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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

Green Car Congress

In the US alone, oil reserves have expanded 59% between 2000 and 2014, and natural gas reserves have expanded 94% in the same time. This requires estimates of total reserves and resources of each fossil fuel, carbon conversion factors, estimates of historical emissions, and a model to convert carbon dioxide emissions into temperature changes.

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Best speakers ever

Electric Auto Association

When Straubel—also known for his 1984 Porsche 944 EV conversion—left Tesla, he founded Redwood Materials , a leading lithium battery recycling company in Carson City, Nevada. More recently, Gage became the CEO of EVGrid , working on Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech. That was quite a conversion.” After that, the word spread fast.”

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Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide Fight for Green Tech Domination

Cars That Think

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. Why Power Conversion Matters in Climate Calculations Before we get to the semiconductors themselves, let’s first consider why we need them.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Only PHEVs and battery EVs get cleaner as they get older - because the electric grid gets cleaner every decade.

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New systems biology model for wood formation can lead to progress in biofuel and green chemistry applications

Green Car Congress

The metabolic grid consists of 24 metabolites (underlined numbers within structures), 37 reaction fluxes (white numbers on black circles), 104 reaction kinetic parameters and 103 inhibition kinetic parameters. Lignin is polymerized from three monomers (monolignols) produced by a grid-like pathway. The model tracks 25 key wood traits.

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

Creative Greenius

I went and spoke to their City Council and said “For $50,000 a house I’ll put in solar AND battery systems and take you off the grid. If you’re going to do it, take the homes off the grid. That’s pretty mean to the rest of the grid. When I got back from Japan in 2000 I didn’t want to start a computer business.

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DOE to award $49.4M for advanced vehicle technologies research; meeting Tier 3 emissions

Green Car Congress

At the vehicle level, this results in a reduced thermal burden on the cooling system; simplification of the cooling system hardware; and reduced volume and lower weight for the motor inverter, power converter and associated cooling components. Efficiency at 2bar BMEP, 2000 rpm. Efficiency at 2000 rpm and 20% of peak load.

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