Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. The study, published as an open access paper in the journal Nature Climate Change , shows that deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2010

The US Department of Energy has selected UOP, a Honeywell company, for negotiation of a $25 million award to build a demonstration unit in Hawaii to convert cellulosic biomass into renewable hydrocarbon transportation fuels. RTP rapidly heats biomass at ambient pressure to generate high yields of pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil.

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Oil Renewable Oil-Sands Fuel 210

Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

and Schlumberger have created Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas , a joint venture to develop services for the oil and gas industry using Wave Gliders, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine vehicles. The joint venture will be the exclusive distributor of Wave Glider products and services to oil and gas customers worldwide.

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Mariner Oil Gas Industry 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

million to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The GRI also funds research that improves techniques for detecting oil and gas, spill mitigation, and technologies to characterize and remediate spills. Project Title: The Effects of the Macondo Oil Spill on Coastal Ecosystems. Rabalais, Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

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.

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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. 4 Hawaii 137.1 Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5 2 Kentucky 143.1

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont 345

Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

My wife, Zan, and I were recently on the Big Island, Hawaii, and while there we toured the state’s only geothermal plant. Hawaii's 30 megawatt geothermal control room. The rest of Hawaii’s electricity is generated by burning oil. Hawaii's 30 MW geothermal power plant. URL: [link].

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2011

On 31 January 2011, HRBP will become the sole owner of Cellana, including its six-acre demonstration facility in Kona, Hawaii. To support the transition, Shell has agreed to provide short-term funding to advance and focus the algae technology development program.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Geothermal power is expanding across the Western half of the country, and new scientific and technological advancements offering the opportunity to produce geothermal power from Hawaii and Alaska to Texas and the Gulf States, with the ultimate potential being generating electrical power in nearly every state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 2, 2013

According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the US average retail price of electricity to the end consumer in the US in October 2012 was $0.1192/kWh, ranging from a low of $0.0835/kWh in Louisiana to a high of $0.3742/kWh in Hawaii.). Click to enlarge. precursors (NO x and SO 2 ) on a per kilowatt hour basis.

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EPA Emissions Fuel Climate Change 277

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Other taxes (such as applicable sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, county and local taxes, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees) were 10.44 cpg, followed by Hawaii (76.87 The federal tax on gasoline is 18.40 The average state gasoline excise tax is 20.88, down nearly.50

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Tax Fuel Tax Connecticut Alaska 240

Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2011

RTP is a rapid thermal process in which biomass is rapidly heated at ambient pressure to generate high yields of a pourable, liquid pyrolysis oil, which can then be burned for energy in industrial burners and furnaces or converted to green electricity.

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Malaysia Convert Renewable Design 207

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

The projects include: Hawaii Bioenergy ($5 million DOE investment). Based in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii Bioenergy will develop a cost-effective photosynthetic open pond system to produce algal oil. Nearly $16.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

The business model locks in prices with long-term contracts for the sale of the ethanol to a major international oil company and the purchase of the sugarcane from local farmers. This will provide greater stability in profit margins, according to Clean Energy.

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Rhode Island Cleaning Clean South Carolina 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2012

Fats and greases and inedible oils are opportunity feedstocks, but the US supply of fats and greases is probably on the order of less than 10 million barrels, closer to 1-2 million barrels on an annual basis. Really the question is can the feedstocks be procured at a price competitive to petroleum oil. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2019

Hawaii fights climate change with a sea wall. Oil-rich Norway has become famous for how many of its citizens buy electric cars. Electric cars have become "normal" in Norway. Hyundai aims to keep particulates out of the cabin. And CEO Elon Musk takes another razor blade to Tesla expenses. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Hawaii Norway Hyundai Climate Change 79

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2015

A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. 2015.07.107. 2015.07.107.

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Gasoline Hawaii Oil Polymer 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

A final on-road validation testing phase has been underway in the Sacramento, California, area since June and continuing into this month, and is being managed by Cummins Pacific, the exclusive California and Hawaii distributor for Cummins Inc. The Cummins ETHOS 2.8L

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Engine Emissions CO2 Gasoline 319

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2011

Utilizing biofuels as a substitute for heavy fuel oil in the current (2006) global shipping fleet would result in strong reductions in sulfate aerosol of up to about 40-60%, according to a new study by a team from Germany and Hawaii. —Righi et al. Resources.

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Hawaii Climate 2006 Oil 210

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The number of states with geothermal projects under development also increased, from 12 to 14 over the past six months, with the addition of two oil-field co-production projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Geothermal projects under development. State # of projects Potential MW. California. Mississippi. New Mexico. Washington. unspecified.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

The Round 3 fuel cell awardees are: Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers. Savannah River National Laboratory has been awarded $300,000 to work with Hawaii Hydrogen Carriers to perform analysis on the performance and design of low pressure hydrogen storage systems to power mobile applications of Proton Exchange Membrane hydrogen fuel cells.

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Fuel Hawaii Lithium Ion Fuel Economy 170

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

SG Biofuels, a sustainable plant oil company specializing in the development of Jatropha as a low-cost, sustainable source of oil, has launched JMax 100, a proprietary cultivar of Jatropha optimized for growing conditions in Guatemala with yields 100% greater than existing varieties.

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Guatemala Hawaii Renewable Oil 186

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AUGUST 28, 2015

Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Young Brothers President Glenn Hong and Sandia California Vice President Marianne Walck. In June, Hawaii Gov. As the most oil-dependent state in the nation and one that could be most affected by rising sea levels, Hawaii has become an early adopter of emerging technologies and innovative energy solutions.

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Honolulu Hydrogen Fuel Hawaii 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2011

founded in Hawaii in 2004, uses marine algae to produce feedstocks for biofuels, aquaculture feed, animal feed, cosmetics, industrial chemicals and other valuable products while simultaneously reducing industrial emissions of CO 2. Former CEO Ed Shonsey will remain on the board, joining chairman and co-founder C. Barry Raleigh, Ph.D.,

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Raleigh Mariner Hawaii 2004 186

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JULY 26, 2012

This project will optimize rapeseed/canola, mustard and camelina oilseed crops for oil quality and yield using recombinant inbred lines. The oils will be hydrotreated to produce diesel and jet fuel. University of Hawaii ($6 million). Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

However, the report concludes, over the long-run, algae oil could make a vital, even if modest, contribution to a US biofuels industry. “The main conclusion from this report is that oil production with microalgae will be expensive, even with relatively favorable process assumptions (e.g. low cost system designs, high.

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Oil Low Cost Fuel Production 210

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MARCH 23, 2021

The 16 projects selected by DOE will help provide sustainable water sources and affordable treatment options to industry, municipalities, agriculture, utilities, and the oil and gas sector.

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Water Hawaii Minnesota Connecticut 186

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Better Place will use the proceeds to expand into Western Europe while it continues to advance the company’s deployment projects in Northern California, Southern China, Japan, Ontario, Canada, and Hawaii. We’ve worked hard over the past four years to engineer and build a technology solution that competes with oil-based transportation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

Play Fairway Analysis ($4 million): Play fairway analysis, a subsurface mapping technique already used for oil and gas exploration, helps to pinpoint where geothermal energy resources remain hidden beneath the Earth’s surface. These awards will later yield integrated characterization methods and prototypes ready to be validated in the field.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2011

The following projects have been selected for awards: Cellana LLC , Kailua Kona, Hawaii, $5,521,173. This three-year project will work to build a demonstration plant using two technologies to convert low-value byproducts and wastes from paper mills into higher-value sugar, oil, and lignin products. Exelus, Inc.

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Grant Production Conversion Hawaii 231

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This is an interesting use of data for a state comparison. Energy Information Administration has created a map showing what portion of the 50 US states’ CO2 emissions come from transportation (as of 2018*). As you can see above, states in the West and Florida (and Vermont) had the highest portions of their […].

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CO2 Hawaii Washington Transportation 109

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

The 70’s oil crisis came and went; the loss of USA domestic market share occurred and a recent bankruptcy wave that hit the industry. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61

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Renewable West Virginia Energy USA 220

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APRIL 11, 2018

BP is a global producer of oil and gas with operations in 70 countries. BP also has one of the largest operated renewable energy businesses of any major international oil and gas company. BP estimates that by 2035 the share of renewables could grow to more than 10%—a rate of growth not seen in recent history.

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Wind South Dakota Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

This expansion/contraction produces a high pressure oil that can be collected and periodically released to drive a hydraulic motor for electricity generation and battery recharging. Since its deployment, SOLO-TREC has completed more than 300 dives from the ocean surface to a depth of 500 meters (1,640 feet). .;

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2009

In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. lower on a per-mile basis than gasoline-powered cars, depending on the future price of oil. of total US investment.

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JULY 10, 2015

million to lead a consortium including University of Hawaii, Cornell University, Cellana and others to produce protein-based human and poultry nutritional products along with hydrotreated algal oil extract. Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), Duke University. Duke University will receive up to $5.2

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2017

In fact, the cost of importing coal or oil to fuel power plants or vehicles can make fossil fuels vastly more. Because they are typically disconnected from both mainland grid infrastructure and sources of fossil fuels, it is easier for alternative sources of energy to gain a foothold.

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