Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Their study appears in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. … in this study the environmental impacts of delivering driven vehicle miles are compared for three different vehicle fleets, each powered either directly or indirectly by natural gas. Credit: ACS, Dai and Lastoskie. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

KPMG developed 3 nexuses linked by climate change to represent the challenges of sustainable growth. In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

Schematic of systems considered in the study. A paper on the study was published online 19 January in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. For all crops, the entire plant was used to facilitate comparison on a total energy basis. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al. Click to enlarge. 0.4 ± 0.05. 1.8 ± 0.58. 3.3 ± 0.86.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

Based on visual interpretation of high-resolution (30 m) satellite images, a new study in the journal Global Change Biology: Bioenergy determined that industrial plantations covered over 3.1 These findings are echoed in a new open-access study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Kim Carlson et al.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

We use bitumen extraction from oil sands as a case study to illustrate the energy intensive nature and climate change impact of recovering unconventional heavy oil. The upper and lower bounds for the projects studied were a NER of 6.1 (16% By comparison, oil shale has NERs (or EROI) of 1.6−2.0 47% of energy lost).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Comparison of surface temperature projections from the high-end emissions scenario, without carbon cycle feedbacks. One of the UK’s leading climate scientists has presented new research findings on the increasing potential for a 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 °F) Tags: Climate Change. Source: Met Office. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Their results showed that in comparison with gasoline mode, CO emitted in methanol mode decreased 11.2%.

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Green Car Congress

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. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita. Credit: ACS, Kennedy et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

IHS CERA’s earlier comparison of 11 publicly available life-cycle analysis studies found that fuel produced from oil sands mining has average well-to–retail pump greenhouse gas emissions 1.3 That WTW range is lower than that determined by a number of other studies, IHS CERA notes.). Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 27, 2023

This makes the work of Angelika Humbert, a physicist studying Greenland’s Nioghalvfjerdsbræ outlet glacier, especially important — and urgent. 1) Greenland’s sparsely populated landscape may seem unspoiled, but climate change is actually tearing away at its icy mantle. One Glacier That Holds 1.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Climate, energy, and food security are three of the most important global challenges society faces during the twenty-first century. In contrast, large-scale ICMM can positively impact climate, energy, and food security while avoiding many of the negative consequences of terrestrial plant-based BECCS.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Ranges of global technical potentials of renewable energy sources derived from studies analyzed in SRREN report. Range in recent levelized cost of energy for selected commercially available RE technologies in comparison to recent non-renewable energy costs. Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. Click to enlarge. MIT: The Future of Natural Gas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

The production of synthetic fuels from carbon dioxide (and/or water) has been widely studied and can be efficient. This is a powerful economic incentive, rather than economic cost, to mitigate climate change through a carbon negative process. —Licht (2017). 2017.02.005.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2014

A study published earlier this year in the journal Nature Climate Change that cast doubt on whether biofuels produced from corn residue could meet federal mandates for cellulosic biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60% compared to gasoline ( earlier post ) has drawn critical response published as correspondence in the same journal.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

However, in a case study of the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC) work and the Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC), Greenpeace noted that: Areas that were clearcut by MRC’s predecessor now have excessive amounts of tanoak, a fast-sprouting species that competes with redwoods and Douglas fir, and is not commercially viable for MRC as a wood product.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only by products are water and a fair degree of heat, the latter indicating a degree of inefficiency and wasted energy. Second, while hydrogen can be otherwise produced through the electrolysis of water, this process requires huge amounts of clean and fresh water – a vital and highly valuable commodity of life that can’t be wasted.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Aviation climate change impacts pathway. A new study by researchers at MIT has found that factoring the non-CO 2 combustion emissions and effects into the lifecycle of a Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) aviation fuel can lead to a decrease in the relative environmental merit of the SPK fuel compared to conventional jet fuel.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

The semi-conductor shortage, sourced largely from problems at the world’s biggest semi conductor maker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), due to a reported water shortage, and a huge boost in home electronics demand due to Covid, has crippled car production in the US and in Europe and Asia for the last few months.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

In the puzzle of climate change, the Earth’s oceans are an immense and crucial piece. But gathering accurate and sufficient data about the oceans to feed climate and weather models has been a huge technical challenge. What the Argo system has discovered about the oceans and their role in climate change.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2012

Droughts, which are a major threat to plants worldwide, are expected to become both more frequent and more severe with climate change, said senior author Lawren Sack, a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. During drought, the leaf cells’ water becomes harder to replace.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Southern Cities See Record Temperatures, Little Water. Buckled train tracks and sagging power lines interrupted much of the city’s passenger train service, and residents were advised to conserve water. We’ve seen blackouts, disruptions to many of our transport systems, greater water consumption and of course, more sleepless nights.”

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. Anthropogenic releases of mercury to water total 1000 tonnes at a minimum.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

By comparison, syngas resulting from conventional gasification cannot be converted to pipeline quality natural gas without further processing, thereby adding cost. Integrated Gasification Fuel Cell (IGFC) System Studies (NETL, August 2008). —Statement from Peabody Energy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Notable changes since the prior Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement include an expanded analysis of potential oil releases; an expanded climate change analysis; an updated oil market analysis incorporating new economic modeling; and an expanded analysis of rail transport. MMTCO 2 e annually.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. How PHEV enhances The Electric Infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

The focus is on multiple species that naturally co-occur because numerous studies have shown that diverse communities of plants (including green algae) exploit resources more fully and collectively produce more plant tissue than any single species alone. Savage will work with researchers at Argonne National Laboratory on the comparison.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt is a case study. That way you have a fair basis of comparison, you know, apples to apples and all that jazz. And with broadband, government builds the roads, they build the water and sewer systems, I tend to think our communications network should be one of those utilities as well. The Volt is a case study.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 17, 2013

In the many years I spent studying for the priesthood I learned that the stories of Jesus Christ’s years on our planet serve as models and lessons for all of us. So it’s as obvious as a bad face lift that we are going through the stations of the cross and that climate change is our crucifix.

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