Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

If current rates of decline continue through 2020, the state will need to reduce emissions at a rate of 4.97% each year in the decade between 2020 and 2030, and produce even steeper declines in the period from 2030 to 2050, if it is to meet current climate goals. But the effects of these efforts seem to be reaching a plateau.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Source: IEA. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

Black carbon is released into the atmosphere via incomplete combustion of carbonaceous fuel and is of major concern because of the impact on climate systems. Comparison of relative contributions from various sources to total BC emissions between China and other countries/regions including India, North America, and Africa.

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2007 Carbon China Emissions 271

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

And it has become clear that not only oil and gas giants are being targeted, after one of the world’s largest mining and commodity trading companies, Glencore, decided to put a limit on its thermal coal investment. The future is different and could be even less positive than currently is assessed.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The emissions increase in the United States in 2013 (+2.5%) was mainly due to a shift in power production from gas back to coal together with an increase in gas consumption due to a higher demand for space heating. Climate Change Emissions' The much lower emissions increase in China of 4.2% in 2013 and 3.4%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas. F of warming. . F of warming.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2014

The RCPs were chosen to represent a broad range of climate outcomes, based on a literature review. These gases come from human activities such as combustion of coal and oil as well as natural sources such as emissions from plants. The RCP 8.5 Ozone pollution also damages crops and other plants.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

In addition to ensuring the same energy source, the analysis was conducted such that the same functional unit and system boundary are assumed for all of the three mobility options, to facilitate a direct comparison of their respective environmental footprints. —Dai and Lastoskie. The system boundary for the LCA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Electricity prices in comparison. Siemens proposes giving up a fixed target for renewables and focus on reducing CO 2 emissions in the future instead. This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. Renewable energies should prevail on the market in the future without levies, Siemens says.

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Germany Energy Renewable Grid 239

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. By comparison, oil shale has NERs (or EROI) of 1.6−2.0 —Nduagu & Gates. Credit: ACS, Nduagu & Gates.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Despite their limitations, GWPs are widely used for comparison among long-lived gases, forming the basis for worldwide political agreements on climate and carbon trading. It’s a seemingly minor change, but it makes a difference to the climate. —Drew Shindell. Drew Shindell. —Drew Shindell.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2014

Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels.

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Fuel CO2 Carbon Climate 268

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

By comparison, Chinese per capita CO 2 emissions of 6.8 Between 1990 and 2010 they reduced their dependence on coal (from 25% to 20% of total energy production) and oil (from 38% to 36.5%), and shifted towards natural gas (which increased from 23% to 27 %), nuclear energy (from 8% to 9%) and renewable energy (from 6.5% Source: JRC.

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Global Emissions Industrial Industry 281

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2015

The implication for biofuels is important, to the extent they are aimed at meeting climate and petroleum use reduction goals. while the climate-targeted scenarios assume that electricity supply is decarbonized by 80%. For comparison, they team estimated the RFS goal for cellulosic fuels to be equivalent to 1289 PJ.

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Carbon EPRI Climate Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 If the goals of this new directive are met, it would reduce the rate at which future tailing accumulations grow. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Present day anthropogenic emissions contribute to both current and future emissions to the air. Source: UNEP.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Although the recovery in the world economy since 2009 has been uneven, and future economic prospects remain uncertain, global primary energy demand rebounded by a remarkable 5% in 2010, pushing CO 2 emissions to a new high. Fukushima Daiichi has raised questions about the future role of nuclear power. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet 247

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Appendix B: Car of the Future: A Comparison of Alternative Vehicles. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. So the PHEV can simply use a small amount of this needed liquid fuel in the future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters , concluded that even under highly optimistic assumptions the compressed-air car is significantly less efficient than a battery electric vehicle and produces more greenhouse gas emissions than a conventional gas-powered car with a coal intensive power mix.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? and Chrysler.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Until then, we also recommend you look at the FAQ at the Climate Progress Blog and the FAQ by Hybrids-Plus , an after-market converter of hybrid cars, for answers to many questions! But its monumentally less pollution , even on the national (half-coal) grid. What Are Plug-In Hybrids (PHEVs)?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2018

A key objective of this model inter-comparison project is to understand which insights are robust across models and scenarios and which are more sensitive. Now, the results of this work have been published in a special issue of the journal Climate Change Economics. Weyant (2018) Climate Change Economics. —McFarland et al.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt continues to be one of our highest priorities among all GMs future product programs and remains on track for a November 2010 launch," spokesman David Darovitz told Automotive News. That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. So I think its a safe bet for GM.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 17, 2013

It’s kind of a shame that our kids’ futures are being crucified since they’re the ones we need to resurrect us. So it’s as obvious as a bad face lift that we are going through the stations of the cross and that climate change is our crucifix. click above to learn something. click above to learn something. .”

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