Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Preliminary estimates published in the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) annual trends and projections assessments show a 0.6% The energy sector was able to reduce its emissions due to the decreasing share of coal used to produce electricity and heat in the EU. emissions increase in 2017 from 2016. in 2017 from 2016.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Besides all the damage to Hermosa’s health, environment, safety and quality of life the drilling for oil in their 1.4 It’s already figured into their companies value and stock price. ” What a no-brainer.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

According to an independent study by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), more than 674 million Indian citizens are likely to breathe air with high concentrations of PM 2.5 —Markus Amann, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program director at IIASA.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

“At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. After that, the companies plan to build a larger reactor for demonstration at sea in the early 2030s.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

The 1,000 wind turbines that the spheres could anchor could, on average, replace a conventional on-shore coal or nuclear plant. The team hopes to extend its testing to a 3-meter sphere, and then scale up to a 10-meter version to be tested in an undersea environment, if funding becomes available.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

Sweden’s Vattenfall is aiming to build an offshore, hydrogen-producing wind-turbine demonstrator in the same area. We also expect to demonstrate the viability of other key concepts and systems, as well as the ability of these systems to interact with each other reliably in the harsh environment out at sea. And if so, how, exactly?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Inefficient processes like wood- and coal-burning in domestic stoves convert less than 90 percent of the carbon fuel to CO 2 , releasing the remainder as CO and wasting some of the energy. The combustion of outmoded industrial processes can fall somewhere in the middle.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2010

million to 34 small businesses to develop innovative, sustainable technologies to protect human health and the environment. Included in the 34 FY2010 SBIR Phase I awards are the following biofuel and emissions-reduction projects: Technology Specialists, “Thermochemical Biofuels Production from Biomass Waste Materials”, $70,000.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

Major sources of air pollution from particulate matter include the inefficient use of energy by households, industry, the agriculture and transport sectors, and coal-fired power plants. In some regions, sand and desert dust, waste burning and deforestation are additional sources of air pollution.

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Get Electric Vehicle

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Now the question is to be asked, Are they that eco-friendly or that environmental promise is just a marketing strategy or are we overlooking important factors which good affect the environment in a really bad way? Now let us look at some of the reasons why the production of electric vehicles put such a large dent in the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

An emphasis on bio-fuels, which are suitable for an SOFC and derived from sources (such as cellulosic biomass, agricultural residues, or municipal solid waste) that do not compete with food supply, is required. However, they must accommodate high ripple currents, in a high temperature environment. Buildings Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Zero-Carbon Coal: Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Its wholly interpretive guidelines can be used to approve or disapprove a building, addition or remodel completely on subjective principles. Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. I went down to the Building Dept and they said, “It will be two weeks before we get back to you.” What happened?”.

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Get Electric Vehicle

APRIL 18, 2022

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. The oxygen comes from the air, while the hydrogen comes from a tank.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2009

The anaerobic digester is fed the waste from the distillation process and the wastes from 2,000 dairy cattle and 10,000 beef cattle being raised on the site. Madson identified several ethanol plants that were built in industrial settings that were able to use the waste heat, i.e. from an adjacent refinery, to produce their ethanol.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Working with Heidi, cities have been gathering data from Southern California Edison, The Gas Company, waste haulers and other contractors using Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) software, which was developed for specifically compiling this diverse data. Tags: carbon producers GHG bicycles emissions Environment L.A.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2015

Although the supply of second-use batteries has the potential to overwhelm many high-value markets for energy storage by an order of magnitude or more, battery reuse by utilities would call for a large-scale supply capable of absorbing a significant portion of these components and diverting them from premature recycling or the waste stream.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. BUILDING EFFICIENCY.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish. It is wasteful and destructive to be burning this versatile molecule; we must stop.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

Bonnie Reiss, who in addition to her other credentials has spent four years as one of Governor Schwarzenegger’s advisers had four key points to make when it was her turn to speak and she wasted no time putting things in perspective, There is no more important issue that we can all be focusing on right now in this country and on this planet.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

I imagine there will be tax incentives to build green generators when were at that stage. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean. excluding coal power in china. Nuclear waste is a problem much harder to solve than CO2, and dams have quite an impact in the environment.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

by homercles82 April 7, 2009 11:23 AM PDT Yes we will just be charging these cars using electricity that is made from naturla gas and coal fired palnts while we ignore nuclear unlike most of Europe. No, if you look at the picture it actually has 6 wheels but drives on 2 to waste energy. A steering wheel would save big bucks.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Utilities could avoid building more dirty peaking power plants. SZ (1) 6753.T

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. Do we really want to be remembered as the generation that wasted another decade?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. HOW TO ESTABLISH A SUCCESSFUL REGIONAL. GREENHOUSE GAS CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 26, 2009

So don’t waste your time calling Jane Harman’s office because she already gets it. Tell them you know that they’re in the pocket of big oil and coal and that no amount of money and power they’ve gotten for their vote is worth the shameless pro carbon response they’ve clung to. Tags: environment.

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