Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2023
However, the emissions of electric vehicles depend greatly on the energy source used to generate the electricity that powers them. The calculated relative amounts of well-to-wheels emissions of greenhouse gases from eight different energy sources are shown in the table below. Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5 Natural gas 87.9
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Selin and Friedman use the global 3-D chemical transport model GEOS-Chem to track the day-to-day transport of PAHs—toxic byproducts of burning wood, coal, oil and other forms of energy that remain in the atmosphere for less time than other persistent organic pollutants regulated by global standards.
Green Car Congress
JULY 7, 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding US$4.4 The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). Total value of the projects, including cost sharing, is approximately US$5.9 CCS Materials, Inc.
Baua Electric
APRIL 15, 2024
Open studios, open mics Yale’s museums have long stolen the spotlight, but there are new institutions crackling with energy. As delicious and worthy as New Haven’s celebrated pizza is (a thin, coal-fired style known as “apizza”), there’s much more to the dining scene. The city’s waterside location means seafood gets served with a view.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 18, 2011
Shifting from nuclear to other types of power plants could affect the reliability of the electricity supply, electricity costs, air pollution, carbon emissions, and the reliance on fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, the researchers said. The calculated cost of generation with the new mix of plants was a lower bound.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2010
Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Graham recently declared, “ Economy-wide cap-and-trade is dead. ”
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