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The City Center In Paris Is Now Designated A Limited Traffic Zone

November 13, 2024 admin carbon emissions, cities, clean transport, France, mass transit / public transit, Paris, policy & politics, waste reduction

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:44:13 +0000

Many citizens in Paris were caught off-guard on November 5 when a new ban on motorists in the first four arrondissements of central Paris came into effect. As they looked around their city neighborhoods, residents could see nearly forty signs for the ‘Zone à Trafic Limité’ (ZTL) — or “limited … [continued]

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Canadian Transit Think Tank CUTRIC Chooses Inaccuracy, Irrelevancy, & Attack

November 13, 2024 admin ballard power systems, California, Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, Electric vehicles, enbridge, Energy, ev batteries, fuel cell, fuel cell buses, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, Media, policy research, research, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 13:06:13 +0000

Over the past three weeks, I’ve been assessing various aspects of the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium’s (CUTRIC) positions, research, and publications on transit bus decarbonization. I’ve published ten articles directly about CUTRIC’s material and reports, or closely related and with serious implications for their claims that both … [continued]

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Could A Bacteria Eat Away At Plastics And Help To Mitigate Our Pollution Problem?

November 10, 2024 admin carbon emissions, climate change, Oil, waste reduction, Water

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:56:35 +0000

We tend to think of wastewater as the disgusting but necessary result of human life and living. Well, it seems as if a bacteria commonly found in wastewater may be able to break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a 2024 study finds. Plastic-eating bacteria could provide … [continued]

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How Many Things Can A Bus Transit Study Get Wrong?

November 9, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, green economy, hydrogen fuel cell, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 01:00:53 +0000

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Michael Raynor, formerly a managing director of sustainability and thought leadership for Deloitte and author of multiple books on innovation and strategy. We talked about not only an innovative approach to addressing Scope 3 emissions Raynor has developed, but also an … [continued]

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World Moving On Without USA As It Declines

November 9, 2024 admin Canada, carbon emissions, carbon pricing, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Donald Trump, Electric vehicles, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:26:38 +0000

For the past eight years, the United States has been missing in action in climate leadership globally. Biden’s climate policy experiments, aimed as much at attempting to deal with the root causes of working class and middle class grievance as at useful emissions reductions, will persist in some diminished form. … [continued]

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Will Musk’s AI Supercomputer Compromise A Local Community’s Grid?

November 8, 2024 admin carbon emissions, demand response, elon musk, grid, grid parity, tesla, xai

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:20:00 +0000

Elon Musk has announced that he is building the world’s largest supercomputer. The problem is that it will require the same amount of electricity as would power 100,000 homes. Musk’s potential supercomputer power usage has many regional community members in the southwest Memphis area concerned, who say the artificial intelligence … [continued]

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Cash For Clunkers: Modern Electric Vehicle Variant An Obvious Climate Policy

November 8, 2024 admin africa, air quality, Canada, carbon emissions, cash for clunkers, China, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, EU, Europe, ev batteries, ev sales, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, Oil, policy & politics, tesla, usa

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:16:48 +0000

In the 1990s, numerous countries both within and outside Europe launched vehicle scrappage schemes with multiple goals. Greece, Hungary, Denmark, Spain, France, Ireland, Norway, and Italy each implemented programs during this period, aimed at scrapping older cars to promote the purchase of newer, safer, and more efficient vehicles. For example, … [continued]

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Mice Vote To Bell Cat: Climate Terror In Alberta

November 6, 2024 admin Alberta, alberta oil (tar sands), alberta tar sands, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, electric trucks, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, green economy, heat pumps, natural gas, Oil, oil sands, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 15:32:45 +0000

Headlines out of Canada are making palms meet faces around the world. In Canada, the faces are often red with embarrassment about other Canadian’s actions. Other faces are red with anger. But it’s all theatrics during the inevitable dissolution of the oil sands. What are the headlines? Alberta’s ruling party … [continued]

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Another Day, Another Hydrogen Transportation Failure, This Time Quantron & IKEA

November 6, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Europe, freight, green economy, green jobs, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, ikea, investment, Manufacturing, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:24:17 +0000

A year ago, while assessing various organizations that had reached the terminus of the Odyssey of the Hydrogen Fleet six act tragicomedy, I pointed out the awful, horrible, very bad, no-good decision the Austrian branch of IKEA had made to buy Quantron hydrogen step van delivery trucks. Since then, I’ve … [continued]

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Enbridge Renewable Natural Gas A 1% Greenwashing Rounding Error

November 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, biofuel, biofuels, biomass, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:50:43 +0000

One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]

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