Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. Nuclear was not included in the analysis.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 13, 2013
Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. UNEP produced its first Global Mercury Assessment in 2002 and a subsequent study in 2007. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. Nickel-metal hydride batteries, proven for many years in hybrids to be safe, could go into PHEVs today -- they would be designed more like the ones Toyota put in its 2002 RAV4 EV compact all-electric SUV than like current hybrid batteries.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. I had surmised this in my 2002 car design thesis [link] even before anyone was talking about plug in series hybrids.
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