Green Car Congress
MAY 30, 2019
Less coal was used to produce heat and electricity but this was offset by higher industrial and transport emissions, the latter increasing for the fourth consecutive year. Poland and Spain accounted for the largest increases in greenhouse gas emissions in absolute terms in 2017. Source: EEA.
Green Car Congress
MAY 21, 2020
The syngas then goes through a Pressure Swing Absorber system resulting in hydrogen at 99.9999% purity as required for use in Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell vehicles. Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
A ban on certain domestic heating fuels, such as coal, also leads to improved air quality in low-income zones. The report stresses that better alignment of social and environment policies and improved local action are needed to successfully tackle environmental justice issues. KEY FINDINGS. Air and noise pollution.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Peter Kovalev/TASS/Getty Images So how did Europe become addicted to Russian fossil fuels, particularly natural gas? The continent was mostly powered by locally mined coal until the 1950s, when imports of cheap Middle Eastern oil started transforming the energy picture. Certification of the €9.5 Consumption of E.U.-produced
Cars That Think
JANUARY 28, 2023
In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. In Poland and China, for example, an EV would need to be driven 78,700 miles to break-even. For example, researchers at University of Oxford in the U.K.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2021
This reactor’s innovative features include the use of natural circulation and passive cooling systems, which are designed to cool the nuclear fuel under all conditions without the need for external power or external water supply for extended periods. Spur SMR deployment elsewhere in Canada and abroad.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 22, 2009
In 2007 the top polluting sources in the EU-27 were fuel combustion in households, passenger cars, heavy duty vehicles, and in power plants. Energy use by households (the burning of wood, gas, coal etc) is the most important source of PM 2.5 The largest Member States are generally responsible for the most air pollution.
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