The is Part II of my look at Changing World Technologies’ thermal depolymerization process. This essay came from a reader, and was originally posted on April 12, 2007.
But I also want to add some comments that regular reader “Optimist” added following the previous essay. First, those comments:
The 85% efficiency claim is based on a faulty […]

You hardly hear about biofuel from algae. The answer it offers us is usually drummed out by the noise from other alternative fuels such as, gasoline/electric hybrids, ethanol, biodiesel and propane. The algae biofuel packs quite a punch and is inexpensive to cultivate.
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Is the Fisker Karma the answer to Plug in Hybrid car technology that has eluded us? Plug in hybrid vehicles like the Tesla, the Volt, hang in front of us like fruit from a tree…but this green hybrid dream has been difficult to realize.
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Jakarta Post: The government is proposing a subsidy for biofuel in an attempt to promote the use and distribution of this form of renewable energy. Energy Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro submitted this plan in a hearing on Thursday with the House of Representative commission VII, which oversees energy and mineral resources. Under […]

Independent: Scenes like this, with vast tracts of Amazonian rainforest razed to make way for cattle, are to become more common in Brazil as it continues its drive to expand its beef export industry, according to environmentalists. Green activists say that country’s determination to double its share of the world beef market is likely […]

New Zealand Press Association: Global warming’s evil twin, the increasing acidification of carbon dioxide-saturated oceans is threatening New Zealand’s corals, crustaceans and shellfish. "Ocean acidification is accelerating, " Dunedin researcher Christina McGraw said. Dr McGraw said this rapid change in ocean chemistry meant that severe damage was imminent. Some of New Zealand’s […]

Straits Times: Malaysia is going through its worst dengue outbreak ever, health officials said yesterday, with higher rainfall and public apathy being blamed for encouraging the widespread breeding of the Aedes mosquito. In the first 28 days of this year alone, 14 people have died and 5,062 cases have been recorded. This compares with […]

Washington Post: Two big batteries stand side by side at the General Motors testing lab in Warren, Mich. One is an artifact, built a dozen years ago. Weighing 1,200 pounds, it could fill the back of a large pickup truck. Standing on one end, it towers over GM’s Robert A. Kruse, executive director of […]

AAP: Hundreds of activists have gathered in Canberra to organise some "people power" on climate change. More than 500 people turned up on Saturday for a four-day summit to set out what Australia should be doing on climate change, and how to force more action from governments. "This is about the people taking […]

Merinews: A JOINT experiment by German and Indian scientists called ‘ocean fertilisation’ or LOHAFEX is underway at the southern ocean to mitigate climate change. In the experiment, Germany’s Alfred Wagener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) in Goa, India are involved. Under the experiment an area […]

Hartford Courant: Q: Which parts of the United States are or will be hardest hit by global warming? A: It’s difficult to predict which areas of the U.S. will suffer the most from global warming, but it’s safe to say no regions will be unaffected. Scientists already point to increased severity of hurricanes […]

Wall Street Journal: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was all smiles in 2006 when he signed into law the toughest anti-global-warming regulations of any state. Mr. Schwarzenegger and his green supporters boasted that the regulations would steer California into a prosperous era of green jobs, renewable energy, and technological leadership. Instead, since 2007 — in anticipation of […]

New York Times: It seemed that every chance he got, President Bush ignored or flat out refused to address the problem of climate change. So we were greatly encouraged by President Obama`s swift announcement that he is likely to approve California`s request to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles — a request the Bush administration denied. […]

New York Times: The oceans have long buffered the effects of climate change by absorbing a substantial portion of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. But this benefit has a catch: as the gas dissolves, it makes seawater more acidic. Now an international panel of marine scientists says this acidity is accelerating so fast it threatens […]

Agence France-Presse: Australia’s second-largest city Melbourne was struggling to cope Saturday with a once-in-a-century heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives and sparked wildfires that have razed up to 20 homes. More than 500,000 houses and businesses in the city of five million were left without power on Friday night after an electrical substation […]