Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

Before this study, we didn’t know how fast that carbon could potentially be released from permafrost, and how this feedback to climate would change over time. An understanding of the rate of carbon release is necessary to estimate the strength of positive feedback to climate change, a likely consequence of permafrost thaw. Permafrost.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2011

A new study by researchers from Canada, Norway and China indicates that warming in the Arctic is revolatilizing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that have accumulated in sinks such as water and ice. Their paper appears in the journal Nature Climate Change. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/nclimate1167.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2019

Canada-based Carbon Engineering Ltd. (CE) CE’s complementary AIR TO FUELS process—which combines CO 2 from DAC with clean hydrogen from water electrolysis—provides a second pathway for reducing transportation emissions by synthesizing ultra-low carbon intensity liquid fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2010

The parties proposing to develop the Mackenzie Gas Project are: Imperial Oil Resources Limited (IORL); Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited (IORVL); Shell Canada Limited as managing partner of Shell Canada Energy; ConocoPhillips Canada (North) Limited and ConocoPhillips Northern Partnership; ExxonMobil Canada Properties; and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. To prove it, eight manufacturers are publicly testing their prototypes in the Cold-Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge , hosted by the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

In today’s context of the global energy crisis, skyrocketing fossil fuel prices, energy security challenges and ambitious climate commitments, I believe nuclear power has a unique opportunity to stage a comeback. There is increased support and interest in Canada, France, the United Kingdom and the United States for this promising technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2011

Methane hydrate consists of molecules of natural gas trapped in an open rigid framework of water molecules. It occurs in sediments within and below thick permafrost in Arctic regions, and in the subsurface of most continental waters with a depth of ~1,500 feet or greater.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

However, in the MSR, molten salts play a key role in the reactor core, including as a coolant instead of water as used by most currently operating reactors. Now, several MSR designs are nearing deployment readiness in various countries, including the US and Canada as well as thorium-based MSRs in China.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2013

Methane hydrate—molecules of natural gas trapped in an ice-like cage of water molecules—represents a potentially vast methane resource for both the United States and the world. The objective of the program is to fund research that significantly advances the current state of knowledge or technology with respect to methane hydrate science.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

I contributed the following to the World Wildlife Climate Witness site last week and it was published this morning. What we’re not breathing is clean air, because the smoke from the La Canada-Flintridge fire, about 38 miles from here, is still making air quality hazardous and people in the L.A.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2019

and New Flyer Industries Canada ULC, subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc. (“NFI”), The only tailpipe output is clean water vapor. New Flyer is currently delivering 25 Xcelsior CHARGE H2 fuel cell-electric buses to three transit agencies as part of California Climate Investments (CCI). New Flyer of America Inc.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

Simple, effective solutions that can help lessen the impact of climate change already exist. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change. One type is the ultrasupercritical coal-fired steam power plant.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The pyrg is only known to live in 13 small isolated springs around Thacker Pass in Humboldt County, an area where Canada-based Lithium Americas plans to develop a lithium mine. On 25 February 2022, state approved the air quality permit, water pollution control permit and the reclamation permit for Thacker pass.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2024

In 2024, technologies to combat climate change soared above the clouds in electricity-generating kites, traveled the oceans sequestering carbon, and permeated the earth to power agritech in a new way. Weve gathered our top 10 climate tech stories of the past year here for you to explore. If these dont ring a bell, fret not!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2012

They found that sub-ice conditions favor the accumulation of methane hydrate (that is, methane trapped within a structure of water molecules, forming a solid similar to regular ice). The predicted shallow depth of these potential reserves also makes them more susceptible to climate forcing than other methane hydrate reserves on Earth.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

—Leo Johnson, Partner, Sustainability and Climate Change, PwC. Resilience will become a watch word in the boardroom—to policy responses as well as to the climate. —Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. nuclear war, radical climate change before 2050). —PwC report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Under the new Global Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Zero-Emission Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (ZE-MHDVs), Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales are setting an interim goal of 30% zero-emission new vehicle sales by 2030.

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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

JULY 5, 2009

A team of US researchers has found a significant increase in the amount of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean as well as a significant change in the distribution of fresh water, as compared with average winter values. The study appears in the current issue of the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Other environmental footprint concerns associated with oil sands development touched on by the IHS CERA report include water use; land disturbance and reclamation; and tailings. Net water use in oil sands production averages four barrels of water per barrel of bitumen for mining operations and 0.9 Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2010

This could explain satellite measurements showing high levels of stratospheric ozone, water vapor and other chemicals over Asia during summer. The monsoon transport pathway may also have effects on other gases in the stratosphere, such as water vapor, that affect global climate by influencing the amount of solar heat that reaches Earth.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2021

Principal investors in KoBold include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a climate & technology fund overseen by Bill Gates, and whose investors include fellow billionaires Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, and Ray Dalio. All licences have access to a deep-water fjord or deep open water and can be operated from either land or boat/barge-based camps.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2011

During the so-called Holocene Climate Optimum, from approximately 8000 to 5000 years ago, when the temperatures were somewhat warmer than today, there was significantly less sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, probably less than 50% of the summer 2007 coverage, which was absolutely lowest on record. Their paper is published in the journal Science.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2017

Failing to take the changing energy requirements of oilfields into account can cause oilfield managers or policymakers to underestimate the true climate impacts, Stanford scientists warn. Current climate and energy system models typically don’t explore the impacts of oil reservoir depletion in any detail. —Adam Brandt.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

sea ice as the climate has warmed. Haas of York University, Canada Research Chair for Arctic Sea Ice. The energy bounces off both the top of sections of ice and the water in. System (PIOMAS), which estimates the volume of Arctic sea ice and had. been checked using earlier submarine, mooring, and satellite observations.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2012

The prior longest-duration field test of methane hydrate extraction via depressurization was six days (Japan-Canada 2007/2008 Mallik well testing program). As part of this exchange demonstration, the depressurization phase of the test extended for 30 days.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Recent projections of sea-level rise after a future collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (for example, the Fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report) assume that meltwater will spread uniformly (eustatically) across the oceans once marine-based sectors of the West Antarctic are filled.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 5, 2023

These great masses store enough water to raise global sea level by 65 meters should they melt entirely. And the data that Peregrine will gather will help scientists to understand how these critical areas will respond to climate change. And the presence of water can give indications about the temperature of the surrounding ice.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Monsanto Company and BASF scientists have discovered a naturally-occurring gene that can help corn plants combat drought conditions and confer yield stability during periods of inadequate water supplies. In corn, cspB works by helping the plant maintain growth and development during times of inadequate water supply.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 22, 2024

continued] The post Heat Pumps For Electric Buses Blow Another Meme Out Of Water appeared first on CleanTechnica. Every time I publish anything on electric buses and I’ve published a lot on them recently hydrogen bus fans point out that in the west, diesel heaters are often included in buses for winter time use.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2011

The extraction of bitumen from mined oils sands produces enormous volumes of tailings—a slurry of slightly alkaline water, sand, silt, clay, and residual hydrocarbons—that are stored in settling basins; the current inventory is about 840 million m 3. They also emit biogenic greenhouse gases (CH 4 and CO 2 ).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Within regulated waters absolute emission reductions exceed 88% for almost all measured gas and particle phase species. Wofsy, Doug Worsnop, Bin Xiang, Eric Williams (2011) Impact of Fuel Quality Regulation and Speed Reductions on Shipping Emissions: Implications for Climate and Air Quality. —Lack et al.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Currently, P2G is being deployed in Europe and Canada but is only at the early demonstration phase in California. P2G systems use electrolysis powered by renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen—i.e., Among the paper’s conclusions is that a robust P2G RD&D program should be a priority for the state of California.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2018

In addition to developing economically viable products that utilize CO 2 emissions from power plants, the XPRIZE contest aims to scale up these technologies to a point that can truly impact climate change. There is building consensus that unchecked climate change can lead to a planetary extinction event.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

Ocean acidification is an important climate change challenge and is expected to cause massive corrosion of coral reefs and dramatic changes in the makeup of the biodiversity of the oceans, and to have significant implications for food production and the livelihoods of millions of people. 70 national science academies signed the statement.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2015

A team at the University of Calgary (Canada) has compared the energy intensities and lifecycle GHG emissions of unconventional oils (oil sands and oil shale) alongside shale gas, coal, lignite, wood and conventional oil and gas. Earlier post.). —Nduagu & Gates. They found that if the energy content of bitumen is taken to be 42.8

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