Climate Change #Liar-Deniers Are The New Racists
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 11, 2013
When you ignore reality and the facts and you choose to embrace ignorance and irrational prejudice then you’re not just a jerk, you are a dangerous jerk. .
Creative Greenius
AUGUST 11, 2013
When you ignore reality and the facts and you choose to embrace ignorance and irrational prejudice then you’re not just a jerk, you are a dangerous jerk. .
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2013
Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. Petrobras) has awarded the joint venture formed by Technip (50%) and DOF (50%) has eight contract covering the construction of four new pipelay support vessels (PLSVs) and operation in Brazilian waters to install flexible pipes.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 14, 2013
Due to the very specific processes by which the universe works, it isn''t really possible to power a modern electric car via on-board solar panels. Current photovoltaic cells simply don''t produce enough power over a specific area to supply the needs of a power-hungry electric road car.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 15, 2013
Electric car maker, Tesla has made its first delivery of its new Model S to Europe, with the first customer in Oslo, Norway receiving their car. According to CleanTechnica.com, electric car enthusiast Frederic Hauge is the lucky recipient of the first European Model S, taking delivery of a new Si[.].
National Green Transportation
AUGUST 12, 2013
Want to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles for $20 each way, and a 30 minute travel time? Elon Musk finally unveiled, on Monday, his plan for a vacuum tube train system called Hyperloop which not only offers
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
New Civic Tourer. Click to enlarge. Honda unveiled the new UK-built Civic Tourer wagon ahead of its official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month. The Civic Tourer will be available with the choice of two engines: the new 1.6
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 15, 2013
The 2013 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive is the latest electric vehicle to have undergone the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration''s crash test procedures. Following frontal crash, side impact, and side pole impact tests, the Electric Drive was awarded four from a possible five stars overall.
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National Green Transportation
AUGUST 12, 2013
Austin Texas based startup, Innov8 Transport, welcomed today's unveiling of the Hyperloop system by Elon Musk, using the occasion to show off their own system, the Electric Dual-Mode Skyway. While their system has similar concepts, the
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2013
Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 14, 2013
Ask the average NASCAR fan whether they think the sport should go electric, and the response probably wouldn''t be repeatable in polite company. Fans of electric cars already know they can be fast and with success at events like Pikes Peak, they can win against gasoline vehicles too.
Green Cars News
AUGUST 14, 2013
Korean carmaker Hyundai has been a surprising leader in developing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, already taking its ix35 FCEV into series production, with plans to increase that in 2015.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
This electronically controlled eClutch closes the gap between automatic and manual transmissions. In addition, the eClutch makes the coasting function possible, which saves fuel. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
Conventional separate pretreatment and saccharification of biofuel feedstock (a) entails water and waste disposal that the new one-pot system (b) eliminates. Image courtesy of Joint BioEnergy Institute). Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2013
Peak power densities of cells with LnBa 0.5 Sr 0.5 Co 1.5 Fe 0.5 GDC (Ln = Pr and Nd) cathode. Credit: Choi et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) (S. Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
2015 GLA-Class. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz previewed the new 2015 GLA-Class compact SUV prior to its global debut at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt next month. The GLA, which will go on sale in 2014, is Mercedes-Benz’ first entry into the fast-growing compact SUV segment.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
Linear accelerator concept for capsule acceleration and deceleration between 300 and 760 mph (480 and 1,220 km/h). Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
Ford Focus 1.0-liter EcoBoost 100 PS version delivers 4.3 l/100 km and CO 2 emissions of 99 g/km. The 125 PS model returns 5.0l/100 km with CO 2 emissions of 114 g/km. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2013
Honda Performance Development (HPD), the racing arm of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., is introducing a new turbocharged V6 engine to LMP1 endurance sports-car racing in 2014, to be followed in 2015 by a range of bespoke energy recovery systems (ERS), for FIA World Endurance Championship competition.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
The new 2.0-liter turbo diesel engine with 88 kW/120 hp or 103 kW/140 hp enables CO 2 emissions as low as 99 g/km. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden unveiled a new strategic vision better to align the work of the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) to address looming challenges in global air transportation.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 13, 2013
Drawing from a 2012 BMW patent application showing one embodiment of a proposed method to increase the efficiency of an electric motor. In addition to magnetic layers, the rotor has two magnetic flux influencing groups comprising a number of air-filled recesses. Source: BMW patent application Nº 2012/0267977. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
Alcoa will close or curtail 164,000 tonnes (mt) of smelting capacity in the United States and Brazil as part of its smelting capacity review announced in May. One potline representing 40,000 mt at the Massena East plant in New York will be permanently closed.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 13, 2013
The idea of banning internal combustion vehicles from city centers is nothing new, and similar schemes are expected to appear all over Europe over the next decade or so.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2013
In a partnership between Nanyang Technological University (NTU), JTC Corporation and Induct Technologies, and supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), an autonomous electric shuttle manufactured by Induct will run a 2 km (1.2-mile) between NTU and JTC CleanTech Park.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
Transition of flow to turbulence on a wind-turbine airfoil; isosurfaces of vorticity from a Large Eddy Simulation (LES). Credit: GE Global Research. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
IBM has developed an advanced power and weather modeling technology that will help utilities increase the reliability of renewable energy resources. The solution combines weather prediction and big data analytics to forecast accurately the availability of wind power and solar energy. This will enable utilities to integrate more renewable energy into the power grid, the company says.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
The Sandia team has proposed extensions to John Dec’s 1997 model for diesel combustion, represented above. Credit: Musculus et al.; Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 10, 2013
Cycle performances of MIONCs, RAIONs, and CBIOs at a current density of 0.1 Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 16, 2013
Schematic of reactant flow within the HBLFB. During discharge, liquid bromine is reduced to hydrobromic acid along the lower solid graphite electrode, and hydrogen is oxidized at the upper porous electrode. Credit: Braff et al. Click to enlarge. MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable, membrane-less hydrogen bromine laminar flow battery with high power density. The membrane-less design enables power densities of 0.795?W?cm
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
CO 2 to acetic acid fermentation. Source: LanzaTech. Click to enlarge. LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, has partnered with the Centre for Advanced Bio-Energy, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation, Ltd.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 14, 2013
ABB has delivered the East West Interconnector to EirGrid, the Irish transmission system operator.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 12, 2013
Ragone plot of an NCCF-Acid/Na cathode together with two other representative Na-ion battery cathodes and lithium batteries. Credit: ACS, Shao et al. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
After re-labeling the 2013 C-MAX Hybrid with lower fuel economy, Ford is upgrading the 2014 C-MAX to increase fuel economy. 2014 mpg is not yet announced. Click to enlarge. Ford has opted voluntarily to relabel the 2013 C-MAX Hybrid with revised fuel economy labels following EPA testing of the 2013 C-Max Hybrid. EPA had received consumer complaints that the vehicle did not achieve its label values of 47 mpg US for city, highway, and combined driving (5.0 l/100km).
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 12, 2013
The rear-view mirror has now been with us exactly 100 years, having first been introduced in 1914, and it hasn''t changed much in all that time. It''s a small area of mirrored glass--three of them now, actually--for the purpose of seeing through the rear window or along each side of the car without the driver having to turn his or her head more than
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 16, 2013
Audi has had its fair share of criticism from plug-in car fans, but the automaker now seems to be coming around to the idea of electric propulsion after some rather public dismissals of the technology. Audi''s first production plug-in model will be the A3 e-tron plug-in hybrid arriving next year, but the larger A4 sedan could now follow that lead
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 13, 2013
Different vehicles appeal to different markets. More than half of all Chevrolet Suburban extra-long full-size sport utility vehicles, for instance, are sold in the state of Texas. So where do plug-in electric cars tend to cluster? Not surprisingly, in progressive regions with activist governments that provide incentives for their adoption, whether
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 15, 2013
Ford will expand its collaboration with Australian universities as part of a commitment to developing a world-class system of external alliances, programs and practices in Australia and Asia. The company has appointed senior Ford Technical Engineer, Richard Taube, as Ford Australia’s Manager for University Programs. Ford’s vision is to expand its research presence in Australia and to grow alliances with the most relevant and technically capable universities.
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