Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) is making a full-scale effort to develop offshore nuclear power plant technology. Through this agreement, SHI plans to pioneer the MSR-based floating nuclear power plant and nuclear-powered ship market as part of strengthening its capacity for future new business expansion.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Researchers in Europe led by a team from ETH Zurich have designed a fuel production system that uses water, CO 2 , and sunlight to produce aviation fuel. We are the first to demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain from water and CO 2 to kerosene in a fully-integrated solar tower system. Zoller et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Improving coordination and support for research efforts on climate change preparedness.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

Eventually the hell and high water will bring the hammer down so hard the remaining LiarDeniers will become the equivalent of mentally challenged individuals who receive secret messages from the CIA in their heads that only they can hear. It’s as obvious as water is wet. .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Present day water and energy systems are tightly intertwined. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Population growth, limits to arable land and fresh water, and climate change have “ profound implications ” for the ability of agriculture to meet this century’s demands for food, feed, fiber, and fuel while reducing the environmental impact of their production. ” —Federoff et al. —Federoff et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

The latter is the first hydrogen-powered mixer truck in the world. According to the R&D engineer of this project, hydrogen fuel cell construction vehicles have five important advantages: The realization of zero pollution with only water and heat being discharged. Enhanced weather adaptability.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

The recent South-East Queensland (SEQ) drought was likely caused by shifts associated with climate variability over decades rather than climate change, according to the findings of a team of CSIRO researchers led by Dr Wenju Cai. —Wenju Cai. Much of the regional annual rainfall is recorded in summer.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Navdeep Bains, announced a $20 million investment in Terrestrial Energy to accelerate development of the company’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) power plant. SMRs are a game-changing technology with the potential to play a critical role in fighting climate change, and rebuilding our post COVID-19 economy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2019

When illuminated by light, these QDs drive the renewable production of different biofuels and chemicals using carbon-dioxide (CO 2 ), water, and nitrogen (from air) as substrates. Therefore, these resting cells function as nano-microbial factories powered by light. The innovation is a testament to the power of biochemical processes.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. A single SMR of about 300 megawatts in size can prevent between 0.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. 3) Measurement.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 7, 2022

Whenever a furnace or water heater or gas burning car is replaced with a clean electric alternative, it builds a piece of our new clean energy system and helps slow devastating climate impacts.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 14, 2022

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. However, many green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. Some analysts have proposed a solution that, on the surface, seems almost too elegant: turning old coal plants into nuclear power plants. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Significant climate anomalies 2008/2009. Source: Climate Change Compendium. Losses of tropical and temperate mountain glaciers affecting perhaps 20-25% of the human population in terms of drinking water, irrigation and hydro-power. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

announced its next environmental sustainability strategy—PLANET 2050—which includes science-based goals that meet or exceed the goals in the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change. Reduce absolute water consumption in facilities and operations by 30%. Cummins Inc.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-rich water.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

The US Departments of Energy and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are launching a joint research program to produce high-resolution models for predicting climate change and its resulting impacts. Innovative interdisciplinary approaches to address the interdisciplinary sources and impacts of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change analyzes data from ten stages of plastics production, usage, and disposal and finds that the US plastics industry is releasing at least 232 million tons of greenhouse gases each year—the equivalent of 116 average-sized coal-fired power plants. million tons of GHG each year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Launched in 2014, the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative is a voluntary, CEO-led initiative which aims to lead the industry response to climate change. With investment from OGCI Climate Investments, as part of a broader consortium alongside engine makers, Achates Power aims to accelerate its technology deployment worldwide.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Dozens of companies are trying to replace the typical method of producing hydrogen— from natural gas —with electrolysis , in which an electric current is used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. How does using water in its supercritical state give you these advantages? What will it taste like?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

The UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) awarded 16 organizations a share of £2 million (US$3.1 Up to £40,000 (US$62,160) was made available to cover parts of the costs of developing a detailed feasibility study for a 1MW power-to-gas facility to be built in the UK starting in the second half of 2013.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Noting the references in scientific and policy literature to the need for fast-action mitigation to help avoid DAI and abrupt climate changes, the authors define “fast-action” to include regulatory measures that can begin within 2–3 years, be substantially implemented in 5–10 years, and produce a climate response within decades.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2014

The Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID) program ( DE-FOA-0001197 ) aims to develop low-cost, highly efficient and scalable dry-cooling technologies for thermoelectric power plants. The US electric power industry has relied primarily on water cooling technologies to remove low grade heat from thermoelectric power plants.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Under illumination for 6 hours, the optimized reduced titania-Cu 2 O photocatalyst enables 0.13% photoreduction of highly diluted CO 2 with water vapors to 462 nmol g ?1 What if we drew inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants use sunlight to convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

The mean cost of cost of climate change for the four countries—Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam—under a “business-as-usual” scenario and if market and non-market impacts and catastrophic risks are all considered could be equivalent to losing 6.7%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

It reveals a greater range of natural hydroclimatic variability in the Colorado River than previously recognized, highlighting a need for water managers to adjust expectations and prepare for even more intense drought. Water managers may use this new extended dataset to understand past droughts better and plan for future droughts.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 16, 2024

And in the aftermath of a natural disaster like a tornado or wildfire, the vehicle, called H2Rescue , can supply electric power and potable water to survivors while acting as a temperature-controlled command center for rescue personnel. The hybrid electric box truck they’ve come up with is carbon neutral. Nicholas Josefik, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The project concerns the production of hydrogen at scale from offshore floating wind in deep water locations. It combines abundant UK offshore wind power with seawater to produce green hydrogen which can be piped directly to shore. Led by ITM Power Trading Ltd. This funding will enable further engineering studies. million (US$3.6

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. Edmon de Haro With so much energy available from heat, we’ve ignored another source of power: cold.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2020

The system will graph lifecycle impact for a range of specified powertrains, for a large number of impact categories: Climate change [kg CO 2 -eq.]. Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. The top sample above shows climate change impact; the subsequent chart shows human toxicity. Sample results from Carculator.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. Climate change. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said the United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” no later than the first quarter of 2015. launching a new track on the interaction of energy and water (the energy/water ‘nexus’).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. Garcetti was ready for clean power NOW. ” stickers, are freaking out about the Mayor’s announcement.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This process produces steam, which will be use to generate power for the processing facilities. On 25 February 2022, state approved the air quality permit, water pollution control permit and the reclamation permit for Thacker pass. GBRW submitted an independent report on the proposed tailings facility.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

This is an important development because there is little time available to reduce CO 2 emissions sufficiently to avoid the worst effects of climate change. The conversion of CO 2 to fuels in these inexpensive water-based systems has shown high faradic efficiencies for reduction of CO 2. to C 2 fuel products such as ethanol.

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