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Chemistry World August 29, 2014 Elisabeth Bowley |
Concerns over chemical treatment of reclaimed fracking fluid In the next 50 years, over one trillion gallons of water will be used in shale gas extraction but research from scientists in the US suggests that environmentally detrimental compounds are being created when this fluid is recycled. |
Chemistry World November 15, 2011 Sean Milmo |
Fracking with propane gel An alternative approach to hydraulic fracturing or fracking of shale rock to release tightly-stored natural gas that may be safer than conventional techniques is being tested across North America. |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Soaking up Carbon Researchers recently announced that they had created metal-based sponges that have exceptionally high capacity for storing carbon dioxide. This nanotechnology is one of many new solutions in the search to find a fix for storing human-emitted carbon-based greenhouse gases. |
Geotimes December 2004 Lisa M. Pinsker |
A Passive Approach to Healthy Oil Production A technology first used to help with mine safety has evolved into a tool for the oil and gas industry, with potential in application for sequestering carbon. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Elinor Richards |
Shortcut to carbon dioxide plastics holds sequestration promise Japanese scientists have cleared a significant hurdle in using carbon dioxide as a chemical feedstock and made a polymer that contains almost a third of the gas by weight. |
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock The first systematic environmental assessment of an industrial plant that produces polyols from carbon dioxide has revealed that they significantly reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and the demand on fossil fuel reserves. |
Geotimes March 2003 |
Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible. |
Geotimes March 2003 S. Julio Friedmann |
Storing Carbon in Earth Carbon sequestration is capturing carbon dioxide, either from the atmosphere or emission streams, and storing it in reservoirs, such as plants or soils. Carbon dioxide could be converted to solid chemicals or injected into the deep ocean. Though there are risks, the potential pay-off is enormous. |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2011 Dan Dzombak |
Fracking, the Music Video Investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica along with students from New York University have come out with a music video on hydraulic fracturing, more commonly called fracking. |
Chemistry World August 15, 2014 Philip Robinson |
Audit of fracking fluids highlights data deficiencies A US survey of almost 250 chemicals used in fracking has identified potentially harmful compounds and exposed a lack of information about them that is hampering efforts to understand fracking's environmental impact. |
Geotimes December 2004 Jay Chapman |
Carbon Dioxide Alchemy Some scientists are experimenting with a new form of alchemy, not looking to create a substance, but rather remove one: carbon dioxide. If their process works, it could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd |
Carbon Capture Starts From Coal-Plant Advances in Lab Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials. |
The Motley Fool August 19, 2009 Toby Shute |
Should Oil and Gas Investors Fear the FRAC Act? The FRAC Act seeks to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act so that hydraulic fracturing would be regulated on a federal level. What's in that frac fluid? Congress would like to know. |
Geotimes October 2006 Megan Sever |
Giving Carbon a Deep-Sea Burial While many people are calling for an immediate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, others are looking toward ways to dispose of the excess carbon dioxide. Burying the gas in sediments below the ocean could be a potential solution |
Chemistry World April 10, 2013 Akshat Rathi |
Engineered extremophile brews bulk chemical US researchers have engineered a heat-loving microbe to produce a bulk chemical from carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Their results may provide a viable industrial alternative to blue-green algae. |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson |
More Proppants, Please Can the drilling equipment company CARBO Ceramics squeeze out more growth? |
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
Fracking prohibited in New York state and Lancashire Local rulings in the UK and US will prohibit hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. |
Chemistry World February 20, 2012 Patrick Walter |
Risk of water pollution by fracking overstated The hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process - injecting high pressure water, sand and chemicals into a shale bed to release natural gas - is not responsible for groundwater contamination, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2014 Polly Wilson |
Uranium complexes unlock feedstock potential of carbon dioxide European scientists have synthesized uranium complexes that take them a step closer to producing commodity chemicals from carbon dioxide. |
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 David Lee Smith |
Fracking Should Benefit From Shareholders' Attention Natural gas development should benefit from shareholders' close attention. |
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. |
Reactive Reports Issue 71 David Bradley |
Sunshine Superpower Sandia National Laboratory's sunshine to petrol project is hoping to pluck new fuel from thin air. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2010 Toby Shute |
Can Shale Gas Go Green? Faced with potential regulatory overkill, I think the industry will clean up its act. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Chemicals with an Amine Chemists in France have devised a new way to turn carbon dioxide into a useful chemical building block. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Katie Lian Hui Lim |
Switching desalination plants from carbon dioxide source to sink A new process has been proposed to decompose waste desalination brine using solar energy that could allow desalination plants to act as a sink rather than a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and help to neutralize ocean acidity. |
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. |
Science News May 9, 2009 |
Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000. |
IndustryWeek May 18, 2011 |
The New Black Gold Experts say the shale gas boom presents a historic opportunity for U.S. manufacturers and the nation's energy security. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2010 Matt Wilkinson |
Recycling CO2 to make plastic Massachusetts-based Novomer has received $18.4 million from the US Department of Energy to develop a process for converting carbon dioxide into polycarbonate polymers that could be used to make plastic bottles. |
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 July 11, 2013 Andria Nicodemou |
Turning carbon dioxide into something useful New research shows that a water-soluble catalyst developed by scientists in the US can electrocatalytically transform carbon dioxide into a useful chemical feedstock. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2014 Susannah May |
Oil reserves put under the microscope with new lab-on-a-rock Scientists in Canada have developed a new microfluidic model carved from rock, which can replicate the conditions found in underground oil reservoirs in a laboratory with more accuracy than ever before. |
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. |
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab |
Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from 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. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2008 Jill Jusko |
Encouraging Sustainable Design Online calculator assesses products' carbon footprints. |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2011 Aimee Duffy |
Natural Gas 201 An intro to shale plays, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. |
Entrepreneur July 2007 Julie Moline |
Clean Up How to offset travel's toxic toll on the environment. |
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 October 18, 2011 Andrew Turley |
European Fracking Boom 'Doubtful' Fracking has taken off in the US in recent years, driven by high oil prices and concerns about energy security. But environmental groups have raised concerns about the potential for hazardous chemicals to leak into water sources. |
Chemistry World October 9, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
World's first carbon capture coal plant opens The world's first first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage technology officially opened in Canada and it's expected to trap around 1 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. |
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. |
The Motley Fool March 18, 2011 David Lee Smith |
Watch for Real Progress on the Fracking Front Fracking's lot may improve, thanks to a state legislature and some oilfield-services chefs. |
Chemistry World January 19, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Carbon dioxide clusters cracked by IR Canadian scientists have, for the first time, been able to identify spectroscopically carbon dioxide clusters that could provide valuable information on intermolecular interactions. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2014 Mark Peplow |
Frack and blue Rather than lobbying for shale gas, a more fruitful strategy for the European chemical industry might be increasing its market share in higher-value chemicals production. |
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Holly Sheahan |
Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Greener route to esters dodges toxic reactant The industrially important synthesis of esters could be set to become greener and safer as German chemists have found a way to use carbon dioxide in place of carbon monoxide for alkoxycarbonylation. |
Chemistry World May 2, 2014 Jon Cartwright |
'Solar' jet fuel made out of thin air The dream of producing hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and sunlight is one step closer thanks to chemists in Europe who have made jet fuel from scratch in a solar reactor for the first time. |