Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The Excel-based Upstream Dashboard provides “upstream” data for lifecycle analysis of coal, natural gas, crude oil, uranium, and biomass, as well as gasoline, ethanol, jet fuel, and diesel derived from either petroleum or coal-gasification. Results are listed in a chart as well as illustrated in a bar graph.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2011

trillion in 2010) would be required to overcome poverty; increase food production to eradicate hunger without degrading land and water resources; and avert the climate change catastrophe. The reports estimates that incremental green investment of about 3% of world gross product (WGP) (about $1.9

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JUNE 25, 2013

Preparing the US for the impacts of climate change. In addition, the Administration is launching the Better Buildings Accelerators, a new track that will support and encourage adoption of State and local policies to cut energy waste, building on the momentum of ongoing efforts at that level.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The climate change benefit is estimated for 2050 and human health and crop benefits are for 2030 and beyond. Black carbon and tropospheric ozone are harmful air pollutants that also contribute to climate change. Global benefits from full implementation of the identified measures in 2030 compared to the reference scenario.

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Ozone Climate Carbon Climate Change 218

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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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JANUARY 13, 2013

Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Comparison of Hg emissions in 2005 and 2010, by selected sector and region. Source: UNEP.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

These environmental challenges will only worsen given the industry supply profile with the bulk of recent nickel supply growth and the main source of future production growth being nickel pig iron production in Indonesia, which, according to industry sources, uses 25-30 tonnes of coal to produce each tonne of nickel.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Throughout the Kyoto Protocol period, industrialized countries have made efforts to change their energy sources mix. The report shows that the current efforts to change the mix of energy sources cannot yet compensate for the ever increasing global demand for power and transport.

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Emissions Global Transportation Industry 281

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Then I almost got carsick with the bag on my head smelling faintly of cilantro as we did what seemed like an endless series of donuts, attempted drifts and all manner of diversion tactics I’m certain were a complete waste of time. It’s not the oil, coal and gas companies or the Koch brothers or Fox News. And their teachers.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Both fuels use various sources of renewable biomass such as municipal solid waste, agricultural wastes and forest wastes, wood and energy crops. These fuels can also be made from fossil resources such as coal and natural gas.

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Alternative Fuels Waste Climate Change Coal 150

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. Munger, J. McElroy, M. Nielsen, C.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Verification of the emission reduction or carbon sequestration is critical in efforts to mitigate climate change. One question is who will be responsible for verifying changes in carbon, which raises questions about the role of a regulatory agency for accrediting claimed changes in carbon levels from an activity.

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Carbon Climate Change Climate Emissions 255

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JULY 21, 2014

When completed later this year, the unit will test a system conceived by the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UKCAER) at slipstream-scale to capture carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from the flue gas of an operating coal-fired power plant.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum, the think tank founded as an umbrella organization over India’s 28 state utilities to provide thought leadership, share leading practices, and bring international insights to India, I’m delivering bi-weekly webinars framed by the Short List of Climate Actions That Will Work.

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2011

In 2008, a report by UNEP called for the elimination of fossil-fuel subsidies, concluding that such subsidies often lead to increased levels of consumption and waste; place a heavy burden on government finances; can undermine private and public investment in the energy sector; and do not always end up helping the people who need them most.

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MAY 21, 2010

Oil alternatives can also be water intensive: ethanol from non-irrigated crops is comparable to oil sands mining, and options like coal-to-liquids can use 10 barrels of water per barrel of product, according to IHS CERA. Tags: Canada Climate Change Fuels Lifecycle analysis Oil Oil sands. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 8, 2008

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Nobody has their finger on where each city’s emissions are at as Heidi does. Talk about a dichotomy.

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Green Climate Change Climate Los Angeles 150

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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. Altex has been working with the US Department of Energy (DOE) on developing a version of the process to convert a mixture of coal and biomass to jet fuel since 2012.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

The energy sector was able to reduce its emissions due to the decreasing share of coal used to produce electricity and heat in the EU. In 2017, emissions covered by the Effort Sharing Decision (ESD) (including transport, buildings, agriculture and waste) increased for the third year in a row. in 2017 from 2016.

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Emissions Transportation 2017 2016 257

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MAY 6, 2021

The commercial importance of these minerals also grow rapidly: today’s revenue from coal production is ten times larger than from energy transition minerals. However, in climate-driven scenarios, these positions are reversed well before 2040. Scale up recycling.

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Supplies Climate Wind Clean 248

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. In prior work with DOE, MTR has advanced membrane CO 2 capture technology for coal power plants through small engineering scale testing and studies.

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MAY 13, 2010

Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the details of their long-anticipated energy and climate change legislation on Wednesday, 12 May. designates an existing national laboratory as a nuclear waste reprocessing Center of Excellence. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy.

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Gas-Electric Gas Climate Energy 210

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MARCH 13, 2016

Waste heat recovery. In the 5 topics areas of the FOA, the proposed project will focus on cost-effective measures to improve the on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% (compared to the 2016 baseline truck) to reduce transportation’s fuel use and climate change impacts. Background.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption of fossil fuels jumped to over $400 billion. The use of coal—which met almost half of the increase in global energy demand over the last decade—rises 65% by 2035. The number of people without access to electricity remained unacceptably high at 1.3 —WEO 2011.

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Oil Transportation Cheap Energy 247

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Eight new Midwest corn ethanol pathways proposed by Archer Daniels Midland describe a new very efficient plant using varying combinations of natural gas, coal, and biomass for process fuel. ARB-developed pathways: The three new staff-developed pathways are biodiesel from. used cooking oil (with and without cooking), and corn oil biodiesel.

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Carbon California Transportation Fuel 218

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As the world’s most widely manufactured material, concrete—and especially the cement within it—is also a major contributor to climate change, accounting for around 6 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Currently that means burning coal, coke, fuel oil, or natural gas, often along with waste plastics and tires.

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Portland Carbon Coal Emissions 145

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The primary energy fallacy is the assumption that all of the energy in all of the oil, gas and coal we burn today must be replaced. We don't need to replace it, we need to replace the unwasted energy services.

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Energy Coal Oil Gas 102

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OCTOBER 21, 2017

CH 4 is mainly generated by agricultural activities, the production of coal and gas, as well as waste treatment and disposal. However, the data until 2012 shows a steady increase in global GHG emissions, with an overall increase of 91% from 1970 to 2012. N 2 O is mainly emitted by agricultural soil activities and chemical production.

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Emissions Global CO2 Russia 150

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. Still, it turns out you can’t easily get a sample of nuclear waste like americium; you have to work up to it. I was deeply intrigued.

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Creative Greenius

MAY 14, 2009

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. 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.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. Anthropogenic climate change confronts humanity with a challenge: How can we keep warm now as we try to prevent our world from overheating in the future?

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 2, 2023

The US will waste a lot of time, money, and energy on bad decarbonizing transportation approaches and end up less competitive as a result.

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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. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Cheers — Al Louard 11.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 14, 2023

Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

The primary goal is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and, ultimately, contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change on the planet. EVs will be greener in Washington state, where almost half of electricity comes from hydropower, than in Wyoming, where electric generation is primarily fueled by coal.

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