Monthly Archives: April 2010

330 Sq Foot Apartment of Greeness.

By AKB | Published: April 30, 2010
This video does a great job point out how green this apartment is because it uses natural light and has low energy appliances. But the savings from just taking up less space and the attitude of the family that lives there is ultimately much more important to the greenness of this Hong Kong apartment.
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Enviros approve next generation coal plant

By melissalott | Published: April 20, 2010
Success for clean coal with enviros approval of next gen coal plant? On Friday, Amanda wrote a piece on new technology that might make carbon capture and sequestration economically viable in the near-term. Yesterday’s announcement by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and  Tenaska Inc. show the importance of this type of win for the future of [...]
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Economic CO2 Capture… GASP!

By ADC | Published: April 16, 2010
As the largest source of CO2 emissions in the United States, scientists have long sought a process to clean up the coal-fired power industry. Unfortunately the solutions to capture and sequester carbon have yet to be economically feasible without the government placing a hefty price on carbon emissions. The new Silicon Valley start-up, Calera, claims [...]
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