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Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
In Tokyo, the fires merged into a firestorm so intense that it created its own wind system and set alight the city’s many wooden buildings. Palmieri’s seismograph consisted of U-shaped tubes filled with mercury. When the ground shook, the mercury would close an electrical circuit and stop an attached clock.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
They] will lock in high greenhouse gas emissions, water use and mercury pollution for decades. The study notes that the plants would also emit hydrogen sulfide and mercury, which, if not properly scrubbed and treated, are potentially harmful to human health. —Robert B. —Chi-Jen Yang. Resources.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
One possible scenario for the electricity system in the Western US in 2026-29. Under a range of resource cost scenarios, most coal power plants would be replaced by solar, wind, gas, and/or nuclear generation, with intermittent renewable sources providing at least 17% and as much as 29% of total power by 2030. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2014
EPA is using four “building blocks” to determine state-specific goals: Reducing the carbon intensity of generation at individual affected electric generating units (EGUs) through heat-rate improvements. Lower the electric system’s overall carbon intensity by shifting generation among existing EGUs. Expanded lower-carbon generation.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 23, 2013
Continue efforts to decarbonize the economy, with emphasis on the electricity sector. Broadening the tax credit for wind to include all forms of renewable energy, replacing the annual renewal with a longer time horizon of 5 to 10 years. Examples include electric cars, geothermal heat pumps, and advanced biofuels.
Cars That Think
JULY 9, 2022
Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. His choice of subject for his master’s thesis, though, marked one of the first times he would sail against the prevailing technical winds. And mostly he’s been right, particularly about the importance of computers in electrical engineering.”.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 22, 2009
A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. cents per kwh.
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