FUTURE ENERGIES
Exceptional results from biochar experiment in Cameroon
Biochar Fund has reported extremely encouraging first results from its field trials in South West Cameroon. Working with small groups of subsistence farmers around the town of Kumba, the Fund set up and managed a large-scale experiment to assess whether maize (corn) yields were improved by the addition of biochar to the soil. The biochar was made from local agricultural wastes and tree thinnings. The data from the trials strongly suggests that biochar adds greatly to food production. Some areas showed yield improvements of more than 250% over the control plots. The areas dosed with biochar also...
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A team of environmental scientists from Harvard and Tsinghua University has demonstrated the huge potential for wind-generated electricity in China. Lu Xi, one of the co-authors of the study published...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Over-Allocation of Pollution Permits Would Result in No Emissions Reduction Requirement in Early Years of Climate Program
The large decline in U.S. emissions in 2008 and 2009 due to the economic recession means that if the House-passed Waxman-Markey climate legislation becomes law, the bill's emissions reduction cap will...
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As the troubling realities of future oil supplies begin to penetrate official circles, the oil optimists are making even more outlandish claims....
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Earlier this month, the Royal Society of the UK issued a report entitled "Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty". Ken Caldeira, the director of the Caldeira Lab at the Carnegie...
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Last week, the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) held their 2009 offshore event in Stockholm, where 4,750 attendees (up from about 2,000 in Berlin two years ago) congregated to celebrate what is...
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I feel like an idiot for not seeing this one coming from either China or India. It's so painfully obvious, in hindsight, that I have to wonder how anyone who follows energy and environmental issues closely...
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Until recently, you had to be deep green—and have deep pockets—to put solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of your home. The costs were high–$20,000 to $50,000 or more. The technology was baffling. The...
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Obama Administration Comes out in Support of Key International Provisions in Climate Bill
Todd Stern the Special Envoy for Climate Change, just testified before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on: The Road to Copenhagen and International Climate Agreement...
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A UK company called ACAL Energy has managed to cut the amount of platinum used in fuel cells by 80% and the price for fuel cells by 40%. Dr Andrew Creeth, the inventor of the FlowCath® technology, answers...
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NPR's excellent Science Friday series is one of my favorite sources. I just caught up with a recent segment on the development of hydrogen-powered trains, which seem like a particularly clever use of a...
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In the face of peak oil and in order to curb carbon emissions, methods of farming that depend less on oil and natural gas, respectively to run machinery and to make synthetic fertilizers, must be sought...
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An international treaty to ban the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons, referred to by US President Barack Obama on 5 April 2009 in Prague(1), is generally called a Fissile Materials Cutoff...
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On the other hand, there are some renewable fuel options that have either proven themselves as solid contenders, or have not yet demonstrated fatal flaws that would disqualify them at this point. In this...
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