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Let's put CO2 underground, and then...

Researchers in Britain took a serious look at what happens if we do "sequester" or dump or pump our excess CO2 underground. Surprise, the gas does NOT adhere to the rocks. It either forms bubbles or dissolves in underground water. Carbon capture is a global...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Capture, Taxes, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companies

Calling all carbon capture and recycling companiesRecycling is illegal.You can't make anything out of garbage!Really who would purchase anything made out of garbage?There would be no way that garbage particles could be filtered out of plastic or even paper to make the material good enough for use in these sophisticated...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Big Brother, inmate, recycling company, carbon capture, tax, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-03-23

Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technology

Sucking it up: Powerspan tests carbon capture technologyPowerspan tests carbon capture technologyThe World Innovation Foundation is the voice of the world's 'INDEPENDENT' scientific community (3,500 eminent scientists, engineers and technologists and counting). It is not dictated too by governments or national academies of science. This independence of mind away from...

Tags: Vertical industries, World Innovation Foundation, carbon capture, Powerspan, carbon capture technology, capture technology, government

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

Additional Resources

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple leaves Chamber of Commerce in green dispute

Cap and TAX dramatically increases green house gassesGood for the chamber of commerce to have their eyes open. All this energy tax legislation does is move energy consuming manufacturing off shore to countries where the production of that energy is dramatically more pollution producing. Apple needs to pull it's head...

Tags: Apple Inc., Obama, manufacturing

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass

That's not my conclusion, BTW, but the main sponsor of the newly proposed Senate bill on energy and climate change, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) admits she does not have the needed votes to pass her bill. But she's working on it. That could mean weeks or months of...

Tags: Bill, U.S. Senate, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-02

Don't inhale...those emissions wafting in from China

Two ThingsOne: Please spell check things before you upload them. Expensive is spelled incorrectly on your post.Two: The general problem we have with China is that the investment in disposal does not exist. If they even spent a quarter of what we do on disposal, we would most likely not...

Tags: methane, landfill, greenhouse gas

Discussion threads 2009-08-11

One more voice AGAINST geo-engineering to combat global warming

Fuller, you are spamming ZDNet.Every day your alarmist short blurbs, without any intelligent analysis, becomes boring.Have you ever considered taking a real job?Oh, btw, what happened to your standard 'disclaimer'? Wrong on that also?And what is it, global warming or climate change? You keep on flip flopping.Seriously, get an honorable...

Tags: geo-engineering, global warming, everyday live, green technology, too-often

Discussion threads 2009-08-09

Bathing the earth in acid?

The head of NOAA says global warming has an evil twin. It's a variety of oceanic acid stomach. The chemistry is pretty straight forward for those who managed first-year chemistry in high school. CO2 + H20 = H2CO3. That would be carbonic acid, not the...

Tags: Acid, Carbon Dioxide, Ocean, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Dead-Finger Tech: Panasonic HD front projector

I like my toys. Dual monitors on a quad-core, 12 GB Mac Pro. Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDMI capture card. 4 TB of local disk, including my favorite, a 300 GB WD 10k Velociraptor system disk. Logitech Trackman Wheel and a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Elite. Canon HV20 and...

Tags: Panasonic, Movie, Tirion, Projectors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-07-29

News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?Somebody isn't doing the mathThree times [i]what[/i]?If the world population plateaus at 10 billion, each of whom uses 10 times the per capita energy that the USA does now, that comes to a total of less than 1% of the world's insolation.Greenhouse...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Carbon capture? Nuc plants? Not gonna help?

Swedish engineers did some calculating on whether it would work to use two of the more popular approaches to curtailing global warming. They looked at carbon capture or sequestration and more nuclear power plants. Capturing carbon is pointless they say. As for nuclear: it's a heat disaster,...

Tags: Capture, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Geo-engineering can save this planet

An article in the next issue of "Atlantic" puts geo-engineering front and center for stopping the ill effects of global warming. Faster and cheaper than the more political proposals like cap and trade or efficient cars. It's written by Graeme Wood, called "Moving Heaven and Earth." When they...

Tags: Atmosphere, Blade, Radiation, Wood, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Sun & Symantec: A New Breed of Sustainability Leadership?

The passage of the Waxman Markey Bill through the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee this week has left behind it some hard feelings and a split in the business lobby. The US Chamber of Commerce came under severe pressure for lobbying against the...

Tags: Sustainability, Symantec Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Duke Energy Corp., Climate, Chamber, Bjorn Lomborg, Globalization, Security, Strategy, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-05-24

Windows 7 build 7077 screenshots leaked

Windows 7 build 7077 screenshots leakedWOWScreenshots of the about box, desktop, media player, even the START MENU!!!!... OMFG!!! This is SO EXCITING! After seeing these I realize just how awesome this new OS is.... I MUST HAVE WINDOWS 7 NOW! Great piece of journalism.... What a get!RE:...

Tags: Blogging, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 build 7077, Windows 7 build 7077 screenshot, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 Build

Discussion threads 2009-04-08

World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivity

World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivityVirtual Journalism Summit is a Great ExampleLast night I attended the 1st [b]Virtual Journalism Summit[/b], sponsored by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, in partnership with the McCormick Foundation. Co-speakers for this...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Second Life, virtual meeting, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Cuts Annual Paper Usage and Greenhouse Emissions in Half

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University wanted to eliminate duplication of student-related documents and process inefficiencies across 130 locations throughout the United States and Europe and establish a common application to house the university's student-based documentation - reducing paper usage across the organization, minimizing its carbon footprint, and providing the ability to electronically...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Duplication, Student

Case studies 2009-04-01

First volley in the new American civil war: over climate change

A first draft of a climate change and energy efficiency bill has been introduced into Congress. The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee released the first draft of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. emocratic leaders hope will it be voted...

Tags: Civil War, Geothermal Energy, Energy Efficiency, Bill, Rep., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-31

EPA, CO2 and reality

I recently blogged about the EPA's finding that CO2 and other greenhouse gases are detrimental to public health. Then some unkind realist sen me the following email, replete with actual historic perspective, often so deleterious to blind optmisim: "Mr. Fuller. Look at the original clean air act,...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-26