Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins has also helped push Congress to think more seriously about the power grid, releasing a report last year that showed that much of the 43 percent emissions reduction expected by 2030 would be squandered if the United States doesn’t double the pace of transmission upgrades. power-grid transmission.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 89

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2015

Solar accounted for 32% of US new generating capacity in 2014, beating out both wind energy and coal for the second year in a row. Also in 2014, for the first time, each of the three major US market segments—utility, commercial and residential—installed more than a gigawatt (GW) of PV. GW) is coal-fired generation.

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2014 Installation Solar 2013 150

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process.

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Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable 144

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Low-income and rural communities suffered the most, with some remaining without power for almost a year. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. How can a microgrid help after a power outage? times as great as the combined growth in the commercial and industrial sectors.

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Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar 141

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels. By 2035, cellulosic ethanol and/or coal-and-biomass-to-liquid (CBTL) fuels with carbon capture and storage could replace about 15% of current fuel consumption in the transportation sector (1.7–2.5 the power grid) are urgently needed.

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Coal Conversion Light Future 150

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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Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

It’s very similar to the infrastructure for electric cars because the idea, ultimately, for electric cars is that you also are revamping your grid to facilitate, whatchamacallit, intermittent renewable energy sources, like wind and solar, because having an electric car that runs off a coal-fired power plant is defeating the purpose, essentially.

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Power Powered Grid IDEA 70

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A PHEV can provide power to an entire home in the case of an outage; A fleet of PHEVs could power critical systems during emergencies. Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. The GREET 1.6 Thats 20-25 cents a gallon.

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A January 2007 Pacific National Laboratory study shows that if we woke up tomorrow and all our vehicles could plug in, todays grid could support more than three-quarters of them charging at night without building a single power plant. Dont PHEVs just shift pollution from gasoline cars to power plants?

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PHEV Nickel Metal Hydride Prius EPRI 37