Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
carbon sequestration, Tag
- California's Healthy Soil Initiative wants to use dirt to fight climate change Wed, 16 May 18, 2:45amCalifornia is turning to dirt to help in the fight against climate change. The state's Healthy Soils Initiative draws on farming and land management techniques to build organic soil matter. The goal is to slash greenhouse...
- Clean Coal: Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery, Part Deux Fri, 9 Mar 18, 8:04amGuest post by David Middleton Not quite a year ago (April 18, 2017) I authored a post on the completion of the Petra Nova carbon capture project at the W...
- The EU Blows $683 million (£520m) on a carbon capture project – that captured nothing! Thu, 9 Nov 17, 7:10pmFrom the “models didn’t predict this” and the “Climate Action” department: An investigation found that Brussels blew the colossal sum of cash on a drive to build underground storage facilities...
- Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea? Wed, 20 Sep 17, 1:00amFrom New Scientist Sumatra: the Sunda trench lies close by far beneath the ocean Planet Observer/Getty By Michael Marshall Here is a radical solution to dangerous climate change: create lakes of liquid carbon dioxide on the...
- Caltech scientists speed up carbon sequestration process by 500 times Wed, 19 Jul 17, 11:20pmCarbon sequestration, or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it long-term, could help us fight climate change. It's a complex chemical reaction, but a team of six scientists led by the California Institute...
- Caltech scientists accelerate part of carbon sequestration process by 500 times Wed, 19 Jul 17, 11:20pmCarbon sequestration, or removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it long-term, could help us fight climate change. It's a complex chemical reaction, but a team of six scientists led by the California Institute...
- New Report: Carbon capture would make renewables and nuclear energy look cheap Wed, 28 Jun 17, 11:33pmEminent energy economist warns that carbon capture and storage will never be viable CCS would make renewables and nuclear energy look cheap That is the stark message of Professor Gordon Hughes, Professor of Economics at the...
- New study: Temperate Plants Love Milder Temperatures Fri, 18 Mar 16, 12:52amGuest essay by Eric Worrall A field study has suggested that plants growing in cool temperate regions respond well to milder temperatures. The abstract of the study; Boreal and temperate trees show strong acclimation of respiration...
- Inconvenient: iceberg calving helps ‘carbon sequestration’ and is ‘helping to slow global warming’ Tue, 12 Jan 16, 5:10amFrom the UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD and the department of “unknown negative feedbacks” comes this interesting study. While there have been numerous claims that warmer Polar temperatures (due to posited global warming...
- The artificial tree: the “green” replacement for real trees? Tue, 1 Sep 15, 1:53pmGuest essay by Eric Worrall Is the artificial tree the solution to climate change? There have been a number of stories advocating artificial trees recently...
- Fledgling startups want to suck greenhouse gases right out of the atmosphere Thu, 16 Jul 15, 1:30amMuch of the discussion on climate change has focused on mitigating the long-term consequences of climate change. For example, lowering greenhouse gas emissions over time, hopefully en route to an eventual fossil fuel-free...
- Futuristic Urban Algae Folly grows food, fuel and shade Wed, 3 Jun 15, 1:30amThe future of food is green. Really green. We first saw a prototype of the Urban Algae Folly in 2014 at the Fuori Salone, but London-based ecoLogicStudio has taken their innovative urban concept to new heights for the Milan...
- World’s tallest wood building proposed in Paris could store 3,700 metric tons of carbon Tue, 2 Jun 15, 11:00pmMichael Green Architecture (MGA) just unveiled a proposal for a carbon neutral wooden skyscraper in Paris that, if constructed, will be the world’s tallest wood building...
- Carbon Sequestration: Distorted Policy Results From Distorted IPCC Science Tue, 21 Apr 15, 11:00amGuest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball ⇒ The political objective of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to demonize carbon dioxide (CO2) as the cause of global climate disaster succeeded. Governments and businesses...
- Carbon dioxide capture and storage ‘mooted’ by new study of risks Tue, 14 Apr 15, 3:30amBurying the climate change problem – Inderscience Publishers Burying the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, has been mooted as one geoengineering approach to ameliorating climate change...