Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. The selected projects are intended to improve coal conversion and use and will help propel technologies for future advanced coal power systems. DOE Share: $299,998).

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Coal Universal Iowa Utah 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2011

The Clean Coal Task Force (CCTF) was created in 2007 by the Wyoming State Legislature to help secure Wyoming’s financial future by preserving the value of coal, an important export from the state. The newly approved projects will receive $8,769,713, the largest single annual funding in the history of the fund.

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Wyoming Coal Clean Cleaning 186

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,997. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

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West Virginia Wyoming Coal North Dakota 305

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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Coal Oil Water Oil Prices 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

A dewatering technology developed at Virginia Tech has succeeded in reducing the moisture content of ultrafine coal to less than 20%, transforming it to a salable product. During recent prototype tests at Arch Coal Company’s Cardinal plant in Logan County, W.Va., Roe-Hoan Yoon. as part of a license agreement with Virginia Tech.

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Coal Virginia West Virginia Waste 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

The selected projects are intended to improve the economics of IGCC plants and promote the use of the US’abundant coal resources. For example, a 60%-efficient gasification power plant can cut the formation of carbon dioxide by 40% compared to a typical coal combustion plant, the DOE said.

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Coal Carbon North Dakota EPRI 186

Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2015

As a point of comparison, Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, with operations in the US and Australia, produced 227.2 million tons of combined production last year, according to the companies’ respective annual reports. Murray with ~65 million, Foresight with 22.5 million tons, about 83% of that (189 million tons) in the US.).

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Coal West Virginia Energy Companies 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine projects to receive approximately $4 million in cost-shared federal funding to improve the technical, environmental, and economic performance of new and existing technologies that extract, separate, and recover rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic US coal and coal by-products.

Coal 150

Coal West Virginia North Dakota Virginia 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The natural gas energy procured will replace electricity procured from a coal fired plant. The Intermountain Power Project Agency in western Utah operates the project.

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Long Beach Grant California Fuel 275

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

LLNL and the Navajo Nation plan to collaborate in an array of areas including energy security; carbon sequestration; coal gasification; shale gas; enhanced oil recovery; wind, geothermal and solar; environmental studies and other areas. —Steve Grey, program manager at LLNL.

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Energy Coal Utah New Mexico 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2013

NuScale Chairman and CEO, John Hopkins announced the WIN initiative following the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting held in Park City, Utah, this past weekend.

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Utah Idaho Coal Water 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

New geothermal power came on line in Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the United States. In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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Costa Rica Industry Industrial El Salvador 310

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Salazar, who halted leases for oil and gas development on some federal lands in Utah earlier this month, said that while the administration will focus on energy efficiency and renewable sources, there is still room for conventional fuels.

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Obama Oil Utah Washington 150

Teslarati

JUNE 18, 2023

A clip shared by Tesla owner @NateWiki showed three pickup trucks seemingly blocking his way, at least until one of the vehicles “coal rolled” and sent fumes directly onto the Model 3. Unfortunately for Tesla owners, or any other EV owners for that matter, the practice of coal rolling is mostly considered a nuisance on US roads.

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Coal Tesla New Jersey Connecticut 95

Green Car Congress

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 University of Utah. DOE Share: $2,723,512).

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Carbon Industry Industrial Coal 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Seth Lyman, now with Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory, is lead author of a paper documenting the research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. For example, mercury from coal burning in Asia could rise into the atmosphere and circle the globe several times before it is oxidized, then could come to the surface anywhere.

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Mercury Utah North America 2010 210

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Utah State University. According to Dr. We will consider all aspects of energy resource recovery, not only traditional oil and natural gas production methods but also unconventional production, such as natural gas from shale or coal-bed methane. University of Colorado. Sam Houston State University. University of Arkansas.

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West Virginia Houston Arkansas Wyoming 150

Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

What is the state of reading in Utah? For the high desert emblematic of Utah’s national parks, consult “ The Geology of the Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah, ” by Robert Fillmore. Indigenous voices are strong and varied in Utah. It begins by reading the land. Ute historian Forrest S.

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Utah Oil-Sands Vietnam Colorado 52

Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Renewables developer rPlus Energies has broken ground on one of the largest solar + battery storage projects in the US, in east-central Utah. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), as of Q2 2024, Utah has nearly 3.5 GW of solar installed. It forecasts another 6.1 Get started here.

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Utah Solar Battery Batteries 52

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

George, Utah. discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. The new calorimeter could boost the quality of research and open the field to scores of new scientists in university, government, and private labs, Miles suggests. He is with Dixie State College in St.

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Fusion Power Powered Battery 326

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among 2016 INCITE award recipients: Martin Berzins of the University of Utah received 351 million core hours to study ultra super critical coal boilers, leading to improved efficiency and new designs for safer next-generation coal boilers.

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Grant Energy Coal Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

If leak rates are too high, natural gas does not compare favorably with one alternative, coal, in terms of climate impact. The Colorado, Utah and California basins combined produce less than 3% of all US natural gas—much less than the eastern basins. Where leak rates are low, the comparison favors natural gas.

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Gas EPA Arkansas Colorado 150

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. If developed in a responsible manner, natural gas can be the critical transition fuel that reduces the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and keeps us on a path toward a decarbonized energy future.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 609 metric tons annually, the equivalent of preventing the burning of 670,649 pounds of coal. It’s an exciting milestone for Utah and a great example of how floating solar could play a bigger role in renewable energy development moving forward. It’s set to officially go live by late October.

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Solar Utah Water Renewable 52

Baua Electric

APRIL 30, 2024

The Mountain Census states – Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming – reported a smaller reduction of 2%. Read more: Nevada put big battery energy storage where a coal plant used to be To limit power outages and make your home more resilient, consider going solar with a battery storage system.

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Wind South Dakota North Dakota Nevada 52

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Pasadena has its own city water and power company which means Pasadena can give its residents the option of buying green power - while at the same time the city has an agreement in place that forces them to buy coal-generated electricity from Utah power plants until the year 2026. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Green Climate Change Climate Los Angeles 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Earlier this month, Green Star Products along with its International Consortium partner Global Green Cars had publicly tested its full electric vehicle version at tracks in Utah and Kentucky. Global Green Cars is a U.S. Night time electric power is available from many renewable resources therefore reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Plug-in Green Plug Electric Vehicles 30

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

In contrast to the “green light” for coal-to-NG substitution for power generation, the authors suggest that climate benefits from vehicle fuel substitution are uncertain (gasoline, light-duty) or improbable (diesel, heavy-duty). Modeling has shown climate benefits from coal to NG switching for power generation over all time periods (i.e.,

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Climate Transportation Fuel Coal 247

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires. These pilot programs will need to scale up without eating profits—something that eluded the coal industry when it tried CCS decades ago.

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Portland Carbon Coal Emissions 145

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Its properties are concentrated in Texas, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Louisiana and Montana. XTO’s resource base is the equivalent of 45 trillion cubic feet of gas and includes shale gas, tight gas, coal bed methane and shale oil.

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Oil Fort Worth West Virginia Gas 186

Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

China, the world’s largest producer of hydrogen at upwards of 25 million tonnes a year, derives 62 percent of its total from coal, which creates 18 to 20 kg of CO 2 per kg of hydrogen. A massive substation at the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant in Utah links the facility to transmission lines that deliver power to southern California.

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Hydrogen Economy Tax Credit Gas-Electric 112

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Sources: Large electric generators. Coverage: 28% of CO 2 emissions.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244