Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. The report was released on the opening day of KPMG’s global “Business Perspective on Sustainable Growth: Preparing for Rio+20” summit occurring this week in New York.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The number of electric cars is said to be higher than first thought,” noted the global shipping news outlet TradeWinds , “And could explain the North Sea casualty.” Firefighters have consistently reported being unable to extinguish lithium-ion battery fires regardless of how much water they apply to a conflagration.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

Ford’s zero-waste, net zero-energy, net zero-water Sustainability Showcase facility will produce more energy than it consumes, and will use geothermal heating and cooling and photovoltaic power generation. Overall potable water use will be significantly reduced through advanced water fixture selection, metering and process enhancements.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The test is part of the development phase of the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program, an Office of Fossil Energy initiative launched in 2003 to determine the best approaches for capturing and permanently storing gases that can contribute to global climate change.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Recent studies disagree on how rainfall extremes over India have changed in space and time over the past half century as well as on whether the changes observed are due to global warming or regional urbanization. —Ghosh et al. This information was provided in 1-by-1-degree spatial grids by the India Meteorological Department.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

There will be a common engine package for full-size truck, large SUV and large sedan/coupes, and the technologies and benefits will be more substantial than cylinder deactivation was in 2003, Lee said. FCA will start the global roll out of a new small gasoline engine family in 2015 which incorporates these new and emerging technologies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Central Pacific Ocean surface temperatures have now exceeded temperatures observed during 2002-2003 and 2006-2007 events, and are approaching temperatures observed during the 1997-1998 season. Trade winds are also weaker than normal across the Pacific, reducing heat discharge from ocean water. F) above average. temperatures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2014

The Gila discovery was made by an exploration well on Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles (483 miles) southwest of New Orleans, in approximately 4,900 feet (1,494 meters) of water. The lease for Keathley Canyon Block 93 was acquired in the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease OCS Sale 187 in 2003. —Joseph H.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Click to enlarge. —Kiuru-Griffith, Executive Director of IFQC.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

They are commonly used for electricity, gas, or water monitoring. For electricity, these meters use sensors to measure the flow of electric current, while gas and water meters use sensors to measure the volume of gas or water passing through.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2011

Support from the Scottish Enterprise-administered WATERS fund (Wave and Tidal Energy: Research, Development and Demonstration Support) enabled a 1:9 scale model of the AWS-III to be tested in Loch Ness in 2010. GW of lease already awarded for tidal and wave projects in Scottish waters. today to around 30% by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The growth in hydrous ethanol, which uses a blend of 94-95% ethanol to 5-6% water, rapidly increased during the 1980s, with consumption peaking in 1989. Consumption of anhydrous ethanol has grown steadily since the 1990s, peaking in 2003.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2010

Although the oceanic CH 4 flux should be revised, the current estimate is not alarmingly altering the contemporary global CH 4 budget. Starting in the fall of 2003, Shakhova, Semiletov and the rest of their team took the studies offshore. Methane levels throughout the Arctic are usually 8 to 10 percent higher than the global baseline.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

meters (21 feet) of global sea rise. A 2006 study by Wahr and Velicogna using the GRACE satellite indicated that Greenland lost roughly 684 cubic kilometers (164 cubic miles) of ice from April 2004 to April 2006—more than the volume of water in Lake Erie. inches) of global sea-level rise per year. millimeters (0.02

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The E-KIZUNA Project, managed by the city in collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders, aims to help fight global warming and realize a sustainable, low-carbon society through the popularization of electric vehicles. (In Honda Motor Co., and the city of Saitama signed an agreement to cooperate in the E-KIZUNA Project. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007). Professor Jacoby is co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. The study found that there are significant global supplies of conventional gas.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

We define “green&# by the use of renewable energy, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the savings of energy currently wasted, the most sustainable and conservation-minded water policies, and the most prudent and efficient use of recycling and waste management principles. 3. Water Conservation. Mission of Task Force.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher in 2008 than in 1990. If the surface is covered with water, methane-producing bacteria break down the organic matter. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1980-2010, as compared to baseline scenarios used by the IPCC to.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. —Miettinen et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2009

Separately, researchers from NASA Goddard’s Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have developed a new detection technique and a new satellite instrument—the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS)—to measure accurately aerosols’ composition, size, and global distribution. University of Maryland Visibility Database.

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Climate Climate Change Maryland 2007 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama noted that last year, US oil production reached its highest level since 2003 and that for the first time in more than a decade, imported oil accounted for less than half the liquid fuel consumed. He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2009

Iron Hypothesis adherents suggest global warming can be slowed or even reversed by fertilizing plankton with iron in regions that are iron-poor but rich in other nutrients like nitrogen, silicon, and phosphorus. Bishop and Wood report their results in a forthcoming issue of the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles. —Jim Bishop.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

Using light water reactor (LWR) technology, the NuScale Power Module is cooled by natural circulation, is entirely self-contained and is installed underwater and underground to maximize safety. The reactor and containment vessel operate inside a water-filled pool built below grade. Water is heated as it passes over the core (3).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. This data has come in large part from ICESat , launched in 2003, and its successor, ICESat-2 , launched in 2018. And the presence of water can give indications about the temperature of the surrounding ice.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Honda, which began leasing hydrogen fuel cell FCX Claritysedans in Los Angeles last year, still sees hydrogen as the bestlong-term alternative to gasoline as a fuel that can cut carbonexhaust tied to global warming, President Takeo Fukui said in aninterview. Bush in 2003 committed$1.2 percent, to $27.65 at 4:01 p.m. Former U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2011

From FY 2003 to FY 2007 in Iraq and Afghanistan, a total of more than 3,000 Army personnel and contractors were wounded or killed in action from attacks on fuel and water resupply convoys. The routes are laced with roadside bombs and prone to ambush, he noted, resulting in 1,100 insurgent attacks last year. higher food prices; and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

Parks served on two of the US DRIVE Partnership’s Technical Teams—Hydrogen Storage and Hydrogen Delivery—since the energy partners were added to the partnership in 2003. Pin-Ching is the Principal Group Manager of the Photobiology Group at NREL, where she has been working for nearly 35 years.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Leviathan-1, located in approximately 5,400 feet (1,645 meters) of water, is about 80 miles (130 kilometers) offshore of Haifa and 29 miles (47 kilometers) southwest of the Tamar discovery. From 2002 to 2003, Wurmser served as senior advisor to Under Secretary of State John Bolton.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are This is a mirror of the map at Googles RechargeIt site (including icons for YouTube videos on both PHEVs and EVs). Burbank Water and Power 2007 Prius by Energy CS, May 2007, (Burbank, CA).

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 5, 2009

We covered: global warming, nuclear power, clean air, smart growth, globalization and the environment. And on globalization we actually had a union person speak. Then in 2003 we presented a forum on Iraq, “Voices From the Streets.&# I agree, but I can see where you could get in political hot water with that.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Solid majorities of Californians favor state policies to curb global warming, according to a survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) with support from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. And one in three Republicans (34%) say global warming will never happen, an increase of 10 points since last year (24%).

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