Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2016

Rice University researchers have determined a more effective way to use natural gas to reduce climate-warming emissions would be in the replacement of existing coal-fired power plants and fuel-oil furnaces rather than burning it in cars and buses.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2013

Researchers at Wakayama University in Japan have produced a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas by irradiating a mixture of carbon powder and distilled water with intense nanosecond laser pulses at room temperature. By comparison, no gas was generated from pure water itself under the same irradiation conditions.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

The IMO’s previous goal was a 50 percent reduction by 2050 in comparison with 2008 levels. At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Plans to develop the Wind Challenger started in 2009 as an industry-academia joint research project led by the University of Tokyo. In December 2020, MOL reached a coal transport deal with Tohoku Electric Power Co., using a coal carrier equipped with a hard sail wind power propulsion system.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2015

Researchers at Kyoto University in Japan have proposed a novel two-stage process to convert low-rank coals or biomass wastes under mild conditions to high-quality liquid fuel. for low-rank coals and were as high as 36.7−71.7% —Li et al. The carbon basis soluble yields were 19.4−31.2% for biomass wastes.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are also concerns in Japan, or at least by Toyota, over the potential for job losses from the transition to EVs. Little Japan cast doubts on that number. A Princeton University study estimates that somewhere between 777,000 to 5.1 million jobs” in the Japanese auto industry.

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