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Tesla Model 3 Road Trip Across Queensland — Rockhampton to Emerald, Australia

CleanTechnica EVs

This article follows up parts one and two of our road trip around Queensland. After a refreshing sleep and some great chats, we headed from Rockhampton to Emerald (271 km) with a short stopover at Duaringa to top up – the just in cases had now become a necessity. Best Western Stirling Motel had two […].

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Analysis of drill cores links variations in CO2 40M years ago to changes in global temperatures; questions as to the source of CO2

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The researchers took this approach to reconstruct variations in carbon dioxide levels across the MECO warming event, using fossilized algae preserved in sediment cores extracted from the seafloor near Tasmania, Australia, by the Ocean Drilling Program.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

We will be looking at some of them in this article. The batteries for electric vehicles and for other appliances cells are assembled in modules and packs which depends on what materials these are made of and how they are manufactured, also affect the battery’s CO2 footprint and climate impact. CO2 footprint from batteries.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

Plug In India

By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. In India 39.1% Oil refining!

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Longer term, California, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, Japan, and Western Australia are all looking to the sea to help meet their demands for hydrogen. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. April, 2008 : In an article entitled Dangerous Assumptions ( earlier post ), Roger Pielke, Jr.,

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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Clean Fleet Article It would be a financial win-win for all. John Addison publishes the Clean Fleet Report with archives of over 60 articles and reports about electric vehicles, V2G, biofuels, fleet success and more. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. Email Neal. Find out " What is Cleantech? SZ (1) 6753.T

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