CarbonSequestration

Let's see an i-MiEV do this. Michael Inwood, a farmer in New South Wales, Australia, has converted a Mitsubishi truck to plant crops using nothing but electric power. It gets better. The car is charged using renewable energy (wind and sun) and ...

Another carbon sequestration project is being undertaken by a team from the University of Leicester in England and the British Geological Society. This project is working on a means of storing CO2 in a solid form as a gas hydrate and also in liquid form as liquid CO2 under a cap of hydrate cemented ...

The FutureGen alliance is a public-private partnership to develop an integrated coal fired power plant that also produces hydrogen and features carbon sequestration. President Bush announced plans to fund a $1 billion, ten-year project to build a demonstration plant in 2003. Since then South Korea ...

As part of its plan to expand oil production from the northern Alberta tar sands, Shell Canada wants to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from the facilities. Unfortunately, in spite of the high oil prices and associated profits which are prompting the expansion in the first place, ...

Christopher Lydon hosts a public radio show called Open Source and recently had a show on global warming and coal. One of the guests was Julio Friedmann, Head of the Carbon Storage Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Friedmann talked about geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide. ...

Jeffrey Jarrett is the assistant secretary for fossil energy in the Department of Energy. Previously he was in the Department of Interior, working in the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. His commentary in San Jose Mercury-News stresses that fossil fuels will be with us for ...