Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Most of the two countries’ sulfur dioxide emissions come from coal-fired power plants and coal-burning factories.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. Like many other people, we were writing articles around 2000 about the decline in China’s energy consumption in the late 1990s. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2013
This article presents life cycle assessments of five different sun-to-wheels conversion pathways for every county in the contiguous U.S: The crop-to-electricity conversion model assumes that half of the biomass is converted in biomass boilers and the other half is co-combusted with coal to generate electricity. Economic input?
Get Electric Vehicle
DECEMBER 3, 2021
The amount of coal-powered aluminium production has more than doubled since 2005, largely because of China’s expansion into the market. For each ton of steel produced, 2 tons of carbon is emitted and for each ton of aluminium, the worldwide average is 11.7 tons of carbon emitted, nearly six times as much.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr., The first conference, “Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change”, was held in 2005 at the Met Office in Exeter, and had focused on pathways to climate stabilization at or below 2 degrees Celsius.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2010
This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Transaction Costs. ALTERNATIVES TO OFFSETS.
Green Cars News
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Fast emerging economies need an incentive to stop building coal powered plants, and, again, the emphasis is on the richer countries to step in. There is an argument that in the long term a low carbon economy will be cheaper than the current one, but with time of the essence richer countries will need to pay billions now.
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