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PUBLISHED ON September 6th, 2013 "by David L Roberts"This continues my magazine declare of 10 of the best dynamic clean energy generation, energy continuation technology, and ride out variant stories encountered best quality the hindrance month. Supervisor a thousand articles were reviewed with a leg on each side of the various clean energy platforms, 30+ were leave to be of judicious method and are clear in my notice upon call for. Here is my superior of the ^aTop 10^a that asset maintain an course on your resolute, your computer graphics, and the world we be present in. Or, at the fountain least amount, asset nonplus you in the opposite direction what^as leaving on. And tribute to David Letterman for the ^aTop 10^a fixation. Articles are behind best noteworthy hindrance.
10. China doll expresses ^aconcern^a in the opposite direction GHG emissions and community qualification from squalor and that they are constructing numberless (squalor unprofessional) wind and solar power stations. Bar, this declare does not seem a minor road thought until 2027, such as China^as GHG emissions forward motion end, at which speed their source of electricity from coal is rough to decline from today^as 67% to 44%. Coincidentally, fossil fuels (coal and gas) also report for 67% of US electricity production these days.
9. Here^as soundtrack that upheaval GHG emissions in CA are causing ride out change: foster forest fires, less barrage as blizzard and less mere in the Tahoe-Truckee watershed for sports, farming, and worldly exploitation.
8. This U of M coach makes the record that high-class gains in reducing GHG emissions in transportation can ooze from good ^aupstream^a sources, and less from innovations in new fuel and coup types. These adjoin beyond question (converting) fossil fuel power flora (for EV plug-ins), amending farming methods, harvesting and delight of biofeedstock (for ethanol or alternative fuel feedstocks), and mitigating methane leaks in natural gas production and piping.
7. Sweeping solar energy installation grew by 58% in 2012, amid the top four countries qualities Germany, Spain, Italy and China doll. Sweeping wind installs grew 19% in 2012, amid the top countries qualities US, Germany, Spain and the UK. Unobtrusive, the assimilation of wind and solar just accounted for 1.7% of transnational energy used up. Here^as a wonderful dignitary showing the production of (transnational) GHG emissions and everywhere they ooze from by authorization and type of productive entertainment..
6. Claiming to be carbon sunlit by applying the doctrine of photosynthesis from flora, a mock fuel is qualities experienced from hydrogen and CO2 by scientists from CalTech, Stanford, Berkeley Labs and 3 UC campuses amid uphold of 122M from the DOE.
5. Oregon leads 17 states subsequently charging motorists for miles pressed vs. gas used up. As well as coup fuel usefulness rising due to hybrids, EVs, and the 54.5 mpg CAFE mandates of the EPA by 2025, less fuel is (and forward motion be) used up, reducing fuel tax help wanted by states for road support and cleaning.
4. China doll hired IBM to ideal a grid-scale weather forecasting technology ^a" ^aHybrid Renewable Ambition Forecasting^a (HyRef) ^a" to smash dream intermittency of wind and solar output for foster ratio ingenious association dressed in the usefulness power mix. As well as sales planned with a leg on each side of Euro and the US, this possibly will be a big win for ^abig little.^a
3. While considered non-polluting sources of clean energy, hydroelectric damns ^a" and the waters at the back them ^a" are qualities examined for the methane they transport as a end result of the genuine sediments beneath. (Groundwork tells us that methane is 20-25 period foster deadly than CO2 in holding balmy and contributing to transnational warming.) This ^adamn^a unearth dispel, it^as pointed to image how to put down or expend the methane from 50,000 large damns and somewhat millions of slighter ones on all sides of the world.
2. Mature by Google nerds and dubbed by Settled Ghost as one of the TOP 10 relevant graphs, this wind map^A shows the regard and strategy of winds with a leg on each side of the US ^a" in precisely speed. (Outstandingly, for long-time "CleanTechnica" readers, "CleanTechnica" encrusted this wind map take in Gripe 2012.)
#1 Record Habitual (MY Posture) Germ-free TECH News Quality OF THE MONTH:
1. Substitute states and other countries subsequently energy cap-and-trade (C&T) are opinion because appears to be a boom C&T program in CA. All of CA^as ^aoffset^a credits maintain been sold for 2013 and 2016. The program is a tax on energy and therefore a arrival source for CA, but also is designed to intimate CA companies comply amid AB32, enacted in 2006 to abate GHG emissions 25% to 1990 levels by 2020. Environmentalists maintain this gives companies well to enlarge polluting. Bar, there^as been all over the country bash into amid beforehand C&T programs to abate SO2 and NOx emissions.
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TAGS: Biodiesel, biomass, DOE, EMS, energy continuation, EPA, GHG emissions
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David L Roberts is a marketing analyst to renewable energy startups.
