Real world applications may differ slightly, and there are some things you can do to potentially improve your fuel efficiency: Performing regular maintenance Sticking to a good car maintenance schedule and ensuring your air, fuel and oil filters are clean can help increase your car’s performance....
Raw materials.Lithium, cobalt, and select rare earth minerals are critical in scaling the low-emission technologies that are needed to decarbonize multiple sectors. The challenge here is ensuring that these minerals can be unearthed quickly enough to meet demand. ...
Based on average ridership a train is usually the greenest mode of transportation followed by an automobile carrying multiple passengers, however if we include emissions associated with building infrastructure like rail lines and roads, the actual carbon footprint of a vacation can increase significantly...
Keeping pace with sustainability targets has proved challenging across the fashion industry. About two-thirds of brands, according to McKinsey analysis, are behind on their owndecarbonization schedules. And 40 percent have seen their emission output increase since making their sustainability commitments. ...
The first “building block” of the proposed CPP examines engineering data on possible heat rate improvements at existing coal-fired plants and suggests that units can potentially improve efficiency by 6% over current levels. The second part of the calculation assumes that another possible policy ...
Many hybrid cars use electric motors to start up and accelerate until they reach higher speeds. Then, they use gasoline engines to increase fuel efficiency. 4. Regenerative Braking One of the most acceptable benefits of hybrid vehicles is this. Kinetic energy may be converted into electric energy...
Humans have been harnessing the kinetic power of the wind to generate energy for centuries. Today’s wind turbines can generate electricity on a small to large scale, depending on the size of the turbine used. As the size of the turbine increases from small (for a single home) to utility...
Purchasing power is a term for how much material goods your money can buy at a given time—or the bang for your buck, so to speak. Inflation (the sustained increase in prices over a given time) affects purchasing power, and the two move inversely. For example, if consumer price inflation...
Strategically reinvesting working capital into new projects, equipment, or markets can catalyze expansion and can increase profitability. For example, a small bakery may leverage surplus funds to expand its production capacity, illustrating how working capital can be directed toward scaling operations and...
(Such habitat restoration can also yield the added benefit of protecting biodiversity.) Other kinds of carbon sequestration also involve human efforts. These include agricultural practices that increase the amount of carbon stored in soils (known as soil carbon sequestration) and direct air capture (...