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Sunday, April 6th, 2008CNN.com reports that Australia has opened a new plant in southern Victoria state that pumps carbon dioxide deep underground to stop it from getting into the atmosphere, a technique known as geosequestration. This one R&D project is expected to handle 110,231 tons of CO2, which will be captured from industry emissions, compressed, and […]
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Science News: Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars
Monday, February 11th, 2008Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have come up with a strategy to capture, store and recycle carbon from vehicles to stop CO2 from entering the atmosphere. Realization of this strategy could lead to a zero emission car, and a transportation system completely free of fossil fuels.
The team is working to create both […]
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Upcoming distributed computing project - The Clean Energy Project
Friday, February 8th, 2008Don’t know what Distributed Computing is? It’s when a very large computational problem is broken down into very small parts and farmed out to thousands of personal computers. Each PC works on their separate part of the problem and then sends the answers back to the program where the individual solutions are […]
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China joins search for fusion energy
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008China announced last month that it was joining up as a partner in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) - the nuclear fusion reactor that is being built in France. The project hopes to go online by 2016. China will contribute 1.4 billion dollars, which equals about 10% of the expected cost. […]
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Neighbors in conflict over solar panels
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008I guess we’ll be seeing more and more articles like this -
In this story, from the San Jose Mercury News, a judge ordered Carolynn Bissett Treanor and her husband Richard Treanor, to either trim or move two redwood trees on their property because they were shading Mark Vargas’ solar panels. The Treanors were actually convicted […]
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Investment in clean energy topped $100 billion for the first time in 2007
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008According to the International Herald Tribune Business section, new investment in clean energy industries rose sharply in 2007. Investments in industries such as wind and solar power rose from approximately $86.5 billion in 2006 to $117.2 billion in 2007. According to Michael Liebreich, chief executive of New Energy Finance, a research group, said that. “[a] […]
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Cities Enticing Residents to Go Green
Sunday, December 30th, 2007The Associated Press has a partial list of some of the benefits, perks, rebates, etc that cities and towns are giving to its citizens who ‘go green’. From Baltimore’s giving of $2,000 towards closing costs for people who buy new homes close to where they work to Parkland, Florida’s $150 rebate to people […]
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Can baking soda curb global warming?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007C|Net News has an interesting article on Skyonic, Inc, a company that has come up with an industrial process call SkyMine that captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make food grade baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). And the energy required for […]
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Google expands into alternate energy
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Google, which already gets some of its power from one of the largest solar power installations in the US, is going to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a quest to lower the cost of producing electricity, according to an article in the Houston Chronicle. Their goal, according to Larry Page, Google […]
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Genetically altered trees may help create biofuel
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007The New York Times details how a researcher (Vincent L. Chiang) at North Carolina State University has developed a transgenic tree that contains only about 50% of the lignin of a normal tree. Less lignin is important to biofuel creation because lignin, which gives a tree its structural stiffness, also interferes with the […]
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