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Study finds that replacement programs that reduce vehicle lifetime can result in increased lifecycle CO2 emissions

Green Car Congress

Effects of changes in the average lifespan of ordinary passenger cars newly registered between 1990-2000 on total induced CO 2 emissions in 2000. Conversely, encouraging shortened vehicle lifetime via vehicle replacement schemes can result in higher total-induced greenhouse gas emissions, the authors found.

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Updated Life Cycle Analysis of Soybean Production and Products Show Environmental Improvements

Green Car Congress

A key objective was to update life cycle inventory (LCI) databases for soybean production and processing as well as conversion into four key soy-derived feedstocks (methyl soyate, soy lube base stock, soy polyol, and soy resin) used in fuel and industrial products. kg (for the 3.36 kg (for the 3.36

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

Cars That Think

At UCLA, she designed one of the first systems for analog-to-digital conversion of electrical activity from the nervous system. She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Thelma Estrin, who also worked on the WEIZAC, championed the use of computers for medical research and treatment.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business. In 2000 there couldn’t have been too many old timers in the solar industry. I know these them, I lived in Japan I know these people, I’ve sat and had conversations with them. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, IT’S ABOUT SPINNING THINGS FAST.

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Zion becomes first national park with an all-electric shuttle bus service

Baua Electric

Those buses went into service in 2000, and helped to revitalize the park by reducing noise and pollution from traffic, which are always a scourge in beautiful natural areas. The fleet’s full conversion was announced this week , but the buses have already been operating and shuttling visitors.

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? Such a change is actually well underway. This conversion happens in your phone’s or laptop’s wall charger, in the much larger chargers and inverters that power electric vehicles, and elsewhere.

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ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics double lipid production in algae species without inhibiting growth

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Synthetic Genomics’ laboratory discovered a new process for increasing oil production by identifying a genetic switch that could be fine-tuned to regulate the conversion of carbon to oil in the algae species, Nannochloropsis gaditana. In 2016, ExxonMobil announced its partnership with Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy, Inc.