Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 30, 2012
Robert Blanchette, University of Minnesota) Click to enlarge. Instead of accumulating as peat, which eventually was transformed into coal, the great bulk of plant biomass decayed and was released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. So the evolution of white rot is a very important event in the evolution of carbon cycle.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Based on their findings in a new study, researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota suggest that modifying urban form—as a means of affecting motor vehicle usage—may be a strategy to mitigate urban air pollution. Their paper appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
The project “Maximizing Conversion of Biomass Carbon to Liquid Fuel” (0938033) will be led by Rakesh Agrawal, with colleagues Mahdi Abu-Omar, Nicholas C. This organism has the potential to directly produce petroleum using a cellulose fermentation process that is essentially carbon neutral. Carpita, Maureen C. McCann, and Fabio H.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2010
Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. The three lawmakers plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 4, 2011
The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann. Peterson says he wants to “rein in the EPA.&# Yeah, that’s a much better idea than reining in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 4, 2011
The other, Congressman Collin Peterson , comes from the once progressive state of Minnesota, now more famous as the home of the Tea Party Princess, Michele Bachmann. ” Yeah, that’s a much better idea than reining in pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Peterson says he wants to “rein in the EPA.”
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