Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

—Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. 3Degrees provides renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets to Fortune 500 companies, green building firms, and other organizations. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage. 3Degrees and carbon offsets.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The company is joining a list of companies committing to act on climate change through membership of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with climate science. Launched on Earth Day, Racing.Green. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

billion more solar panels. However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. I want to build more robots that improve the environment we live in. Why aren’t there more roboticists working on climate change? seconds per part.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 20, 2023

Climate change is a problem for communities around the world. To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. The EPICS contest asked students and faculty at U.S.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Green software engineering is an emerging discipline consisting of best practices to build applications that reduce carbon emissions. What Is Green Software Engineering? Software may be eating the world , but it is also heating it.

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Cars That Think

JULY 5, 2023

Most of the growth of air conditioning will be in other countries,” says mechanical engineer Vince Romanin, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Gradient Comfort , “and restricting access is not fair.” Better air conditioners, in a technical sense, really only affect the last link in a long, climate-harming supply chain.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The proposal calls for what’s known as “solar geoengineering”: cooling the planet by deflecting sunlight that would otherwise strike the planet. Little is known about how, or whether, solar geoengineering might work and how the particles would react and move in the stratosphere. Concentrations of greenhouse gases are at.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. That cold isn’t in the air around the building—the night is warm. Consider solar radiation, which carries heat from the sun to Earth’s surface.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM’s focus will be offering zero-emissions vehicles across a range of price points and working with all stakeholders, including EDF, to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance while maintaining high quality jobs, which will all be needed to meet these ambitious goals. Renewable Energy.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Created by the non-profit US Green Building Council (USGBC), it is recognized worldwide. It gives projects points for environmentally conscious design and building features. For example, if someone wanted a building to be as environmentally conscious as possible, they may try to get the highest tier of LEED certification.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Most people wouldn’t even notice the difference in brightness, he said.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The museum focuses on informal science, technology, engineering, art and math (STEAM) learning and provides hands-on galleries and exhibitions as well as educational programs for families with children. There is so much potential with solar energy and battery storage to help make energy sustainable and reduce carbon emissions.

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Setec Powerr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Our principal goal should be to mitigate problems that are global in scale, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, virus transmission, and invasive species. Here in New York City, where we have a population density that supports a mass transit system, most of our fossil fuel use is to power our buildings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries. watt utility, $2.37/watt

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

California has the most far-reaching environmental laws of any state and the most integrated policy to deal with climate change of any political jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere. And we will need active collaboration at every stage with our scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, businesses and officials at all levels.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2016

Dubbed “bionic leaf 2.0,” the new system builds on previous work by Nocera, Silver and others ( earlier post ), which—though it was capable of using solar energy to make isopropanol—faced a number of challenges. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. —Daniel Nocera.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2016

The conversion process builds upon the solar thermal electro-chemical process (STEP) introduced by GWU Professor Stuart Licht and his colleagues in 2009. In short, STEP uses solar thermal energy to increase the system temperature to decrease electrolysis potentials. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. The researchers estimated that, if applied to the task of generating electricity, all of the engines in the U.S. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Those projects focused on long range transport of air pollutants into California; dairy feed management practices to reduce emissions; contribution of organic aerosols as a component of fine particulate pollution; and durability of diesel engine emission controls.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Immediately cease making all current internal combustion engine vehicles. Sell every new plug-in car owner a solar or wind powered charging station for their car. Sell every new plug-in car owner a solar or wind powered charging station for their car. Fired Up, Shovel Ready to Go.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

The hydrogen micro-bead technology is compatible with standard combustion engines and can either be used as an additive to conventional fuels where it would reduce carbon emissions, or on its own to make hydrogen gas for zero-carbon driving. Cella is a spin-off from STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 31, 2022

Tôrres is a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur. A majority noted that implementing smart building technologies that benefit sustainability, decarbonization, and energy savings is a priority at their organization. Wind, solar, and microgrids will provide reliable power while providing [a] means to limit [the] impact of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

302 million for solar energy. 231 million for building technologies. Solar energy. Building technologies. billion in applied energy research and development to position the United States as the world leader in energy technology that will address climate change, develop new industries, and create new jobs.

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JUNE 26, 2022

They also didn’t measure the energy used to build the computing equipment, or to cool the data center, or to build it and transport engineers to and from the facility. CPUs and memory used a minority, and they support many workloads simultaneously, so the team focused on GPU usage. But they were based on retrospective data.

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Blink Charging

MARCH 3, 2022

The Leaf models were used as portable power stations , with enough juice to power the average Japanese home for four days, power 6,200 smartphones, or run 100 elevator round trips in a 48-story building. . With no exhaust fumes and completely silent, a LEAF can be parked inside a building. Portable Electricity To Help Any Area .

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

For heavy-duty vehicles, the State SIP Strategy calls for combustion engine technology that is effectively 90% cleaner than today’s standards. In parallel to actions at the state level, CARB will continue to call for strong federal action to develop more stringent engine standards for cars, trucks, ships, aircraft and locomotives.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. Unlike internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs emit no direct emissions when running on electricity. mph” in the United States.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2022

AI’s effect on jobs (including engineering jobs). How do you imagine this trend changing the engineering profession? Lee: I think engineering is largely cerebral and somewhat creative work that requires analytical skills and deep understanding of problems. Can you imagine a solution for engineering? Kai-Fu Lee on….

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

The funding from A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) will support research teams from A*STAR research institutes and local institutes of higher learning to develop solutions to manage environmental deterioration, pressures on natural resources and climate change brought on by rapid growth and urbanization.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. EV Life, LLC is building the first online platform that gives drivers everything they need to switch from gas to an electric car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. Title II, Energy Efficiency , has seven subsections: Building Energy Efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That’s fine if you’re painting a robust stationary structure, like the roof of a building. —Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering and developer of the paint. This new paint achieves nearly the same benchmark of solar reflectance (97.9%) with just a single 150-micron layer of paint.

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