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APRIL 9, 2018

Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at the George Washington University, and his team of researchers are among the finalists announced today in the $20-million Carbon XPRIZE competition. There is building consensus that unchecked climate change can lead to a planetary extinction event.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

A study by researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) in Brazil, with colleagues at the Ohio State University, has found that the rising atmospheric concentration of CO 2 is beneficial for the physiology of sorghum, an economically and nutritionally important crop grown worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The team combined extensive sea and land surface temperature reconstructions from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) with a climate model of intermediate. complexity to estimate the equilibrium climate sensitivity for a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations (ECS 2xC ) from. preindustrial times. K 66% probability).

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JULY 1, 2010

GE is partnering with the University of Alberta (UA) and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) on a $4 million CO 2 capture project supported by the Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Its expanding production is driving rainforest destruction and massive carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new study led by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities. Using these leases in combination with land cover maps, the team estimated future land-clearing and carbon emissions from plantations. Curran, Gregory P.

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MAY 2, 2010

The authors are Pushker Kharecha and James Hansen from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & Columbia University Earth Institute (GISS); Charles Kutscher from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory; and Edward Mazria from 2030 Inc./ Architecture 2030. Kharecha et al. Kharecha, Charles F. Kutscher, James E.

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OCTOBER 10, 2009

A team of climate scientists from eight US national labs and academic institutions have successfully incorporated the nitrogen cycle into global simulations for climate change for the first time, questioning previous assumptions regarding carbon feedback and potentially helping to refine model forecasts about global warming.

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JULY 28, 2014

Fuel cycle analysis (FCA)—or “well-to-wheels analysis”—is a type lifecycle analysis (LCA) that examines fuel products and their supply chains, and that has greatly influenced climate-related research priorities and public policies for transportation fuels. It has not been used to specify fuel regulations.

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Source: Wolfgang Knorr, Bristol University. The study, which was conducted by Wolfgang Knorr of the University of Bristol, UK, may have implications for upcoming climate negotiations, particularly with regard to deforestation and other land-use changes. Thinner lines represent observed. Click to enlarge. per decade.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In a paper that could have a significant impact on climate policies for transportation fuels, Dr. John M. DeCicco of the Energy Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents a rigorous first-principles analysis that undermines the common “biofuels recycle carbon” argument. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 15, 2009

Based on current knowledge and models of the Earth’s climate system, they had expected to find a three- to eight-fold increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to drive that amount of warming. Once these other processes have been identified, the authors wrote, their potential effect on future climate change needs to be taken into account.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Efficient and Reliable Transportation of Consignments ( ERTOC ) project, a two-year research collaboration between Ricardo, GS1 UK, Unipart Logistics, IRIS Technology and Coventry University, has delivered a viable prototype demonstrator. —Rishi Odhavji, Ricardo project manager for ERTOC.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Increased availability of low CO 2 sources of electricity and hydrogen could counter-intuitively delay, rather than accelerate, a large-scale transition to an electric and/or hydrogen vehicle fleet, according to a new study by researchers from Ford Motor Company and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Wallington et al.

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MAY 25, 2010

Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). The study examined the fuel-cycle CO 2 , SO 2 , and NO x emissions of EVs in China in both current (2008) and future (2030) periods and compared them with those of conventional gasoline vehicles and gasoline hybrids.

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JUNE 26, 2010

Tags: Carbon Capture and Conversion (CCC) Climate Change Emissions Fuels.

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JULY 23, 2009

Lee Schipper, Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute of Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, who stressed the range of the problem of sustainable mobility and highlighted the need to deal with both carbon and traffic safety. He stated: Whatever the past for the car was, it will not and cannot be the same in the future.

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JULY 10, 2009

Through a recent modeling experiment, a team of NASA-funded researchers have found that future concentrations of carbon dioxide and ozone in the atmosphere and of nitrogen in the soil are likely to have an important but overlooked effect on the cycling of water from sky to land to waterways. Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University.

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JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. However, climate models to date have mischaracterized the effects of soot in the atmosphere, according to Jacobson, director of Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program. degrees Fahrenheit) over the last century and is expected to warm significantly more in the future if nothing is done.

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MARCH 23, 2024

s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. Those lines have an impact on human beings,” says June Sallou , a postdoctoral researcher specializing in sustainable-software engineering at the Delft University of Technology , in the Netherlands. The future is green software,” Kinsiveer says. “I

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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MAY 25, 2011

The project was carried out in collaboration with Tsinghua University in China, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in India, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Toyota Central R&D Labs.,

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JULY 22, 2009

Lee Schipper, Senior Research Engineer at the Precourt Institute of Energy Efficiency at Stanford University, who stressed the range of the problem of sustainable mobility and highlighted the need to deal with both carbon and traffic safety. He stated: “Whatever the past for the car was, it will not and cannot be the same in the future.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

However, a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University assessing the overall life cycle emissions associated with CO 2 -EOR sequestration under a number of different scenarios has concluded that “ without displacement of a carbon intensive energy source, CO 2 -EOR systems will result in net carbon emissions. Of the $21.6

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MAY 23, 2009

Geologic carbon sequestration is expected to play an important future role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and combating climate change. The project is expected to involve the eventual transportation of CO2 from Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson natural gas processing plant to the injection site.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The O 3 precursors, SO 2 , and aerosol emissions have effects on atmospheric composition and climate and can affect human health and cause regional pollution and acidification. —Lund et al.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

However, achieving climate change targets will also require the widespread adoption of solutions that are not yet fully developed, whether in logistics or technology. However, such solutions need to be in general use by 2050 or earlier to reach agreed climate change targets.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

The project is supported by the EUDP Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program and is developed together with Aarhus University. The climate benefits from using sustainable methanol is not limited to one single purpose. Fighting climate change demands clean fuels for all sectors. With close to 1.4

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JULY 12, 2009

Widely-sought efforts to reduce forest biomass that increases catastrophic fire in Pacific Northwest forests will be counterproductive to sequestering carbon to help offset global warming, according to a study by forestry researchers at Oregon State University. The report was published earlier this year in the journal Ecological Applications.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

In addition, it is subject to similar refining, storage and distribution costs currently associated with petrol and diesel, including upstream CO2 emissions where the electricity required is usually generated from fossil fuels. 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. 2015, p127) [1]. . 2020) [11].

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Under any crediting system, credits must reflect net changes in carbon stocks, emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases, and leakage emissions resulting from changes in land-use activities to replace crops or timber diverted to bioenergy. Earlier post.). —Statement from the RFA.

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JUNE 27, 2009

Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Center for Applied Energy Research at the University of Kentucky are investigating the hydrogenation of CO 2 using a conventional Fischer-Tropsch cobalt catalyst for the production of valuable hydrocarbon materials. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels. Dorner et al.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Aramco’s fuels technology program is focused on reducing the overall environmental impact, cost and complexity of both current and future fuel-engine systems. The new facility, located in Novi, Mich., and owned and operated by US subsidiary Aramco Services Company, further strengthens the company’s global fuels research program.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eliza Strickland: Man-made climate change is already reshaping our planet, and carbon emissions aren’t coming down fast enough to stave off real disaster in the decades to come. It’s often called geoengineering in the popular press, but the preferred term is climate intervention. Transcript. Kelly Wanser : Thank you, Eliza.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A plan is necessary to provide certainty to business and consumers that a future transport system will be affordable, convenient, safe and sustainable. Until that vision is articulated, and the change enabled, we will not make the progress we need to at pace or scale. . We also don’t need to ‘reinvent the wheel’. around land use).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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APRIL 16, 2009

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I In the city of the future, could power suppliers be rivalled by innovative construction firms? Thank you ! — hsr0601 2. Bolivia is no friend of the USA.

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