Green Energy
From Doug Ross:
- Drought Dries Up California’s Hydropower But Not Its Vision For A Renewable Energy Future
Credit: NREL and MWH GlobalCalifornia legislators recently passed a bill to increase the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require 50% renewables by 2030. That is, by the year 2030, at least half of all electricity consumed in the state...
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions With A More Effective Carbon Capture Method
"Alkali Metal Nitrate-Promoted High-Capacity MgO Adsorbents for Regenerable CO₂ Capture at Moderate Temperatures" Chemistry of Materials Trapping carbon dioxide (CO₂ ) emissions from power plants and various industries could play a significant...
- December 17th Asia Report - Mixed Signal Over Emissions
New Hampshire, U.S.A. — Even as renewable capacity surges ahead despite a down global economy, this past weekend brought a sobering reminder that market forces continue to pull the world toward carbon emissions — and not away from them.At the annual...
- Obama's Climate Plan Includes Co2 Standards For Existing Power Plants
Article published on http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news on June, 25th 2013 US President Barack Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create new carbon pollution standards for existing power plants, according...
- Powering Cars With Solar Energy ?
Photovoltaics Beat Biofuels at Converting Sun's Energy to Miles Driven Article published on http://www.sciencedaily.com Jan. 16, 2013 — In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil...
Green Energy
"Electric Drive Vehicles Have Little Impact on U.S. Pollutant Emissions"
From Doug Ross:
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides. “EDVs” is a catch-all term that includes hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles.
“We wanted to see how important EDVs may be over the next 40 years in terms of their ability to reduce emissions,” says Dr. Joseph DeCarolis, an assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the new model.
“We found that increasing the use of EDVs is not an effective way to produce large emissions reductions.”
The researchers ran 108 different scenarios in a powerful energy systems model to determine the impact of EDV use on emissions between now and 2050. They found that, even if EDVs made up 42 percent of passenger vehicles in the U.S., there would be little or no reduction in the emission of key air pollutants.
“There are a number of reasons for this,” DeCarolis says. “In part, it’s because some of the benefits of EDVs are wiped out by higher emissions from power plants. Another factor is that passenger vehicles make up a relatively small share of total emissions, limiting the potential impact of EDVs in the first place. For example, passenger vehicles make up only 20 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.
“From a policy standpoint, this study tells us that it makes more sense to set emissions reductions goals, rather than promoting specific vehicle technologies with the idea that they’ll solve the problem on their own.”Doug Ross comments: When the complete history of the "green" movement is written, it will go down in history as the greatest wealth transfer scam in the history of the world.
- Drought Dries Up California’s Hydropower But Not Its Vision For A Renewable Energy Future
Credit: NREL and MWH GlobalCalifornia legislators recently passed a bill to increase the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) to require 50% renewables by 2030. That is, by the year 2030, at least half of all electricity consumed in the state...
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions With A More Effective Carbon Capture Method
"Alkali Metal Nitrate-Promoted High-Capacity MgO Adsorbents for Regenerable CO₂ Capture at Moderate Temperatures" Chemistry of Materials Trapping carbon dioxide (CO₂ ) emissions from power plants and various industries could play a significant...
- December 17th Asia Report - Mixed Signal Over Emissions
New Hampshire, U.S.A. — Even as renewable capacity surges ahead despite a down global economy, this past weekend brought a sobering reminder that market forces continue to pull the world toward carbon emissions — and not away from them.At the annual...
- Obama's Climate Plan Includes Co2 Standards For Existing Power Plants
Article published on http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-news on June, 25th 2013 US President Barack Obama will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create new carbon pollution standards for existing power plants, according...
- Powering Cars With Solar Energy ?
Photovoltaics Beat Biofuels at Converting Sun's Energy to Miles Driven Article published on http://www.sciencedaily.com Jan. 16, 2013 — In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil...