Types of vehicles include the regular internal combustion engine vehicle; the mild hybrid vehicle; the full hybrid vehicle; the plug-in hybrid vehicle; the battery electric vehicle and the one day to be fuel cell hydrogen cars. A hydrogen fuel cell powered car has zero harmful emissions and would be self powered without need for a change of batteries.
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The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy was established by the US Administration to provide financial and professional support to industrial developers of new technology
A Joint initiative undertaken by 12 companies, most of them German, to build solar-power systems in the Middle East and North Africa, and to transmit the resulting electricity to Europe via undersea cables. By 2050 the project is supposed to supply 15% of the Continent’s electricity as well as most of that in the Middle Easter and North African countries where the solar sites will be based, such as Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The aim of Desertec is to create an industrial and economic infrastructure to exploit – in a commercially profitable yet ecologically clean way – the potential energy of desert sunshine. The project’s economic viability has been boosted by improvements in high-voltage direct current technology, which makes it possible to transmit electricity across great distances with an energy loss of only 3$ per 1,000 km, substantially less than the loss incurred in alternating current transmission. The idea emerged with the publication of the book “The Limits of Growth” by a group of intellectuals which predicted that the finitude of natural resources, especially oil, would effectively curb the world’s ability to sustain economic growth over time, a scenario realized in the oil crisis of 1973. The scope of the investment in Desertec is expected to reach about $600 billion
Unit of GWP emissions that reflects for that amount of composition of greenhouse gasses the amount of CO2 that creates the potential for greenhouse affect similar to a period of hundred years
Six greenhouse gases are limited by the Kyoto Protocol. Each gas has a different global warming potential. The overall warming effect of this cocktail of gases is often expressed in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent – the amount of CO2 that would create the same amount of warming.
CO2 equivalent is often measured in kilotons (Kt) or thousands of tons, and gigatons (Gt) or billions of tons.
A group of public, private and third sector organizations committed to strengthening Israel’s energy security and independence. Their mission is to help develop and implement a sustainable energy policy which will advance energy efficiency and increased use and development of non-polluting renewables.
Instruments that help countries and companies meet emission reduction targets by paying others to reduce emissions for them. The mechanism in widest use is emissions trading, where companies or countries buy and sell permits to pollute.
