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Planet2025 News Network - ntext - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 07 Nov 07 - Cached
  • Neuwing Energy Ventures, a New York-based marketer of energy-efficiency certificates, would perform an initial assessment of IBM customers' sprawling data centers -- the massive, air-conditioned facilities that store information and route anything from eBay purchases to e-mail. IBM would identify potential energy savings areas for its clients, and Neuwing would grant the IT firms certificates for the total megawatt-hours no longer needed to cool or operate the data center equipment. Each certificate would equal 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) per annum, said Rich Lechner, IBM's vice president for IT optimization. Clients could sell the certificates to utilities subject to state renewable portfolio standards, as well as sell to other companies that aim to reduce their carbon footprint through energy savings. The value of the energy efficiency certificates, historically in the $2-$10 range, is determined by the supply and demand for those certificates in each trading market.
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The Energy Blog: Big Business Says Addressing Climate Change 'Rates Very Low on Agenda' - 0 views

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shared by Colin Bennett on 30 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Nearly nine in 10 of them do not rate it as a priority, says the study, which canvassed more than 500 big businesses in Britain, the US, Germany, Japan, India and China. Nearly twice as many see climate change as imposing costs on their business as those who believe it presents an opportunity to make money. And the report's publishers believe that big business will concentrate even less on climate change as the world economy deteriorates. . . . more
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 31 Jan 08
     
    Climate is a global and an outcome measure. No wonder 'business does not care', or better - gives it only lip service. But as for the multi-B$ carbon markets, that's a different story. The term 'shark pit' comes to mind.
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Why Fly When You Can Float? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 15 Jul 08 - Cached
  • As the cost of fuel soars and the pressure mounts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, several schemes for a new generation of airship are being considered by governments and private companies. “It’s a romantic project,” said Mr. Massaud, 45, sitting amid furniture designs in his Paris studio, “but then look at Jules Verne.”
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Three airships that might fly you to Europe someday : Yahoo! Green - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 06 Jan 08 - Cached
  • In a carbon-conscious world, passenger flight is difficult to rationalize. But we've got to get from point A to point B -- there are births, funerals, weddings, and graduations to attend. Right now, there's no alternative to traditional heavier-than-air travel. Here are three airships that have a good chance at changing that
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Bulldoze old power stations, says adviser - Environment - smh.com.au - 0 views

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  • COAL-FIRED power stations should not be privatised but bulldozed over the next 20 years to curb greenhouse gas emissions, one of the state's leading energy academics has told the Iemma Government.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 14 Feb 08
     
    If any country can do it, it should be Australia.
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YouTube - The Air Car - 0 views

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  • Peter Fleming on 19 Aug 08
     
    Nice idea, but has it got performance potential? Rotary engine impressively compact and friction free. How much emission is generated by the compression of the air? Is it just passing the emissions on to a power station?
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Renewable Energy Certificates - Ethics and Vintages - 0 views

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  • Colin Bennett on 05 Aug 09
     
    Carbon Solutions Group believes that REC purchases used for LEED projects should be based on the concept of vintages. The importance of vintage based purchases is supported by World Resources Institute as stated previously, and by Green-e Energy as follows:
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Solar Planes, Trains and Automobiles | celsias° - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08 - Cached
  • And that's not all. We reported recently on this site on the solar powered car making its way around the world. We also covered the concept of solar roads to capture usable energy. We even reported on a sail boat powered with a solar sail. Now the BBC reports   that the U.S. military has held a test run in Arizona of a UK-made solar plane, the Zephyr-6. The plane flew for more than three days, running at night on solar charged batteries. The more than 83 hour non-stop flight was the longest of any unmanned aircraft.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08
     
    Does it make sense to solar power everything? It leads to many small, and relatively expensive installations. Wouldn't it be more effective to go for a battery & plug-in concept where possible. One would loose the inflight recharging of the solar airplane, but for everything else, the plug-in concept probably provides benefits.
  • Hans De Keulenaer on 27 Aug 08
     
    In addition, the lifetime of cars, for example, is much lower than the one for solar panels. Why integrate both?
  • Peter Fleming on 28 Aug 08
     
    Yes, I agree that there is too much emphasis on the novel in attempt to solve climate change. Creating technology for the designer label market to sell goods to the rich who want to tell their friends they are green. The same investment in a solid developed renewable method could yield a hundred times the reduction of carbon or more...
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California Introduces Statewide Green Building Code : TreeHugger - 0 views

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  • Energy Net on 21 Jul 08
     
    In what was described as the United States' first statewide "green" building rules, the California Building Standards Commission said the code would help reduce the carbon footprint of every new structure in the state.
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Middlemen helping small businesses tap green power - 0 views

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  • That is one reason for the rise of renewable energy middlemen like Clean Currents in Washington, D.C. The company bundles small businesses that want to buy wind power credits and submits a collective application to a utility. The businesses get better rates, and Clean Currents pockets a 1 percent commission.
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Going Green or Hoarding Green? : July 2008 : THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 16 Jul 08
     
    What [the survey] found was that while respondents expressed concern about their environmental impact, few were willing to smother those concerns with cash. And, in fact, the numbers willing to take a hit to their wallets or to their server performance in order to reduce their carbon footprints were actually lower this year than when the survey was first conducted in 2007.
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Risk Analysis For Low Carbon Systems - Engineer Live, For Engineers, By Engineers - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 06 Jan 10 - Cached
  • The TERA (Technoeconomic Environmental Risk Analysis) methodology, used for the European aviation industry under the leadership of Cranfield University, will provide a valuable insight to investigate the most promising systems in terms of multidisciplinary criteria and to estimate their competitiveness, so as to facilitate their route to commercial operation with benefits for the UK energy industry and for the long term needs of the community. TERA methods are being developed for power generation and the oil and gas industry in association with two major players in the energy field.
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Chemists Break Down Pesky Greenhouse Gas (Wired.com) - 0 views

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  • Jeff Johnson on 29 Aug 08
     
    The molecules, known as fluorocarbons, are found in plastics, clothing and refrigerants. At their heart is a union of carbon and fluorine -- a union that, thanks to their atomic configurations, is one of the strongest molecular unions known in nature. Under standard conditions, fluorocarbons are impervious to acids and bases. They don't give or receive electrons, the very currency of molecular reconfiguration. Breaking them down is possible only at temperatures approaching 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. In some situations, that stability is a blessing: Teflon is made from fluorocarbons. But so are the hydrofluorocarbon coolants in refrigerators and air conditioners -- and when released, those become greenhouse gases that can circulate for thousands of years.
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World's Top Polluter Emerges as Green-Technology Leader - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 15 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Xu Shisen put down the phone and smiled. That was Canada calling, explained the chief engineer at a coal-fired power plant set among knockoff antique and art shops in a Beijing suburb. A Canadian company is interested in Mr. Xu's advances in bringing down the cost of stripping out greenhouse-gas emissions from burning coal.
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Grand Challenges for Engineering - 0 views

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  • With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century.  Now their conclusions are revealed on this website.
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Battery costs will keep electrics from going mainstream, study says - 2 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 08 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Electric vehicles are unlikely to become high-volume mainstream products by 2020, according to a study by Boston Consulting Group.
  • davidchapman on 11 Jan 10
     
    A similar conclusion was reached by a UK Automotive sector report for UK Govt in support of the Low Carbon Transition Plan published last year.
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Distributed Generation and Renewable Energy Sources | Leonardo ENERGY - 0 views

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  • Distributed generation (DG) and renewable energy sources (RES) are attracting special attention. Both are seen as important in achieving two key goals:Increasing the security of energy supplies by reducing the dependency on imported fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coalReducing the emission of greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide, from the burning of fossil fuels.
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Want To Limit Global Warming? Electrify Everything, Finds Study | CleanTechnica - 8 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 28 Apr 19 - No Cached
  • Researchers at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland and Energy Watch Group (EWG) have completed a 4½ year study that examined how to meet the goals of the Paris climate accords without such measures as carbon capture and geoengineering. Their conclusion? Run everything on electricity and generate all of that electricity using renewables, primarily solar.
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Fossil-Fuel Subsidies | Global Subsidies Initiative - 2 views

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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Most governments provide some kind of financial assistance to boost energy supply or reduce prices for certain energy consumers. Fossil fuels have been widely subsidized for decades. The exact scale of these subsidies is not known because a comprehensive study has never been undertaken. What is clear is that fossil-fuel subsidies can drain government budgets and increase greenhouse gas emissions. In recognition of these unwanted impacts, the leaders of the Group of Twenty (G-20) countries agreed in September 2009 to phase-out inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies in the medium term. The Global Subsidies Initiative is well aware of the complex issues surrounding fossil-fuel subsidies and their reform. That is why last year, in anticipation of the current calls for such reform, it commenced an ambitious program to identify, measure, and analyze the effects of fossil-fuel subsidies. Key findings from the first five in-depth reports, which together make up the series Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform, are summarized above. Below, each of the individual reports can be freely downloaded. Support for one of the papers, Gaining traction: the importance of transparency in accelerating the reform of fossil-fuel subsidies, was generously provided by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
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