Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2021

In an open-access paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science , the team reports its findings on the analysis of five DMM reaction pathways in terms of exergy efficiency, production cost, and climate impact. The methodology enables a hierarchical optimization-based process design and evaluation. L diesel-eq. ?1 L diesel-eq. ?

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Last night at the Hermosa Beach City Council meeting I heard an ignorant little man reference my favorite Edward Abbey book, “The Monkey Wrench Gang,” which I read the year it came out – in 1975 as a senior in high school. The people whose business model is to wreck the ecology and the climate and profit from it.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2015

Low-carbon gas fuels or “decarbonized gas” refers to gaseous fuels with a net-zero, or very low, greenhouse gas impact on the climate. The report examines the potential role of decarbonized gas fuels, and the existing gas pipeline infrastructure, to help meet California’s long-term climate goals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Kreutz used what he called a bifurcated climate regime—i.e., pre- and post- decarbonization of the electric power sector—to which he referred as pre-CCS and post-CCS, respectively (although decarbonization was not necessarily via CCS—carbon capture and storage).) Note that the climate benefit is independent.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2019

The project is referred to as “CirclEnergy” as CRI’s technology is designed to support and enable the transition to circular economy. The grant will allow CRI to accelerate efforts to commercialize large scale production plants, expanding the market for ETL technology and use of renewable methanol in Europe. The reaction is highly exothermic.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. Land conversion to biofuel production is an example of a potential large-scale land cover change.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

Altex Technologies has selected Unitel to provide engineering services to design and build a pilot system that will produce 1 BPD of synthetic gasoline from biomass (Biomass Conversion to Synthetic Gasoline System, BCSGS). Method and apparatus for conversion of carbonaceous materials to liquid fuel. US 9199889 B2.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As CO 2 levels in the atmosphere increase and it becomes clear that this has substantial consequences for our climate, developing alternatives to fossil fuels is more urgent than ever. There have also been important developments in molecular catalysis for fuels and we refer the interested reader to a recent review.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. Cloud-Resolving Climate Modeling of the Earth's Water Cycle, Mark Taylor (SNL) with ANL, LANL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL, UCI, CSU.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2022

IDTechEx calculates that non-automotive EV sectors in 2021 demanded approximately 31 GWh globally in 2021; for reference, battery-electric and plug-in hybrid cars demanded approximately 280 GWh globally in 2021. Battery Demand From Non-automotive EV Sectors in 2021. Source: IDTechEx - “Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea & Air 2022-2042”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2016

times the route-averaged emissions factor in grams/km without significant dependence on bus type or climate. Conversely, Lagrangian data taken from the vehicle frame of reference can more precisely indicate the spatiotemporal distribution of mobile emissions sources.… Credit: ACS, Kotz et al. Click to enlarge.

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EV Connect

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Last year saw the first full conversion of a gas station into an electric charging station in the U.S. Government agencies, nonprofits and businesses large and small are all increasing their commitment to developing a sustainable economy and curbing the effects of climate change. Check out what makes us different.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The Exxon/Mobil refinery in Torrance and the Chevron refinery in El Segundo are both located in the South Bay and are each a big part of the carbon-based economy that causes the majority of climate change - although you’ll never get either of these corporations to admit this truth or take responsibility for it. It hardly seems fair.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The greenhouse gas implications of land-use conversion differ substantially between the two scenarios, but in both, numerous biodiversity hotspots suffer from serious habitat loss, the study found. Despite the loss of pastures, the intensification of land use allows nearly as much production of food as in the deforestation scenario.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2009

On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. More specifically, only one third of the studies define an alternative land use reference system and calculate the carbon stock. Ravindranath et al. Ravindranath et al.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 27, 2023

Transcript Eliza Strickland: Technology to combat climate change got a big boost this year when the US Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act , which authorized more than 390 billion for spending on clean energy and climate change. But before we get to those, let’s do a little basic tutorial on the climate science here.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

To bring all of this into a concrete example, I’ll use the specs from the window AC unit in my shop: it’s rated at 6,000 BTU on the box (though the data label does correctly refer to “BTU / hr”) and consumes 5.1 A at 115 VAC, or 586 W, which works out to a COP of 3.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2012

Because of methane leakage from the natural gas infrastructure, a shift to natural gas vehicles from gasoline or diesel vehicles could lead to greater radiative forcing of the climate—i.e., Recent reports in the scientific literature and popular press have produced confusion about the climate implications of natural gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

Additional benefits of reduced combustion temperatures include lower particulate and toxic gas emissions which are important considerations in global climate change. The ICE is a complex system whose operation is controlled by a wide range of processes. catalytic) technologies to reduce toxic gas and particulate emissions.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 23, 2021

The screen also is home for embedded navigation and the fantastic, optional three-amplifier, 28-channel, 36-speaker AKG Studio Reference 3D sound system. The first thought is this references a 6.0-liter The second-row passengers get a rear seat entertainment system consisting of two positionable 12.6-inch

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Cars That Think

MARCH 26, 2023

Can advanced semiconductors cut emissions of greenhouse gases enough to make a difference in the struggle to halt climate change? The rise of GaN and SiC power electronics will ultimately have a greater positive impact on the planet’s climate than will the replacement of incandescent and other legacy lighting by GaN LEDs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies. Eight months ago.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The thousands of rocket launches needed to loft and maintain these space power stations would dump lots of soot, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the stratosphere, with uncertain climate impacts. But that might be mitigated, in theory, if space solar displaced fossil fuels and helped the world transition to clean electricity.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., And he was right.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Conversely, it could make the RAV4 Hybrid even more popular – and help Toyota Australia pressure its Japanese head office to increase supply. In other words, the fines would add up quickly and will likely have car makers reassessing their line-ups with the view to improving fuel efficiency and possibly dropping thirstier models.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2017

Hydro-treated products, commonly referred to as HVO, or HRD fuels include diesel and jet fuel equivalent fuels. it is less likely to form crystals that cloud the fuel and lead to filter plugging in colder climates.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The 1979 Iranian crisis and related oil price shock accelerated Brazil’s conversion of its gasoline supply and automobile fleet. It is possible to use gasoline C made with hydrated ethanol (AEHC) with minimum risk of phase separation due to Brazilian climate conditions. This moonshine was hydrous ethanol.

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Drive Electric

MAY 15, 2022

We note the AT parking strategy consultation refers to transport objectives on p.35. AT’s parking strategy must align with New Zealand’s national and Auckland’s climate change targets, particularly around decarbonising transport. Population dictates that a large proportion of these will be used in Auckland. Key recommendations: 1.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2015

ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. Advanced Research In Dry cooling (ARID): $30 Million. Applied Research Associates. Applied Research Associates, Inc. 800,000.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us CalCars Frequently Asked Questions Jump to: Environmental Effects and Benefits Alternative Fuels Batteries PHEV Conversions Other Questions Note: This page is overdue for a major overhaul. PHEV Conversions to top What cars can be converted to PHEVs?

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Drive Electric

MAY 16, 2023

The Climate Change Commission’s analysis shows that by 2030 67% of cars entering the New Zealand market are EV. This demand will come from a range of drivers associated with decarbonisation and other technologies, including industrial process heat conversions, population growth, data centres, and electric vehicle uptake.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

In this paper PHEV refers solely to the long-range PHEV of 60 miles (100 km) electric-only range.) References. More information on e-mile comparisons is given by Reference Nº 2. Also see Appendix E and Reference 1.). Appendix D: Vehicle Driving Statistics. Appendix E: PHEV and the Electrical Grid—fast charge v.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2014

AOI 7: Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction. ($5M). These new exhaust aftertreatment technologies and catalysts must have light off temperatures of 150 °C and conversion efficiencies near 90%, to fully meet topic objectives.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs. First Escape PHEV delivered to SCE Nov 2007; 20 in 2008-2009. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable."

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data.

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