NREL Publishes Cradle-to-Grave Assessment of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Sources
The NREL has published a precise profile of greenhouse gas emissions from renewable and fossil fuel energy generation technologies.
CCS (Combined Charging System)
500 Years of Underground Carbon Storage Mapped across North America
North America has at least 500 years of underground carbon dioxide (CO2) storage capacity, according to the North American Carbon Storage Atlas.
Clapping with One Hand: IEA Applauds Clean, Renewable Energy Progress, Urges Energy Officials to Move…
Applauding the progress being made in developing and deploying renewable energy and clean technologies, the International Energy Agency (IEA), in its latest annual report, also says that they are not being deployed fast enough. Presented to energy ministers, secretaries and members of leading private and public sector renewable energy and clean tech organizations at the 3rd Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in London, the IEA, in its “Tracking Clean Energy Progress” report, highlights rapidly growing use of renewable energy and clean technologies in nations around the world, concluding, however, that progress isn’t fast enough to meet international targets for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, mitigating climate change and thereby providing a secure energy system.
China and India Ineligible for Carbon Capture Funding?
China, India, Ghana, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and South Africa may be eliminated as eligible countries for Clean Mechanism Development (CDM) funding for Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CSS) projects in new negotiations following the Durban climate talks.
New CO2 Sequestration from Finland Yields Commercially Useful Materials
The Finnish physicist Matti Nurmia has patented a different type of CO2 sequestration with real commercial potential, using very little energy in the conversion process and creating byproducts with high commercial value. His firm, Cuyha Innovation Oy (Oy means company) converts acidic CO2 into harmless bicarbonates.
Nurmia’s process differs from carbonization, where CO2 is neutralized with carbonate minerals such as limestone, the way that companies like California’s Calera are making cement with sequestered CO2.
US to Bury Carbon Off Texas Coast?
Capturing CO2 and re-injecting it into offshore geologic formations gets a look as 8 year count-down to carbon price begins. With all 190 nations now agreeing to binding greenhouse gas reductions in a treaty of some sort to be in force in just 8 years, the release of a carbon … [continued]
Carbon Capture Safeguards Agreed to at Durban Climate Talks
With the approval of rules on the inclusion of carbon capture and storage allocations at the Durban climate talks that just concluded, a potentially huge carbon capture and storage (CCS) industry is created. The Saudis have asked for years for CCS to be included (as one of the possible emission … [continued]
Fuel Cell-Coal Plant CO2 Capture: Clean Tech Breakthrough or Ill-Conceived Diversion?
The third in a series, this post explains the workings and the principal aims of a DOE project in which Connecticut’s FuelCell Energy will use its Direct FuelCell technology to capture 90% of a coal-fired power plant’s CO2 emissions at a 35% or less increased in the cost of electricity.
Are Fuel Cells the Answer to Coal Power Plant CO2 Capture?
Fuel cells may hold the key to solving the increasingly urgent problem of how to capture CO2 emissions from coal-fired and other fossil fuel plants, at least that’s what fuel cell proponents assert and the US Dept. of Energy (DOE) intends to find out by conducting a 3-year study and awarding $3 million to FuelCell Energy.
Plastic “Tree” Uses Biomimicry to Convert Atmospheric CO2 into Green Gasoline
Recycling has always meant reusing materials like glass or plastic, and reducing atmospheric carbon has traditionally meant cutting emissions, but what if the two could be combined and make combating climate change profitable by recycling carbon out of the atmosphere?
energyNOW! correspondent Josh Zepps looked into a new technology that could pull a thousand times more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than trees, and could one day power our cars and trucks with green gasoline.
