Guest cheer-leading by David Middleton H/T to Gary Grubbs City Backs Deal for CCS Technology to Save New Mexico Coal Plant 08/19/2019 | Darrell Proctor The Farmington, New Mexico, city council on Aug. 15 unanimously approved a deal to transfer 95% of the ownership interest of the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station (SJGS) to Enchant…
By Rud Istvan ctm asked what I thought about the 7/31/2019 Forbes article by James Conca headed, “Net Zero Natural Gas Plant Game Changer.” My quick answer after reading the piece was, not much. He asked me to write up a WUWT guest post. I decided to research it rather than rely on Forbes; turns…
Guest “picking a fight with both sides” by David Middleton JUL 15, 2019EPA Drilling Regulations Remain Underrated Obstacle to Solving Global Warming William MurrayManager, Energy Meeting the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming will be impossible unless the United States leads the way. […] What remains is CCS technology, which the…
From Reuters SANHE, China (Reuters) – China Energy Group, the country’s biggest power generator, will add more than 6 gigawatts (GW) of new ultra-low emission coal-fired capacity this year as it bids to meet growing electricity demand, a senior official with the firm said on Thursday. The company also expected to build another 5 GW…
U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw Proudly Serving Texas’s 2nd Congressional District Press Releases Washington, July 18, 2019 Tags: Energy WASHINGTON, DC – Representative Dan Crenshaw, joined by Representatives Cuellar (TX-28), Flores (TX-17), Gonzalez (TX-15), Lamb (PA-17), Lucas (OK-3) and Walberg (MI-7), introduced the Launching Energy Advancement and Development through Innovations for Natural Gas (LEADING) Act of…
ETH Zurich The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich investigates nature-based solutions to climate change. In their latest study the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and how much carbon they would store. Study lead author and postdoc at the Crowther Lab Jean-François Bastin explains: “One aspect was…
University of Colorado at Boulder University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of using airborne carbon dioxide and nitrogen to produce a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals. By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells,…
Who knew that shooting yourself in the foot was less harmful than shooting yourself in the head?~ctm Lancaster University Solar panels and wind turbines coupled with energy storage offer a better hope for tackling climate change than trying to capture carbon from fossil fuel power stations, according to new research published by Nature Energy. Carbon…
Public Release: 13-Feb-2019 Carbon gas storage cavern is the best way to obtain clean energy from a fossil fuel The Research Center for Gas Innovation is developing technology to separate CO2 and methane in oil and gas exploration and store it in offshore salt caverns Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Green plan to make natural gas from US fracking operations really expensive and dangerous. Reenvisioning The Role For Natural Gas In A Clean Energy Future Clean” gas, or hydrogen sourced from natural gas, represents an alternative that has been receiving increased attention. If the process of converting natural gas into…