Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Abengoa has received Notice to Proceed on Fulcrum BioEnergy’s plant that will produce biofuels from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States with gasification technology. The plant will be located in the State of Nevada and will have the capacity to produce 10 million gallons of biofuels per year, to be used in the aviation sector.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a $105-million loan guarantee to Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, LLC to finance development of a facility to convert municipal solid waste into advanced biofuels. by Fulcrum, will fully fund construction of the municipal solid waste to renewable transportation fuel facility.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. inerts, high moisture content waste) are sent to the landfill.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Redwood Materials’ Nevada operation currently recycles end-of-life batteries from consumer electronics such as cell phone batteries, laptop computers, power tools, and other electronic waste. Phase One of copper foil is now complete and later this year, the company expects to begin cathode qualification.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

E-Fuel, the developer of a home ethanol system—the Efuel100 MicroFueler —and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its brewing process. On average, Sierra Nevada resells 1.6

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AUGUST 23, 2009

GreenHouse will collect the left-over waste and distribute it throughout California to home and business-owners where, using the E-Fuel MicroFueler, they can distill their own ethanol. Greenhouse is also partnering with Gordon Biersch and Sierra Nevada breweries, and Sunny Delight Beverage Company, the last for sugar waste. (A

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The selected projects include: Geothermix, LLC (Austin, TX) Geothermix will harvest waste heat from existing oil and gas wells in Texas to generate commercial quantities of geothermal electricity. ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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Teslarati

MAY 21, 2024

Last week, Tesla celebrated reaching a production milestone of three million electric vehicles (EVs) built by its Fremont and Nevada factories , a little under two years after the plant surpassed two million EVs produced. Tesla Semi exec shares key program and Nevada factory details What are your thoughts?

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Olivine is a CO 2 -reactive waste product that can be returned as tailings after capture carbon from the air. Travertine will launch a transformative process that integrates strong acid treatment of mining waste or tailings with electrolytic acid recycling. University of Nevada, Reno. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Today, we look at the performance of the Tesla Model S P85D electric car, progress on Tesla''s battery-cell "Gigafactory" in Nevada, and how nuclear waste could potentially be used to generate electricity for all of those Tesla plug-in cars. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Is the Tesla Model S P85D the world''s fastest sedan?

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Teslarati

APRIL 30, 2024

According to Redwood Material’s website, the main problem it is trying to solve is: “Consumer devices contribute to the world’s fastest growing waste stream. It aimed to build a cathode plant in the United States with over 1 million EVs/year of capacity at its Nevada Campus. Very few of these products are recycled responsibly.”

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JUNE 27, 2023

It is mined in an environmentally benign manner with no explosives, no waste water and only water used as a reagent. To date, these initiatives are creating thousands of jobs in states and provinces including California, Louisiana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Ontario and Québec.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2017

Greyrock Energy, a developer of a gas-to-liquids (GTL) process that produces synthetic diesel, will participate with Tsinghua University of Beijing, China and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of Reno, Nevada to quantify the positive impact on air quality from the use of synthetic diesel fuels as compared with petroleum derived diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

The Novus plant will process agricultural waste into fuel, natural gas, organic fertilizer and other bio-based products. Novus will use waste from onion and potato processing plants, dairy manure, seasonal plant by-products and other waste supplied by local growers and processors as the primary feedstock.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

The next steps for the Cleanup to Clean Energy initiative are DOE-issued requests for qualifications (RFQs) to lease land at four additional sites: the Hanford site in Washington; the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico; the Nevada National Security Site in Nevada; and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 3, 2024

Martin Tripp, a past Tesla employee and whistleblower who anonymously told news outlets that the automaker was wasting raw materials at the Sparks, Nevada Gigafactory it operates, owes Tesla $425,000 , a figure that was agreed upon to settle a lawsuit that accused him of stealing confidential data.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 18, 2024

Graphjet plans to build a facility in Nevada and is talking to the US Department of Energy and the US Department of Defense. An alternative energy startup in Malaysia is ready to help electric-vehicle makers source a key ingredient outside of China — using agriculture waste to create graphite. We can help fill a critical gap.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

Currently, the global supply chain for these elements relies heavily on dated extraction processes that are energy-intensive, consume a lot of water, and create toxic waste. Lithium, nickel, cobalt and rare earth elements are in high—and rapidly increasing—demand. The work has been approved and will get underway in Spring 2021.

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OCTOBER 6, 2014

DuPont will produce the cellulosic ethanol at the company’s new biorefinery, currently under construction in Nevada, Iowa. The new Tide Cold Water will re-purpose more than 7,000 tons of agricultural waste a year. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Starting in 2024, Aqua Metals will deliver sustainably recycled battery materials from its Sierra ARC facility in Reno, Nevada, which 6K Energy will use to manufacture cathode active material (CAM) at its PlusCAM facility in Jackson, Tennessee.

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Teslarati

JULY 28, 2021

After opening up a new facility near Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada earlier this year, Redwood plans to expand its recycling efforts to make batteries more Earth-friendly and cost-effective, a plan that Straubel outlined. Credit: Redwood Materials. Don’t hesitate to contact us with tips!

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2013

The pilot-scale biorefinery projects selected today will use a variety of non-food biomass feedstocks, waste-based materials, and algae in innovative conversion processes. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2 Cobalt Technologies (up to $2.5 BioProcess Algae (up to $6.4

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Teslarati

MAY 6, 2021

Rivian R1T deliveries are only a few weeks away, and the EV maker isn’t wasting any time preparing for it. Rivian is actively recruiting Field Specialists in the following states: Ohio, Texas, Nevada, California, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Florida, Utah, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, and Colorado.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

.: Fulcrum plans to supply biocrude produced from municipal solid waste to Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company LLC (TRMC) to process as a feedstock at its Martinez, California Refinery. Virent, Inc.:

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Gigafactory Nevada currently has a capacity of about 0.15 Viewed another way, from a smaller footprint than Giga Nevada, Tesla could get many times the cell output. Rapidly scaling global battery manufacturing capacity, Musk pointed out, is absolutely central to achieving large-scale electrification and climate goals.

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JUNE 4, 2009

The size and weight reduction is due to several design improvements to the core ethanol conversion column that is now capable of processing various organic waste material, as well as cellulosic and algae feedstocks. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co discards 1.6 One example is the “beer slurry” discarded from breweries.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Although the United States has large reserves of lithium in all forms, in January 2022 the only operational US supply of lithium is a brine facility in Nevada using lithium evaporation ponds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2017

UPS currently operates 31 CNG fueling stations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia and runs CNG vehicles in 38 states in the U.S. In 2016, UPS invested $100 million in CNG fueling stations and vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The Fulcrum plant uses a thermochemical process involving gasification of municipal solid waste (MSW) followed by the catalytic conversion of the syngas to ethanol. The Sierra BioFuels Plant will be located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in Storey County. The plant will produce 10.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2014

The flotation circuit separates the valuable minerals from the waste minerals. The valuable minerals, mostly in the form of sulfides, are separated from waste minerals (gangue minerals) by floating and being collected and upgraded or cleaned to produce a concentrate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014

The companies receiving Phase 2 investment for the construction and commissioning of biorefineries are: Emerald Biofuels: To build an 82-million gallon per year (gpy) refinery on the Gulf Coast using waste fats to create military grade fuel. Fulcrum BioEnergy: To build a 10-million gpy refinery in McCarran, Nevada. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

Fulcrum BioEnergy has awarded a $200-million fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to Abengoa for the construction of Fulcrum’s first municipal solid waste (MSW) to transportation fuels facility, the Sierra BioFuels Plant. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PM emissions from current vehicles in Beijing could be reduced by approximately 19% by simply blending 20% synthetic diesel with currently available diesel, according to a new study by Tsinghua University, the Desert Research Institute in Nevada and Greyrock Energy, a developer of gas-to-liquids technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2012

USDA has funded 8 additional biorefineries that are using feedstocks such as agriculture residue, woody biomass, municipal solid waste, and algae in states including Michigan, Oregon, Florida, Nevada, and New Mexico. The new USDA loan guarantee is part of a larger effort to produce advanced biofuels in every region of the country.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2016

recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. The AquaRefining technology extracts lead from LABs with a room temperature, closed-loop, water-based process that results in significant reductions of hazardous waste and direct human contact with the lead itself.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

Scientists in Nevada are reporting development of a new and environmentally friendly process for producing biodiesel fuel from chicken feather meal, made from the 11 billion pounds of poultry industry waste that accumulate annually in the United States alone. Schematic representation of biodiesel production from poultry waste.

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Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

However, Tesla is still only producing the electric truck in low volume as it expands Gigafactory Nevada to build a new high-volume production line. Priestley commented on the Tesla Semi being built to be electric from the ground up: “There’s no wasted space. The powertrain and the vehicle work hand in hand.

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