Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. Another major shift is that China has become a voracious energy importer, especially of coal and liquefied natural gas. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2012

According to the newly released North American Carbon Storage Atlas ( NACSA ), there is at least 500 years of geologic storage for carbon dioxide emissions in North America. The North American Carbon Atlas Partnership was formed under the North American Energy Working Group in 2001.

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Mexico Canada North America CO2 231

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Clean Air Choice actions taken by consumers and by commercial and government fleets to decrease vehicle emissions are vitally important to addressing these public-health issues and improving the quality of life in our communities. US EPA’s Clean Diesel Program: Diesel emissions account for 6.3 Upstream GHG emissions.

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Chicago Clean Cleaning 2017 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

satellite imagery; from left, 1975, 1989, and 2001. UNFCCC discussions of deforestation are conducted under the umbrella of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries ( REDD ) framework. Increased emissions arising from deforestation were not addressed by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. by Jack Rosebro.

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Google Climate Change Brazil 2006 294

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2009

Hertwich and Xiangping Zhang, is to obtain an easy to handle fuel with near-zero CO 2 emission and reduced land-use requirements compared to first and second generation biofuels. For comparison, they also modeled the production of methanol using only biomass as a fuel and also using coal as source of both carbon and energy.

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Solar Molten Salt Fuel Production 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Change in annual linear snow cover from 1990 to 2001. The main reason for the increase is the accelerated economic activity in India and China over the last 20 years; top sources of black carbon include shipping, vehicle emissions, coal burning and inefficient stoves. Black carbon alone contributes at least 30% of this sum.

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Carbon India 2000 Bangladesh 186

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Carbon-dioxide emissions from these larger vehicles are 5–15% higher as a result (4.69×10 10 11 kg with no size changes)—the equivalent to adding three to ten coal-fired power plants to the electricity grid each year. 10 11 –5.17×10 10 11 kg for one year of produced vehicles compared to 4.47×10 —Whitefoot and Skerlos.

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Standards Fuel Economy Vehicles Economy 240

Green Cars News

JUNE 28, 2009

With oil prices surging in the summer of 2008, the annual increase in global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from oil, coal, gas and cement production appear to have halved according to preliminary estimates by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. per cent in 2008, compared to 3.3 per cent in 2007. per cent.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2009

RenDiesel, the renewable synthetic diesel to be produced at the facility, meets all applicable fuels standards, is compatible with existing engines and pipelines and burns cleanly, with emissions of particulates and other regulated pollutants significantly lower than the emissions from the combustion of CARB ultra-low sulfur diesel.

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California Power Powered Building 170

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

Headwaters direct coal liquefaction process. Headwaters Inc and Axens are forming a strategic alliance to provide a single-source solution for producing synthetic fuels by direct coal liquefaction (DCL) alone or in combination with refinery residues or biomass. Up to 50% more liquid product per ton of coal. Source: Headwaters.

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Coal Diesel Hydrogen Gasoline 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2014

Contribution of modeled CO 2 emissions from SOC to the life cycle of biofuel from corn residue. The findings cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue can be used to meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 60% compared to gasoline. Error bars are ± one standard deviation.

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Carbon Emissions CO2 Nebraska 220

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions 236

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The low annual rate of global reduction of carbon emissions per unit of GDP needed to limit global warming to 2 °C—based on the probability assessments of the UN IPCC—is insufficient to achieve that goal, according to the latest Low Carbon Economy Index published by business consultancy PwC. per year through 2050.

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

Indeed I am talking about Big Dick Cheney, who in addition to his many other immoral and criminal acts also shamelessly promoted the excessive use of oil, coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels by encouraging Americans to use all the energy they could afford to put on their credit cards. The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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