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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

Green Car Congress

The NZN concept relies on high energy density storage systems incorporated into the local grid, as well as efficient photovoltaic generation. The current thinking on climate stabilization is based on a world-wide goal of an 80% reduction from 1990 levels of GHG emissions by 2050. The Net-Zero Neighborhood. Source: Gil Weigand.

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We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One

Cars That Think

What we need is something called cozy futurism, a concept I first encountered while reading a blog post by software engineer Jose Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente. Climate change is a great example. Last year, Jeff Bezos created a US $10 billion fund to make investments in organizations fighting climate change.

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Tesla formally wins final environmental approval to open Gigafactory Berlin

Teslarati

The past two years, after all, required the State Office of the Environment to not only inspect and approve the factory itself, but also the entire industrial area with several large-scale facilities. In times of climate crisis, the availability of water will play an increasingly important role for future developments and settlements.

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Getting To Work In Hermosa Beach – The Carbon Neutral ClueTrain Leaves the Station

Creative Greenius

And speaking of work, it was a great week for the South Bay 350 Climate Action Group and for 350.org Of course the truth is we never stopped working or even took any time off since the October 24 International Day of Climate Action. org too as we jump started the new 2010 plan “Get To Work.&#.

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Sensor Networks Help Fight Floods and Noise Pollution

Cars That Think

With that challenge, we started looking for data sets that would provide flood information and realized that there were little to no quantitative or real-time flood data available, not just in New York City, but in urban environments around the world," said Silverman. "At At that point, we realized we needed to collect that data ourselves."

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Detroit’s Inductive EV Charging Roads: Boon or Boondoggle?

The Truth About Cars

But city leadership doesn’t want to spoil the grandeur of what’s a very interesting concept.& The electrified slab is located on 14th Street, between Marantette and Dalzelle, right near the trendy Corktown neighborhood and the former ruins of the Michigan Central Station Ford is actively restoring.

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Solar Mobile EV Charging Station along Highway can really help!

Setec Powerr

The federal government is “teaming up with states and the private sector to build a nationwide network of EV chargers by 2030 to help create jobs, fight the climate change crisis, and ensure that this game-changing technology is affordable and accessible for every American. It’s quite difficult to fast-charge your car in many U.S.

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