Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

eNow has demonstrated a solar-powered zero-emissions commercial-use Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) on a truck making deliveries in an urban environment. TRUs are traditionally powered by high-polluting, small diesel engines. TRUs are traditionally powered by high-polluting, small diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cyclonatix, Inc is developing an industrial-sized motor/controller to operate with either DC or AC power sources, for applications in electric vehicles, solar-powered pumps, HVAC&R, gas compressors, and other commercial and industrial machines which require high efficiency, variable speed/torque, and low cost. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Green groups like Communities For A Better Environment, Food & Water Watch and Sierra Club had worked for this critical win for many year and it was beautiful to be there to see their leaders gobsmacked by the great news. ” – this means that mega-polluting, constantly climate-killing, fossil fuel Chevron must go too.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 4, 2010

It lifts the current “cap&# on rooftop solar from the crappy 2.5% The cap has to do with what percent of rooftop solar customers get to participate in the “net metering&# program that actually gives them credit for the solar power they produce and feed back into the grid. to a BFD level of 5%. No you do not.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2021

Phase one of the project consists of eleven electric school buses, four of which were funded by the California Air Resources Board (CARB), two by the California Energy Commission and an additional five by San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Funding of $4.94

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

org will help coordinate 20 public art pieces in ecosystems and communities impacted by climate change—our sinking coastlines, endangered forests, melting glaciers, and polluted cities—that are massive enough to be seen from space. Between Nov. 20th and 28th, 350.org Each public art piece will be photographed by satellite. Spring St.,

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2019

In a paper published in the journal Atmospheric Environment , they report on the findings from a suite of scenarios designed to quantify the effect of both the magnitude of EV market penetration and the source of electricity generation used to power them. coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass). —Schnell et al. —Jordan Schnell.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2012

positive or negative—and magnitude of net climate forcing from BC emissions), currently available scientific and technical information provides a strong foundation for making mitigation decisions to achieve lasting benefits for public health, the environment, and climate. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2024

Inside a shipping container in an industrial area of Venice, the Italian startup 9-Tech is taking a crack at a looming global problem: how to responsibly recycle the 54 million to 160 million tonnes of solar modules that are expected to reach the end of their productive lives by 2050. Recovering the materials won’t be easy. More than 1.2

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is sailing round the world in order to speed up development of the most innovative solutions for the environment. The CMA CGM partnership deals with the development of cleaner and more sustainable energies to eliminate CO 2 emissions, greenhouse gases and air pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

But the extra emissions released as a result can cause 50% higher costs to human health and the environment.). Life cycle emissions by pollutant and life cycle stage for each vehicle type in the recent (a) and future (b) PJM grid. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging. Source: Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2020

It is, however, a challenge that is being made all the greater as we continue to decentralize power generation with more distributed, variable and inflexible sources, such as wind and solar. Increasingly, wind and solar are replacing fossil fuels as our principle source of energy. 100% wind and solar is not feasible on its own.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The team showed that the effect of aerosols on the climate since industrialisation depends strongly on what the atmosphere was like before pollution, when aerosols were produced only from natural emissions. The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change. —Carslaw et al. —Professor Carslaw. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

We found that combining, for example, a solar-cell system installation with the sale of a PEV made it a more attractive purchase. Most of the people we surveyed who were interested in buying a PEV or hybrid were concerned about local air pollution and about saving money. —Jonn Axsen. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014045.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2018

An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Atmospheric Environment. results indicate that traffic is the dominating source of BC and particulate air pollution in the metropolitan area of La Paz/El Alto. Therefore, air pollution in this region has a particularly strong impact on the atmosphere and the global climate.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. That’s too much democracy for Torrance.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced up to $205 million in grants for projects designed to accelerate the adoption of clean freight technologies and reduce air pollution caused by the movement of goods throughout the state. Partner match: $45.9 Partner match: $5.8 Partner match: $5.8 Partner match: $4.6 Partner match: $5.2

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation. The report also covers an assessment of the potential contribution from reductions in short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

However, emissions do not just remain in conurbations; particles and gaseous pollutants can be transported thousands of kilometers by the wind. The University of Bremen is the scientific base of the international project known as EMeRGe (Effect of Megacities on the transport and transformation of pollutants on the Regional and Global scales).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2017

Power for the electric-vehicle chargers at the center will be generated by a 600-kilowatt solar system through net metering, which covers nearly the entire roof of the 60,000-square-foot warehouse. The Daylight Transport Service Center is a newly constructed, state-of-the-art, environmentally conscious facility.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Four teams of researchers in the United States and the United Kingdom recently were awarded more than $12 million to begin a program of novel research to revolutionize current farming methods by giving crops the ability to thrive without using costly, polluting artificial fertilizers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

It also represents an immediate opportunity to improve outcomes for all stakeholders while reducing pollution across towns and cities. The project includes electric cabs, electric auto rickshaws, electric buses, rooftop solar installations, charging stations, and battery swapping experiments.

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Innovation News Network

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Researchers in China have now proposed a brand new concept for clearing oil pollution using solar thermal energy. The post Solar-driven methods could be the key to solving oil pollution appeared first on Innovation News Network. Read more here.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2011

During the flexible price period, an overall cap will be placed on Australia’s annual greenhouse gas emissions from all sources of pollution covered by the carbon price. Economists and experts agree that the best way is to make polluters pay by putting a price on carbon. the trading scheme.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 23, 2009

I think it only fair and just that the people responsible for producing the most pollution and climate changing carbon pay for the costs their products and actions impose on all of us. I’d like that tax to subsidize my new solar energy rooftop system and my solar thermal hot water heater.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2009

A*STAR is also conducting research in Solar Photovoltaics, Next Generation Power Grids, Intelligent Energy Distribution, Fuel Cells, Sustainable Production of Fuels and Chemicals and Sustainable Manufacturing. Carbon Capture and Utilization. With the availability of this option, dependence on cement and sand is greatly reduced.

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Charged EVs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2011

Carbon is dark in color and absorbs solar radiation, much like wearing a black shirt on a sunny day. In addition to its impacts on snow and ice, black carbon is an air pollutant. Black carbon is contributing to this warming. If you want to be cooler, you would wear a light-colored shirt that would reflect the sun’s warmth.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

So buckle up and hang on while I take you for a little trip with the Greenius to the places I’ve been and the places I’m going… My First Solar PV Install. As regular Creative Greenius readers have learned, GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that installs solar panels on low-income housing in California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2020

CSIRO scientist sets up a solar-powered air-quality-monitoring station in the Surat Basin, Queensland. CSG and liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations in Queensland are subject to strict laws to minimize impacts on the environment. Source: CSIRO. —Dr Barrett.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

Californians clearly support policies to improve the environment. An overwhelming majority (82% favor, 16% oppose) say automakers should be required to improve fuel efficiency, and support is nearly as high (79% favor, 18% oppose) for increasing federal funding to develop wind, solar, and hydrogen energy technology. Air quality.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee on Tuesday released a draft of far-reaching energy and climate legislation that targets job creation, promotes renewables and energy efficiency, and places limits on emissions of greenhouse gases. Title III, Reducing Global Warming Pollution , (the cap-and-trade title), has eight subsections.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2013

This assessment provides an evaluation of black-carbon climate forcing that is comprehensive in its inclusion of all known and relevant processes and that is quantitative in providing best estimates and uncertainties of the main forcing terms: direct solar absorption, influence on liquid, mixed-phase, and ice clouds, and deposition on snow and ice.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 5, 2011

In case you didn’t know, the City of Los Angeles still gets 40% of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, the dirtiest polluters and greenhouse gassers on the planet. Or build a cardboard solar panel and wind turbine to tow and show! It’s long been time to kick coal out of L.A.’s

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2024

How to EMP-Proof a Building Stuart Bradford Those breathtaking views of the aurora borealis this year were a harbinger of dangerous electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) from solar storms. They arent just generated by solar activity; human attackers could also generate EMPs, for example by detonating a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 10, 2019

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