The process of storing carbon in such ways that it won’t enter the atmosphere is known as carbon sequestration. What Goldberg and his fellow researchers are proposing is referred to as geochemical trapping. If it is discovered that the …
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]Solar panels typically convert sunlight into electricity or heat. But photosynthetic vegetation converts sunlight into chemical energy. Now MIT’s Daniel Nocera wants to bring photosynthesis to your home. Solar power only works, obviously, when the sun shines. Nocera’s idea is to take solar power and use it [...]
Members of the Fox Islands Electric Cooperative from the islands of Vinalhaven and North Haven, Maine last week, voted 382-5 in favor of siting a wind-power project in their community. This vote included both the seasonal and year-round communities (the area is a summer vacation destination) and gave the nod to what could be a [...]
Having seen his wind sites survive grizzly bears, lightning strikes and weather extremes across the country, Henry duPont, Managing Director of Lorax Energy Systems, LLC has become a believer in Second Wind’s Nomad data logger. Free news widgets on Feedzilla - Mattresses
I have mixed feelings about carbon sequestration. On the one hand, it might occupy the political sweet spot of requiring the least amount of change in power sources in order to eliminate carbon. Instead of needing sufficient political …
One of the reasons the grassland has been overrun is fire suppression practices. The article discusses the concept that allowing the brush to remain is a method for sequestering carbon in an effort to combat “global warming.”
Paying rural landowners in Oregon’s Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won’t necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. …
