Energy & Green Tech
One of the many changes needed for Switzerland to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions is to make its road mobility electric, with sales on new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to cease by 2030 or soon after. As numerous ...
Feb 26, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
As the recent disaster in Texas showed, climate change requires electricity utilities to prepare for extreme events. This "global weirding" leads to more intense storms, higher wind speeds, heatwaves and droughts that can ...
Feb 25, 2021
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Engineering
Over the last ten years, global demand for concrete has grown three-fold and for steel two-fold. Both are responsible for approximately 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), 75% of which is associated with buildings ...
Feb 3, 2021
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In about three years, Navistar plans to start selling low-emission hydrogen-powered heavy trucks under a partnership with General Motors and a small distribution company called OneH2.
Jan 27, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A new government report says gas mileage for new vehicles dropped and pollution increased in model year 2019 for the first time in five years.
Jan 14, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
There's no doubt the Earth's temperatures are going up. According to a December report by the World Meteorological Organization, 2020 is on track to be one of the three hottest years on record, already within the warmest ...
Dec 21, 2020
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The new director of Idaho National Laboratory said its efforts to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by creating a new generation of nuclear reactors appears to align with the goals of the incoming Biden administration ...
Dec 17, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A partial transition of German road transport to hydrogen energy is among the possibilities being discussed to help meet national climate targets. A team of researchers from the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies ...
Dec 1, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Alternative fuels originating either from renewable or circular-economy feedstock will not bring penalties in terms of number-based particle emissions in high- or medium-speed non-road engines. This is a conclusion of Teemu ...
Nov 13, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Can tomorrow's energy supply be freed of CO2 Fraunhofer researchers want to answer that question with a consortium of partners in ZO.RRO, a joint project underway in the German state of Thuringia. They are developing a complex ...
Nov 2, 2020
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