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Chemical Scrubbing Technology from Dow to be Used to Capture Power Plant Carbon Emissions

Advanced amine-based scrubbing technology from The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) is expected to be used in a pilot carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant built by Alstom Power, Inc. (Alstom) at the Belchatow Power Plant in Poland

17 Dec 2008

Has a New Glacial Age Been Diverted by Climate Change

The common wisdom is that the invention of the steam engine and the advent of the coal-fueled industrial age marked the beginning of human influence on global climate

17 Dec 2008

Sustainable Building Products Brochure Published by PPG

PPG Industries has published EcoLogical Building Solutions, a new brochure highlighting its sustainable architectural glass, coatings and paint products

17 Dec 2008

No Need for Batteries in Energy Harvesting Radios for Monitoring Bridge Safety

If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge

17 Dec 2008

Nanotechnologies for Cleantech Report

Clean-tech investing is at an all time high and is expected to flourish in a range of sectors, including renewable and distributed energy, advanced materials, transportation, and water purification and management

17 Dec 2008

New Lightweight, Resilient and Recyclable Plastic Chosen For Use in Electronic Car

A lightweight, resilient and 100 percent recyclable expanded polypropylene has been selected by Nordic low emissions car manufacturer

17 Dec 2008

ExxonMobil Invests $1Billion on Clean Diesel

ExxonMobil Refining and Supply has announced it will invest more than $1 billion in three refineries to increase the supply of cleaner burning diesel by about six million gallons per day

17 Dec 2008

Glaciers in Greenland Losing Ice Faster This Year than Last

Researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago

15 Dec 2008

Antarctic Ice Melting and Bedrock Is Moving

As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists have discovered

15 Dec 2008

Study Shows How Salt Water Irrigation Works

Take an arid field riddled with salty soil. Irrigate it with salty water. Plant a salt-tolerant grass along with a salt-sucking companion plant and what do you get? If you're a Brigham Young University research team, you raise a crop that successfully replaces corn as cattle feed

15 Dec 2008

Australian Emissions Reduction Plan Branded Low, Unacceptable, Pitiful, Short Sighted and Pandering to Polluters

In the space of a year Australia has gone from climate change hero to climate change under-achiever, announcing an emissions reduction target of just 5-15 per cent by 2020

15 Dec 2008

Barack Obama Picks Berkeley Lab Director Steve Chu for Energy Secretary

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Steve Chu, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to be Secretary of Energy

15 Dec 2008

Hydro Power Development Deal Formed Between Doheny Global Group and STUCKY Ltd

Doheny Global Group, a US based firm, and STUCKY Ltd, a Switzerland based firm, announce a partnership to develop hydro power facilities internationally

15 Dec 2008

Photovoltaics Company, Konarka, Signs Deal With Oil and Petroleum Company, Total

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power PlasticR, a material that converts light to energy, today announced the company has signed bilateral R and D and cooperation agreements with Total, one of the largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas companies in the world

15 Dec 2008

World Record Setting Earthrace Biodiesel Boat Starts Touring Australia

Over the last two years of promotions, the amazing Earthrace boat has had nearly 150,000 people walk through her, and she’s been seen on TV networks, and in Newspapers and Magazines around the globe. Now she's touring Australia

14 Dec 2008