Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2009

The “second peak” for Lake Oberaar supports the hypothesis of pollutant release from melting. Melting glaciers in the Alps may cause severe environmental damage due to the release of pollutants which have been frozen in ice for decades, according to research by Swiss scientists. Credit: ACS, Bogdal et al. Click to enlarge.

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Pollution Switzerland Climate Change Water 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) today recently signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin and a team of Arctic researchers for a comprehensive study of the Hanna Shoal ecosystem in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. Study on fracturing of sea ice.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2012

Bromine then reacts with a gaseous form of mercury, turning it into a pollutant that falls to Earth’s surface. Despite ozone’s beneficial role blocking harmful radiation in the stratosphere, ground-level ozone is a harmful pollutant. produced the study. Nghiem, S.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Although studies widely agree that widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and the associated infrastructure would reduce air pollutant emissions from the transportation sector, the extent to which air quality in an urban airshed will be affected by these reductions is a more complex matter than simply quantifying emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Researchers from the University of Minnesota have produced a spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventory (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol from corn stover for the contiguous US (the lower 48 states). The researchers included a sixth pollutant, ammonia (NH 3 ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2012

Advanced methods like computational toxicology, remote sensing, and high throughput chemical screening have given us new insights into the linkages between environmental, economic, and social systems and a new awareness of widespread global challenges. Safe and Sustainable Water Resources (SSWR).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Although the catalyst is in use, exactly how it converts NO x to nitrogen and water with the help of ammonia (urea) hasn’t been entirely clear. The finding provides insight into how to make better catalytic converters. Combined FTIR and NMR studies revealed the presence of a side-on nitrosyl species in the zeolite Cu-SSZ-13.

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Li-ion Diesel 2013 Water 225

Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2010

A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

succeeded in isolating the simplest CI and reported direct kinetic measurements of its reactions with water, NO, NO 2 , and SO 2. Our results will have a significant impact on our understanding of the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere and have wide ranging implications for pollution and climate change. Welz et al. Carl Percival.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2012

The findings have implications for the availability, management and use of water resources in regions around the world, say the researchers. Authors of the new study include Prof. Rain increases with aerosol concentration in deep clouds that have a high liquid-water content, but declines in clouds that have a low liquid-water content.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The South Bay is defined by the LAX Airport to the north and the Port of Los Angeles to the south - two of the biggest polluters in Southern California. She graciously agreed to be interviewed for Creative Greenius and give me some insight into the vital job she’s been tasked with. Water and Sewer. Vehicle Fleet.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

A scholarly literature has documented this process in fields as diverse as engineering, risk reduction, management, and urban studies. As economists and social scientists, we draw two fundamental insights from these examples of forced experimentation. Remote working has become the new status quo in many sectors. military bases.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 17, 2022

As the then lighter-than-water automaton floats back up toward the surface, it takes a series of measurements in a single column. And for that new design, we need to get about 4,700 operating floats into the water. What kind of insights can we get from tracking heat and salinity and how they're changing across Earth's oceans?

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Climate change/global warming concerns falling in US, uneven in China, and rising in India. —Todd Hale, SVP Consumer & Shopper Insights, Nielsen US.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"The Volt is a case study. Yes GM will lose $ on the Volt, just like the first Insights or Priuss, but unlike Toyota or Honda, they just cant afford to wait for it to catch on and become profitable. The Volt is a case study. And that means it doesnt necessarily pay the rent. It actually consumes rent when its launched."

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