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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

Green Car Congress

Three Wheels United (Bangalore, India) is using finance and technology to decarbonize the auto rickshaw market. Jetty (Mexico City) is using technology to establish and enforce stricter service standards on private suppliers of loosely regulated "colectivo" services in Mexico City.

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LanzaTech and India’s Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy Research developing novel waste CO2 to fuels process

Green Car Congress

LanzaTech and the Centre will leverage each other’s expertise to create a new process for the direct conversion of waste CO 2 into drop-in fuels through an acetates-to-lipids pathway. India is projected to become the world’s second largest steel producer by 2015, providing a significant opportunity to produce biofuel. Earlier post.)

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Global CO2 emissions up 3% in 2011; per capita CO2 emissions in China reach EU levels

Green Car Congress

Emissions from OECD countries now account for only one third of global CO 2 emissions—the same share as that of China and India. The United States remain one of the largest emitters of CO2, with 17.3 India (6%). CO 2 emissions increased by 150% in China, and in India by 75%. the United States (16%).

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27 teams advancing in $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE; converting CO2 to products

Green Car Congress

Breathe (India). Low-Energy-Consumption CO 2 Capture and Conversion (United States). Those teams producing fuels or potential intermediates include: Aljadix (Switzerland). Led by Thomas Digby, the team is producing carbon negative biofuel. Coal plant. Led by Sebastian Peter, the team is producing methanol. Coal plant. C4X (China).

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

The batteries for electric vehicles and for other appliances cells are assembled in modules and packs which depends on what materials these are made of and how they are manufactured, also affect the battery’s CO2 footprint and climate impact. If the same battery would produce in Europe the CO2 impact would likely have been smaller.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

On longer timeframes, the refrigerant in your air conditioner will leak into the atmosphere where it, too, will absorb sunlight, possibly even more than CO2 2 , and heat the planet long after the blades of your air conditioner’s fan have stopped spinning. If, like 60 percent of the U.S. This year, the U.S.

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1.136 billion in turnover, 6.7 per cent more customers and 247 new products at the Hannover Messe | Autocar Professional

Baua Electric

More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. Additionally, the conversion of a 2,800 square metre office building into a further start-up and training centre which will be open to customers, will soon begin.