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The British government said Monday it was ready to sign off on a North Sea carbon capture and storage program for a Scottish power station. Royal Dutch Shell is proposing, with strategic assistance from British energy company SEE, to capture the carbon dioxide emitted from an Aberdeen power station Read More...
Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser are not your typical farmers. They turned their plot of land into an unusual field experiment, leading to much higher yields and much higher earnings. What are their secrets? One afternoon in March, on Singing Frogs Farm, a small vegetable operation that Paul and Read More...
A novel porous material that achieves carbon dioxide (CO2) capture-and-release with only small shifts in temperature has been developed by a team of researchers at the Center for Gas Separations Relevant to Clean Energy Technologies, led by the University of California, Berkeley Read More...
Making diesel out of thin air sounds like something from science fiction. But small companies in Germany and Canada are doing precisely this - capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) and finding ways to sell it. German company Sunfire produced its first batches of so-called e-diesel in April. Federal Read More...
Using a novel catalyst, a single chemical assembly (UiO-66-P-BF2) could capture CO2 and also transform it and hydrogen into formic acid (HCOOH) via a two-step (yellow arrows) reaction (credit: Ye and Johnson/ACS Catalysis) University of Pittsburgh researchers have invented (in computations) a Read More...
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Carbon capture is an idea that’s been around for a while, but it’s always seemed like a bit of an afterthought, a way to slightly slow the pace at which we’re pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But what if we could do at a scale that would suck all the carbon we’ve emitted since Read More...
You may not spend much thought on cleaning up municipal and industrial wastewater, but you may have guessed it's dirty. Quite dirty, in fact. Wastewater treatment produces carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by powering the whole machinery (and this requires high amounts of energy) and by decomposing Read More...
President Barack Obama has just announced America's "first-ever national standards to limit carbon pollution from power plants." His "Clean Power Plan" calls for a 32 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. Why? America's electricity is still mostly coal-fired, with Read More...
The giant coal power station at Drax in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, with its 12 cooling towers, is one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters. It sends some 23 million tonnes of carbon dioxide up its stacks each year while supplying up to a tenth of the UK’s power. But that Read More...