HybridCars.com - April 28, 2009 Honda and Nissan have been banking on fuel cells and electric cars as the long-term strategy for sustainable mobility. Company executives are now warming up to plug-in hybrids. Since their introduction in the US in late 1999, hybrid cars have been repeatedly dismissed as a “bridge technology”—a euphemism for a [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Second Pact To Push Electric-vehicle Use
Fanny W. Y. Fung – Apr 23, 2009 The government will today sign a memorandum with a second Japanese car manufacturer to promote the use of electric vehicles in Hong Kong, as part of its clean-air initiatives in the budget. The news was announced by Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau Tang-wah yesterday as he [...]
California Approves Emissions Reductions
KEVIN YAMAMURA, McClatchy Newspapers – Apr. 23, 2009 California became the first state in the nation Thursday to mandate carbon-based reductions in transportation fuels in an attempt to cut the state’s overall greenhouse gas emissions. The California Air Resources Board approved a phased-in reduction starting in 2011, with a goal of shrinking carbon impacts 10 [...]
Time To Prepare For Carbon Regulation: Gartner
Green Channel Staff, Questex Media Group, Inc – Apr 22, 2009 Large enterprises are unprepared for the inevitable coming wave of carbon regulation, a Gartner survey of businesses worldwide has found. Nearly half of those surveyed said their organization’s planning was not influenced by the prospect of carbon pricing or regulation, and another 36% said [...]
Breakthrough to Advance Hydrogen Car Production
Alternative Energy – 20 April 2009 One of the main hurdles in the field of hydrogen car research is the development of a good fueling system. Professor Issam Mudawar along with his research team has developed a hydrogen storage system that would allow a car tank to be filled in five minutes and you can [...]
Clear The Air Says: One Of The Main Reasons Why The Local Air Is Dirty
Clear the Air says: one of the main reasons why the local air is dirty – look at the fuel mix numbers In 1999 CLP burned 32.87% more ‘clean’ gas than it burned in 2008 In 2008 CLP burned 2.78 times more polluting PM2.5 coal than it burned in 1999 In 2008 CLP generated locally [...]
Airline Emissions
Reuters – April 6, 2009 Airlines Urge UN to Adopt Global Aviation Carbon Trading Scheme To avoid having to comply with patchwork regulations from the United States, the European Union and other entities, a group of airlines is proposing a single global carbon emissions cap for the aviation industry. The cap, which would be based [...]
HK May Use More Mainland Nuclear Energy To Meet Demand
Cheung Chi-fai, SCMP – Apr 18, 2009 More nuclear energy from the mainland is an option to meet demand for new power-generation capacity in six years’ time, CLP Power (SEHK: 0002)’s managing director said yesterday. Outlining the company’s road map for the next decade, Betty Yuen So Siu-mai said that if energy demand grew by [...]
Environmental Benefits of Electric Cars Dismissed as ‘Fiction’
By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor – 18 Apr 2009 The environmental benefits of electric cars are denounced as “fiction” by new research into green methods of transport. The amount of energy used by coal fired power stations to create the electricity to recharge electric vehicles makes them half as efficient as diesel cars, according [...]
‘Smart’ Meters To Help 20,000 Firms Cut Power
Cheung Chi-fai, SCMP – Apr 13, 2009 About 20,000 businesses that use large amounts of power, such as restaurants and hotels, will have their meters replaced with “smart” ones that will enable them to monitor their consumption online, Hongkong Electric (SEHK: 0006) has announced. The data fed by the meter to a business’ computer network [...]