How Cleaning up Coolants can Cool the Climate – HFC Phase-Out
By Scott Denning, Colorado State University The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving to eliminate a class of chemicals widely used as coolants in refrigerators, air [...]
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Carbon Capture Technology Faces a Difficult Few Years
By Dr. Michael Dent, IDTechEx Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide [...]
Bertrand Piccard: Aviation Can Address the Carbon Challenge, Here’s How
Bertrand Piccard makes no apologies for being an aviation enthusiast, and believes that despite its current woes the industry has been made a scapegoat for carbon emissions, [...]
LBNL Develops Renewable Jet Fuel
Air travel emissions have a huge negative impact on the environment due to greenhouse gas emissions from traditional jet fuel. As a result, there is a high demand for [...]
CarbonCure Addresses Concrete Water Waste
Besides producing massive amounts of CO2, concrete production also uses large amounts of water contaminated with concrete. Managing the slurry or concrete wash water is [...]
Can Kelp Forests Mitigate the Climate Crisis?
By Emma Bryce @EmmaSAanne June 24, 2020 — Sixty years ago, Tasmania’s coastline was cushioned by a velvety forest of kelp so dense it would ensnare local fishers as [...]
Rock Dust on Croplands: 2B Tons of CO2 Capture
A major new study shows that adding rock dust to farmland could remove carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to more than the current total emissions from global aviation and [...]
Cost-Effective Self-Forming CO2 Separator
What could be more cost effective than a technology that builds itself? A group of researchers at Newcastle University have developed a new class of self-forming membrane [...]
Put clean energy at the heart of stimulus plans to counter the coronavirus crisis
by Fatih Birol (@ieabirol), executive director, International Energy Agency March 24, 2020 — Editor’s note: This piece is republished with permission from the [...]
Power Grid Electricity Loss – Globally, It’s a Lot
Sarah Marie Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University and Kavita Surana, University of Maryland When it comes to strategies for slowing the effects of climate change, the idea of [...]
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