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Coal plants could emit 90% less CO2 thanks to chilled ammonia

"But what about the long tailpipe?" Critics of plug-in vehicles often use the "long tailpipe" argument – the fact that CO2 emissions are generated at a power plant somewhere instead of coming from the vehicle – to show that all the "zero emission" cars aren't as clean as they seem. Plug-in advocates can then counter that, well, an EV is more efficient than an ICE car and we can use solar or wind to power our rides. But the fact remains that when plug-ins become more and more popular, they will be powered to a large extent by ... Read more →

Newsflash: Dumping iron filings into ocean won't reduce CO2 Domenick Yoney

It had been proposed sometime ago that geoengineering might help fight global warming. One plan in particular that drew a lot of attention was the dumping of hundreds of tons of iron filings into the ...

World's first green speed bumps? Frank Filipponio

How can a speed bump be green? Simple. If it does its job right and rewards low speed driving and punishes speeding, it can reduce gas consumption and exhaust emissions. That's exactly what these new ...

First carbon capture plant starts up in Germany Xavier Navarro

Swedish company Vattenfall has announced that its carbon plant with an incorporated CO2 capture facility in Stemberg, Germany, started working this week. The plant, which features proprietary ...

Australian study shows that planted trees capture less CO2 Xavier Navarro

A report issued by the Australian National University shows that unspoiled natural forests capture more carbon than artificially planted trees. The report states that this fact wasn't considered when ...

Blade Your Ride: cut emissions and save gas 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While much of the green car field is devoted to developing technology of new vehicles, what about the 800 million vehicles already on the road today? What if the technology existed to green your existing vehicle at a low cost and minimal effort to you? I recently had the opportunity to learn about ...

Pilot commercial algae to biofuel plant announced in Israel 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Inventure Chemical and Seambiotic have announced a joint venture to create a pilot commercial plant which will use algae to produce an array of chemicals and biofuels. The plant uses CO2 as feedstock for the algae. Inventure Chemicals comes into the partnership with knowledge about ...

Trees can capture 20 percent of a country's carbon emissions 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Figure of the day: In a country where half of the surface is covered by forests (such as Spain), trees capture 20 percent of that country's CO2 emissions. This nice information masks two facts: we still have 80 percent of those emissions still to reduce and that the group that is currently ...

Tyca reveals lamps that could absorb CO2 in parking lots 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

French company Tyca, which usually works on aquarium and aquiculture projects, has announced the development of lamps that could capture CO2. The lamps are actually a sort of aquarium made of transparent walls that hold microscopic algae that eat CO2 and use solar light to produce O2, like plants. ...

British scientists develop CO2 to natural gas process 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

What if we found a system to transform one of our big "enemies" into a fuel again, and then, when produced, re-transformed again? This is the aim of a project made at University of Nottingham's Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS), in the UK, directed by Mercedes Maroto-Valer. ...

Greenpeace: Carbon capture is not going to save our climate 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Greenpeace is quite unhappy with recent proposals to use carbon capture technology (CCT) at power plants that burn coal. According to the environmental group, CCT is like burying money. Their reasons? First and foremost, the technology is not yet 100 percent ready, and won't be until 2030. ...

New $100 million X-Prizes created to spur development of clean energy 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The X-Prize foundation was established help spur developments in a variety of areas including space travel, medicine and genomics. We've had plenty of coverage here of the Automotive X-Prize where the target is to develop a production viable car that can achieve the equivalent of 100mpg. The ...

CO2 captured to feed biodiesel-producing algae 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Two companies, Holcim and Aurantia are starting a new project to reuse CO2. They take the CO2 produced by a cement plant in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain and "feed" it to microalgae which then turn around and produce biodiesel. The results of this project will be tested to assess if the carbon ...

The emerging skepticism about carbon capture 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Despite the drubbing some of us are taking this winter there are still the same CO2-induced global warming predictions being made and so reducing the amount of carbon that's emitted to our skies appears to remain necessary. One of the ways that has been touted as the most promising has been carbon ...

Repsol fills old oil fields in the Mediterranian with CO2 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Repsol, one of Europe's biggest oil companies, has decided to store half a million tons of CO2 under the Mediterranean Sea. The plan is to capture CO2 at its refinery in Tarragona, Spain, and move it 43 km through the pipeline that connects it to an old "Casablanca" oil platform. This system will ...

Closed-cycle CO2 cars might be a reality one day 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Do you hate the idea of your car spewing exhaust? There might be a way to stop it without using any expensive batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. According to the New York Times, a pair of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working on a way to trap exhaust fumes (by blowing them ...

Australia's pioneer carbon capture project 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

EESTech Inc., a company based in Brisbane, Australia, owns the Asia-Pacific rights to a system called the Purenergy CO2 Capture System (CCS). This is supposed to be the world's first pre-engineered, modular CO2 capture system that can be retrofitted onto existing power plants or any large ...

NIMBY: regional goverment in Spain is against CO2 capture facilities in territory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Government of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain has just announced that they aren't going to accept the installation of any CO2 storage facility in its territory until further notice. Castilla-La Mancha might accept an exception in case of a broader consensus among all the administrations, including ...

Scientists unveil artificial CO2-capturing foam 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

A group of American scientists have unveiled a new type of foam-like substance which they claim captures CO2 up to 83 times its volume. The best part is that this foam is able to work at high temperature and pressure conditions, which makes it suitable for use in vehicles and power plants. The new ...

Carbon capture strategy could lead to emission-free cars 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

What, motoring without polluting? That sounds like a good thing to me. But before we take our champagne bottles out to celebrate, let's see what this means. According to a group of researches at the Georgia Institute of Technology, pollution-free transportation is possible. While major projects in ...

Val Kilmer replaces Will Arnett as the new KITT 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Val Kilmer. You know him as Ice Man or Batman (shudder) or, perhaps, as Moses. Soon, though, we'll think of him at KITT. Thanks (or no thanks if you're Will Arnett, aka a star of Arrested Development and the guy who already recorded the KITT voiceovers) to some fighting between GMC and Ford, Kilmer ...

The EU will apply strict controls to carbon capture technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As we have explained before, Europe wants to become a green continent and is taking various actions to accomplish this target. One of these efforts is the widespread use of carbon capture technologies. According to EU figures, 40 percent of Europe's carbon emissions come from coal plants that ...

Yokohama plants 30,000 trees near Hiratsuka Factory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In 2008, if your factories aren't the cleanest in the world, you can always compensate with some kind of carbon-balancing intervention to fix things. Such is the case of tiremaker Yokohama Rubber Company (YRC), which just announced that it's going to plant half a million trees, which equal 25 acres ...

Tell the FTC how to regulate green ads before the Jan. 25 deadline 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/Tell_the_FTC_how_to_regulate_green_ads_2'; The Federal Trade Commission held a public hearing Tuesday (Jan. 8) on how to regulate "green" advertising and they still want to know what you think. You can watch web-casts of the workshop and anyone is ...

On Being An 800 lb Gorilla 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

An 800 lb gorilla. That is what our own Al Gore called the U.S. while at the UN Climate Change meeting. Now, I know Al Gore is not a big hero with everyone who reads this website, but I respect his honesty. All the Chevy Volts and Opel Flexstreams, Segways and Vectrix vehicles won't look so good in ...

New refinery to be built in South Dakota to process Canadian crude 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When people think of South Dakota, assuming they think of the state at all, they probably remember the Black Hills, or Mount Rushmore. That may soon change. The largest supplier of crude oil to the United States is Canada and the majority of that oil comes from the oil sands of Alberta. Hyperion ...

Shell Oil to grow biofuels from marine algae 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Shell Oil formed a joint venture with HR Biopetroleum called Cellana and they plan to produce biofuels from marine algae. Shell, which owns a majority stake in the venture, will start production of a demonstration facility on the Kona coast of Hawai'i Island immediately. The production volume for ...

DECARBit project tries to capture carbon the cheapest way possible: before combustion 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The DECARBit project is an investigation paid for by the European Union to study carbon capture technologies during the precombustion process of coal and gas. Norway is also part of the project, via SINTEF (Norway does not belong to the EU). Current carbon capture techniques, mostly ...

Movigi does the unnecessary and develops an artificial tree that captures CO2 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

As we should always do with "breakthrough technologies," let's take this with a pinch of salt. A Spanish company named Movigi Spain Air Filter claims that they have developed a sort of artificial tree that is able to capture CO2 from the atmosphere by means of synthetic photosynthesis. We should say ...

A view about carbon capture projects around the world 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Carbon capture is a dream for oil companies and other polluting industries. It goes like this: power plants that are able to capture more than 80 percent of CO2, carbon pipes that take liquified CO2 down to old oil wells, and also mass producing hydrogen. Something that will allow the world to lick ...

Europe decides to push forward with carbon capture 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Carbon capture is here and the EU is trying hard to push it forward. In an article published by economy newspaper Cinco Días, it's explained that the big problem is overcoming the high costs associated with the process. It's estimated that reducing 80 to 90 percent of the CO2 emissions from ...

Terra preta: a fuel that could be also carbon negative? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Terra preta is a very interesting type of soil that you can find in the Amazon, and is supposedly manmade. Although it's unknown how it was made before the Europeans arrived, there's a modern method to obtain it: burn biomass so it's pyrolisized, breaking down long hydrocarbon chains like cellulose ...

Just how much of a difference could efficiency gains make on oil imports? A lot 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Sometimes you have to step away from the daily updates and take a peek at the larger "domestic and global fuels supply situation.' If you're the DOE Task Force on Strategic Unconventional Fuel that just released a three-volume report on exactly that matter, you'll discover that the "outlook is ...

McCain drinks a glass of ethanol every day 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Presidential hopeful John McCain went to car-maker-city Detroit and told them they must support higher fuel efficiency standards. John says it's a national security issue and we must be leaders on green technology. John even joked he drinks a glass of ethanol every day. Here are some quotes: ...

Drivers will not play a role in carbon law 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The United States government is in the early stages of crafting the nation's first carbon cap-and-trade law. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce released a white paper detailing the scope of the carbon law and one thing is already very clear: drivers won't be regulated directly because there ...

In Japan, hybrid larch trees can capture 30 percent more carbon 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

When speaking about carbon offsetting and capturing, it's necessary to know how much the trees that are being assigned to capture that carbon actually, you know, capture. We already know how some Mediterranian species can handle CO2 but there are a lot more types of trees around the world. From ...

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