Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/19/2010

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Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up:

• Nissan: 500,000 Electric Cars by 2012 – News – Automotive Fleet

  Nissan is planning for a production capacity of 500,000 Leaf electric cars in North America, Japan and Europe by 2012, the Chicago Tribune reported.

  tags: nissan leaf, nissan, greennumbers, electric cars, electric vehicles

• Carbon capture storage will ‘generate 100,000 jobs and £6.5bn a year’ | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  The UK’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector will be able to sustain 100,000 jobs by 2030 and generate up to £6.5bn a year, the government claimed today.

  Unveiling a new strategy to encourage the growth of CCS, the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said it represents a “massive industrial growth opportunity”.

  tags: greennumbers, carbon capture and storage, ccs, coal, co2, uk, jobs

• Report: Shell CEO expects plug-in cars to reach 40% market share… in 2050 — Autoblog Green

  Forty years is a long, long time from now, so making predictions about the state of the world in 2050 is a pretty easy thing to do. Who’s going to remember to fact check you? Nobody, that’s who. Still, it’s worth noting that Shell chief executive Peter Voser said yesterday that he expects plug-in vehicles to make up up to 40 percent of the global car market in 2050

  tags: greennumbers, shell, 2050, royal dutch shell, plug in hybrid, electric vehicles

• Daylight saving time doesn’t save energy

  You can’t save daylight by moving around the hands on your clock, of course. So daylight saving time remains as absurdly named as it ever was.

  The general pointlessness of DST was the subject of a Rachel Maddow interview Friday (video below) with the author of a whole book (!) on the subject.

  What’s germane here is that DST saves about as much energy as light, according to most studies. In fact, a 2008 study found DST “may actually waste energy”

  tags: greennumbers, Daylight saving time, time, energy, light

• Energy Efficiency Can Create New Jobs, Save Consumers Billions of Dollars, and Meet Nearly One-Quarter of North Carolina’s Energy Demand

  “Energy efficiency can create 38,000 new jobs for North Carolinians while saving consumers $3.6 billion in energy bills, according to a new report released today by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The report, North Carolina’s Energy Future: Electricity, Water, and Transportation Efficiency, suggests a broad set of policies that can meet nearly a quarter of the state’s energy demand and enables North Carolina to become a national leader in clean energy development and deployment while boosting the state’s economic growth.

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  tags: greennumbers, aceee, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, energy bills, north carolina, energy efficiency, clean energy

• Denver International Airport sewage spill of 1m gallons may head for Barr Lake

  The largest airport in the country, with the “greenest” parking lot, is in a bit of environmental trouble: a DIA raw sewage spill may have sent a million gallons of disgusting into waterways that can feed into the Barr Lake fishery and bird sanctuary (enjoy that, bald eagles).

  tags: Denver International Airport, airport, sewage, raw sewage, greennumbers, pollution

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