Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The Resnick Sustainability Institute is Caltech’s studio focused on breakthroughs that can positively alter global sustainability. Mika Järvinen (Aalto University, Finland): Resonate Award recipient for pioneering a CO 2 sequestration process that converts a low-value steel-manufacturing by-product into a valuable resource for industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2016

Researchers at Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), Finland, have developed new methods for the increasingly effective recovery of lithium from brine. The lithium and lithium carbonate used in batteries are primarily produced from salt lake deposits. The global demand for lithium increases year by year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

Major European fuel cell component developer SGL Carbon GmbH will work on the carbon fiber gas diffusion layer part of the MEA. Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin and the University of Freiburg. DANA Holding Corp. Project management support will be provided by Pretexo.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2016

The initiative has been driven by the requirement for the aviation industry to work towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. It acknowledges the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) aim to achieve carbon neutral growth by 2020 and a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. —David Gilmour, CEO for Air BP.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This marks the most significant improvement in global fuel standards for the shipping industry in 100 years, and is intended to achieve significant health benefits on a global scale. reduction of childhood asthma globally. global reduction in PM 2.5 global reduction in childhood asthma. Sofiev et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Comparison of surface temperature projections from the high-end emissions scenario, without carbon cycle feedbacks. F) rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse gasses continue. If carbon cycle feedbacks are strong then a 4 degree warming could occur even earlier. Source: Met Office.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, they’ll add equipment to spray tiny aerosol particles of calcium carbonate, the compound found in limestone, blackboard chalk, and Tums antacids. If global warming continues unabated, and if the world veers toward catastrophe, it would be better to have tools ready to avoid the most dire outcomes, he says.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2009

Current climate change policies which focus on overall carbon emissions are failing and should be abandoned, a consortium of research institutes concludes. The paper’s twelve co-authors come from leading research institutes in Europe (England, Germany, Finland), North America (Canada, USA) and Asia (Australia, Japan).

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