Zero Emissions: Natural Gas About to Compete with Wind and Solar
February 16, 2010 by Susan Kraemer
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
A new way to use natural gas could cut its carbon dioxide output to zero, making it competitive with solar or wind farms.
U.S. Creates Office to Handle Climate Change Data
February 9, 2010 by Yale Environment 360
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
The Obama administration is creating an office to coordinate and report the latest climate change data, a unit analogous to the National Weather Service that officials hope will help planners, businesses, and the public better understand and prepare for the effects of global warming.
The office, which will be part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
Picarro’s Sensors to Measure Methane in California
February 3, 2010 by Chris
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
Watch out methane producers, California has just hired Picarro. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based startup announced Wednesday that it has been selected to provide its greenhouse gas-detecting sensor boxes to measure changes in methane emissions across the Golden State.
CEO Michael Woelk told us last November that his grand vision for the company’s $50,000 gas analyzers was to [...]
All growing: HFC-23s emissions, carbon fraud, Soros ethanol ambitions, Malaysian palm production
Biofuels Bits: A new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters said that the major greenhouse gas HFC-23 are growing, far faster than expected, and that some parties receiving finance under the Kyoto Treaty’s CDM to destroy HFC-23 may not be carrying out their obligations.
In Argentina, George Soros’s Adecoagro group of sugar and ethanol [...]
All growing: HFC-23s emissions, carbon fraud, Soros ethanol ambitions, Malaysian palm production is a post from: Biofuels Digest
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “US agriculture operates in a global food chain system where carbon/ GHG credits increasingly figure into investments and trade.”
Rick Gilmore, CEO of GIC Group: “Whatever the outcome of the cap and trade debate, US agriculture operates in a global food chain system where carbon/ GHG credits increasingly figure into investments and trade. An index targeted to agriculture can measure financial gains from the introduction of new abatement technologies; balance sheet asset credit valuations; [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “US agriculture operates in a global food chain system where carbon/ GHG credits increasingly figure into investments and trade.” is a post from: Biofuels Digest
Will the U.S. Climate Bill Make it Through the Senate?
January 13, 2010 by Yale Environment 360
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
Faced with a faltering economy, fatigue over the health care fight, and the prospect of congressional elections this November, proponents of a carbon cap-and-trade bill in the U.S. Senate face high hurdles when Congress returns from its winter recess next week.
The Obama administration and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the lead author on the climate [...]
Data Center Virtualization: Cloud Computing – Ease Up on Security to Keep Carbon Under Check?
January 13, 2010 by Dilip Tinnelvelly
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
The AFCOM association recently revealed the results of a survey of 436 data center sites that showed the following trends: Cyber terrorism is an increasing concern, mainframe deployment is declining, storage deployment is increasing, and “green” technologies are definitely happening.
AFCOM found that there is a shift in data centers away from mainframe computers and toward [...]
