Climate Change, Economy and USA

China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The post China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035 appeared first on CleanTechnica. China's electrification, renewables, and infrastructure trajectories mean coal demand is going to plummet, and emissions with it. Not so much.

USA

USA China Emissions Coal

Only One Country Is Making Progress On Electrifying Everything

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 19, 2024

For close to twenty years, it’s been clear that electrifying everything is a key climate change wedge. Jacobson’s work in the USA and then internationally with his 100% Renewables by 2050 modeling laid much of the groundwork for this.

Climate Change

Climate Change USA Climate Renewable

Moving People In USA Much Harder To Decarbonize Than In Rest Of World

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 25, 2024

continued] The post Moving People In USA Much Harder To Decarbonize Than In Rest Of World appeared first on CleanTechnica. That triggered a lot of discussion, with some of the usual suspects chiming in on subjects they weren’t.

USA

USA Hybrid Industry Industrial

USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

continued] The post USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling appeared first on CleanTechnica. For a decade I’ve been tracking the exponential expansion of wind, solar, and to a lesser extent hydro electricity generation.

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2000 USA China Wind

Comparing The US & China On Climate, Economy, & Other Outcomes Should Be Deeply Humbling For America

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 11, 2022

The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.

China

China Economy Climate USA

Tesla Robotaxi Would Cause More Gridlock In USA’s Transit-Deprived Cities

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

continued] The post Tesla Robotaxi Would Cause More Gridlock In USA’s Transit-Deprived Cities appeared first on CleanTechnica. Tesla reveal parties stopped being particularly relevant a few years ago. The Tesla Semi reveal was the last one of any significance from my perspective.

USA

USA Tesla Climate Change Carbon

Auto Alliance urges EPA to withdraw premature Final Determination on light-duty GHG regulations, resume Midterm Evaluation process with NHTSA

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Auto Alliance represents 77% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA. Background.

EPA

EPA Light Auto Aston Martin

Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2018

Prof Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), led the research, along with Dr Yuli Shan from UEA’s School of International Development. Everything practical that you would need to do to reduce emissions happens at a city level. 6, eaaq0390 doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaq0390.

Emissions

Emissions CO2 Laos Pollution

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

Creative Greenius

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This news means green jobs, a big boost for local economies across the country and a great investment of non-taxpayer dollars. climate change energy efficiency environment green buildings renewable energy solar power AB 811 Cisco Devries Howard Choy L.A. Big props to each of them as well! I suspect the L.A.

USA

USA Los Angeles New York City Financing

China’s Oil & Gas Giant Sinopec Says Peak Oil Demand Already Happened In China

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Half of the world's economy has already reached peak gasoline and diesel demand while electric vehicle deliveries in every segment are shooting through the roof.

Oil

Oil Gas Gasoline-Electric China

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

Fifty years later, the USA is faced with a similar challenge, energy independency and climatic change. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. mpg by 2016.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

PBL/JRC: Global CO2 emissions increase to new all-time record in 2013, but growth is slowing down

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2014

This was mainly due to the continuing steady increase in energy use in emerging economies over the past ten years. China, the USA and the EU remain the top-3 emitters of CO 2 , accounting for respectively 29%, 15% and 11% of the world’s total. Climate Change Emissions' —Trends in global CO 2 emissions.

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2013 Emissions Global CO2

Steep increase in global CO2 emissions despite reductions by industrialized countries; driven by power generation and road transport

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2012 as a group, partly thanks to large emission reductions from economies in transition in the early nineties and more recent reductions due to the 2008-2009 recession, according to the report. increase in global CO 2 emissions between 2009 and 2010, according to the report.

Emissions

Emissions Global Industrial Industry

Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

What it should have said is: “Polluters & Global Warmers Caught In The Act and Stopped – New Clean, Green, Sustainable Economy Begins Booming!&#. And I’m especially happy and excited about how much this pisses off the worst of bad guys operating in the USA today. That’s the real news here.

Chevron

Chevron EPA Coal CO2

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2024

By cycling carbon through energy generation systems as biomass, it offers a means to address climate change. In biorefineries, lignin is used for producing heat to run the turbines which substantially affects the economy. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Nowgong College in Assam, India.

Fuel

Fuel Auto Oil Conversion

The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World

CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or.

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Washington IDEA United States Clean

Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2019

A new study published in Nature Communications by researchers from IIASA, Boston University, and the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice found that by mid-century, climate change will increase the demand for energy globally, even with modest warming.

Climate Change

Climate Change Global Energy Climate

Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China’s EVs

CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The job of Chairman and CEO of a global company comes with a few requirements. Being awake should be one of them. Since 2020, Farley has received $82 million for napping it seems. Before that he had executive vice president and leadership roles responsible for global marketing and sales back.

Ford

Ford China 2020 Global

Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels

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.

Financing

Financing Waste Fuel India

Domestic Freight Mode Decarbonization Economics Will Vary Between Major Geographies

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2024

Every major geography will be electrifying virtually domestic freight shipping in the coming two to three decades. However, the starting conditions matter between India, Europe, China, and the United States. This assessment sprang out of a bit of news and discussion related to it today. China’s Windrose Technology and its.

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India United States China Europe

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

If we can again succeed like that, in a decade, we’ll look back and know that we got a great deal: safer, healthier, better lives, an economy no longer held hostage to petro-dictatorships and blindered, monopolistic companies, and a significant response to climate change. Every generation is called to step forward.

Oil

Oil Conversion 2020 Oil-Sands

NREL’s Cost Study On Hydrogen For Heavy Vehicles Fuel Does Not Withstand Scrutiny

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 6, 2024

What is it about hydrogen for trucking that leads researchers to deeply low-ball costs at every opportunity? I’ve tried to. continued] The post NREL’s Cost Study On Hydrogen For Heavy Vehicles Fuel Does Not Withstand Scrutiny appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Fuel Vehicles Climate Change

Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

Green Cars News

JULY 8, 2009

Current climate change policies which focus on overall carbon emissions are failing and should be abandoned, a consortium of research institutes concludes. The paper’s twelve co-authors come from leading research institutes in Europe (England, Germany, Finland), North America (Canada, USA) and Asia (Australia, Japan).

Climate

Climate Climate Change 2001 Finland

LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

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.

Energy

Energy Climate Waste Wind

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

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.

Energy

Energy Wind Solar Building

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We will work together to overcome strategic, political, and technical barriers, accelerate the production of zero emission vehicles and increase economies of scale, to make the transition faster, lower cost, and easier for everyone.

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Emissions El Salvador Cape Verde

Is Green Hydrogen Always Green?

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

Governments shouldn't be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Green Climate Change Energy Storage

And So It Begins: 1,000-Kilometer Route Yangtze Container Ship With Swappable Batteries

CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 31, 2023

China's inland shipping, 50% of all inland shipping world wide, will be decarbonizing rapidly given its national and provincial strategic decarbonization focus, its domination of ship building and its domination of battery supply chains.

Batteries

Batteries Battery China Supplies

Agricultural Drones Are Disrupting Crop Spraying, Crop Analytics, & The Tractor Biz

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Recently I had the opportunity to chat with Arthur Erickson, founder and CEO of Hylio (pronounced like Helios, god of the sun, not Hi Leo!) about his 14-foot diameter crop spraying drone manufacturing business.

Manufacturer

Manufacturer Climate Change Waste USA

Updated US Hydrogen Strategy Is Better, But Still Mostly Good For The Fossil Fuel Industry

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 8, 2023

As a living document, the strategy is still deeply flawed, but less flawed than the first one. If the DOE updates it every six months, and there's as much movement each time, then by 2025 or 2026 it could be a good strategy.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Hydrogen Fuel

Massive Spray Drones Are Transforming Agriculture With Win After Win

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 21, 2023

Farmers don't buy spraying drones or hire drone spraying services because of the environmental benefits, of course. They don't need to justify the use of them. They sign on the dotted line for higher profits.

Buy

Buy Climate Change USA Oil

Association Of American Rail Aligned With US DOT In Derailing Electrification

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Association of American Rail is lobbying hard to radically reduce rail as a freight delivery option in the US. It's the exact opposite of a rational business strategy.

Climate Change

Climate Change USA Renewable Oil

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 60%

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2023

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

Energy

Energy Wind Solar Building

Cheap, Safe, Regional Electric Flying is Coming, & Kevin Antcliff Of Xwing Is Automating It

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 12, 2022

There was a real knee in the curve at 40% that led to much even more value for smaller aircraft. It suggests that the economics will be as cheap as cars, but a lot faster, and time has value. .

Cheap

Cheap Electrical Electric Cars

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 13, 2021

Much of industry is responding well to the biggest issue of this century, one we've jointly created over the past 300 years. But there is still much work to be done.

Industrial

Industrial Industry Climate Climate Change

China’s Purchasing Power Advantage & Wright’s Law Mean Its Green Investments Go A Lot Further

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 30, 2023

China spent $546 billion of 2022's $1.1 trillion USD global green investment, but China is getting about a trillion USD in value out of its investment.

Green

Green Purchase China Powered

Airports Will Increment Solar To Match 12x Electricity Demand By 2100

CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By 2050, airport electricity demand will be in the range of four times as high as 2019 levels, and by 2050, five times as high. Twelve times.

Solar

Solar 2019 Electrical Electric

Buzz Solutions Takes Out 50% Of Grid Inspection Image Effort & Duration

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 2, 2022

The data volumes are staggering, the need to inspect them is increasing significantly, and there aren't enough people to do the work. Enter Buzz Solutions. They save 50% of image assessment time today, and are trending to 80% of effort savings.

Grid

Grid Climate Change USA California

Electric Regional Air Mobility Discussion With NASA Report Lead Author Kevin Antcliff

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 22, 2022

Imagine you're a family of 4 heading to a ski resort in the region. You take an electric Uber to your local small airport. You're in the air in 15 minutes. You land near the resort and another electric Uber takes you to the hill. You fly quietly over the often dangerous mountain roads, enjoying the scenery from the air.

Electrical

Electrical Electric All-Electric Cost Of

Internal Combustion Cars: To Buy, Or Not To Buy

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Contrary to Shakespeare’s existential question, to buy or not to buy an internal combustion car is a very simple question with an even simpler answer. In the comments section of this and other websites I see often the discussion about what to do when there is no good fully battery-electric vehicle (BEV) available for […].

Buy

Buy International Cars Electric Vehicles

US Trucking Lobby Group Ignores Battery & EV Charging Improvements In Congress

CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 24, 2023

Electrification of US trucking is an amazing strategic advantage, but you'd never know it listening to the American Trucking Association.

Congress

Congress Battery Batteries Charging

The Wacky Untaxed World Of Jet Fuel Is Coming To An End

CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The emissions of aviation will be priced, the cost of aviation will go up, and that's part of why my projection of aviation growth is flat through 2100.

Fuel

Fuel Price Emissions Cost Of

US Transportation Blueprint: Good Intentions, Weak Diagnosis, & Possibly Irrelevant

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 1, 2023

While the US will waste a lot of time, money and energy getting there and end up less competitive as a result, most US transportation will decarbonize regardless, although often not as the new transportation blueprint supposes.

Transportation

Transportation Waste Energy Climate Change

Aviation Demand Forecasting Expert Challenges 2100 Aviation Refueling Scenario

CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 21, 2022

COVID-19 was a discontinuity that fundamentally shifted aviation passenger demand, but the forces are nuanced and geographically distinct.

Climate Change

Climate Change USA India Carbon

China Likely To Have Lower GHG Emissions Than USA By 2035

Only One Country Is Making Progress On Electrifying Everything

Moving People In USA Much Harder To Decarbonize Than In Rest Of World

USA & China Electricity Generation TWh & CO2e Trajectories Since 2000 Are Startling

Comparing The US & China On Climate, Economy, & Other Outcomes Should Be Deeply Humbling For America

Tesla Robotaxi Would Cause More Gridlock In USA’s Transit-Deprived Cities

Auto Alliance urges EPA to withdraw premature Final Determination on light-duty GHG regulations, resume Midterm Evaluation process with NHTSA

Study: countries seeking to cut CO2 emissions must get a handle on city-level emissions

Cisco DeVries’ AB 811 Baby Goes Nationwide: President Clinton Backs USA PACE Bond Program

China’s Oil & Gas Giant Sinopec Says Peak Oil Demand Already Happened In China

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

PBL/JRC: Global CO2 emissions increase to new all-time record in 2013, but growth is slowing down

Steep increase in global CO2 emissions despite reductions by industrialized countries; driven by power generation and road transport

Hey Exxon! Hey Chevron! My Friends At the EPA Are Declaring What You Do Dangerous & You Will Pay. Pack Up Losers, It’s Time For You to Go!

Biomass fuels: challenges and opportunities – ET Auto

The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World

Study forecasts even with modest warming, global energy demand to increase by mid-century

Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China’s EVs

Wasted Money & Sunken Assets: Subsidies and Financing for Fossil Fuels

Domestic Freight Mode Decarbonization Economics Will Vary Between Major Geographies

Perspective: Drive Star Conversion Program Could Cut US Oil Use in Half by 2020

NREL’s Cost Study On Hydrogen For Heavy Vehicles Fuel Does Not Withstand Scrutiny

Current climate policies destined for ‘imminent failure’

LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 50%

COP26 declaration on accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans

Is Green Hydrogen Always Green?

And So It Begins: 1,000-Kilometer Route Yangtze Container Ship With Swappable Batteries

Agricultural Drones Are Disrupting Crop Spraying, Crop Analytics, & The Tractor Biz

Updated US Hydrogen Strategy Is Better, But Still Mostly Good For The Fossil Fuel Industry

Massive Spray Drones Are Transforming Agriculture With Win After Win

Association Of American Rail Aligned With US DOT In Derailing Electrification

With Heat From Heat Pumps, US Energy Requirements Could Plummet By 60%

Cheap, Safe, Regional Electric Flying is Coming, & Kevin Antcliff Of Xwing Is Automating It

10 Major Industries Ranked By Climate Action Progress

China’s Purchasing Power Advantage & Wright’s Law Mean Its Green Investments Go A Lot Further

Airports Will Increment Solar To Match 12x Electricity Demand By 2100

Buzz Solutions Takes Out 50% Of Grid Inspection Image Effort & Duration

Electric Regional Air Mobility Discussion With NASA Report Lead Author Kevin Antcliff

Internal Combustion Cars: To Buy, Or Not To Buy

US Trucking Lobby Group Ignores Battery & EV Charging Improvements In Congress

The Wacky Untaxed World Of Jet Fuel Is Coming To An End

US Transportation Blueprint: Good Intentions, Weak Diagnosis, & Possibly Irrelevant

Aviation Demand Forecasting Expert Challenges 2100 Aviation Refueling Scenario

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