Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2022

Airbus and a number of major airlines—Air Canada, Air France-KLM, easyJet, International Airlines Group, LATAM Airlines Group, Lufthansa Group and Virgin Atlantic—have signed Letters of Intent (LoI) to explore opportunities for a future supply of carbon removal credits from direct air carbon capture technology.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) officially accepted the proposal to designate waters off the North American coasts as an Emission Control Area (ECA). Canada and France join the US in this North American ECA, implementing a coordinated geographic emissions control program. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recaptured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. Structure of an IMM photocathode configured for water splitting with TEM cross-section of the active layers.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2015

Electric cars and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles may get a lot of attention, but every carmaker is still searching for ways to improve the fuel efficiency of internal-combustion engines.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Liquid sodium is used as a coolant because it does not slow down neutrons as much as water does. But Russia has decided not to build another one until the 2030s, because they are more expensive than conventional water-cooled reactors. Weapons-grade plutonium can be separated chemically from the blanket.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Henkel is the first winner of the Surcar International Award for Environmental Footprint with its Bonderite Thin Film 1800 Series zirconium oxide pre-treatment process for car bodies. The Surcar Congress for the body finishing and painting industry was inaugurated in 1964 in France. In addition, it produces far less solid waste.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to test the truck at six locations in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France. The 27 -ton rigid truck run on hydrogen will be built by VDL and the mobile H 2 refueler will be built by Wystrach GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. CNR is France’s second largest electricity producer and its foremost producer of exclusively renewable energy.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 20, 2024

At a July meeting of the International Maritime Organization , the U.N. It was in service from 1962 to 1972, but its pressurized light-water reactor (LWR) proved too complex and expensive for the ship to operate profitably. Another plus for nuclear-propelled ships is easy access to an endless supply of cooling water.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Governments need to move faster and more decisively on a wide range of policy measures to enable low-carbon hydrogen to fulfil its potential to help the world reach net zero emissions while supporting energy security, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in a new report.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2023

There’s also a lot to learn from Iter , the world’s largest fusion experiment, which is now being built in southern France. As Clynes explains, Sparc’s planned successor, Arc, will feature a molten salt blanket that will absorb radiated neutrons and then pump them outside the tokamak to heat water into steam to power a turbine.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. Sehkyu Park, Jong-Won Lee, Branko N. 2011.12.148.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Using the 30m-telescope of the Institute for Radio Astronomy (IRAM) for astronomical observations in the millimeter range of wavelengths, researchers from France, Spain and Germany have detected for the first time the l-C 3 H + hydrocarbon molecule in interstellar space—specifically in the Horsehead Nebula. Resources. Pety et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2015

The reactor system is designed to withstand the strongest Design Basis Earthquake postulated for any existing US or international nuclear plant location. Tall column of water above the reactor core providing large coolant inventory. An SMR-160 installation takes up less than 4.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

CatLiq converts biomass and organic wastes in water at near or supercritical conditions (280-350 °C and 180-250 bar). In addition to the bio-oil/methane products, the process can be tuned to produce hydrogen and water soluble fuels such as methanol, ethanol or acetaldehyde. The oxygen content of the CatLiq bio-oil is 2-12%.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 25, 2024

The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be spectacular: On the glittering waters of the Seine, a flotilla of barges will carry about 10,000 athletes to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as nearly half a million spectators line the four-mile route to cheer on the event of the century.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

And the 2035 ICE car ban is facing some serious heat ahead of June’s European election, as momentum for reversing the ban is growing, and lawmakers who take office after the election could easily water down the policy. He said this plan could save 1 million tons of CO2 by the end of the decade, according to Automotive News Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). These proposals are in addition to the government’s £3.5-billion billion (US$4.7-billion)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2012

In such a rapidly urbanizing world, cities are increasingly becoming the focus of international sustainability efforts. However, water savings of 30%, and energy saving of up to 50% can be achieved in cities with limited investment and encouraging behavioral change, according to UNEP.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Also marking the latest in a calendar year SpaceX has launched a rocket, a Falcon 9 lifted off from the company’s Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) SLC-4E pad at 11:38 pm PST, Thursday, December 29th (7:38 UTC 30 Dec) carrying a tiny Earth observation satellite for Israeli company ImageSat International.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2023

This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. FRC ] ANYmal is rated IP67 for water resistance, but this still terrifies me. Please send us your events for inclusion. Mateo Guaman Castro ] Thanks, Mateo!

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

In a vivid example of how a small geographic feature may have far-reaching impacts on climate, new research shows that water levels in the Bering Strait—which separates the US and Russia by only 90 kilometers (56 miles)—helped drive global climate patterns during ice age episodes dating back more than 100,000 years. Aixue Hu, Gerald A.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2010

Direct water-splitting technologies—using photoelectrochemical devices or photosynthetic microorganisms—are the “Holy Grail” of the hydrogen economy. NREL Research Review 2003 Certain green alga such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii use sunlight to produce hydrogen directly from water. Brian Goodall.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2013

Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. water, and non-renewable energies (crude oil, coal.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

An international team of researchers has used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to look simultaneously at the structure and chemical behavior of the Photosystem II catalyst involved in photosynthesis for the first time. Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC) Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

These pollutants are harmful to both people and the environment, causing respiratory illnesses, acidifying soil and surface water, and damaging vegetation. These were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden. Source: EEA data viewer. Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. The technology to produce hydrogen by electrolyzing water has been around for more than 200 years. Why all the hype about hydrogen?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade. presence in Indianapolis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

A new EIA-sponsored study by Advanced Resources International, Inc. These include France, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, South Africa, Morocco, and Chile. reports initial assessments of 5,760 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of technically recoverable shale gas resources in 32 foreign countries. A hat-tip to John! A hat-tip to John! ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2011

Asia’s long-term competitiveness will depend heavily on how it controls the intensity of its resource use, including water and food, and manages its carbon footprint. The rapid growth in Asia’s energy use has created two major concerns for the region and within the international community. Energy consumption. —Asia 2050.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a group of international researchers in an invited analysis in the journal Global Change Biology/Bioenergy. Negative impacts on vegetation, soil fertility, water and ecosystem diversity are all possible.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

An international team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France have discovered how oxygen stops photosynthetic organisms such as green algae from producing hydrogen. The findings could help advance development of the microbial production of hydrogen from sunlight and water.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Zap and Helion are part of a renaissance in fusion-energy R&D aimed at achieving practical fusion power using much more modest facilities than the vast International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in southern France, at a cost estimated to be north of US $22 billion by the time it’s completed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

All that is dependent on progressing from internal combustion engines not designed for this purpose to engines optimized for use in hybrid power trains. That will become the case for land, water and airborne hybrid vehicles. That will become the case for land, water and airborne hybrid vehicles. Second or third generation?

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2009

A team scientists in France have created a bio-inspired catalyst by attaching a nickel bisdiphosphine–based mimic of the active site of hydrogenases (natural enzymes used by some microbes in their energy metabolism to catalyze H 2 /H + interconversion reactions, earlier post ) onto multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Source: Le Goff et al.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2009

Current airline members include Air France, Air New Zealand, ANA (All Nippon Airways), Cargolux, Gulf Air, Japan Airlines, KLM, SAS and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Boeing and Honeywell’s UOP, a refining technology developer, are associate members.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The carbon-free rigs will pack 50 kilos of hydrogen zapped from water using electricity from the refinery’s dedicated solar power plant. Building every electrolyzer promised for 2030 would provide only about one-sixth of the green hydrogen required to meet climate targets, according to figures from the International Energy Agency in Paris.

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