Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Although no private company has actually used mercury propellant in a launched spacecraft, the possibility was alarming enough—and the dangers extreme enough—that the ban was enacted just a few years after one U.S.-based Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal. Mercury is a neurotoxin.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We have closed most of the coal plants and several the aging nuclear plants are moving offline as they close for repair of reach end of life. Why, simple the US embraced Fracking to produce bountifully supplies of cheap gas. OfGem started to do this well and we now have an abundance of retailers you can select as your power company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There are several patents pending that cover their approach, the company said, although the team has yet to publish scientific papers on its approach. The fundamental problem with the tokamak is that you cannot blanket and shield a toroidal (doughnut shaped) vessel cheap enough to make an economical reactor. Resources. 2014.03.072.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 30, 2009

The Linc Energy Limited Underground Coal Gasification to Liquids demonstration plant at Chinchilla has enjoyed its most successful operation to date producing high quality synthetic hydrocarbon products throughout May. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news coal gasification to liquids Linc Linc Energy Limited syngas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Liam Halligan, a columnist for the Telegraph, says “the real danger” of closer Russian-Chinese ties is not a bust-up between China and the US, which could threaten crucial shipping routes for China-bound coal and LNG, but its impact on the US dollar. “If Rise of the Yuan.

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Russia Oil Saudi Arabia China 225

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Oil and the Transport Sector: Reconfirming the End of Cheap Oil. Oil companies will be forced to turn to more difficult and costly sources to replace lost capacity and meet rising demand. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Fleet 247

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

For example, rich countries such as Germany can throw billions of dollars at their coal sector to ease their transition pain, offering generous financial aid to lignite-producing regions. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas.

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Carbon Europe Climate Change Saudi Arabia 207

My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. .

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

At the same time, though, Russian energy has been buffeted by announcements from major Western petroleum companies that they’ll extricate themselves from Russia, with whom they've been doing business for decades. The drop was steep enough to force Germany to produce more electricity from coal than from wind in 2021. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Ukraine Russia Fuel Saudi Arabia 118

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

The Fischer-Tropsch process is used for producing fuels from synthesis gas, which in turn is made from natural gas, biomass or coal. In 2009 the Total Gaz & Power company contacted the Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry group ( Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences ) at UvA to develop a new F-T catalyst together.

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Production Gas Coal Cheap 210

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. In project finance, the investors and lenders are making their decisions based solely on the projected returns of the given project and not the sponsoring individual or company.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. MidAmericans David Sokol, BYDs Wang, and company advisor Li Lu flew with Sokol from Detroit to Omaha so that Wang could meet Buffett in person. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE | RSS DIGG FACEBOOK DEL.ICIO.US

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

A troubled company. As a long time Mopar fan, seeing this company go under will hurt. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Well, the cheapest source is from steam reformed fossil fuels, and that process produces CO2, especially when that fossil fuel is coal. Small size.

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Dodge Circuit Dodge Electric Cars Chrysler 45

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. “If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# but not all of it.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Given the cost of oil and the economic, geopolitical and ecological effects of our continued reliance on petroleum, electric transportation will be cheap. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read. Electricity costs are relatively inexpensive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Millions will plug-in their electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrids (PHEV) and fuel cell vehicles (FCV) at night when electricity is cheap, then plug-in during the day when energy is expensive and sell those extra electrons at a profit. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD is an amazing company. As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. Not so this time around.

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Chinese Companies Electric Cars BYD 28

Baua Electric

APRIL 19, 2024

The Georgia Public Service Commission just this week approved utility Georgia Power’s plan to build three new methane and oil-burning plants, as well as to buy energy from sister company Mississippi power, delaying retirement of one of that company’s coal-fired plants, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

According to Nissan, the company plans to introduce its upcoming electric car in Oregon in late 2010. Although Think has been plagued by bad financial news recently, the company’s North American C.E.O., Firefly Energy is the most prominent of these companies. In the U.S. If you charge with solar, is way less.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58

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. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions 244

Creative Greenius

AUGUST 10, 2009

It has a good shot to pass and become law if the utility companies SCE and PG&E and their pals on the Public Utilities Commission don’t screw us all with their short-sighted and wrong-headed opposition and lobbying against it. Tags: Environmental Politics Killer Coal Saving Energy Yes We Can! So lets not BOHICA and let them.

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Solar California Climate Change Re-Charge 186

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. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244