Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The California Air Resources Board released a new draft of California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Strategy to significantly reduce the near-term climate impacts of these potent pollutants. Methane is the most abundant of the short-lived climate pollutants in California. Governor Edmund G.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2011

Researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) have developed a new high-yield process for recycling waste crankcase oil into gasoline-like fuel based on microwave pyrolysis—i.e., The researchers attributed the high yield of pyrolysis oil to the unique heating mode and chemical environment present during microwave-heated pyrolysis.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2019

The FOA topics will advance DOE’s Bioenergy Technology Office’s (BETO) objectives to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from biomass or waste resources. Smoke emissions from residential wood heaters are a significant national air pollution and health issue.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

For many of these, the US has little to no production. Currently, the global supply chain for these elements relies heavily on dated extraction processes that are energy-intensive, consume a lot of water, and create toxic waste. Lithium is present in much of this water, over a wide range of locations.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Tesla representatives attended a community meeting in Nueces County about its proposed lithium refining facility for battery production. Tesla representatives present at the public meeting emphasized that the proposed lithium refining facility in Nueces is a step toward sustainable energy. Nueces vs. Giga Berlin Water Supply Concerns.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The plant’s final product will be battery-grade lithium hydroxide, which will then be used in electric vehicle batteries and big battery systems at Tesla’s manufacturing sites. The representatives also said that Tesla’s lithium battery production process would use less water. .

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Dearman, the developer of the liquid air Dearman Engine—an innovative heat engine that uses liquid air (or liquid nitrogen) as a “fuel” and emits cold air as exhaust( earlier post )—has formed a technology partnership with Hubbard Products, Europe’s leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of commercial cooling equipment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

year period, by region, for cities present in both versions of the AAP database. About half of the urban population being monitored is exposed to air pollution that is at least 2.5 About half of the urban population being monitored is exposed to air pollution that is at least 2.5 Source: WHO. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2015

The partnership will help to deliver biorefining technology to India to convert biomass waste to clean sugars to be further converted to cellulosic ethanol and other bio-based chemicals. ethanol), but the produced sugars and lignin can be used as a platform into a number of different products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

The Committee, chaired by Fernando Lugris of Uruguay, will present the Convention text to the UNEP Governing Council for adoption next month. The scope of the new treaty which puts in controls and also reduction measures in respect to mercury is as follows: Products. Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining.

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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Govt of India, Mr Nitin Gadkari said that in order to reduce pollution levels in the country, the Government aims at an INR 2 lakh crore ethanol economy from its present size of INR 20,000 crore as the development of an extensive ethanol industry for biomass and agriculture sector.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The small island nations of Micronesia and Mauritius submitted a joint proposal in April to phase down production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 Biochar comes from cooking biomass waste at low temperatures with minimal oxygen (pyrolysis). Black Carbon. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

Italy has some of the oldest, most polluting cars in Europe, and is lagging way behind other European countries in EV adoption, with an incentive program that has been practically nonexistent. The consequence is that we are losing manufacturing products in Italy that we could manufacture. million electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

This could reduce the mining of ore which reduces costs, greenhouse gas emissions and waste. This technology could cut energy usage by 85 billion BTUs/year, waste generation by 8.5 The product has qualified for the USDA Certified Biobased label. million kg/year and carbon generation by 21.7 million kg/year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

Vattenfall and Aalborg University are partnering with Danish startup SCF Technologies in a two-year project to design a demonstration plant based on SCF’s CatLiq process—an application of the firm’s supercritical fluid technology in the catalytic production of bio-oil from organic waste. SCF Technologies presentation (2008).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

The climate crisis is also having a severe effect on the planet, which is being battered by pollution, deforestation, and soil degradation. Ninety-nine percent of the global population breathes in air that exceeds WHO-guideline limits on pollutants, with low- and middle-income countries suffering from the highest exposures.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

Polycarbonates are very hard plastics, so hard they are used to make screwdriver handles, shatter-proof eyeglass lenses, and other very durable products. He said that waste plastics are finding their way into the environment through littering, and also may be carried by water into the oceans, spreading this pollution widely.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2016

A team from the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar (TAMU-Qatar) and Caltech has developed a new way to make synthetic rubber; once this material is discarded, it can be easily degraded back to its chemical building blocks and reused in new tires and other products. Since 2012, the research team led by Hassan S. Bazzi, Ph.D.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The innovations and technical solutions that the SUSTAINEER is fitted with have been designed with the possibility of series production in mind, so that their use in future Mercedes-Benz Vans vehicle generations is feasible. Along with CO 2 emissions, road traffic also produces significant levels of particle pollution.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Albin Czernichowski, a professor with the University of Orleans, France, presented two papers on different aspects of the system today at the 239 th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco. Such composition is intriguing, as this type of FT product has never been described, ECP says. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2014

These technologies include, but are not limited to, advanced aftertreatment and waste heat recovery; lean-burn plus lean-NO x emissions traps; integration of zero-emission miles technologies; further refinements in reducing friction and parasitic energy losses; and widespread utilization of renewable and natural gas and hydrogen blends.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

The field included startups that aim to improve battery technology and solve the battery materials problem, coordinate energy flow from home and car batteries to the grid and back again, gather and use data for energy and carbon management, improve solar cell efficiency, and recycle agricultural waste.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

PHEVLERs Provide Value to the Drivers PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure PHEVLERs use Clean Fuels to Reduce Air Pollution. Thus, PHEVLERs and other electric vehicles may be allowed to continue driving when governments ban fossil fuel vehicles from driving in city centers due to air pollution crises or other reasons. [

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

This includes the impacts from extracting raw materials, food processing, and manufacturing, transporting, and disposing of products. mining, forestry, and agriculture), production and transport of goods, provision of services, reuse of materials, and, if necessary, disposal.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

This reaction is not included in computer models used to predict air pollution levels and the effectiveness of ozone control strategies. Because many of these HCl sources involve combustion or occur in polluted urban areas, the researchers noted, oxides of nitrogen are typically present simultaneously. Raff et al. Jonathan D.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

The awards recognize pioneering chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators who are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. BDO is used to make spandex, automotive plastics, running shoes, and many other products; it has an approximately 2.8 billion by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Tim Dummer, Greg Anderson, Erin Sawyer and Vlad Kalika are joining the Business Operations, Production and Engineering teams respectively. We’ve entered a pivotal phase in the company as we scale production to meet global customer demand. Wrightspeed Inc., Greg Anderson, Vice President of Manufacturing.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Here are some of the key advantages of electric vehicles: Environmental Benefits: EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions, meaning they do not release pollutants like carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate matter, and other harmful gases into the atmosphere. Here itself there is a little advantage in terms of pollution.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. Its management presents considerable environmental challenges and costs to operators. Click to enlarge. Mud treatment cycle.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2014

Renewable power production can be exploited to produce electricity to power ships at berth (cold ironing), and to charge batteries for fully electric and hybrid ships. If renewable energy from the sun or wind is not readily available for electricity production on shore, conventional power plants can be used.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Petrochemicals are particularly important given how prevalent they are in everyday products. After decades of stagnation and decline, the United States has re-emerged as a low-cost location for chemicals production thanks to the shale gas revolution, and is now home to around 40% of the global ethane-based petrochemical production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Note that the figure is presented in logarithmic scale due to the wide range of assessed data. Though in some cases renewable energy technologies are already economically competitive, the production costs are currently often higher than market energy prices. Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

If you live in the city of Exxon/Mobil – I mean, Torrance, it will seem like an alternative universe full of knowledgeable, hard-working, committed, productive people in stark contrast to their mirror opposites on the Torrance Environmental Commission. Their presentations have been thorough, comprehensive, well-researched and well presented.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2009

The links between deforestation and climate change are firmly on the political radar and there is optimism that REDD [Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] will form part of a new global climate partnership, but the role and the opportunity presented by other ecosystems are still overlooked. Wider Benefits.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A Potential Path for Savings & Sustainability Powder coatings in EV production promise potential boosts to the sustainability and resilience of electric vehicles. Parts with short life cycles last longer, and manufacturers waste less money on unnecessary repairs, maintenance and production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Harvesting/Dewatering Technology for Algal Biofuels Production. The Office of Biomass Program (OBP) is seeking Phase III applications to further commercial development of harvesting/dewatering processes—contingent upon successful completion of SBIR Phase I or Phase II development—to support the production of algal biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2018

With immediate effect, up to 10,000 electric vans per year will run off the production line at the automotive supplier’s new 78,000 m 2 factory in Düren, corresponding to a daily production rate of 46 vehicles (in single shift operation). That’s why we’re delighted to be able to start production in Düren.

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