Category Archives: Carbon sequestration

CO2 sequestration research stumbles onto something useful: a big lithium strike in Wyoming

Posted on May 2, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls Most lithium (the lightest metal) is now mined in the Andes (image above), but it looks like the U.S. has more than a little of it too: [T]he Rock Springs Uplift’s 18 million tons of potential … Continue reading →

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Modeling future CO2 sequestration

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

From the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) CO2 removal can lower costs of climate protection According to the analysis, carbon dioxide removal could be used under certain requirements to alleviate the most costly components of mitigation, but it … Continue reading →

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James Hansen Says Coal Is Greening The Planet!?!

Posted on March 29, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s an interesting measure of atmospheric CO2, called the “airborne fraction”. The airborne fraction is the fraction of the CO2 emitted each year which remains in the atmosphere. When humans emit say 9 gigatonnes of … Continue reading →

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Impractical Proposal: Dry Ice Sequestration on Antarctic Ice Sheets

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

An updated proposal to store CO2 on Antarctica Story submitted by John Tillman Story body: In 1995 two Japanese scientists suggested storing carbon dioxide in Antarctic ice caves.  Now three scientists at Purdue have published a more elaborate and detailed … Continue reading →

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CSIRO ‘solar sponge’ soaks up CO₂ emissions

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

From the ‘CO2 must be assimilated’ department comes this press release from CSIRO. I have to wonder if this is a ‘spongeworthy’ project. ====================== CSIRO scientists have created a ‘solar sponge’ which captures and then releases carbon dioxide using the … Continue reading →

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Now what is ‘death train’ Hansen going to do? Clean coal process developed to extract energy without burning or CO2

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

From James Hansen’s, Bill McKibben’s and Joe Romm’s worst nightmare department, comes this uplifting science story from the Ohio State University. Basically they found a way to oxidize coal and extract energy without releasing any CO2. When a team of … Continue reading →

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University of New Hampshire invertedly overheats soil, and pronounces a climate change result

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

From the University of New Hampshire comes this press release that made me recoil when I read the methodology involved because it is Mannian-Tiljanderish in the approach. Instead of doing top down heating (as occurs in Nature), they do bottom … Continue reading →

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Mind exploding: an all carbon solar cell

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

From Stanford University , the first carbon sequestration project that makes energy. I wonder, will Al Gore say the electricity produced by a carbon solar cell is “dirty energy”? Somewhere, off in the distance, I hear Joe Romm’s head exploding. … Continue reading →

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Climate Craziness of the Week – Environmentalist ignores international moratoriums, dumps in the ocean

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

From the Toronto Star, an example of holier than thou environmentalism in the name of carbon sequestration. Environmental controversy erupts on Canada’s Pacific coast Raveena Aulakh Environment reporter The Pacific Ocean, just off Canada’s west coast, has a new suspect … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – pissing away the CO2 alarm

Posted on August 17, 2012 by

From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology  comes this hilarious bit of news pushed as serious science. I like the idea of a “potion”. It fits right up there with some of the other crazy CO2 sequestration … Continue reading →

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Earth’s CO2 sinks increasing their uptake

Posted on August 2, 2012 by

Readers may recall these WUWT stories:  Earth’s biosphere booming,  California’s giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide, and Forget deforestation: The world’s woodland is getting denser and change could help combat climate change. NASA satellite imagery pointed this out long ago. … Continue reading →

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Researchers publish results of iron ocean fertilization experiment

Posted on July 18, 2012 by

From the Alfred Wegener Institute and the what took you so long department comes this interesting result. Carbon sequestration via algal blooms that sink to the sea floor after expiring – just add iron. The results, which were published in … Continue reading →

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Expansion of forests in the European Arctic could result in the release of carbon dioxide

Posted on June 18, 2012 by

From the University of Exeter , terrible news: Carbon stored in Arctic tundra could be released into the atmosphere by new trees growing in the warmer region, exacerbating climate change, scientists have revealed. The Arctic is getting greener as plant … Continue reading →

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Carbon capture and storage may have the potential for inducing seismic events

Posted on June 17, 2012 by

From the National Academies of Sciences News: Hydraulic Fracturing Poses Low Risk for Causing Earthquakes, But Risks Higher for Wastewater Injection Wells WASHINGTON — June 15th — Hydraulic fracturing has a low risk for inducing earthquakes that can be felt by … Continue reading →

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Who would have thunk it? Standing trees better than burning ones

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

From Duke University and the Department of Obvious Science  comes this study partially funded by NASA: Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality DURHAM, N.C. — The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in … Continue reading →

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Carbon capture and storage – “We still don’t know when CCS technologies will be technically proven at full scale”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

From the UK Energy Research Centre Carbon capture and storage — new research from UKERC shows tough road ahead to realize potential Research highlights key challenges for the government’s new CCS strategy Government plans to develop carbon capture and storage … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

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CEO: “The market for carbon capture and storage is dead”

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

The Norwegian company Aker Clean Carbon may be closed. Its value is set to zero. The market for carbon capture and storage is dead according to their CEO. Guest Post by Geir Hasnes, Norway Article in today’s net edition of … Continue reading →

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Carbon capture scrapped in the UK, “…descended into farce”

Posted on October 19, 2011 by

All they needed was unlimited money and it would have worked… From the BBC:

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The heartbreak of Emiliania huxleyi 

Posted on October 14, 2011 by

From San Francisco State University  another indication that nature is such a poor engineer that phytoplankton can’t adapt to a small change in ocean pH. But then again it is a closed lab experiment, not the ocean, and there’s those … Continue reading →

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