Matt Goes Green

Learn what carbon sequestration is and why it is important to you.

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. …

Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba, argues that “carbon sequestration is irresponsibly portrayed as an imminently useful option for solving the challenge” of global warming. Smil points out that to sequester …

I was asked recently to give a rundown on the viability of carbon sequestration. This is a fancy term for separation and storage of carbon, generally in the form of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the result of burning nearly any kind …

Students have constructed a vehicle that is solely powered by wind energy, the Ventomobile. It took them many months of intense construction work to reach this goal. First wind tunnel testing produced very promising results. The extremely stylish three-wheeler features a two-bladed rotor on top, with a diameter of two meters. The efficiency of this [...]

The biggest stumbling block preventing the widespread adoption of fuel cell technology has been a reliance on hydrogen as the fuel. Not only is hydrogen both difficult and dangerous to store and distribute, but 96 percent of hydrogen comes from oil and gas. New research from a University of Virginia team, recently funded by a [...]