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Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine |
How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Atmospheric carbon capture costs underestimated Capturing carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate climate change is likely to be too expensive to be practical, a new study suggests. |
Chemistry World April 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Putting the cement industry in the calcium loop Scientists in the UK have shown that two major industrial processes that generate large amounts of carbon dioxide could usefully be linked together to deliver significant savings in energy and CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World June 2, 2009 Nina Notman |
UK's first CCS pilot plant switched on The first UK pilot of carbon capture technology on a working coal-fired power plant has started in Scotland. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Dutch Power Ahead with Carbon Capture The first Dutch trial to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's waste gas emissions has been launched in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2011 Patrick Walter |
UK Government Pulls the Plug on CCS Plant Plans for the UK's first commercial scale carbon capture and storage power plant have been shelved. |
Chemistry World September 11, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
China forging ahead with carbon capture China's first carbon capture trial is making money by selling its carbon dioxide to beverage companies to add fizz to their drinks, according to China Huaneng, the state owned energy firm that is running the trial. |
Chemistry World June 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Stripping down the carbon storage problem Chemists looking at solid amine materials to capture carbon dioxide from industrial flue gases need to pay more attention to how they will be regenerated in a practical setting, say US researchers. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore |
The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes |
Chemistry World December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World September 15, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched The world's first coal-fired power station to capture and store its own carbon dioxide emissions was launched on 9 September by Swedish power company Vattenfall in the north-eastern German city of Spremberg. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
New catalyst converts waste CO2 to useful molecules Super-efficient catalysts for conversion of waste carbon dioxide from power stations into useful cyclic carbonate molecules could help reduce emissions and the petrochemical industry's dependence on fossil fuels, say UK chemists. |
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas |
Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Mark Peplow |
The carbon capture challenge Attention is shifting toward carbon capture and utilization, which aims to use CO 2 as a feedstock to make fuels, chemicals and other useful products. |
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns |
Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere. |
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma |
Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Azo-cops nab CO 2 but let N 2 go free Scientists have developed a new class of porous polymer that can efficiently trap carbon dioxide while actively rejecting nitrogen. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged. |
Chemistry World April 1, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Take carbon dioxide, dissolve slowly in water Carbon dioxide can be safely stored for millennia in deep, underground reservoirs, according to a new study by a team of international researchers. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
Rehabilitating captured CO2 Rather than burying it underground, companies are developing processes that use carbon dioxide emissions as chemical starting materials. Andy Extance investigates |
Chemistry World September 13, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Carbon capture schemes pose low risk to people Any health risk associated with leaks from carbon capture and storage sites will be minor, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes. |
Popular Mechanics November 17, 2008 Jon Luoma |
Scientists Recommend Permanent Method For Carbon Sequestration: Turn CO2 into Rock A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman and the same principle could be transferred to rock formations in shallow seas. |
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Carbon capture with sawdust Plants may help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when dead as well as alive, say scientists from Spain. |
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Site chosen for long-awaited US clean coal project The FutureGen Alliance - a consortium of international power companies responsible for designing, building and operating the site - announced on 28 February that Morgan County, Illinois, US will host the carbon dioxide (CO 2) storage site. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
Catalytic carbon dioxide convertors The world's demand for energy, and the resultant carbon dioxide emissions, are drastically changing our climate. UK startup Econic Technologies is developing catalysts that could take some of that CO 2 and lock it up in high-performance polymer materials. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 James Urquhart |
Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst UK scientists have taken inspiration from the sea urchin and shown how nickel nanoparticles could be a cheap and re-usable catalyst in a key step for capturing carbon dioxide produced by power plants and the chemical industry. |
Chemistry World September 2010 Tsouris et al. |
Do we really need carbon capture and storage? The two sides of the CCS debate go head to head - should CCS be backed or sidelined? |
Chemistry World August 7, 2006 Ned Stafford |
Sea Sediment Storage Proposed for Carbon Dioxide It may be possible to fight global warming by burying carbon dioxide in reservoirs hundreds of meters below the ocean floor. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell |
Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. |
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Kathleen Kerwin |
CO2: The Debate Heats Up Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? That will be the key issue in any legal challenge by auto makers to California's proposed rules to reduce carbon dioxide in auto exhaust. |
Chemistry World May 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Greenhouse gas milestone exceeded Global atmospheric carbon dioxide levels surpassed 400ppm in March for the first time on record, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
Chemistry World December 2, 2011 |
European economy burdened by air pollution costs Europe is paying a high price for air pollution, according to a new report. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. |
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner |
U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas. |
Chemistry World November 11, 2010 Mike Brown |
Europe to plough billions into green energy The world's largest program of investment in projects that demonstrate low carbon and renewable energy technology on a commercial scale has been launched by the European Commission, with a call for proposals from companies. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2008 Matt Wilkinson |
Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide Oman's peridotite alone could lock away over a billion tons of CO 2 a year - a significant slice of the 30 billion tons of CO 2 emitted annually worldwide by human activity. |
Chemistry World April 7, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Isolation of cyanoformate suggests new carbon capture approaches The formation of the cyanoformate ion helps to explain why plants' ethylene producing enzymes aren't poisoned by cyanide |
Chemistry World May 4, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Cutting the Cost of Climate Change Scientists have welcomed a UN climate change report released on Friday that sets out a range of affordable options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. |
Chemistry World August 10, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
Facelift for FutureGen project America's flagship clean coal project, FutureGen, will be revamped through $1 billion in economic stimulus funds pledged by the US Department of Energy on 5 August. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2008 Arthur Rogers |
EU Extends Emissions Trading Scheme to Petrochemicals Proposals for reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) will impact the chemicals sector by extending the system to nitrous oxide (N 2O) emissions. |
National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin |
Cleaner, More Efficient Method for Capturing CO2 Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a screening method that would use ionic liquids -- a special type of molten salt that becomes liquid under the boiling point of water -- to separate carbon dioxide from its source. |
Chemistry World August 11, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Swellable polymer sponges up CO 2 A porous polymer 'sponge' that absorbs carbon dioxide by swelling up has been developed by scientists in the UK. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2006 Simon Hadlington |
Keep on the Grass US researchers have found it is possible to grow crops for fuel in a way that results in a net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. |
Chemistry World October 16, 2015 James Urquhart |
Microporous copper silicate sucks up carbon dioxide A carbon capturing microporous copper silicate material has been created that could offer a cheaper and simpler way of capturing carbon dioxide from the gas flues of fossil fuel power plants. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Phillip Broadwith |
Carbon capture and storage labelled 'farcical' Carbon capture and storage projects in the EU have been turned into a 'farce' by failures in funding programs and a lack of clarity about what they aim to achieve, according to a report from the ENGO Network. |
U.S. CPSC December 19, 2006 |
Crown Boiler Co. Recalls Boilers Due to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Hazard The boilers can generate excessive levels of carbon monoxide in the flue gases, posing a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. |