Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace.

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JUNE 29, 2019

The KCP winners, announced during a celebration at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Friday, 28 June, were chosen from almost 150 applications from all over the world. Solar Sister (Great Falls, Virginia) invests in women’s enterprises in off-grid communities in Africa. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

The technology could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and sun far more economical and reliable. Solid-electrode batteries maintain discharge at peak power for far too short a time to fully regulate wind or solar power output.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The DoD’s goal is to leverage all energy sources for military use such as wind, solar, thermal, hydro, nuclear and hydrogen and increase mission effectiveness and quality of life, while reducing dependence on fossil fuels. The aspirational targets are to eliminate all fossil fuel dependency and achieve a carbon negative Air Force.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The novel concept of a “hydrogen-based” carbon-free data center utilizes hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyzers, storage, solar (photovoltaic) cells and wind turbines. The idea is to have the basic power supply of the data center covered by solar power stations and wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2013

Researchers at MIT are proposing using a variation on pumped hydroelectric systems for storage of electricity produced by offshore wind farms. The key to this Ocean Renewable Energy Storage (ORES) system is the placement of 30-meter-diameter hollow concrete spheres on the seafloor under the wind turbines. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 21, 2019

The research will develop a foundational framework for characterizing and monitoring LiB packs’ spatially and temporally distributed thermal behavior, building on a multi-disciplinary synthesis of ideas from first-principles modeling, machine learning, distributed estimation, and network systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company will assess credit and offset solutions in the coming years as the most efficient, equitable and inclusive ideas mature. While electric vehicles themselves do not emit tailpipe emissions, it is critical that they be charged with electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2018

Recent years have seen major developments in distributed energy resources (DER), intermittent resources (wind and solar), and storage.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

The accelerating buildout of solar farms on Earth is already hitting speed bumps, including public pushback against the large tracts of land required and a ballooning backlog of requests for new transmission lines and grid connections. Ideas to put megawatt-scale systems in GEO sometime in the 2030s have been floated but not yet funded.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The rise of renewable solar and wind power is demanding sustainable storage technologies using components that are inexpensive, Earth-abundant and environmental friendly. Crucial to the idea of lowering the cost of battery materials, myo-inositol is an abundant organic compound familiar to industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural photosynthesis uses solar energy to recycle CO 2 (and H 2 O) into new plant life (biomass) and ultimately fuels (biofuels). Sustainable tri-reforming uses CO 2 , renewable energy and CH 4 (or biogas) to yield syngas and, ultimately, synthetic fuels and commodity chemicals. Jiang et al. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Applicants for this FOA may propose any idea that addresses ARPA-E’s Mission Areas and the types of projects that ARPA-E funds. Sub-categories include: Wind - Energy Capture; Wind - Energy Conversion; Geothermal Energy; Ocean Energy; Solar - PV/CPV; Solar - Thermal; Renewable Generation; and Renewable Power - Other.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2012

wind, solar, electric) are not yet at the stage where they can significantly impact petroleum use. Proposals are encouraged that advance transformative ideas to develop the enabling understanding for improving the efficiency of the ICE and the emissions they generate. At the present time, sustainable energy technologies (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If Congress establishes a GHG emission cap-and-trade program, only sources not covered by the cap could generate offsets. Although Congress could address GHG emissions with alternative policies—e.g., In addition, the nation, in which the wind farm is located, would likely see an emissions reduction due to the wind farm.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Up to 9% of total primary energy in 2020 would come from non-biomass renewable energy (solar, wind, hydroelectricity and the like). There, policymakers asked UNEP to prepare a follow-up report that, not only updated emissions gap estimates, but which also provided ideas on how to bridge the gap. Bridging the Emissions Gap.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Here in the United States our President and Congress haven’t shown the leadership or sense of urgency necessary to prevent a climate catastrophe and they’ve given the people no hope for their children’s future at the national level. He encouraged us to develop our ideas into steps the City could take action on.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2014

Further key elements for bringing down production cost for methanol from CO 2 include the use of electricity from wind farms that cannot be evacuated to the grid or employing solar electricity generated in isolated, but sun-rich regions for hydrogen and methanol production.

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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. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. Conclusions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2010

The i-flow is a test bed for new energy harvesting ideas, ranging from flexible solar panel roofing to a thermo-electric generator. Under body panels have been installed on all models to cover the wind drag cavities that exist on regular vehicles and negatively affect fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Expansion and modernization would enhance reliability and security, accommodate changes in load growth and electricity demand, and enable the deployment of energy efficiency and supply technologies, especially intermittent wind and solar energy.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 15, 2023

When it comes online in 2026, Linglong One will have a capacity of 125 megawatts of electricity (MWe)—equivalent to around 40 onshore wind turbines. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Other elements in the Green Path program include: Connecticut Parts Distribution Center Adds 1-Megawatt Solar Array. Honda has installed a 1-megawatt rooftop solar array at its 400,000 square foot parts distribution center in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Honda hosted Green Car Congress for the media briefing in Marysville.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2013

The report reviews a range of short-, medium- and long-term technologies and examines the advantages and limitations of systems from solar and wind power, through fuel cells to nuclear propulsion. Medium- to long-term options. Biofuels are potential medium-term alternatives to conventional fuels for diesel engines.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

“The idea is for electric cars to take advantage of “off-peak&# hours of low energy demand late at night, when the lights are out and TVs are off, but power plants are still producing, explained Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Edison.&#. Photo by Eric Tom). Edison’s answer: new meters.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Individuals and businesses lose months and connect fees when they add solar and other forms of renewable energy to the grid. A free car on a four-year plan in France is another idea mentioned by Shai Agassi, CEO of Project Better Place.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , which regulates interstate transmission of electricity, is on board with the idea. February 17, 2009 7:03 am Link Smart Grid An Invaluable Idea Worldwide / Buildings could become the new power plants BRUSSELS ? Electrifying the entire vehicle fleet would provide more than three times the U.S.’s

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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. This is true, irrespective of the merits of the Volt.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. Support for this use of allowance value stems from the idea that the climate-regulating services of the atmosphere are a common property resource. Representatives Henry A. CONCLUSION.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

A cap and trade system: While a plurality of Californians (49% support, 40% oppose) support a cap and trade program to curb emissions, there is a sharp partisan split over the idea of buying and selling emissions permits: 57% of Democrats favor it and 55% of Republicans oppose it. Independents are divided (47% support, 44% oppose).

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