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The carbon dioxide used to make synthetic fuels may be directly captured from the air, recycled from power plant flue exhaust gas or derived from carbonic acid in seawater. Common examples of synthetic fuels include ammonia and methane , [ 2 ] although more complex hydrocarbons such as gasoline and jet fuel [ 3 ] have also been successfully ...
Additionally, on September 26 Governor Schwarzenegger signed SB 107, which requires California's three major biggest utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric – to produce at least 20% of their electricity using renewable sources by 2010. This shortens the time span originally enacted by ...
Greenhouse gas emissions are defined in the bill to include all the following: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons. [5] These are the same greenhouse gases listed in Annex A of the Kyoto Protocol .
California is embracing carbon capture and storage technology to fight global warming, but critics say it will only increase oil production. California hopes to fight global warming by pumping CO2 ...
Based on research by CARB and UC Riverside, if all gasoline in California had been E15 in 2022, there would have been a 450-million-gallon reduction in petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering approval of California's first ever carbon storage project, to be in Kern County.
Nicholas Flanders describes the company's technology as "industrial photosynthesis" to create jet fuel and diesel from carbon dioxide. [21] [22] Their technology has been shown to convert CO 2 from raw biogas into carbon neutral methane. [23] [24]
The idea is to stop CO2 from reaching the atmosphere by storing it in geological formations underground, according to the Commission. Uptake of CCS technology has not been widespread, however.