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Greenpeace: Carbon capture is not going to save our climate 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Greenpeace is quite unhappy with recent proposals to use carbon capture technology (CCT) at power plants that burn coal. According to the environmental group, CCT is like burying money. Their reasons? First and foremost, the technology is not yet 100 percent ready, and won't be until 2030. ...

New $100 million X-Prizes created to spur development of clean energy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The X-Prize foundation was established help spur developments in a variety of areas including space travel, medicine and genomics. We've had plenty of coverage here of the Automotive X-Prize where the target is to develop a production viable car that can achieve the equivalent of 100mpg. The ...

CO₂ captured to feed biodiesel-producing algae 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Two companies, Holcim and Aurantia are starting a new project to reuse CO2. They take the CO2 produced by a cement plant in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain and "feed" it to microalgae which then turn around and produce biodiesel. The results of this project will be tested to assess if the carbon ...

The emerging skepticism about carbon capture 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Despite the drubbing some of us are taking this winter there are still the same CO2-induced global warming predictions being made and so reducing the amount of carbon that's emitted to our skies appears to remain necessary. One of the ways that has been touted as the most promising has been carbon ...

Repsol fills old oil fields in the Mediterranian with CO₂ 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Repsol, one of Europe's biggest oil companies, has decided to store half a million tons of CO2 under the Mediterranean Sea. The plan is to capture CO2 at its refinery in Tarragona, Spain, and move it 43 km through the pipeline that connects it to an old "Casablanca" oil platform. This system will ...

Closed-cycle CO₂ cars might be a reality one day 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Do you hate the idea of your car spewing exhaust? There might be a way to stop it without using any expensive batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. According to the New York Times, a pair of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working on a way to trap exhaust fumes (by blowing them ...

Australia's pioneer carbon capture project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

EESTech Inc., a company based in Brisbane, Australia, owns the Asia-Pacific rights to a system called the Purenergy CO2 Capture System (CCS). This is supposed to be the world's first pre-engineered, modular CO2 capture system that can be retrofitted onto existing power plants or any large ...

NIMBY: regional goverment in Spain is against CO₂ capture facilities in territory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Government of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain has just announced that they aren't going to accept the installation of any CO2 storage facility in its territory until further notice. Castilla-La Mancha might accept an exception in case of a broader consensus among all the administrations, including ...

Scientists unveil artificial CO₂-capturing foam 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A group of American scientists have unveiled a new type of foam-like substance which they claim captures CO2 up to 83 times its volume. The best part is that this foam is able to work at high temperature and pressure conditions, which makes it suitable for use in vehicles and power plants. The new ...

Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

What, motoring without polluting? That sounds like a good thing to me. But before we take our champagne bottles out to celebrate, let's see what this means. According to a group of researches at the Georgia Institute of Technology, pollution-free transportation is possible. While major projects in ...

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