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Monday, December 7th, 2009The US Department of Energy will be providing almost $1B ($979m) towards three large scale carbon sequestration projects. The total cost of the projects is expected to be $3B – the remainder of the money will come from industry. Currently, there aren’t any large scale projects in the works, only a small number [...]
Using hybrid American Chestnut trees to capture carbon
Sunday, June 21st, 2009 Professor Jacobs stands next to an American Chestnut tree
Most of the emphasis on stopping global warming has been on reducing the amount of carbon and GWG’s emitted into the atmosphere, but the other side of the coin is worth exploring too. There are a number of carbon sequestration projects being looked at, but Douglass Jacobs, [...]
Australia launches project to bury carbon dioxide
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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] [...]
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 who intall [...]
Can Skyonic’s 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 the chemical [...]
UN Chief says international community must act on climate change
Monday, September 24th, 2007Voice of America discusses the recently concluded United Nations summit on climate change.
“Undoubtedly, there is a need for much deeper emission reductions by industrialized countries, which must continue to take the lead in this respect,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “It was encouraging to hear many of the leaders from the industrialized countries [...]