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Nissan Has Superfast Charging Plan For New LEAF … It Seems
For years now, we and many others have been saying that no company can compete with Tesla in the electric car market until they offer a good network of superfast charging stations for their drivers....
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In A Blow To “Clean Coal,” Engie & Uniper Withdraw From Dutch Carbon Capture...
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath European power giants Engie and Uniper have withdrawn from a test project to capture and store carbon dioxide generated by one of several major...
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McKinsey's Guide to Carbon Capture and Storage
Have you been looking for a quick cheat sheet to understand the mechanics behind carbon capture and storage (CCS), which is one of the technologies envisioned by President Obama to allow the United...
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Carbon Capture and Storage Progressing Toward Feasibility
[social_buttons] Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has the potential to cut global Co2 emissions dramatically. We’re talking huge cuts. It has been estimated that a plant implementing CCS can cut...
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Scientists Examine Injecting Liquid Carbon Dioxide Underground
[social_buttons] While carbon capture and sequestration technology remains controversial, studies to delve deeper into it are ongoing in hopes of presenting one way to alleviate emission levels. A team...
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Kyoto Accord to Hydrogen-Power California
In a move that can be seen as indication of the far-reaching global effects of European cap and trade legislation, California has been selected by a British subsidiary of BP; to host one of the first...
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Carbon Capture & Storage Projects to be Excluded Under Copenhagen?
In a blow to the deal struck between the Obama administration and India during pre-Copenhagen visits, in which the President arranged for the transfer of innovative new clean coal technologies; Carbon...
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Smart, Strong Climate Policy Will Create 2.8 Million Jobs & Boost Economy
[social_buttons] A new macroeconomics analysis shows that if you want to create jobs and boost the economy, one of the best things you can do at the moment is enact strong, smart climate change and...
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First US State to Codify Law for Carbon Sequestration is Wyoming
Wyoming could be the first state to develop a comprehensive set of legal rules dealing with carbon sequestration risk. Before we begin carbon sequestration projects, say lawmakers in the state, we need...
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Coal Plants Are Shutting Down in Europe
France will shut down about half its coal-fired power stations by 2015, replacing them with natural-gas-fired plants, as part of the European Copenhagen agreement to cut carbon emissions 20% by 2020....
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World’s First Carbon Capture and Storage Project in Basalt Begins in USA
Washington state’s Department of Ecology has just granted the permit for the world’s first pilot test of carbon capture and sequestration in continental flood basalt near a paper mill in Wallula. With...
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CCS Demos Grinding to a Halt
If as few as 3,200 carbon sequestration projects were in operation around the world, that would be enough to provide more than 15% of the emissions reductions needed for a livable climate for the next...
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CCS Pioneer Reddy Patents New CO2 Sequestration Tech
A long-running utility-scale pilot capturing CO2 from the flue gas of a 2,120 MW coal fired power plant in Wyoming is succeeding in capturing about a third of the carbon dioxide by mineralizing it in...
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Forget Carbon Capture & Storage; Think Carbon Capture & Utilization
Rather than treating carbon dioxide as a waste, as is the case with high-profile Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, energy, industrial and power industry participants, as well as people all...
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Carbon Capture: Pipe Dream or Key to our Energy Challenges?
Every year about 30 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide is released around the world, with almost half that amount coming from coal. In the U.S., coal provides almost half our electricity, making it...
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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...
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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...
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Fuel Cell-Coal Plant CO2 Capture: Clean Tech Breakthrough or Ill-Conceived...
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...
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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...
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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...
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