Tag: Carbon Sequestration
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Carbon Capture & Storage Projects Stalled Last Year
Between all currently proposed and the eight operational CCS projects, just a fraction of a percent of emissions from energy production could be captured, the report concludes.
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Pond Biofuels Takes CO2 From Cement Kiln, Grows Algae And Turns It Into Biofuel
We really do need more of this kind of thinking.
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Copper Gold Nanoparticles Could Convert CO2 to Fuel Cost Effectively
Copper can convert carbon dioxide to methane efficiently -- as long as a patina coating does not slow things down.
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Energy News: Fracking Could Crack Carbon Capture; Shell Gets Another Arctic Drilling OK; More
Not to be a downer, but there's a quartet of concerning news this morning worth paying attention to. Beyond the headline: The Koch Brothers fund disinformation on Obama's influence on fuel prices; and, the Senate rejects ending Big Oil subsidies.
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Energy News: India's Wind Power Potential At Least 20x Greater Than Thought; Germany May Have To Ban New Solar PV
A mix bag today, highlighting the importance of electricity grids in expanding renewable energy, the global expansion of fracking, a wolf in sheep's clothing CCS project, and some massively good news for Indian wind power.
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NASA's Maps of US Trees Will Be a "Before" Picture for Deforestation
NASA has created a map of the all the trees in the United States, against which future tree loss or gain can be measured.
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Ask Pablo: Did I Do The Right Thing By Cutting Down A Christmas Tree?
Dear Pablo: I don't like fake Christmas trees but I can't help but wonder if I did the right thing by cutting down a Christmas tree this year?
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French Firm Proposes To Transform Eiffel Tower Into World's Largest "Tree"
By covering France's most famous monument with 600,000 plants, the Ginger Group's controversial plan hopes to remake the tower into a symbol of sustainability and a hotspot for eco-tourism.
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Carbon Stored in Himalayan River Basin Soils Surprisingly Old, With Future Climate Implications
Soils in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin currently aren't releasing much of the stored carbon into the atmosphere, but at some future point they may, increasing warming.
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Breakthrough Technology Maps Rainforests In 3D, Including Carbon Storage
The technology from Carnegie Airborn University can map a forest from the air, detecting different species and even chemical compositions.
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Odds Are Better For Winning The Lottery Than Being Poisoned By A Leaking Carbon Capture Project
Of all the potential problems with carbon capture and storage projects (financial viability, scaling them to the level necessary to actually capture enough our prodigious carbon emissions to make a difference, being just two), a new study says that
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More Proof That Wood Is The Greenest Building Material
Tim Wall at Discovery News adds another "R" to our growing list (we are up to ten): Reconsider our choices of building materials. He points us to a new study published in
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Pulling CO2 From Atmosphere Technically Possible But Unfeasibly, Wildly Expensive
Another viewpoint on how scrubbing CO2 from the atmosphere--as opposed to at the point of generation at power plants or (better yet) reducing emissions in the first place--is a hugely expensive undertaking: A new study by the American Physical Society
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Waste Heat Powers Novel Carbon Capture Scheme
The IEA just said we'll need 3000 carbon capture and storage projects by 2050 if we're too reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert potentially catastrophic global warming. Considering that there are just five currently operating and 75 in
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Scrap Subsidies For Fossil Fuels & Support Renewables, CCS to Cut Emissions: IEA
The latest report from the International Energy Agency on renewable energy is out and in many ways it's a hard splash of cold water across the face. Among many things, the Clean Energy
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Scientists Disagree Over Canadian Carbon Sequestration Project Leak
You had to know this was coming... A new piece in Scientific American highlights the objections of some scientists over claims that the world's largest geologic carbon sequestration project in Saskatchewan is leaking.
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CO2 Levels at Leaking Canadian Carbon Storage Project Could Asphyxiate You In One Place
Some more on the leaking carbon sequestration project in Canada that has killed farm animals, and caused all sorts of strange problems for farmers Cameron and Jane Kerr. A new piece in The Tyee fills in some of the background details and the current
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Canadian Carbon Sequestration Project Leaking, Killing Farm Animals & Causing Algae Blooms
Not too much on this one yet, but take it as an example of one of the no-longer theoretical problems of carbon capture and storage: Canada's CTV News is reporting that a CCS project in
