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Carbon Capture

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PARIS, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) — Technological development for carbon capture and storage needs an investment  of 42 billion U.S. dollars, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) estimated on Wednesday.

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Posted on October 16, 2009 · in Global

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KEVIN Rudd’s carbon “coup” is actually a damning if unintended admission that the ‘climate change game’ is over.

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Posted on July 16, 2009 · in Australasia

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China and the US have significant potential to cooperate on affordable clean energy technologies and ensure its wide adoption going forward, a leading think-tank expert told China Daily yesterday.

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Posted on July 14, 2009 · in USA

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The Australian Local Government Association predicts a bleak future for regions such as the New South Wales Illawarra.

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Posted on July 14, 2009 · in Australasia

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Forget renewable fuels for a minute. If the world is ever going to get serious about avoiding a global warming catastrophe, then we need to capture carbon dioxide being spewed from power plants into the atmosphere and bury it underground, at least according to one school of thought. The technology to make this practical on a grand scale doesn’t exist, but Ramgen Power Systems, a small company in Bellevue, WA, full of aerospace engineers, says it has learned some things from jet engines that could turn this vision into reality.

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Posted on July 7, 2009 · in USA

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CORPUS CHRISTI — Las Brisas Energy Center officials are watching the national debate on carbon dioxide emissions closely and say proposed legislation would not deter their project.

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Posted on July 6, 2009 · in USA

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BOULDER, Colo. — A Boulder-based startup is using a University of Colorado technology designed to capture carbon dioxide and other contaminants from power plant emissions, university officials announced Monday.

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Posted on July 2, 2009 · in USA

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GREENVILLE, Ohio – The battle has begun between an area business and its surrounding community over a controversial carbon dioxide proposal.

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Posted on July 1, 2009 · in USA

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At a time when many companies are focused on minimizing production of carbon dioxide, a major culprit in global warming, Denbury Resources is all about producing more of it.

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Posted on June 29, 2009 · in USA

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Managing carbon losses from ecosystems must feature in a new global climate policy framework if the world is to reduce global warming to a sustainable level, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report argues.
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Posted on June 11, 2009 · in Global

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ANDY MEAD MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS, Published: June 6, 2009

HAWESVILLE, Ky. — Beside a cow pasture in Hancock County, scientists are drilling through 8,000 feet of rock, hoping to learn how to lock away forever an invisible gas that threatens Earth’s climate and our way of life.

Science fiction? No, but it’s a science experiment that, if it works, would be carried out on a scale never before seen.

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Posted on June 8, 2009 · in USA

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LONGANNET Power Station has launched a pioneering test project on carbon capture technology that could revolutionise future energy generation.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a message of congratulations to the station’s operator ScottishPower, calling it “a historic day for the company and for the country”.

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Posted on June 4, 2009 · in UK

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The clean-tech world is aglow with the news of WE Energies’ recent “success” in capturing carbon at the coal-fired power plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Some are heralding a new day for “clean coal,” a day that finally promises the ongoing survival of a 19th century energy system through the cunning of a 21st century technology.

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Posted on June 4, 2009 · in USA

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WE Energies has proclaimed that it has captured carbon at a coal-fired plant, but this “success” won’t come close to making coal clean.

The clean-tech world is aglow with the news of WE Energies’ recent “success” in capturing carbon at the coal-fired power plant in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. Some are heralding a new day for “clean coal,” a day that finally promises the ongoing survival of a 19th century energy system through the cunning of a 21st century technology.

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Posted on June 3, 2009 · in USA

LONDON (Reuters) – ScottishPower started up a small unit on Friday to capture carbon from a British coal-fired power plant for the first time, the Iberdrola-owned company said.

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Posted on June 3, 2009 · in UK