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11/8/2011
of Thin Air: The Quest to Capture Carbon Dioxide
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11/2/2011
It seems modest, as power plants go -- a 29-megawatt facility, situated just north of the Vermont-Massachusetts line, that will burn woody biomass to generate enough power for 25,000 to 30,000 homes. But like many proposed plants in the recently ...
9/12/2010
It has an appealing symmetry to it: If we got ourselves into this climate mess by digging up and burning coal, maybe we can fix it by creating some more coal and putting it back into the ground.
That very idea, involving the ...
7/9/2010
Simmered out of eucalyptus, charcoal is being hoed into the degraded soils of former forests in western Kenya. Roasted out of chicken manure, it is spurring the growth of malting barley in Australia. And in Iowa, researchers are plowing charcoal ...
28/2/2010
Scientists in Eastern Washington are at the forefront of research into an ancient practice that shows promise as a clean
fuel source, a way to improve soil condition and to capture carbon that otherwise would be released into the ...
22/6/2009
Climate change is inevitable, proceeding and even accelerating.
With those alarming words, author and theorist James Lovelock left the two dozen or so people within earshot – a mixed bag of politicians, activists, corporate types and ...
11/4/2009
Burning trees and biomass has ironically emerged as a “solution” to climate change.
Following the false solution of industrial bio
fuels we now have the waste left from production of bio
fuels as the next magic bullet. The process used ...
24/3/2009
Whenever you hear the word miracle, you know there's trouble just around the corner. But no matter many times they lead to disappointment or disaster, the newspapers never tire of promoting miracle cures, miracle crops, miracle
fuels and miracle ...
16/3/2009
Green guru James Lovelock claims that the only hope of mitigating catastrophic climate change is through
biochar - biomass "cooked" by pyrolysis.It produces gas for energy generation, and charcoal - a stable form of carbon.The ...
27/2/2009
In Brazil’s Amazon basin, farmers have long sought out a special form of fertiliser – a locally
sourced compost-like substance prized for its amazing qualities of reviving poor or exhausted soils. They buy it in sacks or dig it out of the earth ...
10/1/2009
Prefacing the launch of the fourth Observer Ethical Awards, we've chosen to highlight 20 of the biggest ethical ideas around at the moment, affording some respite to the prevailing jam-side-down version of life on offer almost everywhere else. ...
30/12/2008
When pre-Columbian natives in the Amazon Basin first began to use
biochar--a fine-grained, carbon-rich type of charcoal made from burning bone fragments and other food remains--some 7,000 years ago, they knew that it helped their crops grow. But ...
19/12/2008
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Biochar and its Role in Mitigating Climate Change
Salman Zafar
December, 17, 2008
The growing concerns about climate change have brought
biochar, a charcoal produced from ...
27/11/2008
Myth 1: solar power is too expensive to be of much use
In reality, today's bulky and expensive solar panels capture only 10% or so of the sun's energy, but rapid innovation in the US means that the next generation of panels will be much ...