Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 19, 2010
Ceres recently released a new report concluding that coal-to-liquid (CTL) and oil shale technologies face significant environmental and financial obstacles—from water constraints, to technological uncertainties to regulatory and market risks—that pose substantial financial risks for investors involved in such projects.
Baua Electric
APRIL 30, 2024
The El Niño climate pattern, which weakens tradewinds, definitely had a hand in that. The Mountain Census states – Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming – reported a smaller reduction of 2%. Wind generation from August through December, however, was 2.4% higher than during the same period in 2022.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Seth Lyman, now with Utah State University’s Energy Dynamics Laboratory, is lead author of a paper documenting the research published in the journal Nature Geoscience. Humans pump thousands of tons of vapor from mercury into the atmosphere each year, where it can remain suspended for long periods.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
If leak rates are too high, natural gas does not compare favorably with one alternative, coal, in terms of climate impact. The Colorado, Utah and California basins combined produce less than 3% of all US natural gas—much less than the eastern basins. Where leak rates are low, the comparison favors natural gas.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 13, 2015
Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. If developed in a responsible manner, natural gas can be the critical transition fuel that reduces the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and keeps us on a path toward a decarbonized energy future.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 3, 2009
Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for University of Utah. DOE Share: $2,723,512).
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