Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2010

The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, approximately 3 billion people in the world are exposed to air pollution from biomass burning, originating from using wood or coal as cooking fuel in simple stoves, home heating with open fires, deforestation, and agricultural practices. We found no information on the toxicity of retene in the scientific literature.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

An international team of researchers has shed light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. This finding leads us to question whether or not other species, such as organic compounds, can also be transported to the upper troposphere through this process. —Mingyi Wang.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Persistent organic pollutants are chemicals of substantial international concern. Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

Among the transportation-related elements of US President Barack Obama’s new climate action plan, which he is outlining today in a speech at Georgetown University, is the development of new fuel economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles post-2018. Leading international efforts for GHG emission reductions and adaptation. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia. The students launched the initiative in 2020 after reading an article about the city’s air pollution in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment. —“The Future of Trucks”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

The direct influence of black carbon, or soot, on warming the climate could be about twice previous estimates, according to an in-depth open-access study by an international team of 31 authors published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres , a publication of the American Geophysical Union. cloud processes. —Bond et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

OriginOil’s CLEAN-FRAC process is based on the company’s Solids Out of Solution technology that efficiently removes oils, suspended solids, insoluble organics and bacteria from produced or “frac flowback” water, on a continuous flow basis and without the use of chemicals. The Alberta Geological Survey states that it takes from 2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The 400 kilowatt SOFC prototype system represents an important advancement in SOFC technology development and demonstration toward the ultimate goal of deploying SOFCs in highly efficient coal-based central generation systems with carbon capture. Lead organization. The University of South Carolina. Montana State University.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2012

An international team of researchers projected a summer average decrease in capacity of power plants of 6.3—19% This causes downstream thermal pollution affecting, for example, life cycles of aquatic organisms. 19% in Europe and 4.4—16% 16% in the United States depending on cooling system type and climate scenario for 2031—2060.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Columbia University , New York, N.Y. million over four years, with $27.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2011

Participants in the project include Cargill, Johnston Timber, Aquaflow, Blue Marble Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Michigan Technological University. CRI/Criterion Inc.,

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 2, 2022

Scottsdale Electric Vehicle Association (Scottsdale EVA) president and co-founder John Martinson has many years of experience as a founder and leader of organizations. This led to involvement with EV (electric vehicle) advocacy and his present activities as a sustainability blogger and influencer in EV adoption. “My

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Currently, China produces most of its methanol from coal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Jan Marwan, symposium organizer. of SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Baua Electric

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the centuries, New Haven has had chapters devoted to maritime trade, railroads, industrial manufacturing and — as home to Yale University and other institutions of higher learning — education and health care. Showcasing New Haven as an arts hub is the aim of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2009

Noting that coal accounts for roughly 25% of the world energy supply and 40% of the carbon emissions. Chu said that it was highly unlikely that the US, Russia, China and India, which account for two-thirds of the coal reserves, “ will turn their back on coal anytime soon.”.for University of Utah. DOE Share: $2,723,512).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2011

HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. There is increased development and use of a number of fuels from unconventional sources such as tar sands, oil shale, and coal. Wayne Eckerle, Cummins.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. Most of the hydrogen on Earth exists in molecular forms such as water and organic compounds. It is the most abundant element on Earth and yet does not exist on its own. As a gas hydrogen or H2. As a gas hydrogen or H2.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2013

a joint venture between Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. International leaders took note and formed the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants in 2012. All feasible and available technology was used to eliminate as much methane as possible.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson at Stanford University. Because of that, soot’s contribution to global warming has been ignored completely in national and international global warming policy legislation, he said. Results of the study suggest that soot is second only to carbon dioxide in contributing to global warming. Guenther et al., 1995] and NO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). Dashed lines show US average emissions. Credit: ACS, Tessum et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

Plans to develop the Wind Challenger started in 2009 as an industry-academia joint research project led by the University of Tokyo. In December 2020, MOL reached a coal transport deal with Tohoku Electric Power Co., using a coal carrier equipped with a hard sail wind power propulsion system.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

record levels , mostly because of the coal, oil, and natural gas that gets burned for electricity, heat, and transportation. million from Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and other philanthropic organizations. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. candidate in V.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The draft promotes development of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies to establish a continuing place for coal in the US energy mix. The draft includes a CCS early demonstration program, incentives for the wide-scale commercial deployment of CCS, and performance standards for new coal-fired power plants.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

From an official point of view, COP 15 is to be informed by the most recent report from the UNFCCC’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), published in 2007. Without a clear and ambitious number, the whole agreement will be in danger ” [ 8 ].

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Alfred Mann Foundation , a nonprofit organization that develops biomedical devices; he spun off the company Second Sight with three cofounders in 1998. They couldn’t tell the difference between a bright day at the beach and being in a coal mine in Pittsburgh. Ringo Chiu/ZUMA Press/Alamy. Of course, it wasn’t that easy. Jeroen Perk.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2010

Independent verification may be an auditing function, to assure the reality and accuracy of the carbon offset for markets (buyers and sellers), regulations (emitters and regulators), and reports (emitters and reporting organizations). Donovan is an engineer and attorney with more than thirty-four years of international business experience.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

Following that announcement, G-20 Leaders agreed to national plans to implement subsidy reform (June 2010) and have asked international organizations to review and assess members’ progress against their commitments (November 2010), according to the conference report. Recent international political developments.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

Geologic storage is currently focused on five types of formations:(1) depleted oil and gas reservoirs, (2) deep saline formations, (3) unmineable coal seams, (4) oil- and gas-rich organic shales, and (5) basalts. The selected projects are described below: Advanced Resources International, Inc. Clemson University (Clemson, S.C.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Arizona State University, in partnership with Fluidic Energy Inc., RTI International will work with ADM, Albemarle and ConocoPhillips to develop a novel single-step catalytic biomass pyrolysis process with high carbon conversion efficiency to produce stable bio-crude oil with low oxygen content. DOE grant:$5,349,932).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&# When the team tested the newly-coated cathode, they discovered it could be charged and discharged in as little as 9 seconds. is a Green Options Media Production. is a Green Options Media Production.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

ACORE is an organization of member companies and institutions that are dedicated to moving renewable energy into the mainstream of America’s economy. Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

“Public policy implementation is hard even if everyone supports a policy,” says University of Michigan professor emeritus John Leslie King , who has studied policy management and administration for decades. economy away from dependence on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and natural gas to 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035.

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