Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Without decisive action, climate change this century is likely to accelerate at a much faster pace and cause more environmental damage than predicted, according to Professor Chris Field of Stanford University, and a leading member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It is a strategy rooted in cross-cutting research and engineering to enable industry stakeholders, communities, government agencies, and early adopters to meet their climate goals. In NREL’s bioenergy program, for example, we have chemists studying the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass and waste materials into fuel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2020

California’s climate change mitigation policy is currently based on four basic programs: the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), the cap-and-trade program, the zero emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate and the Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS). The inner ring shows the broad Scoping Plan sectors. Source: CARB GHG Inventory.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2022

LanzaJet’s proven ATJ process is a continuous catalytic process that converts ethanol to Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) or Synthetic Paraffinic Diesel (SPD) through four primary process steps that have each been proven at commercial scale: Dehydration, Oligomerization, Hydrogenation and Fractionation.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Our work with Synthetic Genomics on algae biofuels continues to be an important part of our broader research into lower-emission technologies to help reduce the risk of climate change. The new outdoor phase is a critical next step in determining a path toward large-scale, commercial production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The project uses a 25,000-liter photobioreactor within a pilot-scale algal biorefinery to recycle carbon dioxide and other airborne industrial pollutants into algal biomass that can be further converted into sustainable products, including renewable biofuels and biomaterials.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2020

Conventional chemical reaction methods were unable to convert the large volumes of lignin wastes from paper mills into high quality fuels, but our research has opened up the potential for the mass-production of jet fuels from the otherwise useless lignin wastes.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. The technology has the potential to help countries meet greenhouse gas reduction targets and slow the progression of climate change. For example, the fuel cells require additional heavy converters to manage their wide voltage range.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

First generation biofuels with a high risk of indirect land use change (ILUC)—i.e. when land is converted from non-crop cultivation such as grasslands and forests to food production, which increases CO 2 emissions—will no longer count towards the EU’s renewable energy goals from 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

Risk management company DNV has, as part of a strategic partnership with StormGeo, a meteorology and risk assessment company focused on the fields of oil exploration, renewable energy, shipping, media and aviation acquired the right to purchase 22.6% of StormGeo’s shares through a mutually convertible capital issue. —Henrik O.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Because the particles are so small, they can pass easily through a catalytic converter, which is designed to reduce a vehicle’s toxic emissions. Diesel particulate filters therefore are installed in the exhaust system, generally at the exit of the catalytic converter.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

UK-based ITM Power has been awarded a grant by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a £100k (US$160k), 12-month engineering feasibility study of producing synthetic methane using carbon dioxide from industrial processes and hydrogen produced by electrolysis.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. He has been part of this movement from the beginning. Look for the footage soon as part of his event report on his web site. One voice really can change the world. Few have done more for the Plug-In Car movement.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

I’m part of a team testing Peregrine—a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with miniaturized ice-penetrating radar, which can image the glacial ice all the way down to the bedrock below. And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2016

The new study describes the complexities in assessing sustainability as related to energy and food security in four parts: food security; interactions among food security, biofuels, and resource management; priorities and conditions for achieving positive synergies; and. conclusions and recommendations. conclusions and recommendations.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The rule gives new certainty to a number of companies across the nation that are commercializing algae-based technologies that convert carbon dioxide generated at power plants into fuels, feeds, fertilizers and other valuable products.”. Several commenters also suggested that algae-based CCU (i.e.,

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The City of Easthampton, Massachusetts announced in April that it is transitioning its city-owned vehicle fleet from gas to electric, and will be the first city to offer an EV adoption benefit to employees who convert. And large corporations like Amazon aren’t the only ones currently converting their fleets from gas to electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2011

Two researchers, respectively from the Centre for Climate Change at the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain and the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom, have found that 80% of global climate data cannot be used by scientists in digital format.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2015

The Algenol fuel production process is designed to convert 1 tonne of CO 2 into 144 gallons of fuel while recycling CO 2 from industrial processes and converting 85% of the CO 2 used into ethanol, gasoline, diesel and jet fuels. Algal Fuels Biomass Biorefinery Climate Change Fuels India' Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Google converted CLASlite and SAD into a set of online tools riding on top of a prototype platform that uses historical and present-day satellite images provided through Google Earth. Tags: Climate Change Policy. 1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. CLASlite) software.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2010

That’s three times the amount estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. Their work was part of a broader cross-site study of nitrogen processing in streams.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The three main pathways to negative emissions (removing CO 2 from the atmosphere) for California are restoring natural ecosystems, converting waste biomass to fuels while capturing the CO 2 generating during processing, and direct air capture machines. Source: “Getting to Neutral”. —“Getting to Neutral”.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It is part of the “green revolution” and the transition of the UK economy to clean energy. In 2008, the United Kingdom formally promulgated the Climate Change Act, becoming the first country in the world to clarify medium- and long-term emission reduction targets in legal form. million charging stations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

At the recent 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, the US joined a dozen other countries in signing onto new agreements to curtail shipping emissions, and zero-emissions solutions for freight rail transport will be part of that commitment. Popovich, N.D., Rajagopal, D.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. The projects were selected as part of ARPA-E’s Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program. Earlier post.)The Earlier post.)The Idaho National Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Climate change is happening much faster than we thought a few years ago. —Thomas Böhni.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

that “ This could be again a manifestation of climate change. Due to climate change, we should expect more extreme weather events like extreme rainfall.". Early official blame was placed in part on citizen inaction and refuse-choked drainage systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Government funding will help operators establish and run fleets of alternative & dual-fuel heavy-goods vehicles by meeting part of the difference in capital cost between traditional vehicles and their lower carbon equivalents. The UK government will provide more than £11 million (US$17.5 million) in support to a £23 million (US$36.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2012

There, chlorine compounds originating from chlorofluorocarbons (CFC, e.g. greenhouse gases and refrigerants) and other pollutants are converted chemically at temperatures below -78 °C. According to Sinnhuber, further development of the ozone layer will consequently be influenced also by climate change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted its final Report to Congress on Black Carbon , in response to an October 2009 request from Congress to advance efforts to understand the role of black carbon (BC) in climate change. Earlier post.). Most solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth’s surface and warms it.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 20, 2024

And before we start, I just want to tell you that you can get the latest coverage from some of Spectrum’s most important beats, including AI, climate change and robotics, by signing up for one of our free newsletters. And you’re starting to see this in places, even in high-end processors, the parts that kind of do the I/O.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

Working in the EV sector provides opportunities to be part of cutting-edge advancements in the automotive industry. The growth potential of EVs is high and I would like to be a part of it by contributing my ideas and effort. So, I think it would be a better option to be a part of an organization that focuses on electric vehicles. #2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets. While there are far fewer trucks than cars globally to convert to electric, they use much larger batteries (several hundred kWh) and accounted for 4.3 GWh annually in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

British Airways, in partnership with the Solena Group , will establish Europe’s first plant for sustainable jet-fuel and plans to use the low-carbon fuel to power part of its fleet from 2014. The plant will gasify waste biomass, and use a Fischer-Tropsch process to convert the resulting syngas to biojet fuel and bionaphtha.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy. At top left are transmission electron microscope images of the copper nanoparticles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2009

Climate change. The report “Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Growing Risks for Businesses and Investors” notes that drought conditions are currently causing water shortages in Australia, Asia, Africa, and the United States, and that drought patterns are in many cases mirroring previously predicted effects of climate change.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2011

Up to 77% of the world’s energy supply could be met by six key renewables by mid-century under the most optimistic scenario if backed by the right enabling public policies, according to a new report by more than 120 researchers working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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