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Business must do even more for climateprotection, even in difficult times, said Franz Fehrenbach, chairman of the Bosch board of management, an a talk at the Baden-Württemberg sustainability congress held in Stuttgart on 25 March ( Nachhaltigkeitskongress Baden-Württemberg 2009 ). In Fehrenbach’s view, this would be a breach of trust.
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Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and ClimateProtection (BMWi) has approved €900 million for the innovative funding instrument H2Global. In the future, we will have a high demand for green hydrogen and will also need imports in addition to production in Germany.
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In a paper that could have a significant impact on climate policies for transportation fuels, Dr. John M. Such an approach can indicate policy directions consistent with fostering the conditions that comprehensive analyses imply are necessary for climateprotection. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge. DeCicco 2013. Click to enlarge.
Audi is partnering with the Zurich-based environmental start-up and promoting a future technology with the project. The technology can also be scaled up to the megaton-per-year range and thus harbors great potential from the future. The facility will filter 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air and mineralize it underground.
California’s ClimateProtection Strategies do not help meet NAAQS Standards. This presents a very important point: today’s very low-emitting natural gas HDVs are more than just “bridge technologies” to the future of California’s near-zero-emission heavy-duty transportation sector. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.
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Bottom: Development status of a future stack as of early 2013. The significantly more compact dimensions will mean that the future fuel cell system can be accommodated in the engine compartment of a conventional vehicle. Top: The fuel cell system of the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-CELL. Click to enlarge.
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