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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Moore, C.E., von Haden, A.C., Burnham, M.B.,

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Reintroducing airships into the world’s transportation mix could contribute to lowering the transport sector’s carbon emissions and can play a role in establishing a sustainable hydrogen based economy, according to a new IIASA-led study. The transport sector is responsible for around 25% of global CO 2 emissions caused by humans.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

LBNL team proposes to probe for LENR at external excitation energies below 500 eV, systematically varying materials and conditions while monitoring nuclear event rates with a suite of diagnostics. Neutron Emission from Laser-Stimulated Metal Hydrides - $2,000,000. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The LME events were a consequence of positions taken by Tsingshan based on expectations of falling prices. In an era of unparalleled geopolitical friction, how China’s dominance will affect emissions reduction goals in places like the United States and Europe remains to be seen. Nickel is no exception. —“Need Nickel?”.

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JULY 14, 2011

A large body of work shows that exposure to road traffic and air pollution may be a trigger of adverse cardiovascular events such as angina, myocardial infarction, and heart failure, with long-term exposure increasing the lifetime risk of death from coronary heart disease.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

The $461,000-project, titled “Heterogeneous Aging Mechanisms of Combustion and Biomass Burning Emissions,” will focus on how gases, such as ozone, react with pollutants emitted from power plants and forest fires. Both types of emissions cause tiny particles to be suspended in air. —Prof.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

The study therefore provides a much-needed European-wide assessment and further identifies the risks and opportunities in seven major production countries for automotive components (Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Czechia, Poland, and Romania). —Henning Rennert, Partner at PwC Strategy& Germany. Methodology.

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CN EV Post

MARCH 31, 2024

BYD should be accelerating full speed on pure BEVs, but they waste half their effort looking to the past with hybrid technologies - technologies that have been shown in numerous studies to be a major source of toxic emissions, even when charged consistently.

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MARCH 31, 2024

BYD should be accelerating full speed on pure BEVs, but they waste half their effort looking to the past with hybrid technologies - technologies that have been shown in numerous studies to be a major source of toxic emissions, even when charged consistently.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2020

Each image captured 900 square meters of ground, a level of detail that allowed the scientists to study land-use change over time. An international team of researchers has used satellite images to map urban growth between 1985 and 2015. In a paper in Nature Sustainability , they report that global urban extent has expanded by 9,687?km

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

A new study by researchers from Imperial College London(ICL) of 39 new Euro 6 diesel passenger cars has found “ huge variability ” in the on-road NO x emissions of Euro 6 diesel passenger cars, with results ranging from 1 to 22 times the type approval limit. The average NO x emission from the test cars of 0.36 for urban driving.

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JULY 20, 2018

de novo rather than as direct emissions—via nucleation and growth is a major source of aerosol pollution in terms of number concentration. The formation of new atmospheric particulates—i.e., —Yao et al. Resources.

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MAY 24, 2016

New research published today (23 May) in Scientific Reports has found a marked and progressive 80% decline in atmospheric CO (carbon monoxide) in SE England since 1997, following adoption of strict controls on gasoline vehicle emissions begin in the 1990s. The open-access study is published in the journal Scientific Reports.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

While the mechanisms by which air pollutants cause cardiovascular events is undergoing continual refinement, the preponderant evidence support rapid effects of a diversity of pollutants including all particulate pollutants (e.g. In order to achieve low, harmless concentrations, emissions from all these sources need to be reduced.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

A study by a team of researchers from China, the US and Germany suggests that future climate change may worsen air quality for more than 85% of China’s population, leading to an additional 20,000 deaths each year. An open access paper on their work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). RCP 4.5). (The

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APRIL 1, 2021

A study commissioned by EDF and conducted by Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA) has evaluated a year’s worth of heavy-duty truck trips conducted by two national trucking companies: NFI and Schneider. Both companies have made significant efforts to start their transition to electric trucks.

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APRIL 14, 2018

is associated with the development of acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) in young children, according to a new, large-scale study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine , an American Thoracic Society journal. The exact biological implications of the study’s findings require further investigation.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The authors urgently call for confirmatory studies as even residents of clean air cities could be at risk. However, this study investigated whether rapid increases in pollution increase the risk of heart attack, independently of an absolute threshold. Increases of nitrogen oxides of more than 20 ?g/m Rasche M, et al.

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JULY 14, 2023

Precautions taken due to the fuel’s inherent characteristics include the construction of a custom-built cold hall, which can contain ammonia vapor in the unlikely event of a leak with the activation of a water screen. The ammonia engine R&D project started in 2019 with a pre-study and investigation of ammonia combustibility.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

The study by the Environmental Committee of the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) reviewed interventions that have reduced air pollution at its source. It looked for outcomes and time to achieve those outcomes in several settings, finding that the improvements in health were striking.

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JUNE 2, 2014

In-use testing of three light duty diesel vehicles—certified to US-EPA Tier2-Bin5 and California LEV-II ULEV emissions limits— found a wide variation in real world emissions performance relative to the regulatory limits. diesels and one 3.0L diesel) over pre-defined test routes exhibiting diverse driving conditions.

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49% in the last two decades, according to the latest figures from the Global Carbon Project. Total emissions—including fossil fuel combustion, cement production, deforestation and other land use emissions—reached 10 billion tonnes of carbon (36.7

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AUGUST 29, 2021

This means its peaker plants already play a pivotal role, coming online each evening when the sun goes down or when events such as heat waves drive up electricity use for days at a time. In addition, they determined the amount of carbon dioxide released by these plants and the expense of abating these emissions. Drake D.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

EPA made the announcement at an event at Eastman Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles, Calif., Heavy-duty trucks can emit drastically higher levels of pollution when not equipped with required emissions controls. highlighting the installation of an air filtration system similar to those that will be funded by the settlements.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

A study led by chemists at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) indicates that highly variable contamination events registered in and around unconventional oil and gas developments are the result of operational inefficiencies and not inherent to the extraction process itself. —Kevin Schug. Zacariah L.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Ten years after ArcelorMittal introduced the first S-in motion study for fuel-powered vehicles ( earlier post ), it is launching a new set of S-in motion solutions for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). And if we reduce the mass of materials, we directly reduce the emissions that are caused by the production of these materials.

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JULY 4, 2019

The system uses the company’s Intelligent Valve Technology (iVT) and is intended to speed up OEM and Tier 1 engine development significantly, helping meet upcoming emissions regulations while also reducing cost. Both conventional and unconventional event profiles can be achieved. Camcon SCI.

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MAY 31, 2017

A joint study by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) into 48V diesel mild hybrid technology verified a 9% reduction of NO x in raw engine-out emissions, while retaining the fuel economy and CO 2 benefits of diesel engine technology.

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MARCH 29, 2017

The studies are designed to minimize the effects of extraneous factors and focus on the relationship between the experimental exposure conditions and the biologic response being measured, for example, a temporary change in lung function. The goal is to observe temporary and reversible responses without causing clinical effects.

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MARCH 20, 2018

Toyota unveiled a prototype hybrid flexible-fuel vehicle (Hybrid FFV) during an event Toyota held São Paulo, Brazil. Stakeholders including the state government, universities, and the sugarcane association (the Sugarcane Industry Union: UNICA) attended the event.

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MARCH 3, 2016

As part of a response to a shareholder lawsuit in Germany alleging a violation of the company’s disclosure obligations under Germany’s capital markets law, Volkswagen AG has outlined the timeline and background events leading to the eruption of the diesel emissions scandal last fall. Timeline and events.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Researchers from the Fuels, Engines and Emissions Research Center (FEERC) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and collaborators from ORNL’s High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) ( earlier post ) are using neutron imaging to study the formation of damage-causing bubbles in fuel injectors. Takenaka et al.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth. The target of reducing emissions by 50 percent by 2030 was established through an executive order in 2021.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Direct thermal cracking of methane and other hydrocarbons is a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas without direct CO 2 emissions. Wetzel’s team, in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. In 2018, the research of KIT and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V.

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MAY 29, 2020

Researchers at KAUST’s Clean Combustion Research Center have developed a method to predict and to avoid undesirable combustion events in advanced engines, such as knocking and super-knock. Advanced low-temperature-combustion (LTC) strategies of downsized and boosted engines are capable of offering ultra-low emissions and higher efficiencies.

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JULY 14, 2020

Four members of MAHLE Powertrain LLC’s research team co-authored the paper on the results of a study into progress in developing MJI technology. Under catalyst heating conditions, auxiliary fueling provides more direct control over pre-chamber mixture preparation, resulting in reduced instability in the pre-chamber combustion event.

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APRIL 4, 2012

A new study by researchers from the UK’s Met Office Hadley Centre implicates aerosols as a prime driver of twentieth-century North Atlantic climate variability. In the new study, Booth et al. In the new study, Booth et al. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. —Booth et al.

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