Creative Greenius

APRIL 25, 2010

Personally I haven’t stopped working since I began organizing for 350.org I asked Bill about the work my friends at GRID Alternative are doing and his thoughts on the adoption of rooftop solar in this final segment of my video interview with him. Times Book Festival appearance at UCLA. The 2010 focus for 350.org

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2011

PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), the home of a long line of technology innovations, including laser printing, object-oriented programming, and personal workstations with graphical user interfaces (e.g., The first application of this technique has been for silver gridlines on the front surface of solar cells. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

will build a Solar Hydrogen Station on the grounds of the Saitama Prefectural Office and introduce an electric-power-outlet-equipped FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle within the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012. Honda began experimental operation of a compact, quiet and low-cost next-generation Solar Hydrogen Station for household use.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The collapse in world oil prices in the second half of 2014 will have only a moderate impact on the fast-developing low-carbon transition in the world electricity system, according to research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance. However, the slump in the Brent crude price per barrel from $112.36 on 30 June to $61.60

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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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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

ExxonMobil said extended its support of the MIT Energy Initiative’s (MITEI) low-carbon energy research and education mission by renewing its status as a founding member for another five years. With its renewed membership, ExxonMobil will expand its participation in MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Envisioned as a “living laboratory,” the Woven City will serve as a home to full-time residents and researchers who will be able to test and to develop technologies such as autonomy, robotics, personal mobility, smart homes and artificial intelligence in a real-world environment.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. Among the technologies that will be applied to the Honda Smart Home US: Solar Power System.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 17, 2022

By Phil Browne, as told to David Waterworth I’ve been on a personal journey to reduce my emissions, and hence my carbon footprint, over the last 20 years. This is my story — from the early beginnings, to supporting unique climate action projects, to charging our EV from home solar. My husband, Ray, and I […].

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Cars That Think

MAY 25, 2025

In 1999 he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a balloon, called Breitling Orbiter 3. Then he and Andr Borschberg, a Swiss entrepreneur and pilot, were first to fly around the world, in stages, in a solar airplane called Solar Impulse. Later, Auguste invented and built the first bathyscaphe.

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Hydrogen Climate Carbon Fiber Solar 126

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2022

The system uses heated supercritical carbon dioxide instead of steam to generate electricity and is based on a closed-loop Brayton cycle. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a non-toxic, stable material that is under so much pressure it acts like both a liquid and a gas. Graphic courtesy Sandia National Laboratories).

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Creative Greenius

MAY 3, 2009

You think HE’s working very hard to end our nation’s sick addiction to carbon based fuels that kill people and destroy our civilization? I’m thinking he likes our carbon-based economy just the way it is. And yes every single person in that movement is a hapless dupe. I’m thinking not so much.

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Pollution Gas Climate Change Carbon 292

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. and Onie H. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 26, 2010

announced its plan on the ongoing cooperation with Kumamoto Prefecture on Electric Vehicle Testing Program for next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid vehicles, electric scooters and electric carts. Honda Motor Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Volvo Cars, A-hus and Vattenfall recently launched the six-month One Tonne Life project—an attempt by a family (the Lindells) to cut their carbon dioxide yearly emissions from seven tonnes per person to a more sustainable one tonne. Solar cells on the house roof and exterior provide the house with electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2018

Senate Bill 32, signed in 2016, requires the state to go even further than AB 32 and cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious carbon goal in North America. They fell 23% from a peak of 14 metric tons per person (roughly equal to driving 34,000 miles) in 2001 to 10.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Porsche is making a 40,000-square-meter area on the roof top of its central spare parts warehouse in Sachsenheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg) available to the firm Goldbeck Solar GmbH, Hirschberg an der Bergstrasse, in order to install and operate approximately 8,500 photovoltaic modules there. The system has a nominal output of two megawatts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2010

announced its second Electric Vehicle Testing Program, this one with Saitama Prefecture for its next-generation personal mobility products, including electric vehicles (EVs); plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs); electric scooters; and electric carts. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. Honda Motor Co.,

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Electrek

JUNE 18, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Technical delays kept ISS astronauts from fully installing a new pair of solar arrays. Enevate says its next-gen battery tech provides lower carbon footprint during EV manufacturing. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Scientists in Australia claim they’ve developed “true” bifacial solar cells. A Tennessee utility-scale solar farm will be the first in the US to be financed by corporate carbon offsets. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

Workplace charging is a critical enabler of carbon-free transportation as the electrons consumed primarily come from solar power plants, as opposed to at-home charging, which occurs at night and relies more on fossil fuel power plants. —Jan Kleissl, senior author. This reflects nationwide trends.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 12, 2009

Sunpower Corporation’s VP of public policy, Julie Blunden, will be sharing her views on how incentives and laws shape & drive demand for solar energy. UCI’s solar energy research center will be presenting their advice on partnering with the private sector to leverage research in the pipeline & to commercialize it.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2016

At the same time, energy efficiency gains and increased use of renewable energy sources and lower carbon fuels, such as natural gas, are expected to help reduce by half the carbon intensity of the global economy. Natural gas remains challenged as a fuel for most personal vehicles. Source: ExxonMobil. Click to enlarge.

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Electrek

APRIL 29, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The DOE has earmarked $13 million for clean energy innovators to help the US government become carbon neutral. New Jersey’s statewide community solar pilot program launches two more solar farms. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2016

HydroGEN Consortium (HydroGEN) –this consortium will accelerate the development of advanced water splitting materials for hydrogen production, with an initial focus on advanced electrolytic, photoelectrochemical, and solar thermochemical pathways. Source: “2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report” Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. 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. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

Areas of interest include: Climate Change : CO 2 utilization/sequestration, ocean acidification, forest conservation, forest carbon measurement, emissions, climate modeling. Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. devices, personalized medicine, and physician augmentation/telemedicine.

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Water 2004 Climate Change Clean 231

Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009 as strong increases in CO 2 emissions from fast-growing developing countries such as China and India, have completely nullified CO 2 emission reductions in the industrialized world. In India the emissions were 1.4

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Progress on curbing carbon dioxide emissions through 2040 will be led by OECD nations as energy demand declines and a shift to lower-carbon fuels occurs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2013

ExxonMobil projects that meeting future energy demand will be supported by more efficient energy-saving practices and technologies; increased use of less-carbon-intensive fuels such as natural gas, nuclear and renewables; as well as the continued development of technology advances to develop new energy sources. Energy-related CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2011

The E-KIZUNA Project, managed by the city in collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders, aims to help fight global warming and realize a sustainable, low-carbon society through the popularization of electric vehicles. (In Honda Motor Co., and the city of Saitama signed an agreement to cooperate in the E-KIZUNA Project.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The drop in hydropower has now been completely replaced by in-state wind and solar power. Overall trends in the inventory also demonstrate that the carbon intensity of California’s economy, the amount of carbon pollution per million dollars of GDP, is declining. tons per person in 2001 to 12.0 Governor Edmund G.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

A variety of innovative experimental aircraft using electrical, solar, bio-fuel or hybrid propulsion are expected to enter. The challenge is expected to help advance all three of the major climate mitigation initiatives: efficiency, conservation and zero-carbon energy sources. Schulz Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

It’s not sexy and it doesn’t make a bunch of old school, balding, white, male, carbon collaborators stinking filthy rich, so it’s no wonder they’ve done every evil and despicable thing in their power to keep this weapon from being aimed at them. Won’t that be fun?! The Big Dick Cheney Effect.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2018

As more renewable sources of generation (biomass, wind, solar) are progressively deployed in the market, the electricity supply becomes more weather-dependent and thus more volatile so that a substantial amount of gas-fired power plant capacity will be necessary for reliability of supply.

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