Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more. Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change? The answer is perhaps some, but maybe not too much.

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Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions 144

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Google converted CLASlite and SAD into a set of online tools riding on top of a prototype platform that uses historical and present-day satellite images provided through Google Earth. Tags: Climate Change Policy. 1986-2006 deforestation, in red, alongside earlier. deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil. CLASlite) software.

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Google Climate Change Brazil 2006 294

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2009

million) toward a $30-million underground coal gasification (UCG) project with Swan Hills Synfuels of Calgary. Swan Hills Synfuels expects the project to demonstrate the ability to manufacture synthetic gas from Alberta’s coal resources, with the future potential of utilizing the coal seams for carbon capture and storage.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The sedimentary-clay deposit at Thacker Pass will use similar mining techniques to many coal deposits. In 2019, Lithium Americas entered into a mine design, consulting and mine operations agreement with Sawtooth Mining, a subsidiary of North American Coal.

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Nevada Coal Pollution Argentina 273

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The cost-effectiveness of measures to address climate change is enhanced through a multisector perspective. Primary energy sources in model include fossil fuels (crude oil, natural gas, and coal); non-renewable non-fossil sources (nuclear); and renewable sources (hydroelectric, wind, solar, and biomass). Wallington et al.

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Hydrogen Low CO2 Available Fleet 236

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2021

This is not an easy challenge, especially when we aim to introduce new technologies such as the Wind Challenger, so it is extremely encouraging to have Enviva as our partner, whose core mission is to fight climate change, and with their passion and determination, have proved that they can make a difference.

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Wind Emissions Powered Power 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The findings, published in the 21 September issue of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , are generally consistent with official Chinese government statistics and could bolster their credibility as international negotiations proceed on commitments of China and other nations to combat climate change. —co-author J. Munger, J.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

Otherwise you’ll just be buying a dinosaur that you’ll have to pay to convert or dispose of. We can dump both Killer Coal and Big Oil by generating our electricity with solar panels and charging your electric car with the all clean, all green energy from the sun. One voice really can change the world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

We have joined the global battle to defeat climate change. Our aim is to provide the two “missing links” in the climate change battle, to create both the demand and the supply of green hydrogen. Conducting trials to use renewable energy in the Pilbara to convert iron ore to green iron at low temperatures, without coal.

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Hydrogen Green Climate Change Australia 210

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

We found that converting biomass to electricity rather than ethanol makes the most sense for two policy-relevant issues, transportation and climate.” the other hand, electric transportation also provides a bridge to the use of conventional coal energy for transportation. Elliott Campbell. Campbell, D. Lobell, C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

The authors highlight three possible strategies for CO 2 conversion by physico-chemical approaches: sustainable (or renewable) synthetic methanol; syngas production derived from flue gases from coal-, gas- or oil-fired electric power stations; and photochemical production of synthetic fuels. Edwards (2010) Turning carbon dioxide into fuel.

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Conversion Transportation Fuel CO2 218

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process, known as BioIron, uses raw biomass instead of metallurgical coal as a reductant and microwave energy to convert Pilbara iron ore to metallic iron in the steelmaking process. Finding low-carbon solutions for iron and steelmaking is critical for the world as we tackle the challenges of climate change.

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Carbon Energy Climate Change Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

The MIDREX Process converts iron oxide into direct reduced iron (DRI) inside the shaft furnace using hydrogen-rich gas coming from natural gas or hydrogen as a reducing agent. The steel industry is working on reduction of CO₂ emissions to address climate change.

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Oman Hydrogen Gas-Electric Gas 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. Soot could be further reduced by converting vehicles to run on renewable electric power.

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Global Ozone CO2 Pollution 230

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2016

coal, biomass, or waste—is heated in the absence of molecular oxygen to produce a solid containing char and ash and volatile gases. This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. Carbonaceous materials—e.g., —Serge Randhava, CEO of Unitel.

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Gasoline Coal Convert Conversion 150

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2012

Some of the findings of the report include: Global consumption of coal (responsible for about 40% total CO 2 emissions) grew in 2011 by 5%, whereas global consumption of natural gas and oil products increased by only 2% and 1%, respectively. Coal consumption in China increased by 9.7%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2016

Other previously approved fuels include: Synthesized Iso-parafins (SIP) which convert sugars into jet fuel. These fuels can also be made from fossil resources such as coal and natural gas. These new fuels will help the aviation industry meet its climate change goal of carbon neutral growth.

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Alternative Fuels Waste Climate Change Coal 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The LCFS would essentially ban imports to California of fuels derived from unconventional sources such as oil sands from Canada, oil shale from the Western US, or domestic coal supplies that can be converted into transportation fuels. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. ATA Vice President Rich Moskowitz. LCFS Complaint.

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California Oil-Sands Oil 2005 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2009

Other studies have shown the ability to convert CO 2 primarily to methane with a distribution of other hydrocarbons ( earlier post as one example). Tags: Climate Change Emissions Fuels. In addition only high energy density petroleum-derived fuel meets stringent military aviation requirements. Dorner et al. Dorner et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Böhni emphasized that the production of climate-neutral fuel is key to climate protection and therefore needs to be given a fair chance; he established the Clean Fuel Now initiative at the Federal Parliament in Bern in late 2014. Climate change is happening much faster than we thought a few years ago. —Thomas Böhni.

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Diesel Switzerland Audi Solar 150

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2010

However, the two conclude in their review, substantial advances in catalyst, electrolyte, and reactor design are needed to enable CO 2 utilization via electrochemical conversion a technology that can help address climate change and shift society to renewable energy sources.

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Conversion CO2 Hydrogen Carbon 186

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. for oil, 24% for coal, and 20% for natural gas.

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Chicago MIT Carbon Tax 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2015

Compared with burning coal, natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide and substantially less soot, mercury and sulfur. Chemical Engineering’s Thomas Jaramillo is experimenting with electrochemically converting natural gas into higher-value products, like methanol. —Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics and NGI’s director.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. And people have no idea what’s coming with coal and what that’s going to cost them in electric bills. No, I mean you’re cheaper than coal today at $3 today – You’re cheaper than coal today. Yeah, that’s right.

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Solar Installation California Building 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Pulverized coal is often used as the flame fuel, and fuel is also added to heat and drive the calciner and preheaters. This is a powerful economic incentive, rather than economic cost, to mitigate climate change through a carbon negative process. Licht et al. Click to enlarge. —Licht (2017). 2017.02.005.

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. With the increasing threat of climate change, renewable energy has slowly but surely regained is prominence. Solar and wind are the easiest to locate, scale, and convert to energy. Renewables Depending on the Weather.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Then, in 2009, I was recruited into Google’s effort to make renewable energy cheaper than coal (an initiative we called RE While that last project didn’t pan out as hoped, I learned a lot from it. But this strategy doesn’t work in climate, because the odds of winning with today’s technologies are not in our favor.

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Fusion Google Energy Climate 143

Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Instead, his collection of electric vehicles (EVs) has included a converted Yamaha motorcycle, a converted 1971 AMC Hornet, and several electric scooters. David O’Neill on his ‘Silent Knight Electric Motrocycle,’ a converted Yamaha Big Bear. They had created two new natural gas units to replace the older coal-fired units.

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Colorado Denver Golf Cart Convert 57

Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

They are highly automated production islands that directly convert wind energy to hydrogen, with a few of them processing the gas into fuels and other goods. In the fight against climate change, many countries have pledged to reduce their CO2 emissions to net zero. Why all the hype about hydrogen? All are quite energy intensive.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia. Are we going to burn more oil, natural gas, or (gasp) coal to produce it? Cheers — Al Louard 11. and tap clean, renewable energy sources.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 7, 2023

It converts electrical energy from the battery into mechanical energy to drive the vehicle’s wheels. They include components such as inverters, converters, and motor controllers. 7 DC-DC Converter: A DC-DC converter converts high voltage DC supply from the battery to low voltage supply.

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Get Electric Vehicle

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

EVS: How They Are Helping Us In developed countries like the US, transportation is the main cause of climate pollution. To address this issue people should change to more sustainable modes of transportation. It is the need of the hour because to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we have just ten years in our hands.

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Petrol Pollution Gasoline-Electric Diesel 75

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today. This helps to explain the climate changes we are now experiencing.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

READ: $10,000 of changes and the satisfaction of the build + $25,000 of Used car = $35,000 of Fun! Reply ↓ ↑ report 6 CaramelZappa 3:20AM (4/23/2009) Yea, you COULD convert a lotus for $10k but the conversion wouldnt be terribly satisfying. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The energy stored within hydrogen has been imparted from electrical energy through the electrolytic hydrogen production process or more likely in the refinement of fossil fuels such as coal seam (methane) gas – both are energy intensive processes in themselves. . The reasons are numerous. . Whitehead, J., & Washington, S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Fisker $80,000 Karma series luxury 50-mile range series PHEV, S Sunset convertible version.Partnering with Quantum Technologies. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) The problems of changing to a plug-in fleet are not all technical. GM Press Release ).

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