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MARCH 25, 2014

The Honda Smart Home US integrates a number of technologies, and is managed by Honda’s Home Energy Management System (HEMS). The home’s occupant will be able to use less than half of the energy of a similarly sized new home in the Davis area for heating, cooling and lighting. Click to enlarge. Photo by Dorian Toy. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Terrestrial bioenergy feedstock crops such as switchgrass, canola and corn have lower environmental lifecycle impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and water regardless of cultivation location, according to a new lifecycle assessment by researchers at the University of Virginia. Credit: ACS, Clarens et al.

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JULY 17, 2016

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued final New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) to reduce emissions of methane-rich landfill gas from new, modified and reconstructed municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, updating standards that were issued in 1996. Currently, methane’s effect on climate change are also of concern.

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JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. In terms of investment in innovation for cleaner energy, the plan calls for: Investment in advanced fossil energy projects. The proposed solicitation will cover a broad range of advanced fossil energy projects. A Federal Quadrennial Energy Review.

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OCTOBER 2, 2014

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $60 million to two new programs ($30 million each). ARPA-E posited that there is an urgent need to accelerate energy crop development for the production of renewable transportation fuels from biomass. Breeder’s yield.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Capturing the methane from these waste sources and using it for fuel has two benefits: It keeps methane, a greenhouse gas, from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change, and it reduces the use of traditionally-sourced natural gas. into SoCalGas pipelines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

The US Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense (DOD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to accelerate clean energy innovation and enhance national energy security. Solving military challenges has the potential to yield spin-off technologies that benefit the civilian community as well.

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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. The 10 global sustainability megaforces that may impact business over the next two decades are: Climate Change: This may be the one global megaforce that directly impacts all others. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2009

Europe must dramatically cut its water consumption and use water more efficiently if it is to avoid the worst impacts of water shortage, the European Environment Agency ( EEA ) warns in a new report, “Water resources across Europe—confronting water scarcity and drought”. “

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has developed a new, free online tool allowing users to customize and analyze the environmental impact of various fuels before they are used to create power. To use the tool, a user first selects the energy source to be analyzed and the desired reporting units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

CO 2 capture and clean-up: Waste gases are captured from the points of emission at the stack and transferred to the gas conditioning system where impurities are removed to produce CO 2 suitable for downstream methanol synthesis. CRI’s ETL technology consist of five process modules. In many ethanol production and biogas processes.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

City Council, board members of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission and long term colleagues from the climate justice action community to be part of a historic announcement. ” – this means that mega-polluting, constantly climate-killing, fossil fuel Chevron must go too.

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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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APRIL 16, 2024

The go-ahead for the 500-foot-deep mine comes despite widespread opposition from neighbors worried about water, noise pollution and other potential problems. illustrates broadening tension in the country, as resistance to living near a mine clashes with the potential of EVs to mitigate climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. A comprehensive global energy transition is urgently needed in order to avert a major planetary catastrophe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2009

Increasing population, heightened per capita water demands, regional droughts, and concerns over climate change have combined to make water issues even more pressing. Develop watershed resource flow modeling to support water supply and disposal issues related to siting and permitting for shale gas development.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2016

It uses no water or chemicals and generates no waste. SBI BioEnergy feedstocks include off-grade canola oil, waste cooking oil, animal fat from rendering plants and “tall oil,” a natural byproduct from wood pulp operations. SBI is in negotiations with major energy companies to supply them renewable diesel and renewable gasoline.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

To understand LEED, you just need to know what the acronym stands for: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. LEED is a certification program that aims to promote environmentally conscious energy usage and design. Meet ENERGY STAR criteria and have features like load management and flexible pricing. What is LEED?

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. Most accepted carbon transactions in the world today occur based on standards that originated from the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Creative Greenius

OCTOBER 18, 2013

And so it is that I resigned from my position as Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs for CBS EcoMedia effective the first of this month and I will now be devoting my full time to working on climate change response with the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group, the South Bay Bicycle Coalition and 350.org.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for 2050 and human health and crop benefits are for 2030 and beyond. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone are harmful air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In addition to examining the role batteries could play in helping to tackle climate change, the report finds that wider economic and societal benefits could also be accrued from systemically investing in the entire battery value chain from mining to reuse or recycling. This would close the world’s existing energy access gap by 70%.

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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. This could save 10 percent of electricity as well, Rahman.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Clean cooling technologies, which can support environmentally sustainable cold chains, include Dearman’s zero-emission transport refrigeration system ( earlier post ); solar-driven cooling for pack-houses; and even small transportable ammonia-water absorption refrigeration which can be used to transport medicine. Dearman Engine.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. Breakthroughs in battery technology, carbon sequestration, and other energy technologies that result in a five-fold improvement over current technology could literally change the world.

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MAY 10, 2011

Ranges of global technical potentials of renewable energy sources derived from studies analyzed in SRREN report. Biomass and solar are shown as primary energy due to their multiple uses. While the scenarios arrive at a range of estimates, the overall conclusions are that renewables will take an increasing slice of the energy market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

The US Department of Energy is soliciting applications ( DE-FOA-0001542 ) for the formation of a Consortium to pursue five identified R&D topic areas related to improving the operating efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks. Waste heat recovery. Overall energy management (system level efficiency improvements). Earlier post.)

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Clean Manufacturing – Further reducing the environmental footprint of Ford’s operations through renewable energy, sustainable water and wastewater management, waste management, and energy-efficient buildings.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 26, 2012

We may well be as doomed as doomed can be already – as I frequently tell my friends that we are, and the “ Hell and High Water ” may already have arrived earlier then even Joe Romm’s dire predictions, but I’m not quite ready to cash in my chips and give up the ghost. First staff job I’ve had since 1982.

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JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Present day water and energy systems are tightly intertwined. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2009

will jointly offer Vaperma’s Siftek polymer membrane technology, which is designed to lower energy consumption for reduce operational costs and emissions in the energy-intensive ethanol production process. The permeation of water across the membrane occurs by adsorption of water onto the interior surface of the membrane.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

Launched at the Rio+20 summit in Brazil, the Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities is intended to work with local and national governments, the private sector and civil society groups to promote energy efficient buildings, efficient water use, sustainable waste management and other activities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

Achieving the 2030 target under the proposed plan will continue to build on investments in clean energy and set the California economy on a trajectory to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Achieve 50% Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2030; doubling of energy efficiency savings by 2030.

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JANUARY 7, 2009

I hope you’re as happy and energized as I am about Obama’s impending Presidency and his game-changing energy and environmental appointments. Change is but mere weeks away. It’s all coming eight years later than it should, but the Climate Change Calvary has now arrived and they’re riding hard and fast.

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Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Here’s the version I remember hearing in New Jersey: A man goes on vacation and his brother agrees to housesit for him — feeding the cat, picking up the newspapers and mail, watering the plants, etc. ACT ACCORDINGLY – Stop wasting so much time mindlessly watching television, playing video games and going to Las Vegas.

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MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. 3. Water Conservation. 4. Waste & Recycling.

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