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Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While the number of new clean power-generating plants completed stayed flat year-to-year, the volume of power derived from coal surged to a new high, according to Climatescope , an annual survey of 104 emerging markets conducted by research firm BloombergNEF (BNEF). But like trying to turn a massive oil tanker, it takes time.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9, the COVID19 pandemic, and now the Ukrainian War, economic stimulus packages were meant to put the world on a cleaner and greener path, but this is not at all evident in the CO 2 emissions data.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
Coal could become a major source of the metal lithium, according to a review of the geochemistry by scientists from Hebei University of Engineering in China published in the International Journal of Oil, Gas and Coal Technology. Indeed, the extraction of lithium from coal would offer an ironic twist to its continued use.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Annual well-to-wheel emissions from a typical ev by state, 2015. EVs charging in Vermont are estimated to produce the fewest emissions—oil and gas make up only 1.2% of the electricity sources in the state while cleaner sources such as nuclear, hydro, biomass, wind, and solar make up the rest. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
MAY 31, 2020
Oil accounts for most of this decline as, for the first time, global consumer spending on oil is set to fall below the amount spent on electricity. Global investment in oil and gas is expected to fall by almost one-third in 2020. At the same time, many national oil companies are now desperately short of funding.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 12, 2013
In regions where the share of coal-based electricity is relatively low, EVs can achieve substantial GHG reduction, the team reports in a paper in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. According to the 12 th Five-Year Plan of the China Coal Industry (2011?2015) Earlier post.]
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 25, 2017
The 2017 edition of the BP Energy Outlook , published today, forecasts that global demand for energy will increase by around 30% between 2015 and 2035, an average growth of 1.3% Oil demand grows at an average rate of 0.7% billion cars in 2015 to 1.8 However, this growth in energy demand is significantly lower than the 3.4%
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