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MIT Report Finds Natural Gas Has Significant Potential to Displace Coal, Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Role in Transportation More Limited

Green Car Congress

The overbuilding of natural gas combined cycle plants starting in the mid-1990s presents a significant opportunity for near term reductions in CO2 emissions from the power sector. The current fleet of natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) units has an average capacity factor of 41%, relative to a design capacity factor of up to 85%.

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The AI Boom Rests on Billions of Tonnes of Concrete

Cars That Think

I asked Juan Esteban Calle Restrepo, the CEO of Cementos Argos , the leading cement producer in Colombia, about that when I sat down with him recently at his office in Medellín. In Colombia, Cementos Argos is already producing more than 2 million tonnes of the stuff annually. He was frank. Carbon capture may work for the U.S.

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¿Por qué llevar la electromovilidad a sus flotas?

Blink Charging

Colombia también cuenta con descuentos en contribuciones para EV, ya que no aplica el impuesto de energía en la carga de EV. En Ecuador, los vehículos de bajas o cero emisiones (como lo son los eléctricos) no gravan el Impuesto al Valor Agregado.