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2019 Keeling Curve Prize winners include Opus 12; conversion of CO2 into fuels and chemicals

Green Car Congress

It’s a capital-light solution that takes advantage of technology that has been commercialized for decades. African Clean Energy (Lesotho) produces cookstoves that reduce smoke emissions and solar electricity for small electronics and LED lighting. reducing catalysts. Clean Energy Works (Washington, D.C.)

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New UNEP report says bridging emissions gap to meet 2-degree target doable, outlines pathways to 2020

Green Car Congress

Up to 9% of total primary energy in 2020 would come from non-biomass renewable energy (solar, wind, hydroelectricity and the like). GtCO 2 e per year by improving the efficiency of heating, cooling, lighting and appliances, and other measures. Up to 17% of total primary energy in 2020 would come from biomass (up from about 10.5%

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Could US commit to solar power?

Green Cars News

The use of non-renewable resources is taking its toll on the environment and more money is being pumped into renewable energy sources such as wind and biomass. He predicted that by the end of 2010, 13 commercial scale solar power projects could be under way in states including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.

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Honda launches new “Green Path” initiatives for manufacturing and operations; new $210M paint line at Marysville with new 4C2B process

Green Car Congress

Honda is using a new 3-coat/2-bake (3C2B), water-based painting process at its Honda de Mexico, S.A. Another example of this effort is Honda’s Russells Point, Ohio, transmission plant, which is the first auto plant in America to utilize on-site wind power for a substantial portion of its energy use. HDM) plant, which produces the Fit.

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What hope for Tesla, or any other EVs, once Dutton goes full MAGGA?

EV Central

The political reality that sits behind that is if the lights go out and the economy is shelled out, you’ll get voted out.” Sure, it’s so hot in Mexico that monkeys are falling out of the trees dead from heatstroke, but as Barnaby would no doubt point out, they’re not koalas, and more importantly, they can’t vote.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Solar, Wind and Biofuels Grew 53 Percent in 2008 Green Education = Environmental Religion? Smart Grid City will easily support up to 1,000 easily dispatched distributed generation technologies including PHEVs, distributed batteries, solar and wind. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of.

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