Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2012

Production of cement accounts for 5-6% of all anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, generating 9 kg of the greenhouse gas for each 10 kg of cement produced, notes Dr. Stuart Licht and his colleagues in a paper on their process accepted for publication in the RSC journal Chemical Communications. —Licht et al.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As the world grapples with the pressing issue of climate change, it is evident that we need swift action to avert its worst impacts. Some have contended that the materials used in EV production are equivalent in environmental impact to driving a conventional gas car. Ready to get started on reducing your own carbon footprint?

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Even when we reach the limit of our carbon budget, when burning any more oil, coal or gas will push global temperatures beyond 2 degrees celsius, the E&B business model is to harvest more oil so that it can be burned as fuel. No maximum amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases their product will be allowed to produce.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2010

trillion by 2050, according to a new report, “An Initial Estimate of the Cost of Lost Climate Services Due to Changes in the Arctic Cryosphere”, released by the Pew Environment Group. The thawing of permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas. trillion to $24.1 trillion.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2009

Emissions of two of the most important climate change gases increased last year, according to a preliminary analysis for NOAA’s annual greenhouse gas index, which tracks data from 60 sites around the world. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the point where they match levels that can be absorbed by Earth’s ecosystems.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surged at a record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, according to the World Meteorological Organization’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Concentrations of CO 2 are now 145% of pre-industrial (before 1750) levels, according to the Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

We’ve shown that the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha growing with carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas is able to generate significant quantities of diesel-range methyl ketones. Bio-hydrocarbons Biotech Climate Change Emissions Fuels' Singer, and Harry R. 79:14 4433-4439 doi: 10.1128/AEM.00973-13.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

What we know is that this unique structure provides a beneficial chemical environment for CO2 conversion to multicarbon products,” he said. More recently, a new catalyst was reported for the effective production of synthesis gas mixtures, or syngas.

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MAY 2, 2010

Lead author Kharecha and colleagues note that current climate science indicates that atmospheric CO 2 concentrations, already at 387 ppm in 2009 and rising, need to be reduced to no more than 350 ppm. Readily available reserves of oil and gas are sufficient to take atmospheric CO 2 to at least 400 ppm. Kutscher, James E.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Water covers 72 percent of the Earth’s surface, its volumes host 80 percent of biodiversity and play a pivotal role in global phenomena, such as climate change. They measure parameters such as temperature, salinity, pH, chlorophyll, methane, ammonium, phosphate, CO2, waves and tide, background noise,” explains Petrioli.

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Plug in America

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Representatives of Electric Vehicle Drivers’ Associations from a range of European countries are heading to the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference to support the call for much faster transport decarbonization globally fuelled by renewable energy. “A Promote the voice of EV driver associations globally working with GEVA.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2013

The ODOT program seeks to help the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving commercial drivers training in ecodriving practices. It is part of a larger effort on Oregon’s part to reduce harmful emissions and help stop global climate change. What are the factors that predict whether the program is effective or not?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The cost-effectiveness of measures to address climate change is enhanced through a multisector perspective. Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Wallington et al.

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JULY 28, 2014

FCA is used to evaluate the energy and GHG emission impacts of a wide variety of existing and proposed fuels, including fossil options (coal-to-liquids, gas-to-liquids, unconventional petroleum) as well as electricity, gaseous fuels and biofuels from a range of feedstocks. It has not been used to specify fuel regulations. DeCicco, J.M.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

Dan Lunt, from the University of Bristol (UK), and colleagues in the US and UK compared results from a global climate model to temperature reconstructions of the Earth’s environment three million years ago when global temperatures and carbon dioxide concentrations were relatively high. Lunt, Alan M. Haywood, Gavin A.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 1, 2021

Originally published on Transport & Environment By Eoin Bannon With the review of the EU CO? emissions standards for cars and vans scheduled for June 2021, some, notably the oil and gas industry and automotive suppliers, are advocating adding CO? credits for advanced biofuels and synthetic fuels into the vehicle standards.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

After capturing carbon dioxide, the materials give it up easily so that the CO 2 can be used in making other substances, or permanently isolated from the environment. It is now widely accepted that anthropogenic CO 2 , due to its role as a greenhouse gas, is the major contributor to climate change.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Increasing the reflectivity or albedo of roofs and pavements in urban areas could offset greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount, according to an open access paper published last month in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters. —Menon et al. 5 014005 doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/01400.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Conversely, encouraging shortened vehicle lifetime via vehicle replacement schemes can result in higher total-induced greenhouse gas emissions, the authors found. A one-year reduction in vehicle lifetime would increase the demand by approximately 8.3%. times the rate of the increase in demand. Technol. , doi: 10.1021/es1034552.

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JULY 11, 2012

By way of trans-Atlantic comparison, 95 g/km is equivalent to 152 g/mile; the current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas emissions standard (part of the joint national standard with NHSTA) calls for 250 g/mile in MY 2016. Europe and the US. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) T&E: Super credits = “hot air”. —Ivan Hodac.

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JUNE 26, 2009

Global CO2 emissions increased from 15.3 According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2008 was the first year in which new power generation investments in renewables were greater than investments in fossil-fuelled technologies. Emissions increased by 1.7% in 2008, against 3.3% billion tonnes in 2008.

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Setec Powerr

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Norwegian government’s climate protection goals and related support policies have played a significant role. million charging posts to achieve the 55 percent reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions it has set as its goal. The transport sector is one of the most important targets for emission reductions.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles completely phased out. Alternatively, a society being adversely affected by climate change in forty years time may reasonably decide to ban any remaining petrol/diesel vehicles completely. In this case the technology assumptions would in a sense, also represent policy interventions.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% by Jack Rosebro.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. t e CO2/cap.) t e CO 2 /cap., t e CO 2 /cap.

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JULY 10, 2009

Plants consume carbon dioxide—a significant greenhouse gas—in the process of photosynthesis. The researchers concluded that models of climate change may be underestimating how much water is likely to run off the land and back into the sea as atmospheric chemistry changes. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. Cronin, J.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2011

While most car manufacturers have already met their individual 2012 CO 2 targets for Europe, several carmakers need to make their fleets even more carbon-efficient to meet the 2012 target, according to updated data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Road transport is responsible for 17.5%

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. Fuels derived from synthesis gas (or syngas)—an intermediate product that is a specific mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen—is a known alternative to conventional, fossil-derived fuels.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. Why all the hype about hydrogen?

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

They’re “fuming&# just like the deadly CO2 fumes they’re spewing into the atmosphere as you read these very words. According the the WSJ, “Many business groups are opposed to EPA efforts to curb a gas as ubiquitous as carbon dioxide.&#. That Rupert Murdick is one funny Aussie, ain’t he?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

That ranks the effects of soot ahead of methane, an important greenhouse gas. Jacobson is a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. Short-term effects of Controlling Fossil-Fuel Soot, Biofuel Soot and Gases, and Methane on Climate, Arctic Ice, and Air Pollution Health. Mark Jacobson.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Europe is moving forward with plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vans. The European Commission has today proposed tough new CO2 cap for vans at just 175g/km of CO2 or at least 42.8mpg by 2016. Vanmakers would pay a penalty for every gram of CO2 over the limit.

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JULY 6, 2011

US and Swiss researchers have modeled two climate scenarios with very high carbon emissions—above the A1F1 scenario, currently representing the upper bound of predicted carbon emissions in the IPCC work—to investigate the resulting climate change implications. —Sanderson et al. Benjamin M Sanderson et al.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2018

350 g CO2 e/mi for ICEVs and ?250 petroleum, natural gas, ethanol, hydrogen, electricity), and functionality (e.g., Wallington (2018) “Current and Future United States Light-Duty Vehicle Pathways: Cradle-to-Grave Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Assessment” Environ. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b06006. 7b06006.

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JUNE 12, 2023

The open-access paper is published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. Commun Earth Environ 4, 203 doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00857-8 —Dr Sand Resources Sand, M., Skeie, R.B., Sandstad, M.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

And despite the fact that I work on environmental projects that seek to cut CO2 emissions, reduce energy use, and add renewable energy, ironically the one thing I never talk about on the job is climate change or global warming. First staff job I’ve had since 1982.

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