Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

UBQ is a patented material converted from 100% unsorted household waste, containing food leftovers, mixed plastics, paper, cardboard, packaging materials and diapers. By diverting landfill-destined waste, UBQ prevents the emission of methane, groundwater leakage and other environmental harms. Every ton of UBQ produced prevents 11.7

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2010

We were quite surprised to find that polycarbonate plastic biodegrades in the environment. This finding challenges the wide public belief that hard plastics remain unchanged in the environment for decades or centuries. Biodegradation, of course, releases BPA to the environment. Katsuhiko Saido. parts per million (ppm) to 50 ppm.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

BMW’s press shop in Dingolfing—the largest of the BMW Group worldwide—is the first in which all aluminum sheet waste is separated and recycled to make it reusable for industry. When producing components in the press shop, there is always a waste of sheet metal. The BMW Group has invested around €6.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2022

From there, it is blown into the environment by the wind, or is washed by the rain as urban runoff through the sewers into the soil and rivers and ultimately the oceans. Our goal is to take preventative actions wherever possible so that less microplastics get into the environment. —Daniel Venghaus.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2016

The transformation will integrate sustainability and innovation throughout the built environment, including a new Sustainability Showcase building on the product campus, which will aim to meet Living Building Challenge standards, the highest level of sustainability certification today. More than 7.5 No combustion is allowed. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The program is slated to invest approximately $90 million during this fiscal year to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, with the goal of reducing dependence on foreign oil and improving the environment. The award recipients are: Environ Strategy Consultants, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2021

By understanding how materials and devices transform under operation, we can design approaches that are more durable and thus reduce waste. Electron microscopy experiments at the Molecular Foundry confirmed that cuprous oxide quickly oxidizes or corrodes within minutes of exposure to light and water. —Francesca Toma. Zheng, F.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most end up in landfills or the environment. Smaller Pt NPs with higher concentrations of undercoordinated Pt sites over-hydrogenolyzed PE to undesired light hydrocarbons. Hundreds of millions of tons of plastic are produced worldwide each year, and the majority of these materials are discarded after a single use. —Celik et al.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

To build the locomotive and demonstrate its operations in a real-world environment. This is approximately equivalent to the same amount of fuel used each year by 20,000 light-duty vehicles. The overall project goals and objectives are: To design a safe and reliable hydrogen fuel cell powered locomotive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2017

The project also aims to reduce wasted byproducts of photosynthesis by targeting microbiomes that can more efficiently recycle it back to carbon dioxide for the algae to grow better.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2014

We aim for solid, sustained growth that brings benefits to everyone: customers and investors, the environment and society, and last but not least our employees. In specific terms, however, the volume of this kind of waste per vehicle has fallen due to improved material utilization and resource-optimized manufacturing processes.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2013

These range from medical equipment such as thermometers and energy-saving light bulbs to the mining, cement and coal-fired power sectors. Support for developing countries is also expected from the Global Environment Facility and a programme once the convention is operational.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2010

One of GM’s innovations involves the creation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. This innovation could help to reduce the cost of diesel and other lean-burning engine technology in the future, while also keeping them safe for the environment. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2009

Ranges in passenger occupancy can easily change the relative performance of modes, with large aircraft performing better than light rail in some of the areas investigated. Samples of the findings include: Off-peak urban diesel buses has the largest energy consumption and GHG emissions per PKT, followed by the three light-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. The 2013 assessment is the most comprehensive to date, and includes information on the release and impacts of mercury in aquatic environments for the first time. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2013

Studies commissioned by Honda Transmission indicate that wind-generated power is a cost-effective source of electricity for the plant and that the project will not adversely impact local wildlife or the environment. Honda of America Mfg. auto plants in Marysville and East Liberty, Ohio have ongoing initiatives to reduce energy consumption.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

Half of the plant’s heating comes from biogas, while the other half is predominantly sourced from district heating through industrial waste heat. We are committed to having a climate-neutral manufacturing network by 2025 and this achievement is a sign of our determination as we consistently work to reduce our impact on the environment.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

Heat is a scarce and valuable resource in electric cars, which do not have the waste heat from internal combustion engines for heating the interior, for example. The highly integrated and compact housing of the 4in1 electric axle needs significantly less space than non-integrated systems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2010

The fuels studied were: biogas from sugar beet, ley crops, maize and waste products in the form of household waste, industrial waste and manure; biodiesel from rapeseed; ethanol from wheat and sugar beet; and ethanol from Brazilian sugar cane. Pål Börjesson, researcher in Environment and Energy Systems at Lund University.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Below this GVW the technology has already been acquired by Valeo as a supercharger for cars and light commercial vehicle applications. The cooling system is integrated with the engine cooling system and the motor will be tested in this environment and validated between -40 °C and +120 °C. tonnes gross vehicle weight.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Includes replacement of lighting fixtures, control systems, and roof upgrades at selected facilities. Ultra-light Zero Emissions Buses: Replaces two of Flint MTA diesel buses with advanced all-electric Zero-Emissions GTB-40 buses from Fisher Coachworks. Flint Mass Transportation Authority, Michigan: $2,200,000.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Among the projects discussed were reducing cold starts; using waste heat for different heating applications in the car; and a new implementation of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for waste heat recovery. Heating with waste heat. Encapsulating the engine for heat retention. Click to enlarge. No more cold starts.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Achates Power, founded in 2004, currently has a number of development projects underway spanning a variety of applications of its opposed-piston engine architecture, from light-to-heavy duty. liter Opposed-Piston Gasoline Compression Ignition (OPGCI) engine. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Zermeno, R.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

A research group from the University of Turku, Finland, has developed a new protocol to deliver sustained hydrogen photoproduction in green algae under a train of strong white light pulses interrupted by longer dark phases. Efficient H 2 photoproduction in green algae occurs in the light after a period of dark anaerobic incubation.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

By maximizing a wide range of advanced technologies—from re-circulating the air in the paint shop spray booths to recovering heat energy from the oven exhaust—the paint shop is able to return massive energy and environment savings.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2020

Taking that as a baseline, if 1 billion cars are replaced with EVs (the current global light-duty vehicle parc is soe 1.3 100% reduction in solid waste. —Todd Cort, co-director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and Cary Krosinsky, lecturer in sustainable finance at the Yale School of Management.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2013

A new new forum for the advocacy and development of liquid air as an alternative technology to harness waste and surplus energy within power and transport—the Liquid Air Energy Network (LAEN)—has formed in the UK. The main potential applications are in electricity storage, transport and the recovery of waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

Veolia will bring its expertise in the water sector to optimize management of the microalgae’s aquatic environment and the development of algal biomass as an effective solution for CO 2 capture. The Ecoslops unit will produce, from these residues, up to 30,000 tons per year of recycled fuel (Naphtha, Gasoil and Fuel oil) and light bitumen.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It is also supported by ADEMA, the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Control. The solar panels developed for Optifuel Lab 2 are therefore light in weight, deformable, equipped with 48 modules covering an area of 40 m² and generate 30% more power than standard panels. Waste heat recovery. —Claude Covo.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

One negative side effect of a lean burn engine, whether powered by gasoline or diesel fuel, is an increase in the amount of emissions released to the environment. Umpqua Energy’s EVOPAC system combines an advanced hydrogen-injection system using a plasma reformer with a DeNOx Catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Meanwhile, energy consumption, materials use, municipal waste generation, and land development rates have all outpaced population growth over the last several decades in the United States, contributing to the impact of these activities. residential and commercial emissions), electricity use, and transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2011

Novel materials that can withstand high temperatures and extreme environments are dominant themes in materials development for efficient energy systems. The goal of this project is to develop cost-effective sensing technologies able to function in harsh, high-temperature operating environments. DOE Share: $300,000).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

A team of researchers from the US Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is studying how the relationships between blue-green algae and its environment, particularly nutrients and other bacteria, affect its ability to produce hydrogen. Cyanobacteria are almost always closely associated with other bacteria.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2012

Ultimately, the need to decrease fossil fuel dependence makes it imperative that algae and algae-derived products are safe to humans and the environment. microorganisms, enzymes, chemicals), will determine the quantity and nature of waste produced.It He then explores heterotrophic algae respiration and fermentation.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Then I almost got carsick with the bag on my head smelling faintly of cilantro as we did what seemed like an endless series of donuts, attempted drifts and all manner of diversion tactics I’m certain were a complete waste of time.

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