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Green Car Congress
MARCH 13, 2012
Researchers at the University of Alberta (Canada) have quantified the transformation of the boreal landscape by open-pit oil sands mining in Alberta, Canada to evaluate its effect on carbon storage and sequestration. million metric tons of stored carbon. Converting from units of carbon to CO 2 equivalents, this is between 41.8
Green Car Congress
APRIL 27, 2012
When peat swamps are drained for agriculture, the peat begins to decompose, and is an enormous source of carbon emissions. Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Wärtsilä Corporation has completed the conversion of the 25,000 dwt product tanker Bit Viking from heavy fuel oil to liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation. The conversion enables the Bit Viking to qualify for lower nitrogen oxides (NO x ) emission taxes under the Norwegian NO x fund scheme. Click to enlarge.
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NOVEMBER 4, 2011
A new study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the conversion and degradation of peatland in palm oil plantations in Southeast Asia has determined that past studies have generally significantly underestimated emissions associated with palm oil grown on peatland. —Page et al.
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OCTOBER 8, 2012
Oil palm supplies more than 30% of world vegetable oil production. Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Indonesia is the leading producer of palm and palm kernel oil.
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APRIL 30, 2013
John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil Company and founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy (CFAE), is joining the Fuel Freedom Foundation (FFF) Advisory Board. There will not be enough oil to stay on the path we’re on globally over the short- and medium-, let alone the long-term. We need a competitor for oil.
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AUGUST 3, 2010
A comparison of estimates of the energy return on investment (EROI) at the wellhead for conventional crude oil, or for crude product prior to refining for oil shale. While one could argue that the char and gas produced and consumed within the shale conversion process has zero opportunity cost—i.e., Click to enlarge.
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