Biofuels Industry Starts to Take form
On one side of a factory here, workers dump 500-pound sacks of pine chips into a hopper. Deep inside the plant, an 8,000-degree blow torch roars like a jet engine as the chips are processed. At the far end, the workers turn a tap and out pours ethanol, ready for use as a motor fuel. The facility, built by a company called Coskata, is not quite proof that a new era is at hand for American transportation fuels. But with the company claiming it will be able to convert wood waste into biofuel for about $1 a gallon, the plant suggests that day may be drawing nearer.
US Climate Bill Will Have Modest Economic Impact
Cutting greenhouse gases along the lines of a climate bill pending in Congress would modestly impact the US economy over...
Saving forests five times better than carbon capture for climate action
WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency - to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change. “Sweden should follow the examples set by its northern neighbors in developing systems to halt deforestation,” said WWF CEO General Lasse Gustavsson. “One Swedish krona to stem deforestation results in the same emissions reductions...
Green roofs offset global warming, study finds
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New EPA Rule Will Require Use of Best Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
LOS ANGELES– U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced today in a keynote address at the California Governor’s Global Climate...
New Energy Frontiers Expand Global Connections
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Largest Solar Tower Plant Begins Operation
Seville, 23 September 2009 – Their Majesties, Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía, today presided over the inauguration of Abengoa’s...
‘Climate Smart’ World Within Reach, says World Bank
WASHINGTON, September 15, 2009 – Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this...
World’s First Floating Wind Turbine Swtiches On
Written by Philip Proefrock on 09/21/09 The energy company Statoil has begun operation of the first full-size Hywind floating wind...
Large Scale C02 Sequestration Trial Begins at WV Coal Plant
NEW HAVEN, W.Va. — Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two...