Climate, Solar and USA

USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

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2000

2000 USA China Wind

AlphaStruxure and Montgomery County, Maryland, announce integrated microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project; EaaS

Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2021

The project will enable at least 44 buses in Ride On Montgomery County’s transit fleet to transition from diesel to electric, advancing the County’s goal to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2035, reducing lifetime emissions by more than 155,000 tons, while delivering resilience to climate events and power outages.

Maryland

Maryland Charging USA Fleet

LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

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

Energy Climate Waste Wind

Solar Impulse grounded until 2016 due to battery damage; team studying better thermal management

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. The Round-The-World mission will resume early April from Hawaii to the USA West Coast.

2016

2016 Solar Hawaii Batteries

Comparing The US & China On Climate, Economy, & Other Outcomes Should Be Deeply Humbling For America

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.

China

China Climate Economy USA

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Climate Climate Change

Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

While the finely tailored and pampered leaders of the G8 met in Italy to talk the issue of climate change to death and do nothing tangible about it, activists with a more realistic sense of urgency started to take the necessary action to start cutting greenhouse gases right now.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Coal Obama

Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The Van Hool plant in Morristown (Tennessee, USA) is expected to start building buses from 2022. In its ‘Aiming for Zero’ objective, VDL Bus&Coach is building a new, climate-neutral factory in Roeselare (Belgium), where the first buses will be built from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022.

Europe

Europe Macedonia BYD Poland

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

He’s now getting to see what started as an innovative way for his family to afford solar panels, spread out nationally like that proverbial ripple generated by that solitary pebble. climate change energy efficiency environment green buildings renewable energy solar power AB 811 Cisco Devries Howard Choy L.A.

USA

USA Los Angeles New York City Financing

Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A threat equal to or greater than any the Third Reich or Japanese Imperial Army ever posed to the men, women and children of the USA. And the people who are MY heroes and the ones I consider our greatest patriots today are on the front lines fighting climate change. . The work I do is my patriotic duty.

Al Gore

Al Gore Maldives Gore Climate Change

SEI study outlines risks to global low-carbon technology push

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

The research was carried out in partnership with the 3C (Combat Climate Change) business leaders’ initiative. The research focused on two key low-carbon technologies: solar photovoltaics (PV) and carbon capture and storage (CCS). In particular, developments in solar photovoltaics have been remarkable.

Carbon

Carbon Global Solar Climate

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. However, soot does not only have a negative effect on human health, it also contributes to global warming by absorbing solar radiation. —Wiedensohler et al. Tilo Arnhold.

Bolivia

Bolivia Transportation Global Climate Change

Stanford’s Yi Cui receives CalTech Resonate award for battery work

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Recognizing the need for substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the risks of climate change, this year’s recipients of the Resonate Awards for sustainability have developed an array of technologies aimed at cutting the largest sources of them. In addition to Professor Cui, the other awardees are: Joel L.

Batteries

Batteries Battery USA Finland

I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Why would your Creative Greenius walk away from his high-paying, highly rewarding executive role at CBS EcoMedia where I was working to fund environmental, education, and wellness projects all across the USA, just as the company hit more growth milestones and was likely to pay generous bonuses?

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Oil Chevron

Airports Will Increment Solar To Match 12x Electricity Demand By 2100

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By 2050, airport electricity demand will be in the range of four times as high as 2019 levels, and by 2050, five times as high. Twelve times.

Solar

Solar 2019 Electric Electrical

Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

Creative Greenius

JULY 27, 2013

Detroit is an unprecedented opportunity to use the tremendous assets already in place to reimagine and reinvent its post-industrial future and address the great challenge of the 21st century – no, it’s not dealing with deficits or pension obligations, it’s adapting to climate change and building a sustainable society.

Google

Google Detroit Neighborhood Solar

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

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.

Energy

Energy Wind Solar Building

Greenius Presents: Governor Schwarzenegger on What’s Coming Soon To California

Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

As your friendly neighborhood Greenius continues with his efforts to help Hermosa Beach become the first carbon neutral city in the South Bay, it might help some of you to get up to speed on what we already know is coming our way here in California from climate change and global weirding.

California

California Climate Change Climate Neighborhood

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016. in Connecticut.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

President Obama, Bill McKibben & I Want You To Man Up on Global Warming. It’s Time To Book Your Hotel In Copenhagen

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

After the jump I’ll share what I said on Climate Progress about it yesterday, and you can read Bill McKibben’s comment there too. campaign carbon producers citizen volunteer climate change election environment environmental legislation fossil fuels politics sea-level rise solar power 350.org

Obama

Obama Global Climate Change Climate

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 60%

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.

Energy

Energy Wind Solar Building

Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

And I’m especially happy and excited about how much this pisses off the worst of bad guys operating in the USA today. For those of you who aren’t boarding the ClueTrain on this issue, just connect the dots between this strategic move on the part of the Obama administration and the opening of the Copenhagen Climate Talks.

Chevron

Chevron EPA Coal CO2

@LATimes Becomes Least Credible Newspaper On ClimateCrisis In USA As Chevron Toxic Fumes Incapacitate Editors & Journalists. No Hope For Recovery Seen #JoeTakesOnTheNews

Creative Greenius

MAY 7, 2019

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Chevron

Chevron USA Los Angeles Climate Change

smart introduces fourth-generation electric drive technology across its full range

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

To save energy and further extend the range, the smart electric drive also features pre-entry climate control. For example, two programmable departure times mean that intelligent charging and pre-entry climate control do not always need to be reset for frequent journeys. smart control app. Equipment and features.

Range

Range Electric Electrical Climate

Top Ten Greenhouse Gasers in California Currently Destroying Your Childrens’ Future

Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

They’ll give money to your schools, your libraries, your hospitals – whatever you need, just so long as you let them destroy our climate from your home town. If you look at the satellite views of these fatal facilities you’ll see acres and acres of unobstructed land just perfect to use for solar power generation.

Chevron

Chevron California Future Climate Change

The View From Here Today

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. So not only is climate change-driven drought cutting our fresh water supply, but the way we use water here also adds to our greenhouse gas emissions. That’s about a 25% reduction.

Climate Change

Climate Change Los Angeles Climate Water

2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Welcome to Fusion City, USA At Helion Energy, workers build a section of the company’s Polaris fusion reactor. What to do? Two words: heat pumps.

Fusion

Fusion Energy Lithium Ion Grid

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. While solar and wind provide carbon-free electricity or H 2 through water splitting, they lack the ability to directly produce carbon-based fuels and chemicals without additional carbon sources. (DOI: Dr. Gogoi is also Asst.

Fuel

Fuel Auto Oil Conversion

Greenius Weekend Update

Creative Greenius

MAY 23, 2009

And to help kick it all off for you, after the jump I’ll offer up the first ever Greenius Weekend Update: There will be plenty of time very soon enough to be overwhelmed with the crushing hard backhand of climate change and budget reality. Solar Homes Tour A Big Hit. Tough Talk in Torrance Town.

Mini E

Mini E Climate Change Solar Legal

Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. That is why we need comprehensive energy and climate legislation to create a system of incentives to make clean energy profitable.

Georgia

Georgia Obama Power Powered

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

1 ] The average daily driving distance in the USA is 30 miles (48 km), so PHEVLERs are vehicles with at least 60 miles (97 km) of electric range. At present PHEVLERs, PHEVs and conventional gasoline engine vehicles in the USA all use a liquid fuel blend comprising 90% gasoline and 10% biofuel.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Future Green

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

ArcelorMittal USA plans to design an industrial-scale solution for carbon capture from blast furnace-based steelmaking operations at its plant in Burns Harbor, IN. Chevron USA. If successful, the development of the proposed technology could help alleviate the impact of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel usage on climate change.

Carbon

Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Creative Greenius

MARCH 31, 2009

Our group was an interesting and friendly mix of unemployed construction workers looking for new careers; electricians, iron workers and other licensed contractors looking to expand into solar installation; and three or four guys who were there to learn how to do a self install of solar for their home, shop or cabin.

Solar

Solar Installation Grid San Diego

Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. SOLAR FINANCING – WHO GETS IT AND WHO DOESN’T. Most have no idea.

Solar

Solar Energy Power Powered

China’s Oil & Gas Giant Sinopec Says Peak Oil Demand Already Happened In China

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.

Oil

Oil Gas Gasoline-Electric China

Is Green Hydrogen Always Green?

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

Governments shouldn't be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Green Climate Change Energy Storage

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Portland and San Francisco Battle For Electric Car Domination Chicago Gets First Solar Powered EV Charging Station World’s Top 10 Fastest Electric Cars A Few Pictures of Upcoming Electric Cars: Source [ PhysOrg.com ] Image Credit: Clayton B. At the time of the press release, I could not find a definitive picture. Sorry for any confusion.

Gas-Electric

Gas-Electric Standards Plug Gas

China’s Purchasing Power Advantage & Wright’s Law Mean Its Green Investments Go A Lot Further

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 30, 2023

China spent $546 billion of 2022's $1.1 trillion USD global green investment, but China is getting about a trillion USD in value out of its investment.

Green

Green Purchase China Power

Electric Regional Air Mobility Discussion With NASA Report Lead Author Kevin Antcliff

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 22, 2022

Imagine you're a family of 4 heading to a ski resort in the region. You take an electric Uber to your local small airport. You're in the air in 15 minutes. You land near the resort and another electric Uber takes you to the hill. You fly quietly over the often dangerous mountain roads, enjoying the scenery from the air.

Electric

Electric Electrical All-Electric Cost Of

The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

But I will admit that one thing has changed even more than the size of our electric bill and that’s the size of the solar PV system we now need to generate 100% of our electricity – because the same moves that cut our electric bill also cut the number of solar panels we need by 50% too.

America

America Power Powered Climate Change

The Wacky Untaxed World Of Jet Fuel Is Coming To An End

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The emissions of aviation will be priced, the cost of aviation will go up, and that's part of why my projection of aviation growth is flat through 2100.

Fuel

Fuel Price Emissions Cost Of

Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 29, 2009

I’ve been up on roofs installing solar… among other things. Like these guys above securing the solar panels to the rack of the Long Beach house we worked on. Thanks to them, a family’s electricity is now solar-powered. That’s what the rolling solar looked like in the extended power generating position.

Grid

Grid Los Angeles Climate Change Long Beach

How Much Electricity Will Electric Airplanes Need, & How Much Will It Cost?

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How much electricity will be required for electric aviation and how much will it cost?

Electric

Electric Electrical Climate Change Netherlands

Canada Pays $85 Billion Higher Social Carbon Price Than Oil & Gas Revenues

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 27, 2023

Our children and their children and their children's children will be paying that price.

Price

Price Canada Carbon Oil

USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

AlphaStruxure and Montgomery County, Maryland, announce integrated microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project; EaaS

LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

Solar Impulse grounded until 2016 due to battery damage; team studying better thermal management

Comparing The US & China On Climate, Economy, & Other Outcomes Should Be Deeply Humbling For America

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

Get Your Monkeywrenches Ready! Politicians Beg For Climate Change Wake Up Call

Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

Serving My Country – My Patriotic Duty

SEI study outlines risks to global low-carbon technology push

Study finds megacity traffic soot can reach high altitudes and be transported over long distances, contributing to global warming

Stanford’s Yi Cui receives CalTech Resonate award for battery work

I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Airports Will Increment Solar To Match 12x Electricity Demand By 2100

Hey Google! Lets Reinvent Detroit Together Using Our Creative Greenius Before The Opportunivors Scavenge It

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

Greenius Presents: Governor Schwarzenegger on What’s Coming Soon To California

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

President Obama, Bill McKibben & I Want You To Man Up on Global Warming. It’s Time To Book Your Hotel In Copenhagen

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 60%

Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

@LATimes Becomes Least Credible Newspaper On ClimateCrisis In USA As Chevron Toxic Fumes Incapacitate Editors & Journalists. No Hope For Recovery Seen #JoeTakesOnTheNews

smart introduces fourth-generation electric drive technology across its full range

Top Ten Greenhouse Gasers in California Currently Destroying Your Childrens’ Future

The View From Here Today

2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

Greenius Weekend Update

Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

The Solangelist Learns To Install Solar & Loves It

Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

China’s Oil & Gas Giant Sinopec Says Peak Oil Demand Already Happened In China

Is Green Hydrogen Always Green?

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0

China’s Purchasing Power Advantage & Wright’s Law Mean Its Green Investments Go A Lot Further

Electric Regional Air Mobility Discussion With NASA Report Lead Author Kevin Antcliff

The Most Powerful Greenius In America

The Wacky Untaxed World Of Jet Fuel Is Coming To An End

Greenius Gets Groove On with Greenpeace & GRID Alternatives

How Much Electricity Will Electric Airplanes Need, & How Much Will It Cost?

Canada Pays $85 Billion Higher Social Carbon Price Than Oil & Gas Revenues

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