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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

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The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. At the same time, this would also reduce air pollutants such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen oxides.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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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. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

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So, if you provide EV charging, you get that EV driver who’s coming in pollution-free. ” Furthermore, the product is currently independently rated for 125 mph wind speeds, and we’ll soon be rated for 150. EV drivers today are generally more affluent, so there’s more to spend. First of all, our product keeps getting better.

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Automakers agree on common plug to recharge electric vehicles

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Skip to Content Massively explains Warhammer Online to the dedicated WoW player AOL Tech Europe ↓ Polska Deutschland Asia ↓ ???? ???? ??? ???? I mean, when the electricity it uses is produces, pollution still happens, just not "right from your car"? like people driving futuristic electric cars and everything being clean!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Each of the aforementioned “primary energy sources&# generates carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases plus other pollutants coming from the contaminants or byproducts of using these “primary energy sources&#. In effect therefore, the more energy convertion stages there are the less efficient the process is.

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Public Transit or Private Cars, It's All About the Fuel

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In other developed countries – in Europe and Asia, for example – clean, electric public transit is the principal means of transportation. But the commuters in poorer nations usually travel in a haze of pollution created by petroleum-powered trains and buses.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car.

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