Category Archives: NYTimes

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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A Cellulosic Ethanol story to follow

By ADC | Published: March 16, 2010
Switchgrass, fuel of the near future? The New York Times recently reported on work at the University of Wisconsin in which a new method was developed to break down lignocellulose into sugars. A recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Ronald T. Raines and Joseph B. Binder outlines a process [...]
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Kudos are in order

By ADC | Published: January 27, 2010
I read an article just recently that really impressed me. Many articles about renewable energy sources tend to gloss over the downsides of a particular technology and present a very simplified view of the overall environmental merit of the ‘renewable’ energy source. Perhaps simplifying the science behind new technology is the point of science review [...]
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What’s a Locavore to do?

By ADC | Published: September 14, 2009
To start off with, I will define the term “locavore”. A locavore is intent on purchasing only (or as much as possible) locally produced food believing that minimizing food-miles (the distance food has to travel to your table) will in turn reduce energy consumption and save the planet. This belief has caught on in eco-conscious [...]
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US Energy Policy: Good Is Not Good Enough

By AKB | Published: August 10, 2009
Here are a few articles related to the current legislation in the US Senate right now: A Real Bill for the Climate: Here’s a quick one that explains the situation in congress right now with the current energy bill and why it should be more of a climate bill than an energy bill. A Missed [...]
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