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IPCC: GHG emissions accelerating despite mitigation efforts; major institutional and technological change required to keep the heat down

Green Car Congress

'Decomposition of the decadal change in total global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion by four driving factors; population, income (GDP) per capita, energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy. WG III Summary for Policymakers. Click to enlarge. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a policymaker’s summary of Working Group III’s (WG III) latest report showing that despite a growing number of climate change mitigation policies, annual anthropogenic GH

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Johammer Electric Motorcycle: World's Weirdest Way To Go Green

Green Car Reports

'There are two types of green vehicle fans in this world: Those who wish you to know they''ve picked the latest green vehicle, and those that don''t. Anyone who chooses Austrian firm Johammer''s electric motorcycle will peg themselves firmly in the former category. It is, by quite a margin, the weirdest two-wheeler we''ve ever clapped eyes on. And we.

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CO2 Solutions’ enzymatic carbon capture technology performance exceeds targets in oil sands project

Green Car Congress

'Canada-based CO 2 Solutions Inc., an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, announced that it has exceeded the second set of technical performance milestones for its oil sands project. CO 2 Solutions’ technology platform uses carbonic anhydrase to accelerate the capture of CO 2 with energy-efficient solvents. Carbonic anhydrase is the most powerful catalyst known for the hydration of CO 2 —i.e., the conversion of carbon dioxyde to bicarbonate and protons.

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MIT and Harvard team develop material that stores sun’s heat

Green Car Congress

'Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have developed a material that can absorb the sun’s heat and store that energy in chemical form, ready to be released again on demand. A paper describing the new process is published in the journal Nature Chemistry. While the material could produce electricity, it would be inefficient at doing so, but for applications where heat is the desired output—e.g., for heating buildings, cooking, or powering heat-based industrial processes—this cou

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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