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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) Click to enlarge.

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Stanford team develops new ultrahigh surface area 3D porous graphitic carbon material for improved energy storage

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Furthermore, they are generally synthesized from coal or biomass (e.g., The general strategy toward the above-mentioned graphene networks is to use graphene oxides (GOs) as building blocks. Our designer carbon is simple to make, relatively cheap and meets all of the critical requirements for high-performance electrodes.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

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The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . 2015, p127) [1]. . The reasons are numerous. .

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IEA World Energy Outlook view on the transport sector to 2035; passenger car fleet doubling to almost 1.7B units, driving oil demand up to 99 mb/d; reconfirming the end of cheap oil

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Under the central New Policies Scenario, automotive sales in non-OECD markets exceed those in the OECD by 2020, with the center of gravity of car manufacturing shifting to non-OECD countries before 2015. Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. —WEO 2011. Other Findings from WEO 2011.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. In 2015–nearly 90% of emissions. Gases: All 6 Kyoto gases. Reduced Output.

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