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JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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MARCH 23, 2013

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released a letter to President Obama describing six key components the advisory group believes should be central to the Administration’s strategy for addressing climate change. Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The Excel-based Upstream Dashboard provides “upstream” data for lifecycle analysis of coal, natural gas, crude oil, uranium, and biomass, as well as gasoline, ethanol, jet fuel, and diesel derived from either petroleum or coal-gasification.

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DECEMBER 18, 2011

The base results from a study by a team at the Center for Transportation Research, Argonne National Laboratory indicate that shale gas life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 6% lower than conventional natural gas, 23% lower than gasoline, and 33% lower than coal. Click to enlarge. However, the environmental impacts (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The statute authorizes the California Energy Commission to develop and deploy alternative and renewable fuels and advanced transportation technologies to help attain the state’s climate change policies. The natural gas energy procured will replace electricity procured from a coal fired plant.

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MAY 23, 2022

When scientists detected the compound in the upper troposphere, they were surprised by how far it had traveled into the atmosphere, raising questions about how it’s transported there and its effect on particle mass and creation. To make clouds, you need water to nucleate or freeze. —Mingyi Wang. —Mingyi Wang.

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JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s CRI investment and work with renewable methanol is similar to the approach Audi is taking with its own e-fuels projects—producing very low carbon liquid or gaseous fuels using only renewable energy, water and CO 2. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Currently the company has a 4,000 metric ton/year production capacity.

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MAY 8, 2009

The authors point out their study looked at only two criteria, kilometers travelled and greenhouse gas offsets, but did not examine the performance of electricity and ethanol for other policy-relevant criteria such as water consumption, air pollution or economic costs. Kilometers per crop hectare for switchgrass feedstock with a small SUV.

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Green Car Congress

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. What are the multiple climate, health and crop-yield benefits (by region) of implementing the measures?

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JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change.

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MARCH 6, 2010

This article shows that including offsets in climate change legislation would likely make an emissions program more cost-effective by: (a) providing an incentive for non-regulated sources to generate emission reductions; and (b) expanding emission compliance opportunities for regulated entities. Assuming the offset is legitimate—i.e.,

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JUNE 17, 2009

Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now in the US and are expected to increase. It is clear that climate change is happening now. The observed climate changes we report are not opinions to be debated, they are facts to be dealt with.This is a dynamic process. Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.

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JUNE 25, 2015

CO 2 + water + renewable energy → e-diesel. 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. Earlier post.). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 24, 2021

Plastics are on track to contribute more greenhouse gas emissions than coal plants in the US by 2030, according to new report by Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College in Vermont. This report represents the floor, not the ceiling, of the US plastics industry’s climate impact. million tons of GHG each year.

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JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies. —US Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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MAY 24, 2009

Gregoire issued her executive order, entitled “Washington’s Leadership on Climate Change,” after testifying at the US Environmental Protection Agency’s public hearing in Seattle on the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

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MAY 13, 2024

A month ago, I spent some time assembling statistics on major geographies’ split of domestic freight tonnage across different modes: road, rail, and water. I was surprised to find that road freight was so much more dominant in Europe than rail compared to other major geographies. I think of Europe.

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MAY 18, 2017

Magnesium has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of the structural metals; as such, it is attractive for use in transportation as well as in sustainable battery technologies (e.g, The hot reaction zone is either gas-fired, coal-fired, or electrically heated in a furnace; the condensing section is water-cooled. earlier post ).

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. The government elected last year passed the country’s first climate-action law in more than a decade.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

barely rises in OECD countries, although there is a pronounced shift away from oil, coal (and, in some countries, nuclear) towards natural gas and renewables. The transport sector already accounts for more than half of global oil consumption, and this share increases. Energy demand. Oil demand reaches 99.7 mb/d in 2035, up from 87.4

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion and Coal Research and from the research group Photobiotechnology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a way of increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production in microalgae by a factor of five by using a combined metabolic engineering approach.

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JUNE 12, 2023

A study led by Norwegian climate center CICERO has found that the global warming effect of leaked hydrogen is almost 12 times stronger than that of CO 2. Unlike exhaust from burning coal and gas that contains CO 2 , burning hydrogen emits only water vapor and oxygen. Sand et al. —Dr Sand The GWP100 of hydrogen. Sand et al.

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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. Essentially, this would require making the power and transport sector carbon-free worldwide.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

The overarching goal of the LCA study is to assess which mode of natural gas-based personal passenger mobility offers the most compelling future environmental benefits, as both the civil power infrastructure and the transportation sector undergo a greening transition from coal and petroleum respectively to natural gas.

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APRIL 29, 2013

(The figure includes the direct effects and those indirect effects due to the production of tropospheric ozone and stratospheric water vapor.) In 2011, CH4 emissions from coal mining were 63.2 Climate Change Emissions Natural Gas' Transmission and Storage. From 1990 to 2011, CH4 emissions from landfills decreased by 44.7

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won't be heavy, sour, far from water crude. As Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.”

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JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Natural gas must be developed with safeguards to reduce impacts on water, air quality, land, nearby communities and ecosystems. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 24, 2022

Greenhouse gas emissions will certainly grow too, because India’s energy generation is dominated by fossil fuels—coal-fired power plants for electricity, coal- and gas-fired furnaces for industrial heating, liquid petroleum gas for cooking, and gasoline and diesel for transportation. cents per kilowatt-hour and 5.5

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JULY 2, 2013

Adam Brandt and his colleagues used historical relationships to project future demand for (a) transport services; (b) all liquid fuels; and (c) substitution with alternative energy carriers, including electricity. Their results showed great increases in passenger and freight transport activity, but less reliance on oil.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2023

Canada is an economic powerhouse that is powering away from its hewer of wood and drawer of water economy.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Life cycle inventories have typically been presented at global, national, or regional levels—sufficient for understanding global processes such as climate change and fossil fuel depletion, but insufficient for the analysis of local processes such as air pollution, according to the researchers. —Tessum et al.

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APRIL 18, 2022

When most of us consider ways to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector, we immediately think of electric cars or vehicles in general, and in that case, we are right to a greater extent.  The hydrogen and oxygen in water are separated using an electrical current in this process.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

Integrating these sources helps mitigate climate change, reduce air pollution, and protect ecosystems. Climate Change Mitigation: By displacing fossil fuel-based energy sources, renewable energy integration contributes to global efforts to mitigate climate change.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

This question of whether climate change becomes so bad that we have to do something to dull its impacts and reduce human suffering is a very big one,” says Keutsch, an atmospheric chemist. For many, the mere idea of purposefully intervening in the climate system is problematic and worth shutting down before it gains traction.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Some scientists have associated the release, both gradual and fast, of subsurface ocean methane with climate change of the past and future. In the hydrate phase, a methane gas molecule is locked inside a crystalline cage of frozen water molecules. The stability of the hydrate stability zone is climate-dependent.

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