Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

First, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Renewable Fuel Standard Program (RFS2) rule to implement the long-term renewable fuels standard of 36 billion gallons by 2022 established by Congress and also issued the targets for 2010. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS2). President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Initial research priorities will be building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles. Renewable Energy Partnership. Under the Partnership, the two countries will develop roadmaps for wide-spread renewable energy deployment in both countries. 21 st Century Coal.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

A paper on their study was published online 3 December in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. However, the use of coal-generated methanol as a practical alternative fuel is one of the most realistic options for China, because of the “oil-lean, gas-lacking, and coal-rich” structure of Chinese energy resources. —Fan et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Controlling soot from fossil fuels and solid biofuels may be a faster method of reducing Arctic ice loss and global warming than other options, including controlling CH 4 or CO 2 , although all controls are needed, according to a new study by Dr. Mark Z. The study will be published this week in Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2012

University of Illinois researchers have developed mats of Zn–Ti–O nanofibers that adsorb sulfur from raw fuels such as natural gas and coal/biomass-derived syngas much more effectively than traditional materials. Hydrogen sulphide is found in raw fuels such as natural gas and coal/biomass-derived syngas. —Prashant Jain.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2010

These include both hydrogenated renewable diesels and fuels produced via the Fischer–Tropsch process. The Government has set up a Biodiesel Grants Scheme, under which New Zealand biodiesel manufacturers can obtain subsidies on a per liter basis. The NZ Biodiesel Grants Scheme applies only to FME biodiesel. Commissioner Wright.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Authorizes EQC to require inflation of tires as part of servicing vehicles and to require reduction in emissions from ships at port and directs the DEQ to study measures to reduce aerodynamic drag on long haul trucks and idling and to provide recommendations to legislature by October of 2010. Senate Bill 38. House Bill 3463. Senate Bill 79.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The two-year bioenergy project is funded in part by a grant from the US Department of Energy. Results of the study will also assist CHOREN in determining the location of its first commercial-scale BTL facility in the United States. billion barrels of oil and 58 million tons of coal over a ten year period. Ceres ARPA-E Award.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

government was going to try a whole bunch of different government interventions—incentive programs, tax credits, grants, infrastructure investments—to bend the trajectory of our energy transition. The Net-Zero America study that we put out towards the end of 2020 and updated in 2021 was a big effort at Princeton.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 91

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. There are four general categories of offsets: (1) biological sequestration projects; (2) renewable energy projects; (3) energy efficiency projects; and (4) non-CO 2 emissions reduction projects. (1) 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects. TYPES OF OFFSETS.

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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. As electricity increasingly comes from renewables, total electric vehicle GHG emissions will continue downward, but that will take at least a decade or more to happen everywhere across the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. The draft establishes a Renewable Portfolio Standard—i.e., Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. How PHEV provides Smooth Transitions from fossil fuel to renewables.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Additionality is proof that the renewable-energy project would not happen without the capital generated by selling carbon credits. Study after study has demonstrated that CDMs have not delivered the promised amount of emissions reductions. what would have happened anyway). This concept is often called “additionality.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

The American Power Act funds critical investments in clean energy research and development, including renewable energy technology, advanced vehicle technologies and carbon capture and sequestration. It also establish pilot projects to determine the regional feasibility of light- and heavy-duty plug-in electric vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

I find it interesting that they, along with Edison have positioned themselves big advocates and pushers of solar – and you’d expect them to be since AB 32 mandates that 20% of our electric come from renewable energy next year and we’re only at 13.5% THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. right now -.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Renewable Power (4 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $6,949,624). DOE grant:$5,349,932). DOE Grant: $4,000,000). DOE grant: $1,999,447).

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EV Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A new study shows that this weight difference alone means electric cars produce more particulate matter emissions from greater tyre, road and brake wear than petrol cars do. And I’m happy to wait while you Google the study in question. These heavy electric cars are also more dangerous for others in accidents.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

—Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. Examining the role of shale gas, PwC’s report suggests that at current rates of consumption, replacing 10% of global oil and coal consumption with gas could deliver emissions savings of around 3% a year (1gt CO 2 e per annum).

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Climate Change Climate Saudi Arabia Economy 261

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although technological yield gains had offset the losses, the study established a clear and simple correlation between increasing temperatures and crop yields. July, 2008 : The Australian government published the Garnaut Report, a comprehensive study of the effects of climate change on the country’s economy ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

The WEO analysis includes three global scenarios and multiple case studies: The New Policies Scenario—the central scenario for this WEO—assumes recent government policy commitments will be implemented in a cautious manner, even if they are not yet backed up by firm measures. —WEO 2011. —WEO 2011.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Experts predict that by the year 2060 global warming, if left unchecked, could result in a temperature rise of seven degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures before the Industrial Revolution when man started widespread use of coal and other fossil fuels. The fact is, about half the world’s electricity comes from coal.

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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. RGGI: A Case Study. Reduced Output.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt is a case study. If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. The Volt is a case study.

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