From the monthly archives:

May 2010

UK Carbon Emissions Set to Fall Again in 2010

May 25, 2010

The UK’s carbon emissions are set to fall again slightly in 2010 after the recession drove dramatic declines of around 10 per cent last year, analysts said yesterday. But the country is likely to miss its targets for cutting emissions and boosting renewable energy by the end of the decade unless the new coalition government [...]

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YeZ Concept Car Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Oxygen

May 20, 2010

General Motor’s Joint-Venture partner in China, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) rolled out a concept alongside GM’s EN-V at Expo 2010 which in many ways is more ground-breaking than the EN-V. The idea behind the YeZ Concept is that it will photosynthesize, absorbing carbon dioxide from surrounding air and emitting oxygen back into the atmosphere. [...]

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The UK’s New Government Announce Plans to Cut Departmental Carbon Emissions by 10% Within 12 Months

May 17, 2010

The new energy and climate change secretary, Chris Huhne, has announced plans to cut government emissions by 10%. Speaking to staff at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) this morning, with prime minister David Cameron, he announced plans for department headquarters to publish online in real time their energy use. Mr Huhne, one [...]

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Scientists Turn Algae Into Carbon Neutral Fuel

May 11, 2010

Heating and squishing microalgae in a pressure cooker may be a new and quicker method for producing bio-oil from the organism. Researchers from the University of Michigan say that the new method of processing the fuel source ‘can fast-forward the crude-oil-making process from millennia to minutes.’ University of Michigan professors are working to understand and [...]

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The USA Could Phase Out Carbon Emissions From Coal by 2020

May 4, 2010

According to an expert group of scientists, engineers and architects from the US, the world’s most powerful country could completely halt CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants by 2020. Writing in the June 2010 edition of the American Chemical Society’s journal ‘Environmental Science & Technology’, a team from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia [...]

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