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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

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Bill McKibben’s “Do The Math” article in 2012′s Rolling Stone magazine taught us that we cannot burn any more than 565 gigatons of carbon if we want to stay at 2° or lower. But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Eronen and Ylönen recognized the benefits of water-based heat storage as well as its limitations.

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How to Hasten India’s Transition Away From Coal

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Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. costs less than fossil-fuel-based electricity.

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The Dirty Truth of Petrol & Diesel Vehicles

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By PluginIndia In this article and video, we show the real truth on how Petrol and Diesel vehicles cause far more air pollution compared to electric vehicles. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. The sources for numbers and facts are at the end of the article. In India 39.1%

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Green Hydrogen Cars: How They are Different?

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To put it another way, instead of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, these two components are joined to make water and electricity The electricity is then utilized to power the car’s drive train, leaving just water as a waste product. Hydrogen has a long history of working with industry.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. Almost all hydrogen produced today is designated as brown, black, or gray, meaning it was generated by burning natural gas or coal. The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.

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List of The Best 10 Alternative Fuels for Cars that Could Replace Gasoline

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It is a liquid alcohol fuel produced from a variety of feedstocks, including natural gas, coal, biomass, or even carbon dioxide. Fuel cells do not emit any harmful gases and they emit water as biproduct of energy conversion. #10 . #2 Methanol Methanol is another alternative fuel that can be used in vehicles.