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The Way Back to 280 ppm
Two feebates can separately, yet complimentary, get emissions cut 80% by 2020 and carbon dioxide on the way back to 280 ppm. [read more]
Today's Energy Panacea: Biochar!
Would you like to curb or even reverse global warming? Help feed the world? Generate renewable energy? Biochar is the answer, say its most fervent advocates. If only life were so simple. Biochar, alas, isn’t ready yet to be a meaningful solution to the climate crisis, or a way to enhance agricultural productivity at scale. But it’s an... [read more]
The Biggest Failure in Energy is Thinking Bigger Is Better: Biochar Entrepreneur Jason Aramburu
TreeHugger has an interview with the founder of biochar company re:char - The Biggest Failure in Energy is Thinking Bigger Is Better: Biochar Entrepreneur Jason Aramburu . TREEHUGGER: What are the major advances have you seen (in your field) during the past 40 years? What, if any, were the major failures? JASON ARAMBURU: I think one of... [read more]
The Nitrogen-Biochar Link
Promoters of Biochar should ally with fishermen and other groups concerned about ocean dead zones caused by nitrogen runoff. The folks at the Carbon War Room are trying to save the world by tackling the trickiest problems in addressing climate change. One of their current focus points is biochar [pdf]. I’m one of very few... [read more]
The most important meeting in America?
Pondering Geoengineering Solutions that are a Win-Win-Win for America and the PlanetA guest post by A. Siegel, who writes regularly at GetEnergySmartNow.comThere are a lot of valuable and exciting conferences out there. To say that the energy and environmental domains are “hot” and that you could spend your life solely running from... [read more]
Biochar sequestration needs a serious look
My Clean Break column today revisits the idea of creating "biochar" out of wood waste using a pyrolysis process, and then blending the char in topsoil as an alternative way of sequestering carbon. We know that, done properly, we can lock about 60 per cent of the biomass' carbon into the char. We also know the char, when mixed in topsoil... [read more]
One if by Oil and Two if by Coal
Charcoalab is an initiative aimed at introducing kids and young students in a practical way to the benefits of adding biochar to soils - one of the techniques used to generate carbon-negative bioenergy. Char can be one product of waste to energy processes that involve pyrolysis. Premise: If Distributors are advocating the burial of... [read more]
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Baby You Can Drive My (Electric) Car
Posted May 11, 2012 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Siemens develops ABS plastic alternative
Posted May 9, 2012 by Doris de Guzman
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Reduce CO2 and Slow Global Warming?
Posted April 30, 2012 by Willem Post
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Hidroenergia 2012
May 25, 2012, Wroclaw, Poland
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WGC 2012 - 25th World Gas Conference
June 4, 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Ecwatech 2012
June 4, 2012, Moscow, Russia
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“Cities will need to be retrofitted, as a whole. There's much work to be done. Vertical farming and other forms of energy/space/agriculture integration will be necessary to further sustain how humans live on this planet.”
“David,Reserves, potential resources and production are not interchangeable, and apocalyptic statements that depend on conflating them are thus fundamentally flawed. Your cogent analysis makes this crucial distinction well. It just needs a bigger audience.”