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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. To prove it, eight manufacturers are publicly testing their prototypes in the Cold-Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge , hosted by the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Then add carbon. Climate neutrality. needed to produce this fuel from the surrounding air, turning a greenhouse gas into a resource. Vehicles on the road, when powered by synthetic fuel, are ultimately climate-neutral. Present studies suggest that a pure fuel cost of between €1.20 Finally, combine CO? to US$5.84

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Of that $37 billion, health costs added up to $24 billion in 2015; the $24 billion represents the monetized sum of harmful emissions responsible for an estimated 220,000 work-loss days, more than 109,000 asthma exacerbations, hundreds of thousands of other respiratory impacts, and 2,580 premature deaths. in hidden health and climate costs.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Now I want to be clear: I am inspired by the Administration’s commitment to phasing out carbon emissions. We do have a climate crisis that needs to be addressed. Ultimately, to manage climate change, the world needs to stop emitting greenhouse gases from vehicles and power plants. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight.

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JULY 7, 2013

Results from a new study by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge in the UK has suggest that the social cost of carbon dioxide is higher in a low economic growth world. A paper on the study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1935.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

However, the resulting low gas prices, as well as clean air and climate policies, will promote further switching to gas from other more polluting energy sources, such as oil and coal. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. Low-carbon gas.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

GTI has released a site-specific engineering design titled “ Low-Carbon Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from Wood Wastes ”. The RNG product with very low carbon intensity could be used for carbon emission reductions in the transportation, industrial, commercial, and residential energy sectors.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

million in funding to enable the sustainable use of domestic biomass and waste resources, such as agricultural residues and algae, to produce low-carbon biofuels and bioproducts. The US Department of Energy announced $25.5

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JANUARY 29, 2019

million Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) OPEEN+ grant to develop a method to convert natural gas into carbon nanotubes for materials that can replace metals in large-scale applications. For most of the history of civilization, we used carbon primarily as source of materials, clothing and food.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The analysis combines process engineering, spatial optimization, and lifecycle assessment to consider the technical, economic, and institutional feasibility of near-term carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). An open-access paper on the work is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). —Sean McCoy.

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JULY 19, 2017

Stuart Licht have demonstrated the first facile high-yield, low-energy synthesis of macroscopic length carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—carbon nanotube wool—from CO 2 using molten carbonate electrolysis ( earlier post ). This synthesis consumes only CO 2 and electricity, and is constrained only by the cost of electricity.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

signed SB 1383 , establishing the nation’s toughest restrictions on super pollutants including black carbon, fluorinated gases and methane. The law is in addition to California’s existing raft of climate legislation. Black carbon, for example, has a global warming potential 3200 times that of CO 2 on a 20-year time scale.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

The human health benefits associated with improvements in air quality related to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions improvements can offset 26–1,050% of the cost of US carbon policies, depending upon the type of policy, according to a new study by a team from MIT. Carbon-reduction policies significantly improve air quality.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The nuclear power plant supplies about 17% of California’s zero-carbon electricity and 9% of total electricity. An extension allows the state to rely less on natural gas and more on clean resources for the electricity grid. The CEC also approved a $1-billion investment plan for clean energy resources as required by SB 846.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivered its starkest warning ever. At the same time, it noted, there is still a window in which humans can alter Earth's climate path. The actions we take to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases can impact the future climate, the report emphasizes.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The paper is published in the journal Nature Climate Change. A lot of people think that a large-scale shift to EVs will mostly solve our climate problems in the passenger vehicle sector. The team estimated 2015–2050 LDV sectoral carbon budgets of 44–50 GtCO 2 between the SSPs. —Milovanoff et al.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The day reminds us of the need to protect our planet and its ecosystems against the worsening climate crisis. The climate crisis is threatening people across the world, as well as every species of animal and plant life. Climate change is a global societal crisis that is causing devastating consequences.

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MARCH 16, 2021

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state’s electricity system can become carbon-free by 2045. California’s electricity mix is already more than 60% carbon-free.

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DECEMBER 11, 2011

Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Green Climate Fund. future agreements.

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MARCH 19, 2013

A report published by Cambridge Econometrics and Ricardo-AEA concludes that overall, the cost of technologies required to meet proposed European 2020 CO 2 regulations for vehicles (95 g/km for cars and 147 g/km for vans) will be more than offset by the resultant fuel savings. —“An Economic Assessment of Low Carbon Vehicles”.

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JUNE 28, 2021

In an open-access paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the team reports its findings on the analysis of five DMM reaction pathways in terms of exergy efficiency, production cost, and climate impact. With considerable catalyst improvements, a maximum exergy efficiency of 92% and minimum production cost of 2.0$

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AUGUST 17, 2021

The UK government has launched a Hydrogen Strategy intended to create a thriving low-carbon hydrogen sector—blue and green—in the UK over the next decade and beyond. The investment will help industries to develop low carbon alternatives for industrial fuels, including hydrogen, which will be key to meeting climate commitments.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Historical Trends in Black Carbon Emissions from Surface Transportation (teragrams of black carbon per year). The transportation sector accounted for approximately 19% of global black carbon emissions in the year 2000, according to the report. Source: Minjares et al. Click to enlarge. Source: Minjares et al., Click to enlarge.

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MAY 11, 2022

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has released the draft 2022 Climate Change Scoping Plan —the third update to the state’s initial 2008 Scoping Plan. It achieves this goal by building on and accelerating regulations, incentives, and carbon pricing that have been in place for a decade and a half.

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APRIL 13, 2014

an innovator in the field of enzyme-enabled carbon capture technology, announced that it has exceeded the second set of technical performance milestones for its oil sands project. CO 2 Solutions’ technology platform uses carbonic anhydrase to accelerate the capture of CO 2 with energy-efficient solvents. CO 2 Solutions’ process.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Responsible Battery Coalition, in partnership with the University of Michigan Center for Sustainable Systems, launched a comprehensive research project to compare the total cost of ownership of gas and electric vehicles (EVs). —Steve Christensen, Executive Director of RBC. Refueling patterns based on driver time valuation.

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MAY 6, 2021

A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car, and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a similarly sized gas-fired power plant. However, in climate-driven scenarios, these positions are reversed well before 2040. Source: IEA.

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AUGUST 29, 2015

The California Air Resources Board has awarded 2,000 Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Vouchers. Funding for this program is primarily supported through California Climate Investments, programs funded by the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund using proceeds from the state’s cap-and-trade auctions.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Stuart Licht at The George Washington University in Washington, DC has developed a low-cost, high-yield and scalable process for the electrolytic conversion of atmospheric CO 2 dissolved in molten carbonates into carbon nanofibers (CNFs.) Now, the team, which includes postdoctoral fellow Jiawen Ren, Ph.D.,

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MAY 15, 2014

They also found that abundant natural gas can, however, help reduce the costs of achieving GHG reduction goals. In this paper, we focus on the implications of growing shale gas production for the climate. Over the range of scenarios that we examine, abundant natural gas by itself is neither a climate hero nor a climate villain.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2011

As commissioned by the Australian Government in 2010, the Garnaut Climate Change Review, led by Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued the first of a series of papers scheduled for this month and next updating the 2008 Climate Change Review. —2008 Climate Change Review. Earlier post.) The conclusions will only be.

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APRIL 2, 2013

Operational optimization strategies such as vehicle assignment and scheduling can exploit this heterogeneous mix and minimize the climate and health impacts as well as operating costs of transit systems with minimal capital expenditure, they suggest. minimizing climate impacts). —Gouge et al.

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Stuart Licht. —Licht et al.

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JUNE 30, 2011

How people choose to consume resources and use contraception influences their responses to climate change, according to a new study by a team of psychologists. Carpool lanes decrease carbon dioxide emissions and lower costs of commuting. Some cultural factors are structural. Swim, Janet K.; doi: 10.1037/a0023472.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

It is increasingly clear that climate change will have potentially large impacts on the nation’s highways, railroads, waterways, airports and pipelines. According to the University Center for Atmospheric Research, more than 75% of natural disasters are triggered directly or indirectly by weather and climate.

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