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MARCH 11, 2009
A US Department of Energy/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) team of regional partners has begun injecting CO 2 into a deep lignite coal seam in Burke County, North Dakota, to demonstrate the economic and environmental viability of geologic CO 2 storage in the US Great Plains region.
Green Car Congress
JULY 8, 2012
The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Earlier post.). Credit: ACS, Wang et al.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 2, 2010
The team used the lead particles’ isotopic signature to trace some of the lead’s origins to coal and metal ore found only in Asia. “ Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. —John Christensen.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 30, 2011
Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Obama noted that last year, US oil production reached its highest level since 2003 and that for the first time in more than a decade, imported oil accounted for less than half the liquid fuel consumed. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. What Are Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)? Power and Associates 2004 report ].
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I Kwong said Toyota is concerned PHEVs might just replace gas problems with more coal emissions, since the cars will require more electricity from utilities. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." GM Press Release ).
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