I saw a fascinating article at TreeHugger the other day on the possibility of an artificial forest in the UK.Carbon-capturing artificial trees have been getting some due attention lately, and for good…
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VentureBeat reported recently on the U.S. Department of Energy's announced intention to provide $27.6 million in funding for 19 different projects testing "the efficiency of underg…
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This article was initially titled “Pretenders, Contenders, and Niches.” However, the section on pretenders grew to the point that I have decided to split the essay up into three parts. The first part, Biofuel Pretenders, will cover many of the current media and political darlings. The second part, Biofuel Contenders, will discuss some options that […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;I am working on a story inspired by last week’s Wall Street Journal article:
U.S. Biofuel Boom Running on Empty
It is taking longer than anticipated, but hopefully I will have something up tonight or early tomorrow. Until then, I thought I would share a couple of odd energy stories this Sunday. The first, […]

New York Times: Lawyers for a Washington lobbying firm have asked federal prosecutors to investigate a former employee who the firm says sent fake letters to members of Congress urging them to oppose climate change legislation. A spokesman for the firm, Bonner & Associates,said the request was dated Aug. 12, adding that the firm’s […]

New York Times: On Route 11 north of Tuscaloosa, Ala., last April, a pickup truck pulled up next to Greta Browne, and a young man began lecturing her about global warming. He had seen Ms. Browne’s T-shirt announcing that she was "Walking for the Climate," and he wanted to set her straight. Humans, he […]

Gulf News: Targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will not be met in time as some of the world’s largest companies have only set reduction goals up to 2012, a new study has revealed. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organisation holding the largest database of corporate climate change information in […]

USA Today: The Midwest will see the most dramatic temperature rise in upcoming decades due to global warming, according to a new analysis of U.S. climate data released Thursday by the Nature Conservancy. In just the next 40 years, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at their current rate, average temperatures are expected […]

Agence France-Presse: Three years ago Naina Shahi’s husband left their small village in rural Nepal to seek work in neighbouring India, leaving her to bring up their three children alone. The dry winters and unpredictable monsoons Nepal has experienced in recent years had hit crop production on the couple’s land plot in the foothills […]

Sindh Today: India and China will jointly conduct research on the impact of climate change on the glaciers in the Himalayan and Tibetan regions, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said here Saturday. "We discussed institutionalisation of collaboration. The Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology and its Chinese counterpart the Cold and […]

Indo-Asian News Service: Twenty five percent of Africa experiences shortage of drinking water due to global warming, which is increasing at a higher rate now than in earlier decades, says noted environmentalist R.K. Pachauri. "Climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions will only exacerbate. More intense and larger droughts will be there. Twenty five […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A fast-growing Silicon Valley start-up firm is aiming to put its methanol-based fuel cells in electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars. Oorja Protonics, which sells its fuel cells to Nissan Motor Co, is working to have a product that can be used as a range-extender in pure electric or plug-in […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Declining industrial electricity demand and an abundance of cheap natural gas will threaten coal’s status as the dominant U.S. fuel to generate electric power, even after the economic recession ends. Power companies are reducing use of coal plants because of declining demand from heavy industry, the economic sector hardest hit […]

Guardian: Thousands battle to save homes as forest blazes spread out of control on outskirts of Athens Link to this video Thousands of Greeks were battling to save their homes from forest fires raging out of control on the outskirts of Athens as authorities declared a state of emergency and mobilised the army today […]

Asian News International: Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh, said on Saturday that about 11 per cent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is being absorbed by the country’s forests. According to the World Resources Institute, India’s total GHG emissions stood at 1,853 million metric tons equivalent of carbon dioxide, […]