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IEA technology and policy reports outline paths to halving fuel used for combustion-engined road transport in less than 40 years

Green Car Congress

The IEA roadmap on fuel economy of internal combustion engines is part of the IEA series Technology Roadmaps. Some technologies need additional research to become commercially viable, including waste heat recovery devices, electromechanical valve actuation, low-friction lubricants and some lightweight materials. Technology Roadmap.

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Study Finds That Plankton Blooms Do Not Send Atmospheric Carbon to the Deep Ocean; Weakens Iron Fertilization as Geo-Engineering Approach

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The results weaken the applicability of the simplest version of the Iron Hypothesis as a geo-engineering approach to climate change. The two North Patch floats operated for over 14 months, diving, recording, and surfacing to report data in the world’s stormiest waters, traveling almost to South America before falling silent.

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Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Increasing industrialization has made Asia the main source region of mercury emissions to air, with East and Southeast Asia accounting for about 40% of the global total, and South Asia for a further 8%. Source: UNEP.

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It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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The company went on to design and manufacture mobile-phone handsets and parts for Motorola ( MOT , Fortune 500 ), Nokia ( NOK ), Sony Ericsson, and Samsung. This "human resource advantage" is "the most important part" of BYDs strategy, Wang says. " Even before visiting BYD, Sokol believed in electric cars.

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