Q and A with the Energy Czar

September 15, 2010

The Clean Energy Czar speaks in a Q and A with the NY Times. Daniel Kammen, World Bank’s first Energy Czar, provides some interesting and sometimes surprising info, including this: Kenya has the highest per capita solar power of any nation on earth.

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Telling the Renewable Energy Story

August 26, 2010

Every idea needs to be presented in a compelling way if it is to catch on. According to Jeremy Shere, “What we need more of, to my mind, are stories about energy on a human scale, stories that give the average person a sense of what’s at stake and why he or she should care.”

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Talking Trash

August 23, 2010

Compare how Denmark handles its trash with the way New York does it. New York doesn’t fare well in this comparison.

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“Carbon Capture” Enters the Oxford Dictionary–Along With “Vuvuzela”

August 19, 2010

Advancing technology always provides society with new terms, and some of them make the mainstream. Among the new words defined in the Oxford Dictionary this year is “carbon capture and storage”: the process of trapping and storing carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels.

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Did We Really Need A Consultant To Tell Us This?

August 18, 2010

A study conducted by Wood McKenzie determined that by subsidizing the oil and gas industry, American taxpayers are picking up a portion of the real cost of those fossil energy sources. In turn, that discourages conservation and makes it harder for renewable energy sources to compete on price. I guess that’s why we also now subsidize renewable energy research.

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Green Newsfeed: Latest Green News

August 7, 2010

Here is a great feature at Living Green and Saving Energy: the Green Newsfeed. The latest green news scrolls continuously, updated throughout the day. Check it out.

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Progress on Making Renewable Rubber

August 4, 2010

In a presentation at the Society of Industrial Microbiology conference in San Francisco this week (August 1-5, 2010), Genencor described how synthetic biology is being applied to increase the yield and rate of production of this large volume chemical currently entirely derived from petroleum. BioIsoprene, as they call the renewably-produced isoprene, would make the tire and rubber industry less dependent on petroleum-derived materials.

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Catalytic Concrete that Purifies the Air

July 28, 2010

A new concrete containing a catalyst that breaks down nitrogen oxide from tailpipe emissions has been developed.

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Carbon Capture: The Next Wave in Green Investments?

July 23, 2010

Serious people and companies are starting to sped significant money to develop ways to capture carbon dioxide emissions. But I think the best ideas involve using the captured CO2 to produce another useful product. Apparently, the US Department of Energy agrees. US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu recently announced his agency is stepping in with some big bucks to fund six projects that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources into useful product.

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Green, Earthwise Chemistry

July 19, 2010

Albemarle Corporation, the Baton Rouge, LA-based specialty chemical company, has launched a new division focused on sustainable, eco-friendly products. With the name and branding of “Earthwise™” this division has as its mission the development and commercialization of a family of green chemistry products.

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