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Why Do Japanese Automakers Like Hydrogen Power?

The Truth About Cars

Presently, the vast majority of hydrogen is produced using coal or natural gas as feedstocks. Germany even had to pivot back toward coal for energy production after realizing there was no way to build enough wind and solar farms. But such a breakthrough seems a long way off. But Japan is much smaller than the whole of the U.S.

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Top Climate Scientist on Lessons Not Learned from Electric Car Debacle

Plugs and Cars

There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. Read the full email at Joe Romm's blog Climate Progress. From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago.

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U.K. Government Pushes Gasoline Car Ban to 2035

The Truth About Cars

We've got further to go to get the charging infrastructure in place," the PM said, adding that the 2035 deadline was congruent with both the European Union and California. Most of the United Kingdom’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been attributed to the nation moving away from fossil fuels (mainly coal) in electricity generation.

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Failed Local Paper Put Out Of Its Misery - By Creative Greenius!

Creative Greenius

Greenius Blog Fires Daily Breeze Editors, Takes Over Environmental Coverage. In a surprise to to all but the most savvy readers of this blog, Joe Galliani, the Creative Greenius, today fired the editors of The Daily Breeze newspaper and took over responsibility for all local environmental news coverage and analysis. million sq.

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Greenius Goes All AB 811 Over Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

And what it takes is a week of reviewing the six hours of taped presentations and all the PowerPoints and related links from the April 29 California Energy Commission’s AB 811 Staff Workshop. I choose to be the voice that can change a room, and then a city. I choose to do what it takes.

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Hyundai Offering Free Chargers to EV Buyers, Swelling Industry Incentives

The Truth About Cars

We've got further to go to get the charging infrastructure in place," the PM said, adding that the 2035 deadline was congruent with both the European Union and California. Most of the United Kingdom’s reduction in greenhouse gas emissions have been attributed to the nation moving away from fossil fuels (mainly coal) in electricity generation.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric car proponents at The California Cars Initiative believe the task force was unduly influenced by “plug-in skeptics” at the Boston Consulting Group , which is under government contract to provide input on the prospects for G.M. “The Toyota Prius took over five years to reach break-even and has gone on to be a wild success.&#

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