Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

renewable energy consumption has just overtaken coal. Even when the electricity is generated in the dirtiest grid, electricity is often cheaper and cleaner when used to power EVs since electric vehicles are more efficient at converting electrical energy into mechanical energy to power cars and trucks. As a matter of fact, in the U.S.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Available technology such as diesel particulate filters for vehicles and cleaner- burning biomass and solar cookstoves can significantly reduce black carbon emissions. Black carbon is also responsible for almost 50% of warming in the Arctic as well as extensive snow and ice melt in the Himalayas. Wallack and Ramanathan. Earlier post.)

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Plug In India

MARCH 9, 2023

Team PluginIndia Even in 2023, we keep getting comments like these - ' ‘Electric cars use electricity which is generated by burning coal. In this article, we will document some important facts that debunk this statement with facts and sources. They are worse than petrol cars." A power plant is tuned for efficiency.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Mexico City has committed to cleaner vehicle standards, including a move to soot-free buses and a ban on private diesel cars by 2025. Major sources of air pollution from particulate matter include the inefficient use of energy by households, industry, the agriculture and transport sectors, and coal-fired power plants.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

10 Are EVs eco-friendly since we generate electricity from coal? First of all the efficiency of coal-based power plants is around 40% [ Ref ]. This comparison accounts only for electricity from coal-based power plants. Assume that the generated electricity reaches the vehicle with a transmission efficiency of 88%.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, Alexandre Milovanoff at the University of Toronto and his colleagues’ research (which is described in depth in a recent Spectrum article ) demonstrates the U.S. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Hydrogen is thus greasing the wheels of the global transition to cleaner energy. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. And the world is going to need a lot more of it. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. THE APPROVAL PROCESS. 100% for some agricultural processes.

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Plug In India

APRIL 14, 2021

Many of you write to us about the long tailpipe of electric vehicles and coal is major source of electricity generated in India. Studies from independent scientists tell us that even if 100% of Electricity is generated from coal, EV’s emit 50% lesser carbon gases due to the efficiency of the electric motor.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. We also mined or extracted and burned coal and oil, releasing millions of years of stored solar energy indiscriminately, altering Earth’s climate.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Finally, on the issue of replacing millions of small smoke stacks (cars) with a few larger ones (utility plants): We stand a much better chance of producing cleaner electricity (solar, wind, clean coal solutions, nuclear) than we do of creating cleaner fuels for our cars.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 30, 2011

[The following is an article I wrote in Earth Island Journal last year to answer the question "Public Transit or Electric Car? " ] Greater support for mass transit and appropriate land use policies that make mass transit accessible are essential. And now we are making a commitment to renewable electricity generation.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. 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. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? SZ (1) 6753.T

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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