Energy | Homeland Security News Wire: Clean Coal Might Really Be a Possibility!!! WOW! It may take me years to take back all the trash talk I have had about Coal. Dirty, Dirtier, Dirtiest Coal… But no such think as Clean. Dr. Fan at Ohio State has pioneered the technology called Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL). This lab project has contained 99% of the carbon dioxide from coal. Well maybe. This will bear some watching as it moves…
Sustainability eMagazine If you have never done so, you want to visit the EarthJustice site about coal ash: http://earthjustice.org/our_work/campaigns/coal-ash-contaminates-our-lives And what you want to do, is visit this site every time you see one of these sweet and pretty ads about “Clean Coal”. Admittedly, the EarthJustice takes the other side of this far, very far-from-clean, source of energy. However, coal produces half of the electric power in the US. Well, all right, now only about 34%….
AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News: CO2 from the US is down. WOW!. See the full EIA report on CO2 Emissions. The last time we had that was in 2009, we all assumed that was mainly because of the economic slowdown. But apparently, even then, part of it was because of the switching to NatGas. “[T]he U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month…
Global Carbon “Footprint” by Nation | The Big Picture: Just in case you had not seen this really cool chart from a year ago… Here’s the BIG FOOT, big picture of emissions by country. Note that China has now outpaced the US based on pretty much any measure of emissions you might want to consider. They now burn half the worlds coal, adding on a new coal power plant every few days (about 5 last…
A Year for the Record Books | Planet3.0: ‘via Blog this’ This to us from MacDonald from GreenDistrict… It is one of several places to start rounding up the status of sustainability (gain &) loss for 2011 and start to plan for 2012. As we start to organize the (un)balanced scorecard for an unsustainable year of horrific sustainability numbers… ?What would be a good summary for the year, even if the summary has a lot…
