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One of the fantastic things about batteries is regenerative braking. Hard to imagine how you do that with H2 and no battery side storage.
S. Korean team develops highly efficient, long-lasting electrocatalyst to boost electrolytic hydrogen production
Conventional water electrolysis for the production of hydrogen faces technological challenges to improve the efficiency of the water-splitting reaction for the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Noble metal-based ruthenium oxide (RuO2) and iridium oxide (IrO2) are used to enhance the oxyg...
Paroway. OK. Adjust on two accounts, I see they were Aust $, which is $0.71 US. Second, take $0.10/KWh electricity since I referred to EPA CO2 in delivered electricity. So about a 10% increase in electricity cost.
Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project
Australia-based natural gas company Santos has successfully injected approximately 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide deep underground into depleted gas reservoirs as part of the final field trial for the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project. Santos Managing Director and CEO Kevin Gallag...
At $30/tonne and 7.07E-4 metric ton CO2/kWh (EPA average electricity, delivered) that comes to about 2.1 cents per KWh for carbon charge or an ~50% increase in the price of current electricity.
Santos reports successful CO2 capture and storage injection trial in Moomba CCS project
Australia-based natural gas company Santos has successfully injected approximately 100 tonnes of carbon dioxide deep underground into depleted gas reservoirs as part of the final field trial for the Moomba Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project. Santos Managing Director and CEO Kevin Gallag...
CH4 (liq) has a volumetric content of about 110 Kg-H2/m3, and a gravimetric content of about 25 wt%, somewhere off the upper right side of that chart....
Japan launches first global hydrogen supply chain demo project; liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) technology
Four Japanese companies—Chiyoda, Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha—have launched the “Advanced Hydrogen Energy Chain Association for Technology Development”(AHEAD) along with the world’s first Global Hydrogen Supply Chain Demonstration Project. The project, a subsidized “Techn...
10^12 moles, so 2*10^6 tons, or about 1/5th of current H2 production level.
Duke study: serpentinized rock in oceans may be large, overlooked source of free hydrogen gas
Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. Their paper is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Recent discoveries of free hydrogen gas, whi...
Great. Throw in a chlorinated hydrocarbon to kill soil organisms so the nitrogen sticks around... yum.
EPA announces 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners. The annual awards recognize landmark green chemistry technologies developed by industrial pioneers and leading scientists that turn climate risk and other environmental problems i...
Interesting study. Actual result is that marijuana increased the crash rate (relative risk) by 1.25-fold, but that this was insignificant when age, gender ethnicity and alcohol use were brought into play. The 1.25-fold rate, incidentally, is about that of the risk factor for blood-alcohol of 0.03 (well below the level of 0.08 where most states consider this a DUI, and at which point the relative risk is 3.98-fold increased).
NHTSA releases two new studies on impaired driving on US roads; drunk driving down, drug use up
The nation’s decades-long campaign to combat drunk driving continues to make roads safer, but use of marijuana and prescription drugs is increasingly prominent on the highways, creating new safety questions, according to a pair of new studies released by the Department of Transportation’s Nation...
@ai vin
Looks like 48 hours for their bench-top conditions.
@Davemart
100mg/1000 grams of water is 0.01%
JBEI researchers engineer bacterium to produce diesel-range biofuel using CO2 as sole carbon source
A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) has engineered the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha—a microbe now used to produce biodegradable plastic—for the production of fatty acid-derived, diesel-range methyl ketones. A paper on their work is publ...
A wash is right. The CO2 is captured as a by-product of refinery operations, later to be burnt as fuel. There is no carbon capture here.
Canada backs demonstration-scale algal biorefinery project in the oil sands; Algal Carbon Conversion
The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. The...
General question: A person buys a Leaf in 2013, five years later there are better batteries. Presumably the new batteries would have different volts/amps. Anyone have a feel for how the current car would fit in with the new battery designs. Would there be a fix for switching to the new batteries?
Nissan launches EV battery manufacturing in Smyrna plant
Nissan has launched production in its new battery plant in Smyrna, Tenn. The plant, which is making battery components for the ramp-up of production of the 2013 Nissan LEAF early next year, is located adjacent to Nissan’s existing vehicle assembly plant in Tennessee, which itself has been retoo...
"EBI is a partnership led by the University of California (UC) Berkeley and including Berkeley Lab and the University of Illinois that is funded by a $500 million, 10-year grant from BP."
Says it all.
Study Finds Deepwater Oil Plume in Gulf Stimulating Oil-Degrading Microbes
The study found that the dominant microbe in the dispersed Gulf of Mexico oil plume was a new species, closely related to members of Oceanospirillales family. SEM and acridine orange stain inset with distance from source. (Image from Terry Hazen group) Click to enlarge. In the aftermath of t...
Australia in the midst of a drought that is popularly thought to be CO2-related. Here they are pulling more carbon out of the ground and burning it with some deference to CO2 entrapment. Rediculous back-pedaling.
GE Oil & Gas Awarded $400+M Contract for Gorgon Natural Gas Projects; GE Turbomachinery to Drive LNG Production and World’s Largest CO2 Injection Project
Artist’s rendering of a GE Frame-7 gas turbine, similar to the units that GE Oil & Gas is supplying for the Gorgon project. Click to enlarge. GE Oil & Gas has been awarded a competitive bid, worth more than $400 Million, to deploy advanced liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology for the develo...
Matthew, et. al,
Look at the graph. Top line.
Its DATA.
In the last 4 years, total artic sea ice volume has decreased a total of about 5% per year as detected by satellite measurements, and confirmed in part by submarine measurements.
New NASA Satellite Survey Reveals Dramatic Arctic Sea Ice Thinning
ICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume, and switch in dominant ice type from multi-year ice to first-year ice. Credit: Ron Kwok, NASA/JPL. Click to enlarge. Arcti...
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