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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). Global annual demand for energy in 2005 was about 16 TW, Weigand noted. The Net-Zero Neighborhood. Net-Zero Neighborhoods.

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Virginia Tech researchers find estimates of the carbon cycle are incorrect; implications for models

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Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have discovered that key parts of the global carbon cycle used to track movement of carbon dioxide in the environment are not correct, which could significantly alter conventional carbon cycle models.

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Study Finds Elevated Ultrafine Particle Pollution Levels Near Regional Airports

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However, researchers know little about the impact of such emissions at general aviation or regional airports—which are becoming a more important component of the global air transport system, and which tend to be located closer to residential neighborhoods than major airports, the article notes. ” Resources. Technol. ,

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Chevrolet introduce electrified AWD Corvette: 2024 E-Ray hybrid

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During spirited driving and in low traction environments, E-Ray’s eAWD system applies additional power to the front wheels, helping to enhance vehicle stability. It is designed for quietly exiting a neighborhood, with a maximum speed of 45 mph. (The original 1953 Corvette came with a 3.9-liter liter (235.5 seconds.).

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The Greenius Gets His Hands Dirty

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Lest you think your Creative Greenius spends all his time at the keyboard ruminating about issues national and global, this morning I got up early so I would be awake enough to drive across town to Charles Payne’s house on the other side of Torrance, in Old Town. We cleaned on both sides of the tracks for several blocks.

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Creative Greenius and the Marine Exchange Transformation

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For those of you wondering what your friendly neighborhood Greenius does when he’s not blogging or hanging out with 999 other climate activists at Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leadership Corps training , the answer is he works for a living.

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Greenius Presents: Governor Schwarzenegger on What’s Coming Soon To California

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As your friendly neighborhood Greenius continues with his efforts to help Hermosa Beach become the first carbon neutral city in the South Bay, it might help some of you to get up to speed on what we already know is coming our way here in California from climate change and global weirding.