Lipstick on an energy pig
Category: Next Generation
It really should be up to the utilities to fund their own efforts to find a way to make running a coal-fired plant easy on the environment, no?
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:01 PM • 5 Comments •
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September 28, 2008
Plants as carbon offsets
Category: Cellulosic Ethanol
In a previous post I discussed real carbon negative energy, biofuels produced from plant biomass. Under certain practices, the very roots of the plants are the below ground carbon sink, while the above ground biomass is a potential fuel feedstock....
Posted by Sam Hazen at 12:30 PM • 16 Comments •
Energy Race 2008
Category: Next Generation
Thursday, my coblogger Joe Romm did a fantastic job highlighting the problems of carbon capture and storage: The bottom line is that we should continue to pursue CCS research, development, and demonstration in a serious effort to turn this long-term...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments •
September 25, 2008
The four flaws of coal with CCS
The goal of carbon capture and storage (CCS), also called carbon sequestration, is to take carbon dioxide that would have been emitted into the atmosphere from new or existing power plants (usually coal) and instead store it someplace, hopefully forever....
Posted by Joe Romm at 2:24 PM • 9 Comments •
September 23, 2008
Are we just burying our problems?
Category: Next Generation
All of the energy sources we've discussed on this blog—from nuclear power to tidal power to cellulosic ethanol—have been developed with the ultimate goal of replacing coal and oil. However, the problem remains that even with the right technology, political...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 10:23 PM • 9 Comments •
Sometimes, It's NOT The Motion Of The Ocean That Matters Most...
Category: Renewables
The week's question asks about the likelihood of embracing tidal power, a form of hydropower that converts the energy of tides into electricity. Basically, we're talking wind turbines located where there's strong tidal flow. Sounds clean, and heck, I sure...
Posted by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum at 9:58 AM • 17 Comments •
September 22, 2008
Higher, higher, higher!
Category: Next Generation
There really isn't a lot of fancy, expensive equipment to develop. Just very strong, very long strings, along with computers to handle them.
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 12:01 PM • 7 Comments •
September 18, 2008
The dark horse technology of the century: Thermoelectricity
The buzzwords of the day: TE with high TZ. The world doesn't need a major technology breakthrough to cost-effectively cut carbon emissions in half by midcentury. Indeed, most such breakthroughs would be difficult to deploy fast enough and on a...
Posted by Joe Romm at 2:11 PM • 7 Comments •
September 17, 2008
Tides, tornadoes, and tourists
Category: Next Generation
In the race to replace coal and oil, several of the technologies we've discussed here—photovoltaics, wind, nuclear—seem to be projected, by proponents, politicians, investors and the media, as it, the saving grace that will lead us into a new era...
Posted by Erin Johnson at 12:39 PM • 3 Comments •
September 15, 2008
Bringing geothermal home
Category: Next Generation
This won't solve the climate crisis or the foreign oil dependency, but it would go a long way toward such goals,
Posted by James Hrynyshyn at 1:31 PM • 9 Comments •
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