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PSI team develops web tool for consumers to compare environmental impact of passenger cars in detail

Green Car Congress

Depletion of fresh water reserves [m 3 ]. Noise emissions [Person-Pascal/second]. The Carculator graphically presents these values for all selected vehicles in parallel, for ease of comparison. Depletion of fossil energy resources [kg oil-eq.]. Depletion of metal resources [kg iron-eq.]. Human toxicity [kg 1,4-DC-eq.].

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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

Green Car Congress

Because so much energy is lost turning steam back into water in the Rankine cycle, at most a third of the power in the steam can be converted into electricity. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%. It took us a long time to get the data needed to let us connect to the grid.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

Green Car Congress

MRC lists the amount of chemical usage on its website, monitors chemicals in the water table, doesn’t use the herbicide within the watercourse protection zones, and plans to phase out the use of the chemical by 2020. Looking down to the water from the bridge, one can see fish flitting about in the clear water. Click to enlarge.

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U. Mich study: natural-gas-based ICE, BEV and FCV all show promise for environmental benefits relative to conventional ICE

Green Car Congress

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. water depletion potential (WDP). Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

Cars That Think

We lost our rudder.and we’re taking on water fast.” which is located at the end of a peninsula, and boarded a lobster boat, motoring out into water so shockingly cold it can induce lethal hypothermia in as little as 30 minutes. Forensic speaker comparison is primarily investigative. At 6:36 a.m., on 3 December 2020, the U.S

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Indy 500 race vehicles are working on one hundred pc renewable gas and tires with recycled plastics

Baua Electric

. “The Hevea tree grown on farms in Southeast Asia is where most of the natural latex rubber comes from, so that takes a lot of water,” she mentioned. ” Guayule calls for very tiny H2O in comparison with Hevea, and it will possibly develop in boxes the place drought and better temperatures are regular. .”

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QOTD: Is 2024 the Year All-Weather Tires Hit the Mainstream?

The Truth About Cars

As gearheads, we know the difference of course, and often dive into the purchase with zealous amounts of comparison and opinion. Boling also gave his own personal example of winter trekking from Nashville to Ottawa to visit family. If only we could transfer this enthusiasm to everyone.

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