Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

The Minamata Convention on Mercury—named after a city in Japan where serious health damage occurred as a result of mercury pollution in the mid-20 th Century—provides controls and reductions across a range of products, processes and industries where mercury is used, released or emitted.

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Mercury Legal Emissions Global 250

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock, these bio-blendstocks are designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty, boosted-spark ignition (BSI) engines. Electricity generation efficiency and criteria air pollutant emission factors. There is also a new LIB cathode chemistry, LiNi 0.5 O 2 (NMC 532).

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2020 Gas-Electric Lithium Ion Mariner 324

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2014

The Automaker Rankings report examines the emissions of both global warming and smog-forming pollution from of the automakers. To develop the ranking, UCS averaged the per-mile emissions for each light-duty vehicle sold by each automaker. Climate Change Coal Emissions Fuel Efficiency' Source: UCS. Click to enlarge. Source: UCS.

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2013 Kia Hyundai Sale 299

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

The IMO fuel sulfur content regulation will have a significant global impact on both the refining and the shipping industries. As a result, both industries will experience rapid change and significant cost and operational impacts, according to new analysis from IHS Markit. The two industries are vastly unprepared.

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Mariner 2020 Fuel Oil 150

Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 19, 2007

The Ugly Coal sucks, there's really no two ways about it. But not all use of coal is alike. The Good About half our electricity comes from coal, and that will change, at best, slowly as we move to renewables. That includes the worst, most coal dependent areas. Support knows no party. It's the plug, stupid.

Coal 100

Coal Costa Rica Gasoline-Electric Cars 100

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2021

Soot particles from oil and wood heating systems as well as road traffic can pollute the air in Europe on a much larger scale than previously assumed. Black carbon is associated with primary emissions from combustion processes from anthropogenic sources (car, domestic heating and industry) or biogenic sources (e.g. forest fires).

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Transportation Germany Climate Change Climate 243

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

During the flexible price period, an overall cap will be placed on Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions from all sources of pollution covered by the carbon price. Economists and experts agree that the best way is to make polluters pay by putting a price on carbon. the trading scheme.

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Tax Credit Fuel Tax Carbon Australia 199

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

About a third of the airborne lead particles collected at two sites in the San Francisco Bay Area came from Asia, a finding that underscores the far-flung impacts of air pollution and heralds a new way to learn more about its journey across vast distances. —John Christensen. One site was on Mt. Tamalpais, in Marin County. Stephanie A.

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Asia Transportation Insight San Francisco 199

Cars That Think

AUGUST 2, 2021

Well, as the automotive industry begins a long transition from combustion to electricity, there is arguably some utility in a metric that seems to offer a means of comparing the efficiency of an electric car with that of a conventional one. For an engineer, a question is immediately obvious.

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Gasoline-Electric Recharge Gasoline United States 135

Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Geely’s Englon SC7 sedan was the first methanol-fueled car to receive approval from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal. Earlier post.)

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Renewable Carbon Water Fuel 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Large scale production of methanol from natural gas and coal is a well-developed. Sufficient feedstock of natural gas and coal exists to enable the use of non-renewable methanol as a transition fuel to renewable methanol from biomass, they suggested. Methanol from non-renewable coal or natural gas could be used as a bridging.

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Transportation Fuel Coal Gasoline 257

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Further, the fossil fuel share of primary energy consumption falls from 82% in 2011 to 78% in 2040 as consumption of petroleum-based liquid fuels falls, largely because of the incorporation of new fuel efficiency standards for light-duty vehicles. The industries affected include, in particular, bulk chemicals and primary metals.

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Fuel Energy Sale 2013 225

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers.

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St. Louis Design Washington Universal 294

Cars That Think

APRIL 19, 2022

Because mercury pollutants easily find their way into the oceans and the atmosphere, it’s virtually impossible for one country to prevent mercury poisoning within its borders. Mercury—it’s an intercontinental pollutant,” Bender says. “So Mercury is otherwise found as a by-product of other processes, such as the burning of coal.

Mercury 101

Mercury Fusion United States IDEA 101

Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2017

The German government requested IEA and IRENA to shed light on the essential elements of an energy sector transition that would be consistent with limiting the rise in global temperature to this level. Gt by 2050 to limit warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures. Coal use would decline most rapidly.

Renewable 199

Renewable Climate Climate Change Carbon 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. light duty vehicles—e.g., Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Industrial Technology. Buildings Technologies. Geothermal Technologies.

Fuel 210

Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

As a result of their findings, published in the 30 October issue of the journal Science , the authors argue that assessments of multigas mitigation policies, as well as any separate efforts to mitigate warming from short-lived pollutants, should include gas-aerosol interactions. —Drew Shindell. —Drew Shindell.

Climate Change 268

Climate Change Climate Ozone Pollution 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Source: UNEP.

Mercury 262

Mercury Emissions 2013 Global 262

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

Based on the work of the multidisciplinary team, with advice from a board of 18 leaders from industry, government and environmental groups, the report examined the future of natural gas through 2050 from the perspectives of technology, economics, politics, national security and the environment. It is clean and flexible.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. Now, in light of ongoing events in Japan, I want to say another word about nuclear power. —President Obama.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase 268

Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

Industrial sources will not enter the program until 2016. Prior to 2016, allowance value is dedicated to offset electricity and natural gas rate increases for industrial rate-payers and to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing to keep power bills down in the future. Expanding manufacturing. Blocking Market Manipulation.

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Gas-Electric Climate Gas Energy 210

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

The transportation sector thus represents a significant fraction of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions both globally and in the US—light-duty vehicles (LDVs) are responsible for 17.5% With the current fuel mix of the US power sector (about half coal, about 30% “carbon-free”), CO 2 emissions for HEVs and EVs are similar.

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Transportation MIT Oil Prices Oil 252

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. CONCERNS REGARDING OFFSETS.

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Climate Change Climate Emissions 2008 218

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jenkins: We must at least be able to speak to society’s concerns, beyond just “Do the lights stay on?” Electricity demand is likely to start growing at a pretty sustained rate due to the growth of electric vehicles, AI and data centers, heat pumps, electrification of industry, hydrogen production.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions 95

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Health and other non-climate damages by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). GHG emissions (grams CO 2 -eq)/VMT by life-cycle component for different combinations of fuels and light-duty automobiles in 2005 (top) and 2030 (bottom). Click to enlarge.

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2005 Cost Of Energy Coal 246

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ricardo Arduengo/The Honnold Foundation Puerto Rico’s government has committed to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050 , with interim goals of 40 percent by 2025, the phaseout of coal-fired plants by 2028, and a 60 percent renewable system by 2040. How can a network of microgrids keep the lights on during a power outage?

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Puerto Rico Connect Connected Solar 143

Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 6, 2010

Passenger vehicles and light trucks were responsible for 74 percent of these transportation emissions that, as part of the overall PlaNYC effort, “would be reduced by 44 percent by 2030.&#. billion in stimulus grants to the industry. In 2008, transportation accounted for 22 percent of all city carbon emissions. Or No Cars?

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New York City New York Obama Tax Credit 167

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. About Dr. Frank.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Colleen, for instance, serves the communities of Greater Los Angeles with an emphasis in reducing toxic air pollution from the transportation sector. One surprise to me from her presentation is the fact that street lights are the number two user of electricity in Los Angeles. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Green Climate Change Climate Los Angeles 150

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Apple coming from the computer industry to deliver iTunes and the iPod,&# he added. “You may see that start to happen in the energy sector.

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Grid Green Electric Cars Cars 47

Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

pollutes the environment. Solar charging stations and Conventional charging stations (electricity from coal) comparison. Quantitative analysis of pollution in a city if we replace all the vehicles with EV. #5 64 Sir, I am a Mtech graduate in Industrial drives and Control and I am interested in doing a Ph.D.

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IDEA Electric Vehicles Vehicles Electric 98

Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

A meltdown in some of the most-hyped energy-transition metals is wreaking havoc across the mining world, stalling projects, scuppering deals and triggering a scramble for cash that promises to reverberate through the industry for years. Battery metals have been a bright spot for the mining industry in recent years. Sigma Lithium Corp.

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Price Auto Batteries Battery 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. V2G helps solve the major problem that demand for electricity is high during the day when everything from industrial plants to air conditioning is running full blast and then excess electricity is wasted at night. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up? SZ (1) 6753.T

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Grid Electric Vehicles Vehicles Oil-Sands 28

The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2024

The mandate requires that starting in 2026, 43 percent of all new passenger cars and light-duty trucks, plus 15 percent of new commercial heavy-duty trucks, shipped to New Mexico dealerships from national manufacturers must be zero-emission vehicles. However, the actual metrics on how much EVs actually pollute are pretty interesting.

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New Mexico Mexico Dealers Cars 85

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Powered by Blogrunner Previous post The Promise of a Better Light Bulb? One thing is for sure; - electric cars bring down the air pollution, but they sure create another waste pollution problem. April 10, 2009 2:28 pm Link Nothing pollutes more than the tailpipe of a internal combustion engine car. — Kaare Nilsen 2.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Denmark did that with Wind Power and now most of their energy comes from wind rather than oil, natural gas, or coal. The big deal was that the oil industry saw real competition and persuaded GM to abandon the project and crush them all like cans. JUST TRYING TO MILK and Suck as much from the fall of the Auto industry as possible.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41