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Tesla’s most-sustainable cryptocurrency options aren’t plentiful but they are ideal

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. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post last night. Tesla’s mission when it was established in 2003 was to “accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.”

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New inventory of black carbon emissions from China finds 2007 levels higher than previously reported

Green Car Congress

The paper by researchers from Peking University and Environment Canada appears in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. 2007); and predicted national data from the National Long-term Development Plan (NLDP) (2008?2050). 1979); provincial data from the China Energy Statistics Yearbook (CESY) (1980?2007); Click to enlarge.

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Enel Launches Industrial-Scale Hydrogen-Fueled Power Plant

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The efficiency of the process is increased by taking the heat from the emissions in order to generate high-temperature steam, which is sent to the nearby coal-fired plant to generate an additional 4 MW of power capacity. Since 2008, it has been upgraded with new environmental systems. The plant, which uses 1.3

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Study of lead isotopes provides insight into aerosols transport from Asia to US

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The team used the lead particles’ isotopic signature to trace some of the lead’s origins to coal and metal ore found only in Asia. “ In Asia, for example, mineral dust and other sources of lead such as coal and metal ore have particularly high proportions of 208Pb, the isotope that forms from radioactive decay of thorium. Technol. ,

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Meanwhile the plug-in EV RAV-4s they made in 1997-2003 are still working just fine - the ones they didn’t crush and actually allowed people to buy. We can dump both Killer Coal and Big Oil by generating our electricity with solar panels and charging your electric car with the all clean, all green energy from the sun.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Batteries not ready.

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