LEAVING OIL
“We should not cling to crude down to the last drop – we should leave oil before it
leaves us.  That means new approaches must be found soon… The really important
thing is that even thou we are not yet running out of oil, we are running out of
time.” Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency
 

learning center

LEARNING CENTER OVERVIEW
The CALSTART Learning Center  - both the multi-media displays at its headquarters in Pasadena, California and on the website - tells a story.  It tells the story about clean transportation, the technologies, fuels, and systems and why they are important.  It tells the story about CALSTART and its mission and role in developing a clean transportation technologies industry to develop solutions that address the global need for clean air, energy security, and reducing the threat of climate change.  Finally, the CALSTART Learning Center tells about the companies whose actions are making clean transportation a reality.
 
LEARNING CENTER CONTEXT
The CALSTART Learning Center story provides context in

The Need for Change:  The Need for Change makes the case for why action is needed and the global challenges which the clean transportation industry seeks to address. The challenges which are faced by the world and the clean transportation industry –  clean air, energy security, and climate change

Multiple Paths Forward:  Multiple Paths Forward shows the multiple ways governments and industry are attempting to address global transportation energy challenges including efforts at the petroleum reduction through vehicle fuel efficiency, clean, efficient technologies, clean fuels, low carbon fuel standard, and a polyfuel approach to transportation energy, clean innovative and integrated transportation systems

 
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ARPA Energy Announces 100 Million in New Funding

3/4/2010 12:00:00 AM

The funding focuses on three areas: “Grid Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage,” cost effective storage that can manipulate the variable, short-duration generating capacity; “Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology,” which involves high-performance power converters; and “Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEET-IT) seeking high efficiency heating and cooling technologies, with an emphasis on technologies that perform in warm, humid, and hot climates...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced a new $100 million round of funding aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The focus is on innovative technologies for grid-scale energy storage, along with next-generation power converters and new energy efficient heating and cooling systems in buildings. [More…]

 



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