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.
Green Car Congress
MAY 22, 2018
The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). Cleaner fuels and stoves produce less smoke, less soot and more heat. In future only the cleanest domestic fuels will be available for sale.
Green Car Congress
JULY 31, 2010
VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. In a 2005 paper published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels , Yin et al.
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 15, 2023
NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well. Many SMR designs today call for a kind of fuel that is currently only sold by one company—a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, Rosatom. Where, then, can SMR operators turn for fuel?
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
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 16, 2009
Today BYD employs 130,000 people in 11 factories, eight in China and one each in India, Hungary, and Romania. They generate fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cars that burn gasoline, and they have lower fuel costs, even when oil is cheap. near Motorola, and another 20 or so work in San Francisco, not far from Apple.
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