Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

This year’s edition highlights the growing divergence between demands for action on climate change and the actual pace of progress on reducing carbon emissions. Key findings from the BP Stats Review 2019 include: Global energy demand grew by 2.9% Coal still accounted for the largest share of power generation at 38%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Growth in oil use, particularly aviation, and coal use are behind most of the increase in 2022. —Glen Peters, a Research Director at the CICERO Center for International Climate Research. CO 2 emissions from coal use are expected to grow 1.0% [0.2% The decline in 2020 of -5.2% increase in 2021. Turmoil in energy markets.

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Global Emissions Carbon Coal 221

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The findings are outlined in three new papers published in Earth System Science Data , Environmental Research Letters , and Nature Climate Change. The decline of coal use in the European Union and United States is overshadowed by surging natural gas and oil use around the world, according to the researchers. over 2018 emissions.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change 195

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Even if you have 100 percent capture from the capture equipment, it is still worse, from a social cost perspective, than replacing a coal or gas plant with a wind farm because carbon capture never reduces air pollution and always has a capture equipment cost. —Mark Jacobson. In both plants, natural gas turbines power the equipment.

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Pollution Carbon Coal Wind 271

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change?

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 131

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2% MMbtu in Russia, $8.7/MMbtu

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Gas Global Industrial Industry 243

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The sedimentary-clay deposit at Thacker Pass will use similar mining techniques to many coal deposits. In 2019, Lithium Americas entered into a mine design, consulting and mine operations agreement with Sawtooth Mining, a subsidiary of North American Coal.

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Nevada Coal Pollution Argentina 273

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Coal combustion alone was responsible for half of those deaths, with natural gas and oil combustion accounting for the other half. is the sixth highest risk factor for deaths globally, accounting for nearly four million deaths in 2019 alone. According to HEI’s State of Global Air , PM 2.5 in African countries. in African countries.

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Global St. Louis Fuel Pollution 472

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

This agreement is a win-win for the laid-off coal miners who will work in this facility, their families and their communities. Sparkz was founded in late 2019 and has been in innovation mode. Earlier post.). We have lost thousands of mining jobs over the last decade in West Virginia. —UMWA International President Cecil E.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

The project also highlights the ongoing transformation: Here, where coal was long liquefied into gasoline, the active material for EV batteries will be produced from now on. We are happy to support this transformation with IPCEI funding.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Carbon dioxide emissions from S energy consumption will remain near current levels through 2050, according to projections in EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2019. Source: US Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review, Annual Energy Outlook 2019 Reference case.

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Gas Emissions Energy Coal 220

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2021

More frequent boom-bust cycles will harm consumers and producers recovering from COVID, set back UN Climate and Sustainable Development goals and threaten global security. Global demand for oil and gas, meanwhile, has rebounded to near 2019 levels and is set to keep rising for several years. Investment slumped by 30% in 2020.

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Price Oil Asia Gas 416

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

BIT:ENI) recently unveiled what has been hailed as the most ambitious climate pledge yet by an oil supermajor. Saft has already gained considerable traction after generating $100 million in free cash flow for its parent company in 2019. #3 Good case in point: Italian multinational oil and gas giant Eni S.p.A.

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Oil Renewable Wind Gas-Electric 418

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). Summer fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) increases on average and largest in areas with increased coal-fired power generation demands. —first author Jordan Schnell, a postdoc with the Ubben Program for Climate and Carbon Science in the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern.

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Conversion Jordan Ozone Coal 281

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

This investment is the next step in advancing the partnership formed between Rio Tinto, China Baowu and Tsinghua University in 2019 to develop and implement new methods to reduce carbon emissions and improve environmental performance across the steel value chain. Earlier post.).

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Carbon China Emissions Climate 170

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The partners from industry and power generation will use this facility to research into future breakthrough technologies which are needed to meet global climate goals over the long-term. The plant is scheduled to be fully operational by spring 2019. The start of the comprehensive two-year test program is planned for spring 2019.

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Hydrogen Industrial Industry Green 240

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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Renewable Energy Portland Climate Change 292

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

It aims to take the final investment decision (FID) later in 2019 as it pursues the development work and finalizes the selection of an engineering and procurement contractor (EPC). This is a departure from the reality of today, where methanol is generally produced from natural gas or coal.

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Waste Netherlands Convert Coal 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The strategy is centred around two main technology routes, as introduced in the first ArcelorMittal Europe climate action report published earlier this year: The use of hydrogen in DRI-EAF (Direct Reduced Iron - Electric Arc Furnace) and, also, the blast furnace. The expansion of its Smart Carbon route, also utilizing hydrogen.

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Europe Green 2020 Hydrogen 382

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. This report represents the floor, not the ceiling, of the US plastics industry’s climate impact. million tons of GHG each year.

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Coal Industrial Industry Climate Change 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

lower in 2017 than the prior year (after accounting for sequestration from the land sector), and power sector emissions fell 4.2%, according to the 2019 edition of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual report on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Year-over-year, US greenhouse gas emissions were 0.5%

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2017 EPA Transportation 2005 199

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2019

Regional differences in climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns compound to produce significant regional heterogeneity in the GHG benefits of electrification. The results highlight the need for a portfolio of fuel efficient offerings to recognize the heterogeneity of regional climate, electric grid burdens, and driving patterns.

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MIT Ford Vehicles Gasoline-Electric 236

EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Climate Change. And while preventing working people earning a livelihood may make them feel good, it does nothing to solve the real problem of climate change. . Yet this crisis is a mere harbinger of the candle-lit future that awaits us if we do not change course. Gas is the only answer.

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Power Powered Wind Coal 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

In 2019, Amazon announced plans to obtain 100,000 electric delivery vehicles. A vehicle charged from solar or wind energy and a vehicle charged from a coal- or natural gas-fired power plant will have very different environmental impacts. Though EVs represent a small fraction of delivery vehicles today, the number is growing.

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Charging Vehicles Gas-Electric Emissions 186

EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water.

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Hydrogen Gas-Electric Coal Gas 52

My Electric Car

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It’s staggering that having witnessed and endured the 2019 unprecedented bush fires and seeing them replicated in the United States our ‘leaders’ response is to inject more subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. There must be vision of the future and we all know that the future is not coal, oil and gas.

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Australia Coal Oil Climate Change 52

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. There were nearly 40 million such flights in 2019. climate scientist Michael E. Research takes a long time. cancel the launch. Mann has said.

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Ozone Solar Climate Change Climate 115

Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

The preparations for exclusively green electricity for a climate-friendly production in Europe are already well advanced. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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Germany Mercedes CO2 Supplies 170

Cars That Think

JUNE 24, 2022

The country’s electricity consumption in 2019 was nearly six times as great as in 1990. While electricity from older coal plants in India costs 2.7 In 2021, about 73 percent of the country’s electricity was produced from coal, and only 9.6 For coal, the capacity utilization rate can go as high as 90 percent.

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Coal Energy Storage Wind India 87

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

After hitting a low in April, global emissions rebounded strongly and rose above 2019 levels in December. If governments don’t move quickly with the right energy policies, this could put at risk the world’s historic opportunity to make 2019 the definitive peak in global emissions. China was the only major economy that grew in 2020.

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Emissions Global Carbon 2020 433

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2022

Three months ago the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP26) declared that by 2030 the world must cut total carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent relative to the 2010 level, which was 30.4 In 2019 the world produced 1.28 billion tonnes of pig (cast) iron in blast furnaces fueled with coke made from metallurgical coal. billion tonnes.

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Carbon Climate Emissions Hydrogen 93

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. The result is a win–win for climate and security.

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Carbon Europe Climate Change Saudi Arabia 207

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

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. . The reasons are numerous. . Electrek [link] accessed 19/5/2020.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. In 2019, around 11% of global primary energy came from renewable technologies. power generation.

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EV Connect

AUGUST 8, 2022

The central “Plug and Charge” section was released in 2014, but the standard continues to be updated and improved, with the main page for it on their website being the 2019 version. A look at the news on any given day will show a new story of climate disaster, with Texas serving as a canary in the coal mine. And the U.S.

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Charging Grid Climate Change Plug-in 52

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

So, vulnerable communities in Puerto Rico and elsewhere must decide how they will cope with future disasters, intensified by the effects of a changing climate. In 2019, in partnership with the Honnold Foundation and other organizations, Casa Pueblo started connecting the Adjuntas town square to two solar-powered microgrids. percent.

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Drive Electric

JUNE 16, 2021

The planet has finally awoken to the global climate crisis we’re facing. Climate change is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal. The ULEZ was introduced in April 2019 and applies to all vehicles in central London. And those pesky charges mean it’s often not very cost-effective either.

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London Petrol Charging Miles 98