Tag: carbon sequestering
Clean Coal’s Dirty Little Secret
by progressivekid on Apr.21, 2009, under Clean Coal, Opinion, Renewable Energy
A guest submission by our friends at: ProgressiveKid. This article was originally published on Oct, 29, 2008 at: http://www.pkonaledge.com/2008/10/29/clean-coals-dirty-little-secret/
By Sarah Lane, ProgressiveKid
Both President Obama and his former opponent John McCain endorsed “clean coal” as an important element of their energy plans. But “clean coal” is a fairy tale with a very bad ending, as in the Big Bad Wolf eats and digests Little Red Riding Hood and belches out a black cloud afterward. (continue reading…)
Putting the Carbon back in Carbonated
by John Muir on Apr.11, 2009, under Natural Gas, News
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn reports on a story that could have passed for the annual April Fool’s day joke. His story “China Puts Fizz In Bid To Reduce Carbon Emissions” outlines a Chinese company’s efforts to sequester carbon from a power plant for soda production. The story is real, but the efforts sound a bit more like “pop” culture than a true break through in battling climate change.
Also, a follow on to my Gazprom post from January.
I found a great article by Rudolf ten Hoedt that appeared last spring in the European Energy Review. Hoedt brings more depth to the political chess game going on with Nigeria’s oil and Western Europe’s suppliers. Oil was on the rise when this was written, I’ll be interested to see how the dramatic drop in oil prices affects this developing story in coming months and years.
http://www.hcss.nl/en/download/610/file/EER3-Gazprom%20-Africa.pdf
