Tag: Carbon Sequestration - Page 4
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DIY "Terra Preta" Explored: How to Enrich Your Soil (Video)
Terra Preta According to Green Power Science Yesterday I posted on Green Power Science's DIY Vertical Axis Wind Turbine video. But that's not all that Dan and Denise Rojas have been up to. In the video above they take on one of the buzz words of the
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Stopping Deforestation, Greening Agriculture Better Than Carbon Capture & Storage: UNEP
A new report from the UN Environment Programme says what many small-t treehuggers have been saying for quite some time: Stopping deforestation, restoring marshes and peatlands, and practicing more sustainable agricultural
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'Clean Coal' Gets $2.4 Billion Boost from Department of Energy
The Department of Energy has been busy doling out funds from the Stimulus package lately, and now it's clean coal & carbon capture and storage's turn: $2.4 billion in support has
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Dept. of Interior Declares Existing Mountaintop Coal Removal Policy a "Major Misstep"
In another encouraging move by the Department of the Interior, Secretary Ken Salazar has said that the Bush administration ruling allowing mountaintop removal coal mining operations to dispose of
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UK Bans New Coal Power Plants Without Carbon Capture and Storage
The UK government has announced new regulations that prohibit building any new coal power plants, if those plants don't have carbon capture and storage incorporated into them. It sounds like at least a step in the
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Australian Carbon Capture and Storage Research Institute Opens: Just PR Spin?
Australia's got a new carbon capture and storage research center: The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. At the
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Carbon Capture and Storage "Oversold as Panacea" by Tar Sands Industry
All the cool graphics in the world, such at this one from Bellona, won't make CCS commercially or technologically viable any faster. Carbon Capture and Storage has been thrown around by tar sands developers as the solution to their pollution problem.
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First Retrofit Carbon Capture & Storage Project to Begin Operations
There aren't too many functioning carbon capture and storage projects up and running, so any new one is worth announcing. And this one is the world's first retrofit of one to a power plant. Total has upgraded an existing gas-fired boiler
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New Study Forecasts Global Warming Will Change Wildfire Patterns
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Texas Tech are out with a new study that predicts climate change will alter global forest fire patters, making some areas more prone to fire while lessening the risk to others. The result could mean
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Methane Extraction from 'Ice' + Carbon Sequestration = Green Fossil Fuel?
Could this actually be a carbon-neutral fossil fuel source? New Scientist is reporting on research presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society which examines whether methane could be extracted from what looks like regular ice, and
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Inside Abu Dhabi's Carbon Capture & Storage Project (An Interview)
True, carbon capture and storage (CSS) technology is perceived by many environmentalists as a chimera - at best, too expensive to be widely utilized and at worst, an empty PR tool for "clean coal." However, in some countries
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Ground Zero For CO2's First "Big Sink" Located In Obama's Homeland
CO2 for the first "Big Sink" project in the USA apparently comes from one of ADM's grain-to-ethanol facilities, located on the
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Shell Gets Out of Wind & Solar Power, Backs Biofuels and CCS Instead
Shell hopes that CCS technology will reduce the emissions from carbon-intensive projects such as this Athabasca oil sands project. Too bad that CCS will do absolutely nothing for the water intensity of these projects, nor toxicity of that water
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Carbonscape: Microwaved Biochar for Massive Carbon Sequestration
Image credit: Carbonscape Carbonscape - Developing Industrial-scale Carbon Capture Biochar, or the concept of turning woody materials into charcoal that is buried, or tilled into soil, is a hot topic. Tim has explored the benefits of biochar for carbon
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With or Without Carbon Capture, Coal-to-Liquids Are Climate Change Disaster
In addition to all of the oral presentations and the Copenhagen Climate Congress over the past couple of days, there were dozens of
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$500 Million Math Error Shut Down "Near Zero Emissions" Coal Plant
The high-profile FutureGen project in Illinois was pioneering carbon capture and sequestration--the controversial effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions in coal plants--when it was shut down last year after the
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Cool New Interactive Carbon Capture & Storage Maps Launched
Undoubtedly you've heard all the talk about clean coal technologies. Leaving aside the absurdity of calling coal clean under any circumstance, the prime technology being referred to in that statement is capturing and storing the carbon
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Wyoming - the New Carbon Sequestration Capital
Image via: Flickr Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal signed legislation last friday, reports the Casper Star-Tribune to make Wyoming a leader in carbon sequestration in the US, as well as help protect the coal industry, which Wyoming is a leading coal
