Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. We need both a policy like a carbon tax and to put more R&D money into renewables.
Green Car Congress
JULY 13, 2019
Conversely, it reduces emissions to a lesser degree when occurring in a context of decreasing inequality. This reduces energy costs for homeowners who can afford to install solar panels or energy-efficient appliances, but it also serves to drive up the prices of fossil fuel energy as utility companies seek to recapture losses.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2013
Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Dr. Hermann Pengg, head of project management e-fuels, Audi, giving a talk on energy conversion and storage using Power-to-Gas at ASPO 2012.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2012
Their analysis is published in the journal Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery. Three different carbon tax scenarios are analyzed: no carbon tax, $55/metric ton carbon tax and $110/metric ton carbon tax. The conversion process was created in the lab of Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue’s Winthrop E. —Singh et al.
Electric Auto Association
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.
Creative Greenius
MAY 14, 2009
After a decade in the solar power installation business, Bradley Bartz is tired of being Mr. Nice Guy. He’s filed suit against Torrance, the proud home of Exxon/Mobil’s refinery, for stopping him from installing solar panels in the Hillside Overlay district. “ Idiots ! “ Idiots !&#
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Ultrathin Light Absorbers for Solar Cells. One way to lower the cost of solar power is to dramatically reduce the thickness of light-absorbing layers in solar cells. The proposed concept could dramatically reduce solar cell manufacturing costs, according to the researchers. Splitting Water at High Temperatures.
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