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UW scientists launch major carbon storage research project - Wyoming Business Report

LARAMIE — University of Wyoming researchers will develop technologies to safely and economically store carbon dioxide (CO2) with funding announced last week by the U.S. Department of Energy. Supported by the $1.5 ... Read more

Future Unclear for FutureGen 2.0 Carbon Capture and Storage Network - Environment News Service

WASHINGTON, DC , August 17, 2010 (ENS) - The Obama administration has decided to spend $1 billion in Recovery Act funds to build FutureGen 2.0, a clean coal repowering program and carbon dioxide storage ... Read more

RWE, BASF, Linde Reduce Energy Needs for Carbon-Dioxide Capture - BusinessWeek

So-called carbon capture and storage has been supported by European governments as a way of reducing emissions. The technology has yet to be proven for large-scale use. Electricity is required to capture the ... Read more

Economic Stimulus Money for Carbon Capture Projects in the U.S - Associated Content

As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the U.S. Department of Energy is granting $612 million for three carbon capture and storage projects located in Illinois, Louisiana, and Texas. The ... Read more

Bill Gates on R&D, a Carbon Tax and China’s Climate Role - New York Times Blogs

We need both a market push (R&D funding) and market pull by having a price on carbon. Pricing carbon emissions ... renewable energy to a high share requires breakthroughs in storage technology.  In looking at these ... Read more

Carbon Lobby Recommends Actions to Lift `Low Ebb' Confidence in UN Market - Bloomberg

including potential programs to cut emissions by protecting forests as well as capture and storage of carbon dioxide emitted by power stations and factories. Read more

Could Australia Go Carbon Neutral By 2020? - Forbes (blog)

I have just been sent a remarkable document entitled “ Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy Plan ... using molten salt storage to provide a constant supply of energy, to provide 60% of the country’s power. Read more

RWE, BASF and Linde: Breakthrough in capturing carbon from flue gas of coal-fired ... - WebWire

This technology should allow more than 90 percent of the carbon dioxide contained in the waste gas of a power plant to be captured for subsequent sub-surface storage or for chemical transformation, for example to ... Read more

WVU to lead new carbon capture project - Charleston Gazette

less than a week before his planned visit to Charleston to discuss carbon capture and storage, or CCS. DOE will provide a consortium led by WVU with $12.5 million as part of the new U.S.-China Clean Energy Research ... Read more

Developments and Innovation in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture and Storage Technology: Carbon ... - TMCnet

(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/1f620c/developments_and_i) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new ... Read more

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Nanaimo Estuary has strong potential for carbon storage

The Nanaimo Estuary is one of the most important estuaries in the province for carbon storage, deemed critical for slowing climate change and absorbing spent carbon. Read more

WVU Getting Grant to Study Carbon Dioxide Storage

West Virginia University is getting $12.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to study capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. Read more

RWE, BASF, Linde Develop Low-Energy Technology for Carbon-Dioxide Capture

RWE AG , BASF SE and Linde AG said their method of capturing carbon-dioxide from power-station smokestacks uses 20 percent less energy than other technologies. Read more

Clean-Coal Group Backs New Carbon Capture And Storage Project

Clean-Coal Group Backs New Carbon Capture And Storage Project Read more

Rockefeller, Energy Secretary Chu to Discuss Carbon Storage at Forum

The Sept. 8 forum at the University of Charleston will look ahead at how West Virginia can be a clean coal leader. Read more

RWE, BASF and Linde: Breakthrough in Capturing Carbon from Flue Gas

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, September 3, 2010 -- Since 2009 RWE, Linde and BASF have been testing a new technology for separating carbon dioxide (CO2) from flue gas in a pilot plant at RWE’s Niederaussem power station near Cologne. Read more

Edible Nanostructures

Compounds made from renewable materials could be used for gas storage, food technologiesSugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible.The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks ... Read more

Edible nanostructures: Compounds made from renewable materials could be used for gas storage, food technologies

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led researchers to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are simple to make. Most other MOFs are made from petroleum-based ingredients, but the new MOFs you can ... Read more

Natural History Museum's Origins of Western Culture hall will close for a 3-year renovation

The mummies at the National Museum of Natural History are going into storage. Their antiquated hall, the Origins of Western Culture, will close Sept. 26 for an extensive three-year renovation, although a few specimens will be viewable next spring. Natural History Museum - Museum - Natural History - United States - California Read more

WVU to lead new carbon capture project

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia University will lead a new effort to help develop technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, as part of a U.S.-China partnership focused on clean energy. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu... Read more