Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

by spewing pollution into the air. The largest blue bar is the effect of pollution particles on clouds. [[The It's a cooling effect and it's happening all over the world as a result of pollution from factories, ships, and cars. We're planning to remove that pollution, so it would be wise for us to understand that effect.

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Climate Climate Change Mariner Pollution 144

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. The concept of urban metabolism views large cities as living entities that consume energy, food, water, and other raw materials, and release wastes.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Most of the world’s hydrogen comes from deeply polluting methods. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 28, 2023

People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Her dissertation focused on developing methods to determine a baseline for concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere based on historical spatial-temporal measurements. She earned her Ph.D.

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Production Columbus Illinois Universal 85

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

Renewable energy projects across the globe are now matching or outperforming fossil fuels, particularly when accounting for externalities like local pollution, environmental damage and ill health. kWh in Africa. These technologies will become more cost-competitive in future, especially where low-cost financing is available.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Countries with extensive, shallow coastal areas that could consider enhancing marine carbon sinks include India; many countries in southeast Asia; those on the Black Sea; in West Africa, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, eastern United States and Russia. Coastal waters account for just 7% of the total area of the ocean. Wider Benefits.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The quantity of calcium carbonate to be released—about 1 kilogram—won’t be enough to trigger any measurable cooling, and it roughly equals the particle pollution that a large commercial airliner releases every minute of flight, says. But sulfate aerosols—the combination of particles and water—can destroy the planet-protecting ozone layer.

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Ozone Solar Climate Change Climate 120

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. It started in California and now operates programs in New York, China, India, Southeast Asia and East Africa.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. CCX, “ CCX Offsets Program.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

These issues highlight the challenges of turning carbon into a commodity, with the undertaking’s simultaneous goals of imposing financial penalties on polluters, luring more investors into the market, and channeling money toward renewable energy technologies that would reduce emissions. CONCLUSION.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people. “It has implications for us.

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Electric Vehicles India

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Electric vehicles have attracted the attention of India’s policy makers as clean technology alternatives due to their multiple advantages like higher efficiency and lower air pollution in short to medium term and reduced CO2 emissions. Read the complete article to know more about electric vehicles trends in India. . Market overview.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Click to enlarge. Boykoff, Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

Tags: carbon producers toxic waste fossil fuels greenwashing environment coal-fired power plants climate change China global warming coal carbon mattresses Killer Coal pollution India.

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JULY 13, 2023

Australia (lithium), China (graphite, rare earths), Chile (copper and lithium), the Democratic Republic of Congo (cobalt), Indonesia (nickel) and South Africa (platinum, iridium) are the dominant players. Today, the mining of critical materials is highly concentrated in specific geographical locations.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Electric cars are part of the electrification of the citys transit system -- along with trackless trolleys, streetcars and light rail -- helping lessen dependence on foreign oil and reduce pollution, Mayor Greg Nickels said. Washington, D.C. Our transportation system today is about 98 and a half percent based on burning fossil fuels."

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Seattle Nissan Electric Cars Cars 67

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

US intelligence and defense agencies say such environmental changes can lead to energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and social instability. Renergie works closely with host countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa and the relevant MDB to find a suitable private sector partner. Form of Transfer.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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