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Biggest solar array, Escape Plug-In Hybrid rated, 1959 electric car review: Today?s Car News

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Barges go electric, and solar goes very, very big. One of the most eagerly anticipated plug-in hybrids gets a range number. And what does a car review from 1959 tell us about EVs today? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Study finds GHG methane offsets its warming ~30% and precipitation increase ~60% by short-wave absorption

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The cloud responses, in turn, are related to the profile of atmospheric solar heating and corresponding changes in temperature and relative humidity. Robert Allen/UCR) Both types of energy—longwave (from Earth) and shortwave (from sun)—escape from the atmosphere more than they are absorbed into it.

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Tesla Model X In “Boat Mode” Escapes Hurricane Ian Floodwaters

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There is no shortage of crazy stories coming out of the path of Hurricane Ian. (I’ve I’ve got my own from my area of Southwest Florida, but none of them are saucy enough or cleantech enough for an article.) One that is a definite fit for CleanTechnica comes from a Twitter friend, Jeremy Judkins. Jeremy’s house […].

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Tesla Vehicles Automatically Open Windows & Doors When Submerged Under Water

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Hurricane Ian has brought stories of how a solar-powered community fared much better than most, how a Ford F-150 Lightning kept some lives in full comfort while the neighborhood was lacking electricity, and how a Tesla Model X escaped floodwaters, but we’re not done with the Hurricane Ian–related cleantech stories yet.

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Future Ford Escape plug-in, China vs US, more solar power, electric semis on wires: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we've got a different approach to electric trucks, a complicated combustion engine, more solar power, a plug-in future Ford, and some worries about U.S. competitiveness. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Over the weekend, as we do every seven days, we ran down last week's most important green-car stories.

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MIT researchers develop angle-selective solar thermophotovoltaic system for power generation without using mirrors to concentrate sun’s heat

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The key is to prevent the heat from escaping the thermoelectric material, something the MIT team achieved by using a photonic crystal: essentially, an array of precisely spaced microscopic holes in a top layer of the material. Diagram of angle-selective solar thermophotovoltaic system. similar to the greenhouse effect). Bermel et al.

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UC Davis Begins $2.8M Studies on Impacts of Escaped Nitrogen

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million in new grants to study the use and impacts of escaped nitrogen from agricultural production. University of California, Davis researchers will receive $2.8 Nitrogen-based fertilizers help California farmers produce more than 400 agricultural commodities—vegetables, fruits, meats and dairy products—worth $36 billion a year.

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