Climate Change, Fuel, Personal and Universal

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

There are two major reasons for this: first, EVs are not going to reach the numbers required by 2050 to hit their needed contribution to net zero goals , and even if they did, a host of other personal, social and economic activities must be modified to reach the total net zero mark. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

Cars That Think

MARCH 4, 2023

However, there’s a shortage of roboticists tackling climate change, due to a lack of awareness of necessary and urgent applications. After talking with many climate robotics founders for my blog, Nirva Labs , here are my findings on how you can find opportunities to help robots make an impact on climate change.

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Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming. —coauthor Ian Sue Wing, a researcher at Boston University.

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Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Driven by rising natural gas and oil consumption, levels of CO 2 are expected to hit 37 billion metric tons this year, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP), an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson. Around the world, the average person is responsible for about 4.8 over 2018 emissions.

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Carbon Global Emissions Climate Change

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

Halting fossil fuel use by 2050 is crucial to avoid exceeding the critical 2°C temperature increase threshold. Halting fossil fuel use by 2050 is crucial to avoid exceeding the critical 2°C temperature increase threshold. By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change.

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Fuel Auto Oil Conversion

ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

While the mix shifts toward lower-carbon-intensive fuels, the world will need to pursue all economic energy sources, the report says. As personal mobility increases, average new-car fuel economy (including SUVs and light trucks) will improve as well, rising from about 30 miles per gallon (7.83 l/100 km) in 2040.

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Light Oil Fuel Vehicles

Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

It now needs to switch to the potential conflicts resulting from falling fossil-fuel demand, and the related economic and security risks. This scenario assumes a full global consensus for action on climate change. Financial markets divest fossil-fuel assets and reallocate capital to low-carbon firms. Big green deal. ?This

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels? Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® Is America’s electrician shortage hurting our ability to get away from fossil fuels? A university education is often perceived to be the most desirable route out of high school.

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NUS researcher links air pollution to increased residential electricity demand

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

This is important for policymakers when forecasting and influencing future emissions paths in the context of climate change. In terms of research design, the study had to contend with the fact that air pollution is not only a driver of electricity demand but also a product of fossil-fuel based electricity generation.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. Reductions in Emissions. in 2100—the equivalent of US$40 trillion a year.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. In the commentary accompanying the paper, Swinburn said the estimates add valuable information to the growing literature examining the nexus between obesity and climate change.

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Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and the University of California, Davis Institute of Transportation Studies analyzed four scenarios to understand how COVID-19 and other political, economic, social and technological drivers may impact transportation activity and global oil demand.

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Oil Climate Global Stimulus Package

C40 Cities: urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by 50% by 2030, 66% for high-income areas; buildings, food, transport, clothing, electronics, appliances, aviation

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2019

C World , was produced in partnership with Arup and the University of Leeds, and cautions that urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030 in order to maintain the possibility of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C. Part of this will be delivered by technology interventions, such as sustainable aviation fuel.

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Bradford: Twelve Years A Failure – His Reason To Kill CCAs

Creative Greenius

JUNE 24, 2014

First admit what a failure you were in your own personal efforts of launching a Community Choice power program where you live. South Bay Gets More Done In 3 Months Than SCE’s Former Flack Got Done in a Dozen As A City Councilman in Gardena. What a unique concept.

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Vietnam Climate Change Climate Environment

U. Mich study: natural-gas-based ICE, BEV and FCV all show promise for environmental benefits relative to conventional ICE

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2014

Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., Results of a lifecycle analysis by a team at the University of Michigan suggest that multiple types of natural gas-powered vehicles—i.e., particulate matter formation (PMF).

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume. You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. We live in a world driven by denial and diversion in an era where the trivial trumps the truth.

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AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

Cars That Think

MAY 12, 2022

Universal basic income. Charles Simonyi , the person who created Microsoft word. Lee: Let’s say someone is talented and could become an architect, but that person just graduated from college and isn’t there yet. If you expect an assembly line worker to become a robot repair person, it isn’t going to be so easy." —Kai-Fu

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Personal Universal Climate Change Engine

Survey Finds Many Americans Have a Very Poor Understanding of Energy Use and Savings

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

A new survey by researchers from Columbia University, Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon University finds that many Americans have a very poor understanding of energy use and savings. Tags: Climate Change Surveys Sustainability. Inset: Individual regression curves for 30 randomly selected participants.

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Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But in a way, his ancestral history and his personal history have long been leading him to his ongoing research that leverages bioelectricity to better understand plant health. North Carolina State University In this new work, the researchers focused on corn and soybean plants, given their importance to the global economy and food supply.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. You also wanted to know how semiconductors will play a part in combating climate change. Universities Are Building a Semiconductor Workforce Peter Adams With the U.S. New technology, resembling a fuel cell operating in reverse , will make the technology greener.

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MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. —Grimaud et al. “We

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MIT Fuel Water Battery

Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume. You can even watch NBC-Universal TV and see how they turned their logo green and laugh at their funny PSAs about cutting your energy use or carbon footprint. We live in a world driven by denial and diversion in an era where the trivial trumps the truth.

Climate Change

Climate Change Coal Los Angeles Solar

The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More

Cars That Think

AUGUST 22, 2023

“Power electronics and electrification of agricultural equipment can help change our world for the better by reducing the equipment’s greenhouse gas footprint, providing food and fiber to feed, house, and clothe the world, and helping farmers stay profitable,” Singh says. I personally know how important [farming] is,” he says.

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Engine Power Powered New Zealand

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass.

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands

UC Berkeley study concludes demand reduction policies on light-duty vehicles essential to meeting GHG reduction targets by 2050

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2011

emissions (kg CO 2 person -1 yr -1 ) for a global sample of countries (2007) with a wide range of per capita incomes. Per capita transport CO 2 emissions are decomposed into the product of two terms: per capita LDV use (horizontal axis, veh-km person -1 yr -1 ) and propulsion carbon intensity (vertical axis, g CO 2 veh-km -1 ).

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Light Vehicles Climate Emissions

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Bottom: C2CNT Cement wind plant: The full oxy-fuel configuration is shown.

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CO2 Carbon Gas-Electric 2017

How EVs Are Helping Humanity & Saving Lives?

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

They are not only used for personal commuting, but they are also being used in agriculture, public transportation, last-mile operation and even in firefighting. Fuel cell powered EVs: Fuel cells generate electricity by dividing electrons from hydrogen molecules. In fuel cell cars we do not have to recharge the battery.

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Petrol Pollution Gasoline-Electric Diesel

X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2010

X PRIZE’s Energy & Environment Prize Group intends to catalyze a new era of clean, renewable, cost-effective energy with minimal impact on the climate and environment. Areas of consideration include breakthroughs in climate change, water resource management, energy distribution & storage, clean energy, energy efficiency/use.

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Water 2004 Climate Change Clean

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Climate Climate Change 2009 Emissions

Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

By including upstream emissions from fuels, GHG emissions from cities exceed those attributed to direct end-use by up to 24% (for Toronto). Within the overall trends there are differences between cities with more or less public transit; while personal income also impacts heating and industrial fuel use. Tonnes CO 2 e/capita.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles

4 Reasons EV Charging Stations on College Campuses Makes Sense

EV Connect

JULY 6, 2021

As the pandemic winds down, universities and colleges are opening back up for in-person learning. Even Subaru and Toyota (among just about every car maker today) are getting in on the EV market , bringing more signs that we’re closing in on the end of the fossil-fuel era. So what does that have to do with your campus?

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Charging Universal Installation Federal Grant

Study concludes that sugar cane-based biorefineries producing ethanol and electricity could power a global auto fleet of hybrids and EVs using only 4% of available cropland

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In their study, they assess the benefits and drawbacks of the joint production in a sugar cane-based biorefinery—using technology that is currently available and cost-competitive—of ethanol and electricity for fueling privately-owned automobiles. l/100km) using gasoline as the fuel. km/liter (46 mpg US, or 5.1

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Fleet Available Hybrid Power

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 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 It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy

Study finds V2G-capable electric school buses cost-effective with current technology; financial and environmental benefits

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Electric school bus fleets with vehicle-to-grid (V2G) capabilities are cost-effective with today’s technology, and could save schools money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving public health, according to a new study by a team at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

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Australia Reels From Split Weather System, Suffers Effect Of “The Big Dry” And “The Big Wet”

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Victoria’s current “Target 155” water conservation program recommends a household water usage goal of no more than 155 liters (41 gallons US) of water use per person per day. By comparison, per capita personal daily water use in the United States, excluding industry, can be as high as 400 to 600 liters (106 to 159 gallons US) per day.

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Australia Climate Change Water 2009

Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

MAY 3, 2021

It saves the farmers from buying diesel fuel and breathing diesel fumes. Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. “My “But there’s a good chance this bill will eventually be passed.

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Burma Oregon Climate Climate Change

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2012

—John Reilly, co-director of the Joint Program and co-author Sebastian Rausch, now at ETH Zurich University, calculated the impact a carbon tax starting at $20 per ton would have using a national economic model that details energy, taxes and household incomes. They found that the tax would raise $1.5

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Tax MIT Carbon Emissions

Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles.

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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

Cars That Think

MARCH 6, 2024

Before we start, I 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 welcome to Fixing The Future , our bi-weekly podcast that focuses on concrete solutions to hard problems.

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What’s In It For Me?

Creative Greenius

MARCH 11, 2015

1][2][3] From 1914 to 1932, Galleani’s followers in the United States (known as i Galleanisti), carried out a series of bombings and assassination attempts against institutions and persons they viewed as class enemies.[1] So what’s in it for me?

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

Indeed as it turned out he knew far more than the President or any member of Congress did on the subject but none of them cared because Gore’s personality and persona didn’t work on TV. The USA got the leap on everyone else with solar, wind and other fossil free energy as well as electric cars and other alternative fuel vehicles.

Al Gore

Al Gore Gore Sierra Congress

Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Drive Electric

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We must position ourselves ready to take advantage of this change, and then communicate and engage New Zealanders. . Many leading markets and car manufacturers have committed to effectively phasing out fossil fuel powered light vehicles. Do you support this change, and if so, when and how do you think it should take effect? .

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

He identified three major themes in 2009 for renewable energy: “ Energy markets are undergoing their most fundamental changes since the 1930s; cap and trade is the most complex issue outside of health care; and schisms exist within the energy community that will grow stronger over time. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

How Roboticists Can Tackle Climate Change

Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Global Carbon Project: Global carbon emissions growth slows, but hits record high

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

ExxonMobil predicts peak in light-duty vehicle liquid fuels ~2030, but ongoing role for oil in the mix

Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

NUS researcher links air pollution to increased residential electricity demand

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

Study finds global oil demand likely to grow despite pandemic, climate policies

C40 Cities: urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by 50% by 2030, 66% for high-income areas; buildings, food, transport, clothing, electronics, appliances, aviation

Bradford: Twelve Years A Failure – His Reason To Kill CCAs

U. Mich study: natural-gas-based ICE, BEV and FCV all show promise for environmental benefits relative to conventional ICE

Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

AI’s Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real

Survey Finds Many Americans Have a Very Poor Understanding of Energy Use and Savings

Stress Monitors for Plants Can Spot Dehydration

The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

MIT team discovers new family of materials with best performance yet for oxygen evolution reaction; implications for fuel cells and Li-air batteries

Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

UC Berkeley study concludes demand reduction policies on light-duty vehicles essential to meeting GHG reduction targets by 2050

GWU team demonstrates one-pot process for optimized synthesis of controlled CNTs from CO2; coupling cement and C2CNT

How EVs Are Helping Humanity & Saving Lives?

X PRIZE Foundation Aims to Launch $100M in Prizes Over Next 10 Years, Targeting 4 Key Areas

Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

4 Reasons EV Charging Stations on College Campuses Makes Sense

Study concludes that sugar cane-based biorefineries producing ethanol and electricity could power a global auto fleet of hybrids and EVs using only 4% of available cropland

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

Study finds V2G-capable electric school buses cost-effective with current technology; financial and environmental benefits

Australia Reels From Split Weather System, Suffers Effect Of “The Big Dry” And “The Big Wet”

Going with the talent flow

MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage

What’s In It For Me?

Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Drive Electric Submission on the Emissions Reduction Plan Discussion Document

Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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