Remove Carbon Remove Coal Remove Waste Remove Workshop
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Osage Bio Energy: Winter Barley Ethanol as Advanced Biofuel for RFS-2

Green Car Congress

An advanced biofuel has a carbon footprint that is 50% or less of conventional gasoline and OBE plans to start the certification process by Q4 2010. These add up to reduced carbon impacts to grow/harvest feedstock. This results in reduced carbon impact on transportation/distribution of the barley feedstock and finished fuel ethanol.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. In some areas where wind and hydropower is wasted at night, the rate can be as low as 2-3 cents per kWh.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

It basically involves doing a “carbon inventory&# of your city and using special software to plug in all the numbers. He has been in the recycling position for the past five years and oversees the city’s ambitious Zero Waste programs. At community events Hampel runs a free hands-on bike tune-up workshop.

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Researchers Demonstrate Liquid-Tin Anode SOFC Operating on Biodiesel

Green Car Congress

Researchers from CellTech Power and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated a liquid-tin anode solid-oxide fuel cell (LTA-SOFC) operating on pure biodiesel (B100) prepared via base-catalyzed transesterification of virgin and waste cooking oils. Liquid Tin Anode Fuel Cell Direct Coal Power Generation (10 th Annual SECA Workshop).

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume.

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Your Greenius Earth Day Reality Check: Waiting For The Magic Bullet

Creative Greenius

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume.