ARPA-E: “Change Course with Fierce Urgency”
January 5, 2010 by Tina Casey
Filed under Clean Energy
The first round of federal ARPA-E funding for future energy kick-started a stunning range of 37 different projects last year, from fuel-secreting bacteria to liquid batteries and a way to create solar energy by mimicking photosynthesis. Now the agency has launched a new round that narrows the target down to just three carefully defined areas.
Carbon Capture in West Virginia
November 5, 2009 by Scientific American - Alternative Energy Technology
Filed under Clean Energy
That’s the sound of clean coal. Well, cleaner coal. A relatively small unit attached to the smokestack at the Mountaineer Power Plant in West Virginia is capturing some 1.5 percent of the carbon dioxide the coal-fired plant would otherwise belch into the sky. The loud thrum comes from the whirring of fans that cool the flue gas and the jostling of an agitator that keeps things moving in the tower where the reaction to actually capture the CO2 takes place. There’s also the chug of the compressor, which turns the odorless, colorless greenhouse gas into a milky liquid at 1,400 pounds per square inch (psi).
Clean Coal Energy
February 12, 2009 by Chris Hunter
Filed under Carbon, Clean Energy
Addressing the Fallacy Known as Clean Coal
If you’ve ever been around the stuff, you know there is no such thing; everything about coal is dirty.
And yet, we’re (the U.S.) about 56% reliant on the stuff for our electricity.
But with cap-and-trade legislation gaining momentum in Washington, the entire dynamic of the energy market is about to [...]
