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Top 10 Energy Stories of 2009
31 Dec 2009 at 22:39
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Alternative Energy, Carbon Emmssions, Energy, Oil and natural gas, Peak Oil, Technology, Transportation
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Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2009. Previously I listed how I voted in Platt’s Top 10 poll, but my list is a bit different from theirs. I have a couple of stories here that they didn’t list, and I combined some topics. And don’t get too hung up on the relative rankings. You can make arguments that some stories should be higher than others, but I gave less consideration of whether 6 should be ahead of 7 (for example) than just making sure the important stories were listed.
To Bury CO2 or Recycle It
While not the most powerful of the greenhouse gases produced by humanity, CO2 is certainly the most prevalent, if you don’t count water vapor. To a very large extent, addressing climate change depends on three main strategies for dealing with the excess CO2 our activities emit: avoiding its creation by switching to other energy sources, such as renewables or nuclear power; capturing and storing
Talking Energy: carbon capture and storage
Hot topic: fully operational carbon capture and storage (CCS) is still several years away, but when it finally arrives this “clean coal” technology will change the face of energy generation
Scientific American’s Path to Sustainability: Let’s Think about the Details
17 Nov 2009 at 14:11
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Scientific American presents “A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030″ in its November issue. In many ways, it sounds good. But let’s think about the details: What would the end result look like? Would it really be sustainable? What would the costs really be? Is there any way we could afford to do what is proposed?
Reduce Carbon Emission – Feeding Frenzy
An article in today’s New York Times offers more detail on the manner in which Congressional climate legislation has fractured the energy industry into competing groups of haves and have-nots, based on how companies and sectors were treated under the Waxman-Markey bill and their hopes for receiving a better deal in the pending Kerry-Boxer bill in the Senate.
Energy Firms Find No Unity on Climate Bill
As the Senate prepares to tackle global warming, the nation’s energy producers, once united, are battling one another over policy decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars in coming decades.
Cutting Emissions Through Natural Gas
A few weeks ago, BP reiterated that idea. Addressing a Financial Times’ energy conference, Lamar Mckay, president of BP Americas said, “Natural gas has the greatest potential to provide the largest carbon reductions at the lowest cost using technology that is available today.”
Obama orders feds to cut energy use, emissions
President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the federal government — the nation’s largest energy user — to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce its impact on the environment.
