Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro Coal 175.9

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

Wison plans to invest in a coal gasification unit to produce syngas per Celanese specs, and Celanese plans to invest approximately US$650 million in an Ethanol Complex using the output from Wison as feedstock and Celanese proprietary technology to produce ethanol for industrial use, and potentially for fuel ethanol. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has directed the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to file a pleading with the US District Court in Washington DC requesting that the mountaintop coal mining “stream buffer zone rule” issued by the Bush Administration be vacated due to being legally defective. Secretary Salazar.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

One of the common arguments you hear from people in America who are not fans of the idea of electric vehicles is that they are mostly charged from electricity produced from coal power plants. Heavy Coal Using States Accounted for Only 10% of EV Sales in 2020. The argument that EVs are powered mostly from coal simply isn’t true.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Petroleum is dwindling and you're going to need to make fuel out of coal, natural gas and biomass. The AAFEX tests are funded and managed by NASA’s Fundamental Aeronautics Program, which is part of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate in Washington, DC. Dan Bulzan, NASA Glenn Research Center and AAFEX project manager.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Natural gas will represent around half of Shell’s total production by 2012, said Shell CEO Peter Voser in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 8 October. We also offer gasification technology that would enable a cleaner use of coal and more effective application of CO 2 capture technology; and we produce wind power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

Hydropower generation in Washington State is redispatched to resemble a commonly observed charging/discharge cycle of an energy storage technology. Storage is used in California to meet the peaks set by EVs. Managed charging could reduce the curtailment the most by an additional 16%.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

I know I should be in Washington DC in two weeks to help take over the capitol on behalf of green jobs, clean energy and ending our carbon-based economy. I know I should be there with the 10,000 young people who are gathering in Washington to hold our elected officials’ feet to the accountability fire. Maybe you really must.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2019

C2CNT was founded by Dr. Stuart Licht, a Professor at George Washington University, a former Program Director in Chemistry at the National Science Foundation and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society. The carbon nanotubes are valued at more than $100,000 per tonne—a thousand-fold greater than coal.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2010

I’m not the least bit intimated or scared by any of the people now arguing against saving ourselves – whether they’re with the oil, coal or gas industries or in the highest reaches of the Republican Party or atop the US Chamber of Commerce. A snowy winter in Washington does not alter this fact.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Obama Administration will push an energy plan that potentially includes production of oil shale, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a group of Western governors assembled in Washington at the National Governor’s Association meeting. Let’s put everything on the table.”. Colorado Gov.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

The relationship between Alcoa and CPI was formalized in January 2011, when the two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation on projects in China and around the world during Chinese President Hu Jintao’s State visit to Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2013

CCAT is currently leading several significant alternative fuel efforts—a $20-million, five-year coal/biomass to fuel program that tests technologies critical to creating alternative fuels from biomass and fossil sources for the U.S. Solena, a sustainable energy firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.,

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2009

org He’s in Washington DC with thousands, protesting the coal-fired Capitol Power plant–a dirty symbol of our dirty energy history. Subject : Stand with me to take down dirty coal. There are the particulates it spews into the air and hence the lungs of those Washington residents who enjoy breathing.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Members of the team are Devaki Bhaya, Carnegie Institution of Washington; John H. The scientists will search Hawaiian volcanoes, American coal seam fires and German fire pits for the elusive heat-lover, in a bid to recover its lost potential. Researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis biologist Himadri B.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Lima Energy Company, a subsidiary of USA Synthetic Fuel Corporation in Washington, DC, has signed a contract to supply up to 80 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of its “Ultra Clean Synthetic Crude” (UCSC) to Husky Energy’s Lima, Ohio Refinery over ten years.

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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 At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

propane derived from non-petroleum fossil fuels : natural gas, coal or petroleum coke) based on technical and economic analyses of various promising technologies. The process uses synthesis gas produced from natural gas (NG), coal or petroleum coke. propane derived from biomass feed stocks) and synthetic propane (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

The gas is produced primarily during the combustion of gasoline in vehicle engines and coal in power plants. The mission flew previously in 2011 over Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC; in 2013 over the San Joaquin Valley, California; and in 2013 over Houston, Texas.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson confirmed this morning that she is to resign from her position, the Washington Post reports.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht have introduced the principles of a new class rechargeable molten air batteries that offer amongst the highest intrinsic electric energy storage capabilities. Generalized form of the molten air battery. Licht et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Daniel Jaffe, a science and technology professor at University of Washington Bothell, is coauthor of the paper. 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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at lower projected cost than the existing cement industry process. Click to enlarge. Earlier post , earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The big newsmaker today came not from Washington, D.C., but near the coal mines of Appalachia: EPA head Scott Pruitt. Today, the EPA signaled its intent to dismantle the Clean Power Plan, the Nissan Leaf Nismo popped out, and California may be the first place in America where gas engines are a distant memory.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

Gas Technology Institute and partners will demonstrate storage of more than 54 megawatt-hours of energy as clean hydrogen produced using natural gas with carbon capture and storage—and its use for load—following in Southern Company Services’ Washington County Cogeneration Facility in McIntosh, Alabama. WE New Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer, as there are tandem health and climate benefits. —co-lead author Sarah Doherty of the University of Washington in Seattle. There are exciting opportunities to cool climate by reducing soot emissions but it is not straightforward.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

In addition to program in support of the coal and electric power industries, the center has expanded over time to address issues in carbon capture and management, electrochemical energy storage, biomass energy and biofuels, and other renewable energy systems such as photovoltaic and thermoelectric power.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

58%) could also reduce the vulnerability because of smaller water demands when compared with coal- and nuclear-fueled stations (with mean efficiencies of ?46% Dry cooling systems or non-freshwater sources for cooling are possible alternatives but may be limited by locally available resources and have costs and performance disadvantages.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Requires that new electricity sources must be as least as clean as natural gas plants, effectively blocking new development of conventional coal. This is similar to legislation passed in Washington and California. Senate Bill 101. House Bill 2626.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For example, are the benefits of fuel cells the same in Washington state, which gets much of its power from hydroelectricity, as in West Virginia, which is dominated by coal? Masanet and his team—including Berkeley Lab scientists Jim McMahon, Adam Weber, Chris Marnay and Max Wei—will also consider geographic factors.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a comment on the online story in Aviation Week , Dr. Tom Jarboe from the University of Washington (which is developing its own version of a fusion reactor and will present its results on Friday at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Fusion Energy Conference in St. Resources. Sutherland et al. 2014.03.072.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

of Washington). Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Coal-fired power plants currently generate approximately 50% of the electricity in the United States. Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2010

Synthetic liquid jet fuels can be made from biomass, natural gas or coal. Verno Systems is a Seattle, Washington-based company which provides non-advocate advisory and management services in the biofuel industry. All of these are known as xTL fuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

PAHs are chemicals released into the air from the burning of coal, diesel, oil and gas, or other organic substances such as tobacco. It included children who were born to non-smoking black and Dominican-American women age 18 to 35 who resided in Washington Heights, Harlem or the South Bronx in New York.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or.

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