About 12% of all US greenhouse emissions come from heating and cooling buildings, according to Vox. Much of the energy used to heat large buildings — factories, office buildings, universities, schools, and so forth — could come from geothermal sources.
The Switzerland-based company Climeworks has now officially begun extracting carbon dioxide from the air in Iceland and sequestering it underground where it is expected to slowly turn to stone, as part of a pilot demonstration of the technology.
This article first appeared on 1sun4all. MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, with her crew and scientists onboard, arrived in Boston to continue her 2013 “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition. Education days are planned for the stopover in Boston. The Gulf Stream tracking will continue as her next voyage takes her to the … [continued]
Planetsolar, the world’s largest solar-powered boat, arrived safely in New York on June 17, 2013. She has been transformed into a scientific platform as part of the “PlanetSolar DeepWater” expedition, and has joined by a team of researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), led by Professor Martin Beniston, climatologist and … [continued]
