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US: Mass CO2 capture in 10 years
Princeton University researchers Stephen Pacala and Robert H. Socolow include it in three of the 15 stabilisation wedge strategies they propose for reducing global carbon dioxide emissions. Economist Lord Nicholas Stern says it’s not optional for fighting climate change … it’s vitally necessary. The “it” in question is carbon capture and storage (CCS), a process [...]
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Sneak peek of the hydrogen economy
What could a hydrogen-based energy economy look like? You’ll find a glimpse of its potential in a remote town in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Bella Coola, located about 400 kilometres north of Vancouver, has turned to Hydrogen Assisted Renewable Power (HARP) to store locally generated energy from hydropower and reduce its dependence on [...]
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Union: China going green ‘illegally’
China might have overtaken the US’ lead as the world’s top carbon dioxide emitter fair and square, but it’s achieved its position as a leader in green technologies through a host of unfair and illegal trade practices, according to a complaint filed today by the United Steelworkers (USW) union. With some 850,000 members, the USW [...]
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Water researcher ‘protects millions’
Before Rita Colwell’s groundbreaking research in the 1960s, doctors and scientists believed the deadly disease cholera spread via water contaminated by human sewage. However, she discovered something other researchers until then had missed: that the Vibrio cholera bacterium could latch onto zooplankton — microscopic organisms — in water and survive, essentially dormant, until conditions became [...]
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- New membrane purifies water with less energy
- Turkish teen honoured for rain-to-energy project
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Smart grid apps for ‘future proofness’
How “not smart” is today’s electricity grid? Consider the answer most of us still hear on the phone when reporting an outage: “Look outside and see if your neighbours’ lights are on.” State-of-the-art, self-healing, “Jetsons”-style power that’s not. Based as it is on technology that was basically around 100 years ago, today’s grid has a [...]
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- Game theory: The secret to a clean-energy, smart-grid future?
- Intel invests secret squirrel amount in smart grids
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Consumers: Too much sustainability info
People are getting a lot of information lately about how to live sustainably. The problem is, it might be too much information. A recent online survey by IBM on YouGov found that 47 per cent of 2,000 British adults questioned found there was lots of information available about sustainable living but believed much of it [...]
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- Can business and sustainability mix? Summit aims for answers
- Sustainability is key, execs say, but firms aren’t doing enough
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Self-repairing solar cell copies plants
Nature’s been doing it for millions of years, but humans are still trying to unlock the secret: how to effectively and continuously harness the power of the sun’s energy. While photovoltaic devices have dramatically improved — and dropped in price — over recent years, no man-made solar cell yet comes close to being able to [...]
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In Great Lakes, ‘the sky really IS falling’
How should we react to news that the world’s fourth largest lake is rapidly dying before our eyes and that practically nothing is being done to stop it? Horror and outrage seem appropriate. However, the lead researcher tracking this particular slow-motion death says the response he’s gotten is more of a shrug because “people are [...]
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Oil politics will keep growing uglier
So a leaked German report warns that peak oil has arrived and we’ll start seeing serious side-effects within 15 to 30 years? Hang on … we’re starting to see side-effects now. Look no further than BP, undoubtedly 2010′s bête noire thanks to its record-breaking, months-long oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The company’s contrition [...]
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- Politics, not technology, is delaying clean-energy future
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Peak oil is here: German think tank
What will 2010 be remembered for? According to a leaked report from a German think tank, this could be the year that witnesses the arrival of peak oil: that is, a global maximum in petroleum production levels to be followed by a steady — or precipitous — decline. The report from the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, [...]
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