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Who should get carbon credits, automakers or utilities?

Governments everywhere are trying to use a carrot and stick approach to get reductions in emissions, particularly when it comes to greenhouse gases. The stick is well-known approach: fail to miss the requirements and you pay a fine. For the carrot, things get a bit more complicated. The most popular approach has been to offer credits to those that exceed emissions reduction targets. Those credits can then be sold to other emitters that are failing to hit targets for any number of reasons. However, the question is who should get the credit ... Read more →

Audi shows off lightweight aluminum/carbon fiber A5 prototype Sam Abuelsamid

As much as we like the Audi A5 with it's lovely lines and proportions and good driving dynamics, we have to admit that it's a bit porky. The lightest version currently available in the U.S. market ...

What are the promises and pitfalls of carbon fiber? Jeremy Korzeniewski

For the last century or so, cars and trucks have predominantly been formed from one material in particular: steel. It's not hard to see why – steel is relatively inexpensive, highly abundant ...

Catalyx Nanotech begins producing low-cost nanomaterials Jeremy Korzeniewski

Nanotechnology holds amazing promise for many new green technologies, including the emissions controls which will allow the internal combustion engine to meet upcoming standards and the lithium ion ...

Will nuclear-produced electricity be low carbon? Domenick Yoney

Faced with the problems of oil supply and environmental factors, it seems quite certain that many of our transportation options in the future with be powered by electricity. Methods of supplying the ...

High technology provides solutions for paraplegics 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the image for more shots of the Future Chair wheelchairs While many engineers are looking towards carbon fiber as a way to lighten up our automobiles, with very good reason, others are using the lightweight composite material in human-powered vehicles, like bicycles and... wheelchairs. Not ...

Closed-cycle CO₂ cars might be a reality one day 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Do you hate the idea of your car spewing exhaust? There might be a way to stop it without using any expensive batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. According to the New York Times, a pair of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working on a way to trap exhaust fumes (by blowing them ...

Study: green cars to outsell gas guzzlers this year in the UK 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Vehicles in the UK are grouped into tax bands from A to G, depending on how much CO2 they emit. Cars ranked A and B are the greenest (and least taxed) while cars ranked G are the ones that emit the most CO2 (and drivers have to pay more). Since the tax bands were instituted, sales of A, B band cars ...

Drivers will not play a role in carbon law 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The United States government is in the early stages of crafting the nation's first carbon cap-and-trade law. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a white paper detailing the scope of the carbon law and one thing is already very clear: drivers won't be regulated directly because there ...

Ford European Executive Vice President talks global warming 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Lewis Booth, Executive Vice President of Ford of Europe and Premier Automotive Group, gave a speech at the New Powertrain Technologies Conference in Amsterdam on March 28th covering many aspects of carbon emissions, global warming, environmental policy and the automotive industry's part to play in ...

Global clean energy markets to exceed $220 Billion by 2016 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The sixth annual Clean Energy Trends report has been released which predicts a four-fold increase in the global clean-energy market over the next decade from $55.4 billion in revenues in 2006 to more than $226.5 billion by 2016. Tracked by the report are four benchmark technologies which can all ...

Canadian state moves to clean up coal-fired power plants 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A new provisional policy has been announced by the progressive Canadian state of British Columbia to clean up coal-fired power stations; the same state that the GLOBE Foundation believes could be energy self-sufficient by 2025. The new policy requires that new coal-fired power plants must emit no ...

Is Washington pressing scientists to downplay global warming? Congress to investigate 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chair Henry Waxman (D-California) said, "We know that the White House possesses documents that contain evidence of an attempt by senior administration officials to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global ...

REEEP reduces uncertainty in voluntary carbon offset market 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is working with the Gold Standard to eliminate irregularities from the voluntary carbon-offsetting marketplace. Kyoto Protocol compliance introduced a regulated Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) marketplace where carbon credits ...

Slate's Green Challenge: can you manage a 5,000-lb diet? 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

They say we Americans love a good challenge, so in the face of global warming Slate collaborated with Treehugger to come up with the Slate Green Challenge. The idea is that you take a short quiz which determines your annual carbon footprint and then for the next eight weeks, the nation goes on a ...

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