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Top Climate Scientist on Lessons Not Learned from Electric Car Debacle

Plugs and Cars

There are some lessons we need to learn as we are inundated with adverts about "clean coal," if we are not to get snookered as enviros did over the electric car. From his post at NASA he warned Congress and us what's up with global warming long ago.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

As private companies, automobile manufacturers look for the lowest cost means of getting from A to B and the premiums that they can charge for getting from A to B faster. These companies have sunk costs invested in coal, gas and oil plants and are content in maximizing the return on these investments. Power plant capital costs.

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IEA: improving efficiency of road-freight transport critical to reduce oil-demand growth; three areas of focus

Green Car Congress

This growth is expected to lead to a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions of nearly 900 million tonnes through 2050, or about the same level of emissions growth as from coal use in the power and the entire industry sector combined.

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Dark Secrets at The Heart EV Supply chain We Often Fail to Address

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Yes, They Are Greener But… On the surface, EVs are more ecological than gasoline cars because 70-80% of the pollution caused by automobiles comes from their tailpipe and EVs don’t have tailpipe emissions. We should use that power to address the dirty secret at the heart of the clean mobility revolution. Addressing The issues.

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Separate MIT, IEA reports both outline major expansion in role of natural gas; caution on climate benefits

Green Car Congress

It is clean and flexible. This is particularly true in the electric power sector, where, in the US, natural gas sets the cost benchmark against which other clean power sources must compete to remove the marginal ton of CO 2. Support for methanol fueling infrastructure should also be considered.

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House Chairmen Waxman, Markey Release Draft of Energy and Climate Legislation; Among the Many Provisions Are Cap-and-Trade, Harmonization of CAFE and California Vehicle Regulations, and Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Green Car Congress

The bill also modifies the Clean Air Act to require the development of greenhouse gas emissions standards for all other mobile sources—e.g., A transitioning title intended to protect US consumers and industry and promotes green jobs during the transition to a clean energy economy. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Green Star to Demonstrate Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

and International Consortium of automobile companies and associated supply companies which includes Green Star Products as an engineering and technology provider. Green Star Products is not in competition with Toyota or any other major automobile manufacturer because it is targeting a different market.

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