Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2018
coal, wood, and dung) for cooking and heating. billion people—one in three global citizens—were exposed to household air pollution from the use of solid fuels (for example, coal, wood, charcoal, dung, or other biomass) for cooking and heating. was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 16, 2013
Emission rates of BC in the year 2000 by region, indicating major source categories in each region. Total global emissions of black carbon using bottom-up inventory methods are 7500 Gg yr -1 in the year 2000 with an uncertainty range of 2000 to 29000. Source: Bond et al. Click to enlarge. W m -2 (+0.17 W m -2 range).
Green Car Congress
JUNE 3, 2012
Projected changes in summer mean usable capacity of power plants in the US and Europe for the SRES A2 emissions scenario for the 2040s (2031–2060) relative to the control period (1971–2000). Source: van Vliet et al. Click to enlarge. A study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that thermoelectric power plants (i.e.,
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2010
Oil alternatives can also be water intensive: ethanol from non-irrigated crops is comparable to oil sands mining, and options like coal-to-liquids can use 10 barrels of water per barrel of product, according to IHS CERA. Over the past decade, production from oil sands more than doubled from 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2000 to 1.35
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2009
Rather, coal power production and other industrial processes release sulfur dioxide—the same gas that billows from volcanoes—that later reacts with atmospheric molecules called hydroxyl radicals to produce sulfates as a byproduct. Radiative forcing by greenhouse gases from 1750 to 2000. —Drew Shindell. Shindell et al.
Plug In India
MARCH 5, 2023
In the early 2000's there was the “Euro 1” emission standard. Here is why Electric Vehicles ARE the Future - Regulations, Coal, Pollution | #1 | हिंदी Why should the government interfere? The answer is simple. Then came the BS4 and then India moved towards BS6.Diesel
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control would be the most effective method of slowing warming. ºC in 2050, as compared to 2000 temperatures. Washington Post Foreign Service, 22 November 2009. [
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