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Study suggests current levels of methane leakage would result in numerous decades of more rapid climate change from a shift to natural gas vehicles

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emissions through the natural gas supply network, hereafter referred to as CH 4. Using this approach, they found that converting a fleet of cars from gasoline to CNG would result in decades of more rapid climate change because of greater radiative forcing in the early years after the conversion. —Alvarez et al.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million. ALPHA AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. 800,000.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) References. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2. Also see Appendix E and Reference 1.). Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v.

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