Green Car Congress
JANUARY 28, 2013
The extra waste heat generated from buildings, cars, and other sources in major Northern Hemisphere urban areas causes winter warming across large areas of northern North American and northern Asia. At the same time, the changes to atmospheric circulation caused by the waste heat cool areas of Europe by as much as 1 degree C (1.8
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2009
million in new grants to study the use and impacts of escaped nitrogen from agricultural production. Wastes from cattle, chickens and other livestock include nitrogen. . University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 But excess nitrogen is emitted from soils, seeps into groundwater and runs off into surface waters.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2014
The rest of the bags end up in landfills or escape to the wild, blowing across the landscape and entering waterways. The Illinois Hazardous Waste Research Fund and the Environmental Research and Education Foundation supported this study. The US Environmental Protection Agency reports that only about 13% are recycled. Brajendra K.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
This application alone reduces petroleum usage by some 20,000 pounds per year, reduces CO 2 emissions by 30,000 pounds per year, and represents a sustainable usage for wheat straw, the waste byproduct of wheat. Ontario, for example, has some 30 million metric tons of available wheat straw waste at any given time. More than 1.5
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
This wood passes through the beetle’s complex digestive tract and is finally excreted as its waste product, politely termed frass. Passalid colonies may have as many as seven adults that can consume over four times their weight in wood per day. We study them because they are a natural model biorefinery. Filley, Timothy D. Berry, Mark E.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 7, 2020
Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel is produced 100% from waste and residue raw materials. Instead of escaping into the air, LFG can be captured, converted and used as a renewable energy resource. Over the lifecycle, it has up to 80% smaller carbon footprint compared to fossil jet fuel.
Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2016
Ford began researching the use of sustainable materials in its vehicles in 2000 and uses a number of them, including: Kenaf, a tropical plant in the cotton family, is used in the door bolsters of Ford Escape. EcoLon post-consumer nylon carpeting is used as cylinder head covers in Ford Escape, Fusion, Mustang and F-150. Resources.
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