Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2020

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a novel machine learning approach quickly to enhance the resolution of wind velocity data by 50 times and solar irradiance data by 25 times—an enhancement that had yet to be achieved with climate data.

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MARCH 2, 2020

For years, scientists have known that these particles are affecting Earth’s warming climate, but measuring their exact effect has proved elusive. Absorption by black carbon strongly affects regional and global climate. Black carbon’s absorption of solar radiation is comparable to that of carbon dioxide. —Fierce et al.

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APRIL 30, 2023

The world is undergoing an energy transition to reduce CO 2 emissions and mitigate climate change. The possibility of selling hydrogen could result in a further expansion of solar and wind power in developing countries, contributing to their economies.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2020

Satellite data over a shipping lane in the south Atlantic show that the ships modify clouds to block an additional 2 Watts of solar energy, on average, from reaching each square meter of ocean surface near the shipping lane. The open-access study was published in AGU Advances, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. C, or 1.8 ?F,

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JULY 13, 2019

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Climate neutrality. Vehicles on the road, when powered by synthetic fuel, are ultimately climate-neutral. Present studies suggest that a pure fuel cost of between €1.20 They can serve as a buffer for fluctuating solar or wind energy or to circumvent regional restrictions on the expansion of renewable energy production.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It is cheaper to generate electricity by solar or wind power than fossil fuels, which begs the question – why isn’t uptake of renewable electricity more widespread? FT, “Climate change could bring near un-livable conditions for 3 bn people,” Nov 2021. Download this report now! *

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The leaders of the world have just returned from the UN's latest climate change summit, COP26 , in which the countries that have signed on to the Paris Agreement upped their commitments to fight climate change. C by the year 2100 , according to Climate Action Tracker. C above pre-industrial levels. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Project Koyash team at ASU designed a solar-powered air-filtration system that autonomously cleans polluted air in less than an hour. The team designed its air-filtration system to be solar-powered because Ulaanbaatar gets an average of 290 days of sunlight each year. It is the most rewarding experience we have had.”

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Solar radiation management (SRM) is one of the geoengineering techniques proposed as a potential means of offsetting some of the anthropogenic radiative forcing of climate as a means to reduce climate change. Contrary to some claims, they note, this could provide meaningful tests of the climate’s response to SRM within a decade.

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JULY 16, 2015

Solar Impulse, the solar-powered electric aircraft attempting to fly around the world, will be grounded in Hawaii until early spring 2016 due to damage to the batteries which overheated in the record-breaking oceanic flight from Nagoya to Hawaii. The Round-The-World mission will resume early April from Hawaii to the USA West Coast.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

The company’s membership in the Mobility Systems Center builds on its participation as a sponsor of MITEI’s Mobility of the Future study , which will be released in November. Other members of the study consortium are Alfa, Aramco, BP, Chevron, Equinor, Ferrovial, General Motors, Shell, and the Toyota Mobility Foundation.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

For instance, electricity generated from coal or natural gas is associated with higher carbon emissions, while renewable sources like wind or solar energy contribute negligible carbon pollution. The shift towards renewable energy sources further enhances the environmental benefits of EVs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2021

ENEOS Corporation and Origin Energy signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct a study on a potential business collaboration for the development of a CO 2 -free hydrogen supply chain between Japan and Australia. Queensland is well advanced in the development of renewable energy sources, particularly solar power.

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DECEMBER 16, 2018

From there, BC can be transported over long distances and exert impact on climate and composition of remote southern hemisphere. However, soot does not only have a negative effect on human health, it also contributes to global warming by absorbing solar radiation. —Wiedensohler et al.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Scientists from the US, Norway, Russia, Germany, Italy and China are participating in a study examining the potential role of black carbon, or soot, on the rapidly changing Arctic climate. The Arctic climate is changing faster than some scientists expected. The study will run through 15 May out of Svalbard, Norway.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

“Electric cars will not save the climate. Another expectation is that homeowners and businesses will become “ fully electrified ” by replacing oil, propane and gas furnaces with heat pumps along with gas fired stoves as well as installing solar power and battery systems. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 137

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

A study by Mark Z. Not only does carbon capture hardly work at existing plants, but there’s no way it can actually improve to be better than replacing coal or gas with wind or solar directly. You can’t just ignore health costs or climate costs. His open-access paper is published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Co-author Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, noted that earlier studies on the impact of climate warming and ambient ozone on the state’s ability to grow food have focused on high-volume staple crops such as wheat, soy and rice. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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Ozone Davis San Diego Pollution 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Extracting energy from the wind causes climatic impacts that are small compared to current projections of 21 st century warming, but large compared to the effect of reducing US electricity emissions to zero with solar. These effects redistribute heat and moisture in the atmosphere, impacting climate. —David Keith.

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Wind Power Powered Climate 315

Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2010

A research team from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany has found that deceased solar activity until the end of this century would only slightly scale down the global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The results of the study are published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2022

As climate change edges from crisis to emergency, the aviation sector looks set to miss its 2050 goal of net-zero emissions. A glimmer of hope, however, comes from solar fuels. Using concentrated solar energy, they were able to produce kerosene from water vapor and carbon dioxide directly from air. They observed a value of 4.1

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Solar Fuel Water Carbon 101

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APRIL 15, 2019

solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear) as compared to the eastern US (EUS), where the electricity market is dominated by pollutant and precursor emitting combustion sources (i.e., In the study, the researchers applied a prototype version of the new-generation NOAA GFDL global Atmospheric Model, version 4,for their simulations.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A comprehensive assessment of black-carbon climate forcing accepted for publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres estimates that black carbon, with a total climate forcing of +1.1?W?m m -2 , is the second-most important human emission in terms of its climate-forcing in the present-day atmosphere.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A University of California, Riverside assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering has received a $450,000 grant to study the impact of air-polluting black carbon particles as a way to mitigate climate change. Clouds have an important role in climate change.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Synthetic fuel production from fuel-combustion-based energy and CO 2 (top) and from atmospheric CO 2 using solar electricity (bottom). In their study, the researchers evaluated five hypothetical production routes using different sources of CO 2 and energy. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science , is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products—ethanol and ethylene—at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts. —Gurudayal et al. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2021

Now, a study from University of Michigan researchers shows that when, where and how those fleet vehicles are charged can greatly impact their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. —Maxwell Woody.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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Climate Change Climate Engine Sustainable Transportation 87

Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. 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? This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) have formed a new collaborative research center dedicated to the study of the Sun’s effect on Earth’s climate. —Peter Pilewskie.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

Solar activity influences Earth’s temperature, and it has been suggested that the current period of low solar activity will lead into a more prolonged period of low activity, a new “grand minimum” similar to the Maunder minimum that lasted from 1645 to 1715, coinciding with the Little Ice Age. degrees Celsius (0.54

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it . Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. . Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. They still cause an impact on climate by the manufacturing of the car and not least the battery. Lithium-ion battery production.

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Lithium Ion Climate Batteries Battery 82

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2013

In California, reductions in emissions of black carbon since the late 1980s—mostly from diesel engines as a result of air quality programs—have resulted in a measurable reduction of concentrations of global warming pollutants in the atmosphere, according to a study examining the impact of black carbon on California’s climate.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

the distribution of black carbon in the atmosphere and determine its role in the climate system. Black carbon (BC) is the second largest man-made contributor to global warming and its influence on climate has been greatly underestimated, according to the first quantitative and comprehensive analysis of this pollutant’s climate impact.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Scientists have taken a major step toward accurately determining the amount of energy that the sun provides to Earth, and how variations in that energy may contribute to climate change. The most accurate value of total solar irradiance during the 2008 solar minimum period is 1360.8 ± 0.5

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