Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2015

These research and development efforts have helped reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50% since 2006 and by more than 30% since 2008. The report also highlights efforts in Colorado, Hawaii, New Jersey, and Ohio as rising stars in the hydrogen and fuel cell industry. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The decade from 1999 to 2008 was the warmest in the Arctic in two millennia; Arctic temperatures are now 2.2 °F This incongruity provides evidence of human influences on climate change, says Kaufman. Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado, Boulder, a member of the study team. C) warmer than in 1900. Kaufman, et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Most climate models have suggested that evapotranspiration, which is the movement of water from the land to the atmosphere, would increase with global warming because of increased evaporation of water from the ocean and more precipitation overall. —Jung et al. millimeters per year per decade. Jung et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 15, 2009

Northern India, probably the most heavily irrigated region in the world, is rapidly depleting its groundwater, according to a new study by researchers from the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (CSIR), India; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 7, 2009

It’s all coming eight years later than it should, but the Climate Change Calvary has now arrived and they’re riding hard and fast. The Colorado River, where we used to get a lot of our water, is also suffering from eight years of dry weather with its two major reservoirs down to 50% of their capacity. Climate Action Plan.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Globally, commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate matter pollutants into the air as the total amount released by the world’s cars, according to a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder. A 2008 study by Lack’s team focused exclusively on soot. But particulate.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2009

Barnett and Pierce used what they consider conservative metrics, assuming that the effects of climate change on the Colorado Basin began in 2007, and using only the last 100 years of riverflow. Pierce (2008), When will Lake Mead go dry?, Barnett, T. Water Resour. doi: 10.1029/2007WR006704

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

I just want to see projects get funded, renewable energy put to work, energy efficiency retrofits instituted, conservation measures adopted and sustainable practices replace business-as-usual before the climate crisis makes any positive action a moot point. org climate actions, and the South Bay Bicycle Master Plan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2009

At team of researchers from Solix Biofuels ( earlier post ), Colorado State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have calculated both an absolute upper limit to solar-based algal oil production as well as a feasible target range for production based on realistic efficiencies (calculated for six global sites). Weyer et al.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 20, 2023

When IEEE Spectrum’s editor in chief, Harry Goldstein, needed to replace his 2008 Honda Fit in October 2020, he thought seriously about buying an electric vehicle. Two obstacles stood in his way. One was affordability. Even without a son soon to be entering college, the premium prices of EVs were a turnoff.

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