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| Sourced From Greenbang.com |
Green roofs — using grass or other plants instead of shingles — have long been known to cut a building’s heating and cooling costs and reduce polluted stormwater runoff, but they could also provide an eco-friendly way of sequestering substantial amounts of carbon, according to a new study.
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| Sourced From Gisborneherald.co.nz |
I was very relieved to read that Mr Hughes considers scientific research the only valid indicator of truth in the matter of global warming.
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| Sourced From Grist.org |
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to.”
—Michael Faraday
Welcome to the Carbon Age.
These days we hear the word “carbon” in the headlines frequently, but we rarely understand much about what it is. Carbon is a culprit in creating one crisis after the next. Carbon dioxide emissions warm the climate. The volatile Middle East explodes atop its stores of volatile hydrocarbons, otherwise known as oil. Carbohydrates’ popularity waxes and wanes with diet crazes. Pharmaceuticals, which often rely on oil-based feedstock, command ever-higher prices. The U.S. military demands carbon fiber for body armor and vehicle protection, which bids up the price for aerospace and sporting goods manufacturers who rely on the same material for everything from airplane wings to tennis rackets. Little remarked upon is the connective tissue that unites these subplots into a bigger story, the dynamic epic of how this element flows through life and industry, entwining evolution with the Earth’s inanimate forces, air, sea, rock and human infrastructure.
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| Sourced From Littleabout.com |
London, June 22 – ANI: A new study on the effects of climate change on melting ice sheets has indicated that even if scientists could freeze-frame the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 meters by 4000 AD.
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Around the world governments are betting billions of dollars on research to develop technology to capture carbon emitted from coal plants. It’s probably even money right now whether carbon capture becomes the next thin film solar (a long-pursued technology that is now bearing out) or the next hydrogen car (a technology full of promise that is always just around the corner — if the corner is a generation away).
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| Sourced From DailyReckoning.com.au |
Meanwhile, here in Australia, while the federal budget deficit looms as a growing threat the structural health of the economy, there are actual positive economic stories going on, mostly in the energy and resource markets.
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| Sourced From CourierPress.com |
On page B14 of last Thursday’s Evansville Courier & Press was an article titled “Vectren warns of CO2 rules”.
The article deals with the proposed Waxman-Markey bill. The bill seeks to limit carbon dioxide emissions. This bill would place additional taxes on any producer of carbon dioxide. In the article Niel Ellerbrook of Vectren says the company would probably have to increase energy bills from 10 to 40 percent and it may be as much as 130 percent.
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| Sourced From ABC.Net.au |
The porous structure of sea cucumbers could be the perfect model to create a sponge that absorbs CO2 and boosts hydrogen fuel production, says an Australian researcher.
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| Sourced From Guardian.co.uk |
Britain could take a leading role in developing and managing the nascent market for carbon capture and storage projects around the world, after the government’s recent announcement that all new coal plants must be fitted with the green technology. Industry experts believe the UK is in a strong position to run the financial, legal and consulting aspects of the projects for international utility companies.
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| Sourced From Google.com |
VICTORIA, B.C. — Canadians are willing to flirt with a nationwide carbon tax to fight climate change, but bets are off when it comes to paying the bill, a new poll has found.
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| Sourced From Chemie.de |
08 May 2009 – Bayer MaterialScience AG has begun construction of a new facility for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in Chempark Leverkusen, Germany. The new plant will have a capacity of 200 tons/year. The company will invest about 22 million euros in the planning, development and construction of the plant.
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| Sourced From CleanTech.com |
UK investment firm signs £10M deal with China Energy Conservation Investment to help British businesses export technologies to China.
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| Sourced From BillingsGazette.net |
RAWLINS – As a hot spot in Wyoming’s fast-growing wind energy industry, Carbon County held a “Celebration of Wind” this weekend to explore the potential economic benefits and environmental considerations of an influx of wind farms.
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| Sourced From Arabian Oil and Gas|
Some of the world’s largest shipping companies are in talks with power companies in Europe about building a new fleet of tankers specifically modified to transport carbon dioxide captured from coal power stations and potentially transporting it to spend oil fields in the Middle East according to a major British newspaper.
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