Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) selected eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment—leveraged with recipient cost-share to support approximately $9.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2011

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) issued a press release on Friday saying that Baard Energy had agreed to a settlement entailing their switching from coal as a feedstock for its planned coal/biomass-to-liquids Ohio River Clean Fuels plant ( earlier post ) to natural gas. Earlier post.). Therefore, what.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2012

City center residents who took part in a study were almost twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery calcification (CAC), which can lead to heart disease, than people who lived in less polluted urban and rural areas, according to research published in the May issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine. Jess Lambrechtsen.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove published a new Clean Air Strategy to cut air pollution backed up through new primary legislation. The UK said it will go further and faster than the EU in reducing human exposure to particulate matter pollution. However, transport emissions are only one part of the problem. billion (US$4.7-billion)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The Excel-based Upstream Dashboard provides “upstream” data for lifecycle analysis of coal, natural gas, crude oil, uranium, and biomass, as well as gasoline, ethanol, jet fuel, and diesel derived from either petroleum or coal-gasification.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

The Los Angeles Police, Fire, General Services, and Water and Power departments will together lease the 160 BEVS. Broader goals for the plan include reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2050; increasing local water supplies to 50% by 2035; getting DWP off of coal entirely by 2025; and reducing water use city-wide 20% by 2017.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

This investment will build on our existing methanol technology, facilitating even more valuable solutions and helping to propel this part of our business in China. Methanol can be produced from a range of renewable sources and fossil-fuel based feed-stocks; in practice methanol is mainly produced in coal-rich China from coal.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

There are no factories or farms, and planes are thought to make up most of the pollutants in this area. Any pollutants in the upper troposphere will play a very different role than they do in the boundary layer (the lowest part of the troposphere, directly impacted by the presence of the earth’s surface).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Coal-powered synthetic natural gas (SNG) plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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Gas Mercury Climate Change Fuel 220

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Unintentional emission sectors: Coal burning, ferrous- and non-ferrous (Au, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn) metal production, cement production. The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. Source: UNEP.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

They used a lot more coal than they originally admitted to, several hundred million tons more. Another major shift is that China has become a voracious energy importer, especially of coal and liquefied natural gas. Like the United States, China has become among the world’s largest importers of oil, gas and coal.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). —Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of IRENA.

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Plug in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

One, the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act will create a framework for ethical, responsible mining to support a clean energy transition that protects mining-adjacent communities, adjoining land, and downstream water resources. This law dates back to the U.S.’s As we move forward with the clean energy transition, we can do better.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

In this celebration, we acknowledge the future of green technology is not only healthier for the planet and its residents, but more high-tech than more archaic, higher polluting options. These green tech solutions suitable replacements for pollution-creating solutions. Earth Day and Green Tech. than gas-fueled vehicles. .

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

The new goal is that efficiency standards for appliances and federal buildings set in the first and second terms combined will reduce carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons cumulatively by 2030—equivalent to nearly one-half of the CO 2 emissions from the entire US energy sector for one year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2009

A new report from the National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates, “hidden” costs of energy production and use—such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health—that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the electricity and gasoline produced from them.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

So let me get this straight - while those of us who are trying to lead greener lives, have been cutting our carbon footprints and working with our cities, states and the rest of the USA to help them do likewise, Killer Coal has been playing us for chumps and wiping out all our efforts every single second of every day.

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Coal Carbon Climate Tax 199

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

As one part of the conditional loan guarantee deal, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must determine if the AP1000 fulfills the regulatory requirements for a construction and operating license. The AP1000 is a 1,117 to 1,154 MWe pressurized water reactor (PWR) nuclear power plant that is an extension of the older AP600 design.

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EV Info

AUGUST 13, 2021

Clueless ministers are scrambling to shore up a key part of the country’s net zero carbon strategy after the findings in a peer-reviewed study suggested that even hydrogen produced using allegedly low-emission methods can be more polluting than gas or coal. Hydrogen can also be generated by electrolysis of water.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 5, 2023

from automobiles, environmental pollution, depletion of fossil fuels, etc. It takes really long to form fossil fuels They are air pollutants – Combustion of fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases causes air pollution Global warming – as a result of greenhouse gas emission, atmospheric temperature increases ( how? ).

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 22, 2012

You can go to festivals and visit the booths of green nonprofits and solar energy companies, take part in composting workshops, learn about wildlife protectors and electric car companies. You might even get the chance to hug a person wearing a polar bear costume.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

A) shows the base case peak concentrations for O 3 (ozone), ClNO and HCl in parts-per-billion by volume (ppbv). (B) Under extreme circumstances, this previously unknown chemistry could account for up to 40 parts per billion (ppb) of ozone; the current US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 8-hour average standard is 75 ppb.

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Ozone Pollution 2009 Coal 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Because it is modular, it will allow the user easily to change inputs, such as design and manufacturing costs and energy sources, and replace parts of the process. For example, are the benefits of fuel cells the same in Washington state, which gets much of its power from hydroelectricity, as in West Virginia, which is dominated by coal?

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

The initiative forms part of Sasol’s University collaboration initiative, a long-term program that supports the core objectives of world-class teaching and research capacity in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at selected South African Universities. Tags: Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2010

Jacobson used a computer model of global climate, air pollution and weather that he developed over the last 20 years and updated to include additional atmospheric processes to analyze how soot can heat clouds, snow and ice. Warming of the air by any chemical, including soot, enhances natural surface emissions of water vapor [e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 23, 2009

I think it only fair and just that the people responsible for producing the most pollution and climate changing carbon pay for the costs their products and actions impose on all of us. I’d like that tax to subsidize my new solar energy rooftop system and my solar thermal hot water heater.

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Carbon Corporation Climate Change Tax 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2013

Both approaches are essential parts of an integrated strategy for dealing with climate change. The first component aims to reduce the damage resulting from changes in climate (“adaptation”), while the last five aim to reduce the pace and magnitude of these changes (“mitigation”).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2009

The impact on reefs is a consequence of both ocean acidification caused by the absorption of carbon dioxide into seawater and rising water temperatures. Coral reefs may be the canary in the coal mine.” —Ken Source: Caldeira House testimony Feb 2009. Click to enlarge. Our fossil-fueled lifestyle is killing off coral reefs. Ken Caldeira.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

The study finds that Americans are already being affected by climate change through extreme weather, drought and wildfire trends and details how the nation’s transportation, agriculture, health, water and energy sectors will be affected in the future. Climate change will stress water resources. Threats to human health will increase.

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Climate Change Climate Global United States 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. That’s why part of our plan is to provide new and better incentives that promote rapid, responsible development of these resources. And we have to do it quickly. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. Transaction Costs.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The quantity of calcium carbonate to be released—about 1 kilogram—won’t be enough to trigger any measurable cooling, and it roughly equals the particle pollution that a large commercial airliner releases every minute of flight, says. But sulfate aerosols—the combination of particles and water—can destroy the planet-protecting ozone layer.

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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. Furthermore, even the older version PHEV can recharge at a slow rate using local solar, wind, water-derived or other net zero CO 2 fuel.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 3, 2008

An injection well pumps water into this hot layer where it is turned to steam. There is no pollution to speak of with these plants. Oil burning is one of the single biggest sources of pollution coming from the whole state. A second well is drilled close by and the steam is released into ten turbines that generate electricity.

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