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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Cash for Clunkers”) program could maximize greenhouse gas emissions savings by using fuel-economy based eligibility requirements rather than age-based requirements. A first wave occurred in the 1990s, followed by a spate of current schemes to stimulate domestic auto industries in the face of the economic crisis. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2009

An analysis of sales- and activity-weighted fuel efficiency for new jet aircraft from 1960 to 2008 shows that while aircraft efficiency has doubled since 1960, advancements in the efficiency of commercial aircraft have stagnated in the last two decades. During the 1990s however, efficiency gains dropped to less than one percent annually.

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Standards Commercial CO2 2008 210

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JULY 21, 2009

The acronym is the same, but the US Department of Energy’s renamed 15 th DEER conference ( DEER 2009 ), to be held in Dearborn, Michigan 3-6 August, will feature a greatly expanded program extending well beyond its origin in diesel engine emissions reduction to include other engine technologies, advanced combustion processes, and fuels.

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Diesel 2009 Alternative Fuels Cleaner 150

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In a paper published in Nature Geoscience , the authors found that despite the major financial crisis that hit the world last year, global CO 2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuel in 2009 were only 1.3% Tags: Brief. below the record 2008 figures. This is less than half the drop predicted a year ago. Marland, J. Hackler, T.

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2010 Global Emissions CO2 210

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JUNE 15, 2009

Among the consortium members is Alternative Fuel Technology , Inc., a developer of fuel injection equipment for DME-fueled vehicles. has been using AFT fuel systems in field demonstrations and in laboratory research since 1995, according to the company. Tags: DME Heavy-duty Hybrids. Volvo Truck Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

PNNL’s collaborations with China date back to the early 1990s when it helped found the Beijing Energy Efficiency Center. Tags: Brief. Third, the team will improve the overall efficiency and economics of converting synthetic gas into natural gas using advance computational simulations and through developing new catalyst materials.

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JULY 3, 2009

Composites, consisting of carbon fibers and resins, are stronger than the metals that they replace and also are lighter weight, which allows for new product design and enables product efficiency such as fuel savings. Tags: Brief.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Orion began development and production of hybrid buses in the mid 1990s with pilot vehicles first deployed in New York City Transit. This development has reduced the weight of the overall bus and thereby further improving fuel economy. Tags: Brief. Series production began in the early 2000s.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2010

Alaska Airlines demonstrated next-generation flight procedures this week during a test flight over Puget Sound that burned less fuel and reduced emissions by 35% compared to a conventional landing. Alaska Airlines estimates the new procedures at Sea-Tac will cut fuel consumption by 2.1 Tags: Aviation Fuel Efficiency.

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Alaska Seattle Emissions Fleet 268

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MAY 3, 2010

The APS drove developments that require new approaches today, but which could not be anticipated in the 1990s. Tags: Brief. Optimized and expanded capabilities.

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Batteries Battery Energy Environment 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The authors, under the umbrella of the Global Carbon Project , reported a 29% increase in global CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel between 2000 and 2008 (the latest year for which figures are available), and by 41% between 2008 and 1990, the reference year of the Kyoto Protocol. Tags: Climate Change Emissions. Le Quéré C et al.

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2008 Emissions Carbon Climate Change 218

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APRIL 4, 2010

Tesoro, which originally was an E&P company (exploration and production), exited the E&P business in the late 1990s to focus on refining and marketing in the Western US. Tags: Brief. In 1998, it purchased the Anacortes Refinery from Shell. Shell operates another refinery in Anacortes today.). compared with Europe’s at 6.5.

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Washington Alaska Seattle Oil 210

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

users pay for the construction and maintenance of roads via a federal fuel tax. But fuel tax revenues have not kept pace because the federal government and most states have not increased gasoline tax rates since early 1990s, while inflation has eroded their real buying power. —Huang et al.

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Transportation Fuel Tax Tax Gasoline-Electric 199

Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

Ford’s PTWA thermal spray coating process for aluminum engine blocks replaces heavy cast iron liners, thereby improving fuel efficiency by reducing engine weight and internal piston friction losses. Improved oil and fuel economy. Tags: Engines. Ford presented a paper on PTWA at the SAE 2008 World Congress. Earlier post. ).

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2009 Ford Engine Low Cost 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2009

In the 1980s, GE successfully ground-tested and flew an open-rotor jet engine (the GE36) that demonstrated fuel savings of more than 30% compared with similar-sized, jet engines with conventional, ducted front fan systems. It’s a journey driven by a need to sharply reduce fuel consumption in future aircraft. Tags: Aviation.

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APRIL 15, 2009

emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 26% of CH 4 emissions from fossil fuel combustion, and 67% of N 2 O emissions from fossil fuel combustion, respectively. Fuel purchased in the US for international aircraft and marine travel accounted for an additional 108.8 Tg) between 1990 and 2007, an annualized increase of 1.5%.

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2007 Emissions EPA Gas 150

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Captain Will was at the controls of the Boeing 737 NG, which carried as a passenger GE Aviation Systems Technical Fellow for Air Traffic Management, Steve Fulton, a long-time champion of RNP who developed the world’s first RNP flight paths in the mid 1990s. Tags: Brief. Animation of the RNP airport approach at Bradley Airport.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

The discussions focused on the potential gains to be made in the areas of Fuels and Fuel Economy; Electrification; and Traffic Management. About the smartest thing we can do to deal with this problem is to become more fuel efficient. If the transport sector gets fixed, that has an enormous downward impact on both fuel and CO 2.

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Transportation CO2 Fuel Economy Climate Change 150

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MAY 6, 2009

The plant, formerly the Michigan Truck Plant and the production site for Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigators SUVs, is one of three North American light truck plants Ford is retooling to build fuel-efficient global small cars in the coming years. It is about fuel economy and the electrification of vehicles.

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Ford SUV Michigan Tax 186

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AUGUST 27, 2010

As with many current passenger vehicles, the Volt automatically unlocks its doors, activates its emergency flashers, and disables its fuel pump when an airbag signal is generated. Tags: Electric (Battery) Plug-ins Safety. On-Board Safety Systems.

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General Motors Electric Vehicles Chicago Motor 316

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JANUARY 4, 2010

petagrams of carbon (PgC) during the 1990s (about three-fourths from combustion of fossil fuels and the remainder from changes in land use). Tags: Climate Change Climate models Emissions Land use. Research Center Click to enlarge. PgC, an additional sink of 2.9 PgC per year exists, but cannot be accounted for.

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Carbon Climate Change CO2 Climate 186

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

MOFs were discovered toward the end of the 1990s by US chemist Omar M. Tags: Hydrogen Storage Nanotech Natural Gas. The simple method gives a higher material yield from an aqueous medium and is suitable for existing BASF production plants, the company says. Yaghi (then at University of Michigan, now UCLA). Earlier post.) Science Vol.

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Gas Industrial Industry Hydrogen 170

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MAY 5, 2010

Weigand also noted that “ I’m not selecting a technology—when I say battery, fuel cell is fine with me. ”). Weigand served in several management positions with the Department of Energy (DOE) during the late 1990s and received the Secretary of Energy Gold Medal in 1996. Tags: Batteries Power Generation Smart Grid Solar.

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Neighborhood Energy Storage Grid Transportation 273

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JULY 4, 2009

2 -neutral fuels play another key role. Limited fossil fuel resources. While in the past consumers tended to count horsepower and cylinders in the engine, they now are focusing more on fuel consumption and CO 2 values, he said. Volkswagen had begun exploring hybrid and electric drive technology in the 1990s.

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2013 Companies Gas-Electric Recharge 150

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JUNE 26, 2010

The use of compressed or liquefied natural gas as a fuel for vehicles could help to displace oil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but to a limited extent because of the high cost of converting vehicles to use these fuels. In the transportation sector, the study found a somewhat smaller role for natural gas.

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MIT Coal Gas Emissions 240

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009

BNSF has been operating four liquefied natural gas yard locomotives in downtown Los Angeles since the mid-1990s. Other sources of diesel particulate matter such as big rig trucks, transit buses, trash trucks, cargo-handling equipment and ship auxiliary engines have already been addressed through regulations, along with diesel fuel.

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Diesel California Emissions 2007 170

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

For example, the trend towards engine downsizing in road vehicles to improve fuel efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions can be complemented by the downsizing of transmissions, requiring the intervention of new technologies and manufacturing processes for stronger and more lightweight components.

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Green Cars News

JULY 9, 2009

He also spent a year living with the pioneering General Motors EV1 electric car and has driven the vast majority of alternative fuel vehicles. However, manufacturers have not yet been able to develop a battery pack that costs less than $20,000-$30,000 and that is why electric vehicle price tags continue to approach $50,000.

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Electric Cars Future Cars EV1 36

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MAY 30, 2014

The MQB-based seventh-generation of the original “hot hatch” (first introduced in the US in 1983) preserves the performance and handling style of its forebears, while being bigger—but lighter—and more powerful—but more fuel efficient—than its immediate Mk 6 predecessor. Under the hood of the new Golf GTI.

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Fuel Sale MPG Exhaust 246

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OCTOBER 23, 2009

Dynario, fuel cartridge and consumer device. Toshiba Corporation launched its first direct methanol fuel-cell product: Dynario, an external power source that delivers power to mobile digital consumer products. The company has conducted R&D on both active and passive fuel cells since the early 1990s. Click to enlarge.

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Japan Fuel Power Powered 199

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The growth in carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industry has exceeded even the most fossil-fuel intensive scenario developed by the IPCC at the end of the 1990s. each year from 1990-1999 and this accelerated to 3.5% Tags: Climate Change. Global emissions were growing by 1.1% per year from 2000-2007.

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Climate Change Climate 2007 Ozone 259

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher in 2008 than in 1990. Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1980-2010, as compared to baseline scenarios used by the IPCC to. millimeters per year in the 1990s to 1.2 Tags: Climate Change Emissions.

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Climate Change Climate 2008 2009 239

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APRIL 22, 2010

The International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Geneva-based Global Subsidies Initiative ( GSI ) has issued a five-part series of reports into how nations might remove fossil-fuel subsidies, on the eve of a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington this week. The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies (Victor, 2009).

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Parts Fuel 2010 Climate Change 207

Green Cars News

JULY 22, 2009

The discussions focussed on the potential gains to be made in the areas of Fuels and Fuel Economy, Electrification and Traffic Management, each of which were examined through a series of provocative presentations and workshop sessions. About the smartest thing we can do to deal with this problem is to become more fuel efficient.

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CO2 Transportation Climate Change Fuel Economy 42

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The FT-CH is a concept that would address Toyota’s stated strategy to offer a wider variety of conventional hybrid choices to its customers, as it begins to introduce plug-in hybrids (PHVs) and battery electrics (BEVs) in model year 2012, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCHVs) in 2015 in global markets. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. Finally, looking at the non-electric fuel, instead of using gasoline for long-trips, PHEVs could run on bio-diesel, cellulose ethanol, or other bio-fuels to further reduce greenhouse gases.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

While those eco-luxury vehicles are certainly sexy, they arent the Main Street kind of vehicles that are going to wean America off foreign fuel. In the 1990s, Waters led development of the battery pack for General Motors Corp. Tags: evdriven.

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