Lynne Kiesling A company called Skyonic is using sodium hydroxide to turn carbon dioxide into baking soda, with chlorine and hydrogen as by-products; the process captures 90 percent of the carbon dioxide coming out of smoke stacks and mixes it with sodium hydroxide to make sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda. The energy required for the …
Michael Giberson Environmental markets consultancy E3 International released a report a few days ago indicating that many tradable permits were retired more than once in the EU carbon emission trading program: E3 International (E3) has analysed all the serial numbers of carbon allowances surrendered to date by liable participants in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme …
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Lynne Kiesling From New Zealand, a newly-discovered bacterium that lives at high temperatures and eats methane. Is it possible to add them to landfills without creating invasive species problems? Maybe. Still, quite interesting. Thanks to Slashdot for the link.
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been waiting for something like this for years! A company called Blue Source has a potentially commercially viable carbon capture business model that involves the captured CO2 actually being useful: Blue Source is piping industrial carbon dioxide from a natural-gas processing plant in southeastern Colorado to an undisclosed oil producer that will, …
Michael Giberson Rich Sweeney, at Common Tragedies, writes about three common characters that populate some of the industrial/bureaucratic commentary over cap-and-trade carbon permit systems: hoarders, speculators and do-gooders. A hoarder may be a low-carbon intensity electric generator seeking to bid up the cost of carbon permits to drive up costs for rivals and drive up …
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Michael Giberson An article online at the Wall Street Journal (free!) provides a quick overview of green power options available to retail customers. Typically consumers pay a small premium for green power, but in Austin consumers participating in the GreenChoice program actually gain a small discount. (Higher natural gas prices have driven up the cost …
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Michael Giberson LiveScience highlights a short article on the growth in the use of electric bikes in China, a development that comes with environmental costs and benefits (and clearly a lot of personal mobility benefits for the owners). University of Tennessee-Knoxville professor Christopher Cherry reports on his research: Chinese cities are expanding and becoming more …
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Michael Giberson I stumbled across another blog post on the New York Times article discussed here earlier in the week. Rich Sweeny, at Common Tragedies, wants to inject a little more research-based thinking into the discussion: What I really wanted to add to this debate, though, is a discussion of how elecricity costs have been …
Lynne Kiesling An article by Jeffrey Ball in today’s Wall Street Journal (subs. required) does the best job I’ve seen to date of capturing the nuances and tensions in the economic and policy dynamics of rising energy costs and concerns about the environmental effects of energy consumption. The article focuses on Dow Chemical and its …
Lynne Kiesling Every year the U.S. Department of Energy and the International Energy Agency publish forecasts of world energy production and consumption, and the economic and environmental consequences thereof. Typically these forecasts use elaborate computer models to extrapolate various scenarios to generate a sense of where we might be headed, based on different use patterns, …
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