Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Wind and solar parks produce a large portion of their energy. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2020

Because of continuing trends in how much energy the US economy uses and how much CO 2 that energy use generates, energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 fell more than energy consumption, which declined by 0.9% The changes in US energy-related CO 2 emissions in 2019 offset the increase in 2018. CO 2 emissions had increased by 2.9%

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2019 CO2 Energy 2017 273

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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Obama Cleaner Climate Fuel Economy 249

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Major economies led the resurgence as a pick-up in economic activity pushed energy demand higher and significant policies measures to boost clean energy were lacking. Many economies are now seeing emissions climbing above pre-crisis levels. China was the only major economy that grew in 2020.

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Emissions Global Carbon 2020 433

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Promoting renewable energy and circular economy—including the shared use of vehicles and product design that supports reuse and recycling—will help maximize the benefits of shifting to electric vehicles, according to the report. —“Electric vehicles from life cycle and circular economy perspectives”.

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Climate Pollution Gasoline-Electric 2017 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

World energy growth over the next twenty years is expected to be dominated by emerging economies such as China, India, Russia and Brazil while improvements in energy efficiency measures are set to accelerate, according to BP’s latest projection of energy trends, the BP Energy Outlook 2030. Coal will increase by 1.2% Click to enlarge.

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Energy Economy Global Oil-Sands 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said that the ambitious target is grounded in analysis of cost-effective carbon pollution reductions achievable under existing law and will keep the United States on a trajectory to achieve deep economy-wide reductions on the order of 80% by 2050.

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China Climate Change CO2 United States 300

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

These figures raise the pressing question of whether scarce government funds might be better allocated to move the United States towards a low-carbon economy. billion—are attributable to corn-based ethanol, the climate effects of which are disputed. billion went to traditional sources—such as coal and oil—and $2.3 Adeyeye et al.

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Renewable Tax Credit Climate Change Fuel 338

Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world added 50% more renewable capacity in 2023 than in 2022 –and that means it has a real chance of achieving the goal set by governments at the COP28 climate change conference of tripling global capacity by 2030. Birol said that “success will hinge” on scaling up financing for emerging and developing economies.

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Renewable Solar Financing Installation 52

Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

This involves the seamless blending of renewable energy, such as solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal power, into the overall energy infrastructure to meet the growing demand for clean and sustainable energy. Integrating these sources helps mitigate climate change, reduce air pollution, and protect ecosystems.

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Renewable Energy Energy Storage Wind 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Highlights from the newly published inventory include: Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 13% statewide since a 2004 peak while the economy grew 26%. The carbon intensity of California’s economy has dropped 38% since the 2001 peak and is now one-half the national average. That is approximately half as much as the national average.

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2004 2016 Emissions California 225

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Substantial emission reductions due to fuel economy standards for passenger cars are already included in the current policy scenario. A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation.

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Environment Climate Change Coal Climate 150

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation. continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. Climate Change.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Half of the world's economy has already reached peak gasoline and diesel demand while electric vehicle deliveries in every segment are shooting through the roof.

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Oil Gas Gasoline-Electric China 140

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

Energy 139

Energy Climate Waste Wind 139

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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Energy Coal Oil Gas 101

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2021

These include, from today, no investment in new fossil fuel supply projects, and no further final investment decisions for new unabated coal plants. The pathway calls for annual additions of solar PV to reach 630 GW by 2030, and those of wind power to reach 390 GW. Together, this is four times the record level set in 2020.

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Supplies Fuel Sale Solar 170

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Energy Wind Solar Building 138

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

The Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented international determination to act on climate. To meet the climate goals set in the Paris Agreement and keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees, the CO 2 emission intensity of the global economy would need to be reduced by 85% in 35 years. per year on average, or 0.6

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Renewable Climate Climate Change Carbon 199

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

What it should have said is: “Polluters & Global Warmers Caught In The Act and Stopped – New Clean, Green, Sustainable Economy Begins Booming!&#. You know, before they crashed the economy and screwed everything up. That Rupert Murdick is one funny Aussie, ain’t he?

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Chevron EPA Coal CO2 230

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Relying on a higher share of efficient, low-emission combined cycle power plants and wind energy could save €150 billion (US$200 billion) by 2030 while attaining the same CO 2 targets, Siemens says. The country should give greater priority to high-efficiency combined cycle power plants and wind power, the company suggests.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Under a carbon-constrained scenario with high wind-power penetrations, more installed capacity would be required to meet electricity demand relative to a business-as-usual grid mix reliant on coal or nuclear. This suggests that there are important market failures in consumer decision-making about fuel economy. ”.Empirical

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Industrial Industry Climate Change Grid 301

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

The European Commission on 7 October presented the plan “Investing in the development of low-carbon energy technologies”, targeting the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and burying emissions from coal power stations (carbon capture and storage, or CCS). nik, the EU Commissioner for Science and Research.

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Carbon Energy Climate Change Solar 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Wind/weather and GPS-based cruise control and intelligent routing. Under CERC, 4 pairs of US and Chinese consortia are operating collaboratively on 4 technical tracks: Advanced Coal Technologies with Carbon Capture, Utilization and/or Sequestration. Reduction of accessory loads and auxiliary power requirements. Background.

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China Parts Chinese Obama 150

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Energy Wind Solar Building 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

The MPs, nevertheless, urge the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to monitor drilling activity extremely closely in its early stages in order to assess its impact on air and water quality. Shale gas could encourage more countries to switch from coal to gas, which in some cases could halve power station emissions.

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Gas Poland Gas-Electric Coal 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2011

In addition, the energy intensity of the US economy, measured as energy consumed per dollar of GDP (Energy/GDP), increased by 0.7% Consumption of coal, the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel, rose by 6% in 2010 after falling by 12% in 2009. A large drop in hydropower generation offset much of the increase in nuclear and wind and solar.

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2010 Carbon Emissions Energy 268

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

We have had a long debate about climate change in this country. Most Australians now agree our climate is changing, this is caused by carbon pollution, this has harmful effects on our environment and on the economy—and the Government should act.

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Tax Credit Fuel Tax Carbon Australia 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal.

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. Implementing an EV national policy that aims to transform the economy is an exercise in mind-boggling complexity. Permitting issues also bedevil wind power projects.

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Grid Iowa Wind Miles 94

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Jiang et al. 1923 3343-3364 doi: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0119.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel CO2 218

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is arguably the most significant piece of climate legislation the United States has ever seen, including significant investments in clean energy and consumer incentives to accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption. How the IRA will help tackle climate change.

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Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

Some of the findings of the report include: Global consumption of coal (responsible for about 40% total CO 2 emissions) grew in 2011 by 5%, whereas global consumption of natural gas and oil products increased by only 2% and 1%, respectively. Coal consumption in China increased by 9.7%

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2011 Emissions CO2 Global 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient. But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.

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Congress Obama Carbon Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions. Coal consumption: lower increase due to financial crisis and more renewable electricity.

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