Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2021

Here, not only energy and minerals are to be extracted, but also drinking water. With a novel type of plant, it is not only possible to generate electricity in a climate-friendly way, but also to extract drinking water and even mineral resources at the same time. —Valentin Goldberg from KIT’s AGW.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Electromobility is just now picking up momentum; further, electric cars are only as emissions-free as the production of electricity that charges their batteries. First, apply electricity generated from renewable sources to obtain hydrogen from water. Climate neutrality. Then add carbon. Finally, combine CO?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. This could save 10 percent of electricity as well, Rahman.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released a new report that frames an integrated challenge and opportunity space around the water-energy nexus for DOE and its partners and lays the foundation for future efforts. Present day water and energy systems are tightly intertwined. Source: DOE. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

Recent breakthroughs in separations and catalysis, along with long-trend reductions in solar and wind electricity costs, have significantly increased the potential for cost-competitive renewable fuels from direct air capture (DAC) of CO 2. The separation of ethanol and other fuel products from water. —Rob McGinnis.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future? A Small Country with Large Heating Needs Big problems demand big solutions, and there is perhaps no bigger 21st-century problem than climate change.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall, cranks mounted on a floating platform lower the ring 25 meters below the surface to expose the seaweed to cooler, more nutrient-rich water.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The mobile solution offered by Group subsidiary Rheinmetall Denel Munition in South Africa assures climate-neutral energy security for stationary and mobile infrastructure in civil and industrial settings as well as for expedition and outdoor applications. Wind and Hydropower can also be used to produce the required electricity.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together with E.ON, Audi is building a solar energy park on the roofs of the two logistics centers of its plant in Gy?r Approximately 70 percent of Audi Hungaria’s heat requirements are already covered by climate-neutral, geothermal energy. gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity. r covering about 160,000 square meters.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Heliogen, a company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, recently announced its launch and also said that it has—for the first time commercially—concentrated solar energy to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius. We’ve made great strides in deploying clean energy in our electricity system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

Mercedes-Benz unveiled the VISION EQXX electric concept car ( earlier post )—a highly efficient, sleek concept car capable of exceeding 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) on a single charge with an outstanding energy consumption of less than 10 kWh per 100 kilometers (efficiency of more than 6 miles per kWh). VISION EQXX: key technical data.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), together with international project partners, has inaugurated the largest solar-chemical installation yet for the production of hydrogen. In the transport sector, hydrogen drives can make a significant contribution towards climate protection.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Southern California Edison has proposed an integrated strategic framework for the state of California to meet its ambitious climate and air quality goals. The company found that the clean power and electrification path is the most affordable and feasible approach to reaching California’s climate and air quality goals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

An annual ' tracking the progress of California Climate Investments, released by the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Finance, finds that nearly $1.4 Projects funded to date are achieving the overall goal of California Climate Investments by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 36.5 To date, $9.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

introduced several e-mobility sustainability initiatives to commence with the US launch of the battery-electric e-Golf ( earlier post ). Emission reductions produced by the project are verified by an approved third party and registered with the Climate Action Reserve. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In countries that choose to continue or increase their use of nuclear power, it can reduce reliance on imported fossil fuels, cut carbon dioxide emissions and enable electricity systems to integrate higher shares of solar and wind power. However, a new era for nuclear power is by no means guaranteed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University, with colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions, have developed a nickel-based electrocatalyst for low-cost water-splitting for hydrogen production with performance close to that of much more expensive commercial platinum electrocatalysts. Click to enlarge. V with good stability.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Solar to chemical energy conversion could provide an alternative to mankind's unsustainable use of fossil fuels. Schematic of a solar-powered electrolysis cell which converts carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon and oxygenate products with an efficiency far higher than natural photosynthesis. —Gurudayal et al. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Starting a company to develop an energy technology that fights climate change is hard—a lot harder than starting a software company. But the opportunities are huge. Do they know how to meet [these] commitments? Not really.” This is a hard problem,” Majumdar continued. This is not your green kumbaya. million financing round.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 26, 2021

A lot has been made of the fact that the infrastructure bill Democrats and Republicans are ready to pass is extremely watered down and leaves out basically all of the priorities of progressive Democrats, including the exciting cleantech and climate provisions we’ve been writing about (such as extension and expansion of the federal EV tax […]. (..)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. I believe that the loss of industry players Solyndra, Evergreen, and SpectraWatt opens the market for more innovative solar companies to succeed with smarter tactics and mainstream products that fit into existing manufacturing models.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

MW solar park at Chattanooga is owned and operated by Silicon Ranch; VW has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement. Volkswagen inaugurated its largest solar facility in the world—also the largest solar facility operated by an automaker in the US—at its plant in Chattanooga, TN, which produces the Passat model for North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

A team from Bauhaus Luftfahrt in Germany has analyzed the climate impact and economic performance of solar thermochemical jet fuel production. Schematic of solar thermochemical fuel production path. A solar tower or dish concentration system can deliver the required level of radiative flux. kg CO 2 ‐equiv /L.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Andrews have demonstrated that ammonia can be synthesized directly from air (instead of N 2 ) and H 2 O (instead of H 2 ) under a mild condition (room temperature, one atmosphere) with supplied electricity which can be obtained from renewable resources such as solar, wind or marine. —Lan et al. Rong Lan, John T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

The Middle East represents a big opportunity and a very promising region for us, given the high levels of solar exposure, strong appetite for green hydrogen projects, and strategic geographic position between Europe and Asia. In this regard, green hydrogen is currently in a similar position to that of solar power a decade ago.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2019

— The ordinances focus on building decarbonization—the strategic lowering of climate-changing emissions from buildings—including five that move toward building electrification. New nonresidential construction must be all-electric and install solar generation. Allows for some exceptions, on a case-by-case basis.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2014

Honda marked the opening of Honda Smart Home US, showcasing technologies that enable zero net energy living and transportation, including Honda’s home energy management system (HEMS), a proprietary hardware and software system that monitors, controls and optimizes electrical generation and consumption throughout the home’s microgrid.

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Baua Electric

MAY 30, 2024

This funding makes it more affordable to install energy-saving measures such as heat pumps, electrical panels, and insulation. New York’s first phase will also support homeowners who wish to install air sealing, insulation, ventilation, heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, and electric upgrades (wiring and load service centers).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As we confront the enormous challenge of climate change, we should take inspiration from even the most unlikely sources. Solar climate intervention " is the umbrella term for projects such as ours that involve reflecting sunlight to reduce global warming and its most dangerous impacts. Solar climate intervention is.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches. The Sunshine State is a US solar power leader. It’s about to pass HB 1645 , which will ban wind turbines in state waters. But unlike Florida, Maine is windy nearshore. Absolutely.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said the United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” no later than the first quarter of 2015. launching a new track on the interaction of energy and water (the energy/water ‘nexus’).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The company is joining a list of companies committing to act on climate change through membership of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), the global body enabling businesses to set emissions reduction targets in line with climate science. Launched on Earth Day, Racing.Green. Within the commitments announced in Racing.Green.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The CMA CGM Group has already begun to respond to climate change by using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a transitional maritime fuel. It is committed to enabling these facilities to generate enough carbon-free electricity (wind, solar, biomass-fueled, hydrogen-fueled) to become energy self-sufficient.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. Earlier post.).

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