Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. The analysis resulted in a predictive model of oil source families that could be applied to samples of unknown origin.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The Research Consortia funded are: Lead Institution: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new strain of yeast that co-ferments cellobiose and galactose from hydrolysates of seaweed, thereby converting the biomass into ethanol in half the time. It’s a faster, superior process. — Yong-Su Jin.

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Illinois Engine Production Mariner 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2012

Methane hydrate can form in Arctic and marine environments. University of California at San Diego. University of Mississippi. University of New Hampshire. Oregon State University. Southern Methodist University. The University of Texas at Austin. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

Requiring ships to use marine fuel with 0.1% In a 2007 study, Winebrake and James Corbett from the University of Delaware (who is a co-author of the current study) concluded that pollution from marine shipping causes approximately 60,000 premature cardiopulmonary and lung cancer deaths around the world each year. Credit: ACS.

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Mariner 2012 Emissions Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Researchers from Nihon University in Japan have reported widespread global contamination of sea sand and sea water with the endocrine disruptor bisphenol A (BPA) and said that the BPA probably originated from a surprising source: hard plastic trash discarded in the oceans and the epoxy plastic paint used to seal the hulls of ships.

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San Francisco Mariner Waste Hawaii 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in collaboration with Nitash P. If successful, a commercial battery can also be used in extremely cold environments, such as for aerospace and deep sea naval operations. —Prof. Joseph DeSimone.

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Li-ion Dominica Lithium Ion Batteries 261

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Fabrication and Testing of Solid-solution Strengthened Corrosion Resistant Alloys For Service in Molten Fluoride Environments, $625,000 Haynes International, Kokomo, Ind. Pipersville, Pa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Michigan State University. Temple University. 1,000,000.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Addition of the resulting alkaline solution to the ocean may benefit marine ecosystems that are currently threatened by acidification, while also allowing the utilization of the vast potential of the sea to safely sequester anthropogenic carbon. —Greg Rau. Rau; CO 2 Mitigation via Capture and Chemical Conversion in Seawater.

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CO2 Carbon Convert Mariner 218

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The researchers determined the global warming potential, expressed in carbon dioxide equivalents (t e CO 2 ), for seven components of urban inventories: electricity, heating and industrial fuels, industrial processes, ground transportation, aviation, marine, and waste. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Air Resources Board tracked variations in the amount of lead transported across the Pacific over time. Tamalpais, in Marin County. One site was on Mt. Stephanie A. Ewing, John N. Christensen, Shaun T.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The report was prepared for the California Air Resources Board (ARB) as part of the FY 2010-11 Air Quality Improvement Project Hybrid Off-Road Equipment Pilot Project. Some of these newer units emit up to 90% less emissions compared to older units, thus the benefit of replacing old units with hybrids is a great benefit to the environment.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

A team of researchers from California Institute of Technology, the Carnegie Institution for Science and Harvard University has now examined the possibility of testing solar radiation management (SRM) through sub-scale deployment as a means to test models of climate response to SRM and explore risks prior to full-scale implementation.

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Solar Climate Change Climate IDEA 294

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Any Federal vehicle standards are to achieve at least the results of the California standards.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $22 million in funding to 18 projects as part of the Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (MARINER) program. MARINER projects are to develop the tools to enable the United States to become a leading producer of macroalgae (seaweed).

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Mariner Production Energy Alaska 150

Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sterling Camp Current Profession: Marine Assurance How will you add value to the EAA Board? As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. Let’s meet the candidates.

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North America America El Paso New Mexico 68

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

A paper by researchers at the University of Minnesota, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , projects GHG mitigation strategies for Minnesota, which has adopted a strategic goal of 80% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2050. California. Earlier version of study, earlier post.). Yang et al.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Sterling Camp Current Profession: Marine Assurance How will you add value to the EAA Board? As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. Let’s meet the candidates.

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North America America El Paso New Mexico 52

Creative Greenius

JULY 22, 2014

If you wonder where this kind of anti consumer, pro monopoly kind of attack comes from, it originated with Assemblyman Stephen Bradford, who for a dozen years worked the Public Affairs beat for… wait for it… Southern California Edison. How does it do that? ” He wants to change the law and slow things down.

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Power Powered Climate Change Climate Protection 314

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NOVEMBER 12, 2011

One of single largest projects comes from Jeff Dangl at the University of North Carolina and his colleagues and focuses on the rhizosphere—the narrow region where microbes in the soil colonize and interact with plant roots. —Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director.

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Environment 2012 Climate North Carolina 239

Cars That Think

APRIL 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from the author’s book War Virtually: The Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data, and Predict the Future (University of California Press, published in paperback April 2024). Take, for example, this case described by a Marine who served in Iraq: My team once had a robot that was obnoxious.

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Mariner Personal 2015 IDEA 137

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban, Fall 2004 Ron Gremban, CalCars team; initially with EnergyCS technology (not used in redesigned conversion) Marin County, CA info@calcars.org 2. University of Manitoba by Hymotion, April 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact eric_bibeau@umanitoba.ca Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org.

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Prius Conversion Plug-in Plug 48

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

Doing so will not only reduce threats to our environment, it will create a new, homegrown, American industry that can lead to countless new businesses and new jobs. The Flow Rate Technical Group comprises federal scientists, independent experts, and representatives from universities around the country. Mass Balance Team.

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Obama Oil Universal Mexico 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Waxman of California and Edward J. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). California Air Resources Board, Climate Change Scoping Plan: A Framework for Change (2008). Representatives Henry A. Another six U.S.

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