Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

These are: Advanced internal combustion engine and powertrain systems. Engine thermal management. Waste heat recovery. Engine friction reduction. Specific subtopics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Electrification of engine-driven auxiliaries/accessories. Alternative fuel combustion.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under the first FOA (DE-FOA-0002187), Capture Research and Development (R&D): Engineering Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and Initial Engineering Design for Industrial Sources, DOE selected nine projects to receive $51 million for cost-shared R&D. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

According to its website, the LEED system gives points for certain building practices that address: carbon, energy, water, waste, transportation, materials, health, and. LEED’s stated goal is to help create buildings that: Reduce contribution to global climate change. Protect and restore water resources.

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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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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Some may argue that a gas-engine car shouldn’t be part of the green vehicle category because it runs a traditional combustion engine. The fact is, though, that engineers have improved the way cars run so dramatically that they can run on a fraction of the fuel of vehicles 40 years ago. Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.

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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

MAY 7, 2009

The results weaken the applicability of the simplest version of the Iron Hypothesis as a geo-engineering approach to climate change. SOFeX was meant to test the Iron Hypothesis in waters between New Zealand and Antarctica during the Antarctic summer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Polyitaconic acid is a water-soluble polymer with a 2 million metric ton per year market potential as a replacement for petrochemical dispersants, detergents, and super-absorbents. The technology uses unique, engineered catalysts that facilitate new reaction pathways to liquid motor fuels from biomass. Velocys, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2022

Kai-Fu Lee , an AI expert who leads the venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures , and Chen Qiufan , a science fiction author known for his novel Waste Tide. AI’s effect on jobs (including engineering jobs). How do you imagine this trend changing the engineering profession? Can you imagine a solution for engineering?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. —Draft Scoping Plan Update.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

announced its next environmental sustainability strategy—PLANET 2050—which includes science-based goals that meet or exceed the goals in the United Nations Paris agreement on climate change. Generate 25% less waste in facilities and operations as a percent of revenue. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

BMW Group Plant Dingolfing will use heat produced from regional biomass and its own waste wood to meet about 50% of its process hot water requirements from 2025 onwards. The heating plant will have three boilers operating year-round, as well as its own pallet and waste-wood shredder. Rendering of the biomass heating plant.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

In addition to helping the nation meet ambitious carbon-neutral goals, the development and implementation of the proposed technology can help reduce the cost of and emissions from hydrogen production to mitigate the effects of climate change while creating new jobs and revitalizing our economy.

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EV Info

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Boris has spoken and started the end of the petrol engine in the UK. Under Boris’s new Green plan, the sale of new combustion engine vehicles, that are powered wholly by Petrol or Diesel will be banned from 2030. More on this later, but on producing hydrogen from water, there is a major drawback.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

There has been much discussion for over thirty years or more around the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the internal combustion engine. Fuel cells had been promoted in some sectors as the best alternative to the internal combustion engine. So why haven’t FCEV becoming as prolific as other electric cars?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Even on land, getting oil from tar sands depletes water and other resources and doubles oil’s carbon footprint. That’s too long to wait to improve energy security, protect our economy, and address climate change. We’ve already decided we’re going to fix already-built houses, offices and factories that waste energy.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

“There is no long-term future for cars with an internal combustion engine. A calculation of the resources for each relative to their weight shows internal combustion engines burn material 300 times greater than that lost once an electric car battery is scrapped. – March 1, via Reuters. – February 26, via The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons. It is a solution that could fully protect solar cells from oxygen and water, affordably, to realize the benefits of perovskites by improving their operating life. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2015

Renewable, low carbon production pathways include thermochemical biomass conversion; electrolysis from renewable electricity sources; and photoelectrochemical and solar thermochemical water splitting, which have been included in recent funding opportunities. Thus, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) code B31.12

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As we confront the enormous challenge of climate change, we should take inspiration from even the most unlikely sources. Solar climate intervention is. As the effects of climate change intensify and tipping points are reached, we may need options to prevent the most catastrophic consequences to ecosystems and human life.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Through COSIA, participating companies will capture, develop and share the most innovative approaches and best thinking to improve environmental performance in the oil sands, initially focusing on four Environmental Priority Areas (EPAs): tailings, water, land and greenhouse gases. The released water is recovered and recycled.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Significantly to reduce the CO 2 intensity and water use of its manufacturing operations. At the Suzuka Factory, they solved this problem by developing a new paint specifically for the middle coat that allows a conventional water-based base coat to be applied wet-on-wet after a short pre-drying period. Source: Honda North America.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program. Tour Engine, Inc. ,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.” Algenol, For Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change Award. carbon fixation), such that the energy of the excess photons is wasted through non-photosynthetic processes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

The new findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change , have implications for long-term emissions and climate modeling, as well as climate policy. Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail. —Adam Brandt. a, Heavy oils.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The cost here denotes the hazardous vehicle waste that is left after the typical full usage of an EV. Metastable: To become one of the leading battery recycling companies, Metastable has followed a philosophy of looking at waste as ‘ores’ which develops an end-to-end solution. billion in 2022 and is projected to achieve USD 35.1

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s also got a state of the art in-wall vacuuming system but it’s got no solar panels or solar hot water because that wasn’t part of the builders vision for their “dream house.&#. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. That’s spinning.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

That figure does not include damages from climate change, harm to ecosystems, effects of some air pollutants such as mercury, and risks to national security, which the report examines but does not monetize. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. Source: “Hidden Costs of Energy”. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2010

The high temperature exhaust also facilitates the use of otherwise wasted thermal energy for heating of the vehicle interior, thus increasing overall system efficiency. There is no liquid water in a HTPEM MEA and therefore there is no need for a compressor. Other benefits of the Serenergy HTPEM technology include: No humidifier.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle), a subset of the electric car, combines a primary electric motor with a much smaller back-up engine fueled with a hydrocarbon/biofuel mix. (In Engineering Advantages of PHEV. Engineering Advantages of the PHEV. This engineering solution allows versatility. Table of Contents.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2013

The project involves a collaboration among ecologists, evolutionary biologists and engineers from four labs that will include about 20 researchers and students. Genetically engineered “super-species” have been created in an effort to boost yields so that algae-based biofuels can compete with fossil fuels.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Are electric cars really green than combustion engine cars?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. Ontological Shock An Open Letter to Fred Krupp Report from GridEcon Conference SGS Climate Change Head on the First Carbon Credit.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Still, the instant torque of the electric motor is a rush you get to experience all the time in city driving; each time you pull away from a red light and stop sign youre wondering why gasoline engines ever became popular. Or maybe just snap up the engineers. The combined electrical storage efficiency of charger and batteries is 85%.

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