Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2017

In fact, the cost of importing coal or oil to fuel power plants or vehicles can make fossil fuels vastly more. Because they are typically disconnected from both mainland grid infrastructure and sources of fossil fuels, it is easier for alternative sources of energy to gain a foothold.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

A Tesla Megapack battery system has officially turned on to replace Hawaii’s very last coal power plant. In early 2022, we reported that Tesla is deploying Megapacks at a new energy storage project that will replace Hawaii’s last remaining coal plant. It will enable better use of the state’s increasing renewable energy.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 18, 2024

At issue was the Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), which explicitly disallows consideration of environmental factors in the approval process for oil and gas permits. This is incorrect, as coal is the dirtiest fuel humans use for power. And best yet theres nowhere else for the state or the oil industry to take this case.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. 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. Oil is the alternative.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. because, even E85, we wish that would roll out a lot faster -- but, the only infrastructure thats really in place, besides oil, is electricity distribution. GM Press Release ). Bloomberg ). Reuters ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace. See Appendix G for a speculative picture of how a 15-year transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy in Hawaii can be accomplished.)

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to events where you recycle your old paper tax records, your motor oil, your cellphone, computers and other electronics. . You can participate in beach cleanups, ride your bicycle with large groups in parades or march in protests against coal-fired power plants, polluters and planet-pummeling profiteers.

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