Green Car Congress
AUGUST 19, 2019
Wind plays a role in carrying microplastics (MPs, shreds of plastic less than five millimeters long) to both the snowy streets of European cities and remote areas of the Arctic Ocean. For comparison, the researchers investigated samples from the remote Swiss Alps and the City of Bremen in northwest Germany.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 25, 2020
This puffy line is not just exhaust from the engine, but a change in the clouds that’s caused by small airborne particles of pollution. Pollution from ships creates lines of clouds that can stretch hundreds of miles. The difference helps explain how much industrial pollution influences clouds. NASA Earth Observatory.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Battery electric cars emit less greenhouse gases and air pollutants over their entire life cycle than petrol and diesel cars, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report. Shifting to electric vehicles could also reduce noise pollution, especially in cities where speeds are generally low and traffic often stands still.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2019
A second point of comparison comes from the cost of abating a metric ton of CO 2 in current cap-and-trade markets in the US: it is about $5 in the northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and $15 in California’s cap-and-trade system. The analysis also does not assess the impact of RPS policies on criteria pollutants.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
In addition to greenhouse gas emissions, the report also assesses a number of other environmental impact categories, ranging from resource use, including cumulative energy consumption, mineral and metal resource depletion and water scarcity, to airborne pollutant emissions (like particulates and nitrogen oxides), and human- and eco-toxicity.
Setec Powerr
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Decarbonization will take decades, and in the case of large-scale installations like wind farms and solar farms, we will see NIMBY-style (Not In My Back Yard) opposition to siting. Wind and solar farms are alternatives to fossil fuel-fired power plants. Automobiles became more energy-efficient and less polluting.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
One chapter is devoted to international comparisons, allowing users a quick way to see how the nature of energy and economic activities differs from country to country. Whereas the last version of the Databook did not even have data on wind and solar power generation, China is now among the top wind power producers in the world.
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