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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal. Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. Renewables Using the Earth’s Water & Heat. power generation.

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Canada Launches Algal Biofuels Project

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For dewatering the company has agreements in place with two technology providers and, through inVentures, has access to an organic sieve technology for removing water from the algae oil. of Markham, Ontario; POS Pilot Plant from Saskatoon; and the international consortium Carbon2Algae Solutions (C2A). Dr. O’Leary.

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UN report finds world needs incremental $1.9 trillion invested in green technologies to avert planetary catastrophe; global per capita cap on primary energy consumption of 70 GJ/yr may be required

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trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Advanced Resources International , Arlington, Va.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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The International Energy Agency, for example, now considers 4°C and 6°C scenarios as well as 2°C in their latest analysis. The pace of reducing global carbon intensity has been slow despite growing international focus on climate change. E7 economies—the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), and Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey.

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Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

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He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

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These cars and trucks have internal combustion engines that are extremely inefficient. Even if electricity is produced from burning coal, the power plant is far away from population centers, transferred over power lines keeping any direct pollution away from the population. In India 39.1% In Europe it is even better at 56%.

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