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. As the only US-based company established solely for the commercialization of its SMR, NuScale has developed technology for a scalable small modular reactor.

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Utah Idaho Water Coal 207

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

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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Gas Asia Mercury Chevron 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Deuterium atoms diffuse into the electrode material from the heavy water used in the electrolyte. George, Utah. discusses an unconventional cold fusion device that uses phenanthrene, a substance found in coal and oil, as a reactant. The process is created by purposely creating defects in the metal electrode of the cell.

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Fusion Powered Power Batteries 326

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Then add water, to trigger a chemical reaction with the cement. 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 141

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

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