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PHEVLERs are the Zero CO2 Clean Green Machines of the Future

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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Study Finds Ozone, Nitrogen Change the Way Rising CO2 Affects Earths Water

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Benjamin Felzer, Lehigh University. Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., co-author Adam Schlosser of the Center for Global Change Science at MIT. Excess runoff can also contribute to flooding. Cronin, J. Melillo, D.

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DOE awards $7M to eight oxy-combustion coal technology projects; carbon capture, utilization and storage

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The pressurized combustion in oxygen and the recycle of carbon dioxide gas eliminates the presence of nitrogen and other constituents of air, minimizing the generation of pollutants and enabling a more economical capture of CO 2 gas. University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Washington University. Southwest Research Institute.

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MIT researchers devise simple catalytic system for fixation and conversion of CO2

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Researchers at MIT have devised a simple, soluble metal oxide system to capture and transform CO 2 into useful organic compounds. Ideally we’d like to develop carbon-neutral cycles for renewable energy, to get carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and avoid pollution. doi: 10.1039/C4SC00132J.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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The objections they raised for years -- "no one is interested, no one would plug in, the technology is too complex, the benefits are minimal, its just shifting the pollution from the tailpipe to the smokestack, theres no demand for these cars" -- still show up occasionally, but are by and large history. Marketwatch ). Its not lack of desire.

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MIT study suggests carbon tax could help reduce US deficit, lower other taxes, reduce emissions

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—John Reilly, co-director of the Joint Program and co-author Sebastian Rausch, now at ETH Zurich University, calculated the impact a carbon tax starting at $20 per ton would have using a national economic model that details energy, taxes and household incomes. They found that the tax would raise $1.5 —Rausch and Reilly (2012).

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