washington to reduce emissions. -

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In It is much more than that.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

With oil prices surging in the summer of 2008, the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from oil, coal, gas and cement production appear to have halved according to preliminary estimates by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. Who said no good has come from the global financial crisis?

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

Governments shouldn't be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

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