climate fuels:
As the price of oil has soared, so has that of coal. Both are demand-led. This is a very strong hint from the market that calls to phase out coal in the near future are doomed. Since CCS makes no...
Posted on July 22, 2008 5:09 PM • 5 Comments
Seed has a new blog up, http://scienceblogs.com/energy/, and one of them is me. Atmoz isn't very happy about us all selling out (its sponsored by Shell). I can't speak for anyone else, but while I'm not going to disclose the...
Posted on July 10, 2008 5:15 PM • 12 Comments
Originally this was going to be about politics, and the answer was going to be "not as much as his poll ratings suggest". But then I found a speech on Opec/Oil and the answer has to be, "yes he's crap"....
Posted on May 20, 2008 4:18 PM • 13 Comments
A little while ago, I ventured into aircraft CO2, and as good as said that the climate impact of aircraft fuel use should be weighted up by a factor of 2-3 because of various side effects: I thought of water...
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Posted on February 17, 2008 6:30 PM • 6 Comments
A very interesting report by the Wall Street Journal reporting that "Citigroup Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley say they have concluded that the U.S. government will cap greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants sometime in the next...
Posted on February 5, 2008 4:55 PM • 5 Comments
A post from Eli about offsetting CO2 emissions from flights raises once again an issue in my mind, which I don't think I've whined about here (do remind me if I have): why is aircraft CO2 special, and requires offsetting,...
Posted on February 2, 2008 6:06 PM • 42 Comments
Following in the tracks of DeSmog again. So, the $1.8B carbon capture and storage commercial scale demo has fallen apart due to excess costs (or possibly other things: here is what they say; there seems to be some dispute over...
Posted on January 30, 2008 2:24 PM • 5 Comments
Well, its more interesting than CorbynWatch. So, Nature sez: New power stations across Europe could be routinely fitted with carbon-dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology within two years under a proposal by the European Commission....
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Posted on January 21, 2008 5:04 PM • 18 Comments
Clean coal - as in burning and capturing the CO2 - is an idea being floated. There are obvious problems (apart from anything else, the capture and storage costs extra energy and so burns even more coal...), and AFAIK only...
Posted on January 10, 2008 8:14 AM • 1 Comments
A mind-bogglingly stupid article in the Times came my way. Someone has built a small aeroplane powered by batteries. So far nothing exciting. But then to report the claim Ms Lavrand said that the fuel cost per hour of the...
Posted on January 5, 2008 4:22 PM • 16 Comments
OK, who knows how electric car emissions compare to, say, diesel in terms of CO2/km? I mean pure battery electric, not hybrid. Obviously you have to assume some generating mix to produce the electricity, and the answer might vary for...
Posted on November 15, 2007 8:53 AM • 24 Comments
Inel points us to a report by the IPPR, WWF and RSPB claiming that we can cut our carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. My immeadiate reaction is doubt. Comparing their numbers with what I had from a previous post,...
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Posted on November 5, 2007 5:13 PM • 35 Comments
Via GBM I find Statkrafts plans for osmosis power plants. An interesting idea and entirely new to me. Statkraft are a bit coy about the costs. This chap says its too expensive now (I don't know if thats true, its...
Posted on October 9, 2007 5:01 PM • 2 Comments
Another study weighing in against biofuels, this time by Nobel Prize winning Paul Crutzen. Yes, I said that just to wind up Maribo - read his take. I've long been skeptical (septical?) of the biofuels stuff, especially corn-based ethanol, which...
Posted on October 4, 2007 7:26 AM • 5 Comments
World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists but this turns out to be the usual suspects. Its in response to BP: BP's Statistical Review of World Energy, published yesterday, appears to show that...
Posted on June 14, 2007 8:23 AM • 37 Comments
Having been rather negative about bio-fuels, I'll be positive and mention The ethanol program in Brazil. And the abstract is: The number of automobiles in the world has been growing fast and today requires one quarter of the global petroleum...
Posted on January 24, 2007 11:27 AM • 7 Comments
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