Group items tagged

Supplying power to offshore platforms from land-based plants could have a major impact on the industry's carbon emissions. Norway is the world leader in the laying of subsea cables to power offshore facilities, but a recent disagreement over the electrification of the Utsira High region has sparked a new debate over how and where to make use of this promising technology.

The Serrote da Laje deposit owned by Aura Minerals is located in Alagoas, Brazil, which hosts five of the world's biggest iron ore mines. The installation license (LI) authorising the project construction was obtained in August 2009 and the definitive feasibility study was completed in September 2012.

Despite being touted as the best way to clean up dirty fossil fuels, commercial deployment of carbon capture storage (CCS) in the power industry has been near non-existent. Now, for the first time ever, a coal-fired power plant is being retrofitted with CCS.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has been accused of 'waging a war' on coal after announcing proposals to reduce CO2 emitted by coal-fired power plants. Industry has called the proposals "extreme" and "ill-advised" and it is poised for a fight. But should the EPA be the coal industry's only concern?

Moapa is the first large-scale solar power project to have gained construction approval on a tribal land in North America.

Alstom recently announced it was installing a new flue gas corrosion protection system at the Weiher coal power plant in Germany to protect its boiler evaporator walls against corrosion by reduced oxygen potential. With plants expected to run for decades

As a largely unexplored renewable source, marine and hydrokinetic energy - or ocean power - is gaining traction as the next best thing in the power industry.

Scientists working on an international collaboration to mimic the process of photosynthesis have reached a significant milestone in the quest to develop an efficient and abundant alternative fuel. The results could bring us one step closer to matching plants in their ability to exploit the Sun's energy

A user-friendly site where students can see a picture and read about plant and animal species found in different habitats of North America (scroll down to the "Habitat Guides" section). Teachers can also create a classroom species list.

A video demonstrating the importance of polar ice to the health of the oceans.

Resource for educators abot global climate change, NASA.

Teaching and training for geoscience community from COMET progam - UCAR Community Programs.

ELI: Environmental Literacy & Inquiry.

A lot of good background reading on global climate change.

IPCC data distribution centre.

A report on the impacts of GCC in the United States.

Concentrated solar power (CSP) with energy storage is an upcoming renewable technology that promises to provide cost-effective power generation with improved efficiency.

Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change

The decision by Iraq to invite interest in a number of solar independent power producer (IPP) projects is not the first time that Baghdad has sought to push ahead with competitively tendered IPP schemes.

An interactive map showing likely effects of continued GCC.