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Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 14, 2022

To mitigate the worst impacts of climate change, we must transition away from fossil fuels like petroleum and coal and toward clean energy generation and zero-emission transportation options. Lithium resources are concentrated in locations that have […].

South America

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For offsets to be credible, a ton of CO 2 -equivalent emissions from an offset project should equate to a ton reduced from a covered emission source, such as a smokestack or exhaust pipe. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Emission reductions from regulated sources (e.g., 1) Additionality.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Reducing emissions of black carbon soot and ground-level ozone would quickly make a considerable dent in the climate change problem and would also contribute to public health and protect crop yields, according to an essay in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Earlier post.)

Climate Change

Climate Change Ozone Climate Carbon

Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The researchers found that while EVs do offer a very promising solution to energy issues due to their replacement of petroleum fuels, for now “ the high pollution levels of coal-fired power plants will trade off EVs’ potential energy benefits in China ”. Gasoline vehicle exhausts contribute very little to total national SO 2 emission (0.2%

Coal

Coal Gasoline-Electric Gasoline Pollution

China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Ozone is formed through a chemical reaction that occurs when sunlight interacts with nitrogen oxides and other organic compounds that are generated by coal-burning, vehicle exhaust and some natural sources. The team studied 89 healthy adults living in Changsha City, China, for one year. 2017.2842.

Ozone

Ozone Pollution Connect Connected

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Coal Grid

EPA says methane emissions from natural gas production have dropped 36% from 2007-2011

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2013

Anthropogenic sources of CH 4 include natural gas and petroleum systems, agricultural activities, landfills, coal mining, wastewater treatment, stationary and mobile combustion, and certain industrial processes. In 2011, CH4 emissions from coal mining were 63.2 Climate Change Emissions Natural Gas' Tg CO 2 Eq.,

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DOE to award $12.5M to improve efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks as part of new tech track for US-China initiative

Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In parallel, and with equivalent resources, Chinese funding will support a collaborative counterpart Chinese Consortium. Advanced air management system (exhaust gas recirculation, turbocharger, supercharging). Funding available is $12.5 million, and will support the US Consortium. Combustion control and optimization technology.

China

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Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2009

A pilot project by We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) testing an Alstom advanced chilled ammonia process ( earlier post ) has demonstrated more than 90% capture of carbon dioxide from the flue stream of a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin (the Pleasant Prairie Carbon Capture Pilot Plant ).

EPRI

EPRI CO2 Coal Carbon

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. Particle traps filter out soot particles from exhaust fumes. Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

Global

Global Ozone CO2 Pollution

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. —Dr Sand Resources Sand, M., Skeie, R.B.,

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Hydrogen Global Ozone CO2

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

And I’m careful about choosing these fights because they’re very exhausting. He’s a great resource and wonderful guy and he’s a old solar hippy. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. This is not Bradley Bartz. Joel Davidson would be the primary one. Not really.

Solar

Solar Installation California Building

Study Concludes That to Limit Global Warming to 2 °C, Less Than 25% of Proven Fossil Fuel Reserves Can be Burnt Between Now and 2050

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

Two possible futures: One in which no climate policies are implemented (red), and one with strong action to mitigate emissions (blue). If we continue burning fossil fuels as we do, we will have exhausted the carbon budget in merely 20 years, and global warming will go well beyond two degrees. —Malte Meinshausen. Meinshausen, M.,

Climate Change

Climate Change Global Climate Fuel

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The alternative-fuel car evolved to reduce exhaust emissions and other problems derived from burning fossil fuels. The car can refuel during periods of low demand on the grid, and if equipped with a bi-directional charger, can actually replenish the grid with excess energy gleaned from a renewable resource. It is much more than that.

PHEV

PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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. Waxman of California and Edward J. Reduced Output.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America

Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

Reducing Black Carbon Emissions and Ground-Level Ozone Would Provide Immediate Benefit Against Climate Change

Tsinghua/Argonne Study Finds That Mass Use of EVs in China Could Result in Higher CO2 and Criteria Pollutant Emissions Than Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Due to Coal-Fired Generation of Electricity

China study connects ozone pollution to cardiovascular health

IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

EPA says methane emissions from natural gas production have dropped 36% from 2007-2011

DOE to award $12.5M to improve efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks as part of new tech track for US-China initiative

Chilled Ammonia Pilot Project Captures 90% of CO2

Study Finds Controlling Soot May Be Fastest Method to Reduce Arctic Ice Loss and Global Warming; Second-Leading Cause of Global Warming After CO2

CICERO-led study finds global warming effect of leaked hydrogen almost 12x stronger than CO2

Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Study Concludes That to Limit Global Warming to 2 °C, Less Than 25% of Proven Fossil Fuel Reserves Can be Burnt Between Now and 2050

Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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