Metal-organic frameworks-derived CaO/ZnO composites as stable catalysts for biodiesel production from soybean oil at room temperature by Maryam Sharifi, Shahram Tangestaninejad, Majid Moghadam, Afsaneh Marandi, Valiollah Mirkhani, Iraj Mohammadpoor-Baltork, Sahar Aghayani

“…Abstract Biodiesel presents a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, yet traditional homogeneous catalysts like sodium and potassium hydroxide face challenges with separation and reuse. …”
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Achieving Sustainability in Manufacturing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs’) in Tanzania Through Adoption of Solar Energy by Felichesmi Lyakurwa

“…Easy access (Pvalue = 006), and not expensive energy source (Pvalue = 0.001) were found to have significant influence on the use of fossil fuels. Also, the CFA results indicated that all factors i.e., environmental, social, and economic have significant influence on the workers perception about sustainable manufacturing practices. …”
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Green Hydrogen for Energy Transition: A Critical Perspective by Ruggero Angelico, Ferruccio Giametta, Biagio Bianchi, Pasquale Catalano

“…Economic analyses predict that GH₂ can achieve cost parity with fossil fuels by 2030 and will play a foundational role in low-carbon energy systems by 2050. …”
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Cutting-edge technologies: Biofuel innovations in marine propulsion systems to lower black carbon emissions by Sivasubramanian Manikandan, Sundaram Vickram, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…For example, a marine trial using 50:50 HVO-diesel demonstrated up to a 60 % reduction in BC emissions compared with fossil fuels but maintained engine performance. Qualitatively, enhanced combustion properties due to the relatively high cetane number and low aromatic content in biofuels compared with those of petroleum fuels result in lower soot emissions when burning biofuels. …”
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Tracing the trajectories of energy intensity, environmental tax revenues, and environmental neutrality in major European economies by Fayyaz Ahmad, Nabila Abid, Junaid Aftab, Aamir Javed

“…However, the region's reliance on fossil fuels raises questions about the initiatives affecting the environmental neutrality goals in Europe. …”
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Evaluating regional sustainable energy potential through hierarchical clustering and machine learning by Selen Avcı Azkeskin, Zerrin Aladağ

“…The increase in global energy demand, combined with the adverse environmental impacts of fossil fuels, has highlighted the urgency of transitioning to sustainable energy sources. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment of a Structural Insulated Panel Modular House in New Zealand by Aflah Alamsah Dani, Ran Feng, Zhiyuan Fang, Krishanu Roy

“…The analysis considered seven environmental impact indicators, namely, global warming potential (GWP), ozone depletion potential (ODP), acidification potential (AP), eutrophication potential (EP), photochemical ozone creation potential (POCP), abiotic depletion potential for elements (ADPE), and abiotic depletion potential for fossil fuels (ADPF), with a cradle-to-cradle system boundary. …”
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Investigation of the Thermal Degradation Behavior of Coal/Biomass Blends for Kinetics Analysis with Sequential Method Implication by SHOAIB Hafiz Muhammad, QURESHI Tayyab, KHAN Ihtisham, MAHMOOD Hamayoun, IQBAL Tanveer

“…There is a large gap between supply and demand for electricity. The depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution factors also exist. …”
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Production of Biogas and Bio-fertilizer from Abattoir Waste as Sustainable Management, Eastern Ethiopia, 2019 by Sina Temsgen Tolera, Fekade Ketema Alemu

“…The biogas or energy from the waste can replace firewood and charcoal and the expensive fossil fuels. Using Banks mathematical computation about 85,139.20m3/year of biogas estimated, could cover 36097.43kg of liquefied gas or 48129.89kg of kerosene or 280757.68kg of charcoal or 32086.59kg of furnace oil or 56151.5kg of petrol or 40108.2kg of diesel per a year in same functions. …”
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The Geobattery Concept: A Geothermal Circular Heat Network for the Sustainable Development of Near Surface Low Enthalpy Geothermal Energy to Decarbonise Heating by Andrew Fraser-Harris, Christopher Ian McDermott, Mylène Receveur, Julien Mouli-Castillo, Fiona Todd, Alexis Cartwright-Taylor, Andrew Gunning, Mark Parsons

“…Decarbonisation of heating represents a major challenge in efforts to reach Net Zero carbon emissions, especially for countries that rely heavily on the combustion of carbon-based fossil fuels to meet heating demand such as the United Kingdom. …”
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Navigating the Challenges of Sustainability in the Food Processing Chain: Insights into Energy Interventions to Reduce Footprint by Orlando Corigliano, Pietropaolo Morrone, Angelo Algieri

“…The sector remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels. Associated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which constitute 26% of all anthropogenic emissions, have shown a linear growth trend, reaching 16.6 Gt_CO2eq in 2015 and projected to approach 18.6 Gt_CO2eq in the coming years. …”
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Recent advances of metal vacancies in energy and environmental catalysis: Synthesis, characterization, and roles by Long Sun, Shunzheng Zhao, Sirui Gao, Ronghui Zhu, Yiran Tan, Xiaolong Tang, Honghong Yi

“…With the ongoing depletion of fossil fuels, energy and environmental issues have become increasingly critical, necessitating the search for effective solutions. …”
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Economic Analysis of Sequestering Carbon in Green Ash Forests in the Lower Mississippi River Valley by Ching-Hsun Huang, Gary D. Kronrad, Shiaolin D. Cheng

“…Electric utility companies have the options of reducing their use of fossil fuels, switching to alternative energy sources, increasing efficiency, or offsetting carbon emissions. …”
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Exploring the potential of buckwheat hull-based biosorbents for efficient water pollutant removal by Maja Adamović, Marija Stjepanović, Natalija Velić

“…However, the production of commercial activated carbon predominantly relies on non-renewable fossil fuels, leading to significant environmental concerns and high operational costs. …”
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Azolla Plant Production and Their Potential Applications by Gamachis Korsa, Digafe Alemu, Abate Ayele

“…In the modern world, lifestyle changes, the nature of work, and food habits increase the incidence of serious diseases in animals, and human activity influences the environment, such as the use of chemical fertilizers for agriculture, large terrestrial ecosystems all over the biosphere, such as deforestation of plants, which could not sink from atmospheric CO2, and the production of fuels for energy, which would increase the need for fossil fuels but would also deliver low energy fuels at a high energy cost. …”
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Economic Benefits of Green Technologies: Ukrainian Experience by Nina Yarova, Liubov Lipych, Tetiana Gutsul, Oleksandr Zhurba, Vladyslav Novytskyi

“…The research aims to identify how renewable energy projects and energy-efficient technologies can enhance Ukraine’s energy security, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, and foster innovation-driven economic modernization. …”
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Analyzing the role of main energy transition policies upon renewable energy penetration in the EU: An assessment of energy productivity and low carbon economiesMendeley Data by Gonzalo H. Soto, Xuan-Hoa Nghiem, Xavier Martinez-Cobas

“…On the other hand, the transition process toward less fossil fuel-dependent energy contributes to a greater utilization of renewable energy, with a 0.11% increase for each 10% increase in the use of renewable energy over fossil fuels. …”
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Pyrolysis Kinetics of Spirulina platensis and Non-condensable Gas Product Distribution in a Fixed-Bed Reactor by Ahmad Yusril Aminullah, Sukarni Sukarni, Retno Wulandari, Muhammad Shahbaz

“…However, energy sources are dominated by non-renewable fractions, such as fossil fuels. Renewable biomass is projected to be a future fuel source. …”
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Effect of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on CO2 Emission in the World by Sahar Safarian, Runar Unnthorsson, Christiaan Richter

“…Then this indicator is calculated for 3 scenarios which are based on this disease situation worldwide and therefore based on different reduction percent of fossil fuels consumption in various sectors over year 2020. …”
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To nip it or let it bloom: Life cycle assessment of lab-scale catalysts used in low-TRL CCUS technologies by Tanisha Kar, Hari Prakash Veluswamy

“…Excessive reliance on fossil fuels results in the increasing accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, contributing to substantial global warming. …”
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