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- 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
- Olive drab isn't the only green the Army cares about
- Want to know what the U.S. Army uses to manage its greenhouse gas emissions? The agency just extended its deployment of software from Enviance, which develops a greenhouse gas reporting and management system. After a pilot in Colorado's Fort Carson, the application is being rolled out at...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Enviance System, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- We don't know what we don't know
- We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- 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
- Repubs say the Waxman-Markey bill is DOA in Senate
- There was not a kind word to heard be from the Republican Party today about the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. Obama calls the bill "bold and necessary." The Republicans called it names. Waxman-Markey would change many aspects of federal law on energy, air pollution and global warming. Amazingly...
- Tags: Green Technology, U.S. Senate, Obama, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Sim your sustainability system: Software grapples with environmental uncertainties
- Need to figure out the implications of how to allocate limited environmental resources on a company or a community? GoldSim, a software development firm that got its start in modeling waste management scenarios, is working with a number of environmental agencies and well-known corporations to help apply...
- Tags: Software, Sustainability, GoldSim, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House
- Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...
- Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-06-25
- Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratorium
- Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumnonsensesequestration of CO2 is just total nonsense. It is technically impossible and outrageous.RE: Even in the heartland some think of a coal moratoriumWaxman would happily feed his children to polar bears if the Sierra club said it was the right...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, coal, heartland, coal plant
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Mattoon may be back on the map
- Actually the town in eastern Illinois was never really off the map. But it did take a big hit at the end of 2007, that's when the President from Texas killed the federal support for FutureGen, the next generation coal-burning power plant to be built in Mattoon. Some...
- Tags: Coal, Plant, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Carbon Capture and Petroleum Industry—a tale of two pities
- It's a pity that not everybody can be happy when the federal government does something. Or even just talks about doing something. Back when oil men sat in the top two executive positions in the land, POTUS and VPOTUS, oil was happy but gasoline buyers were not. ...
- Tags: Oil, Coal, Petroleum, Pity, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Financial Planning, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Greentechies smiling a little brighter today, Part Deux
- Billions and billions. What good entrepreneur could ignore the sound of money pouring out of Washington D.C.? From solar to coal, the energy folks may not be dancing in the streets, but they are walking more assuredly into board rooms across the land. A Swiss-owned solar firm...
- Tags: Global Warming, Alaska, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Oops, this is happening faster than predicted
- Greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide are accumulating faster than predicted. Now scientists are saying that global warming is going to happen much faster than the current U.N. commission's warnings. One leader of the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the nations of the world face two choices...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Scientist, Choice, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- The coal war heats up
- Coal is a major source of energy in the U.S. just as the U.S. is a majro producer of coal. We do not need to import coal the way we import two-thirds of the petroleum we consume. While we do import a small portion of the coal we...
- Tags: Coal, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-14
- Carbon 2009: make or break year?
- Emerging Energy Research predicts 2009 will be a crucial year for the coal industry and its move toward carbon capture technology. EER estimates that $20 billion has already been earmarked for various carbon sequestration projects. It is becoming clear to the coal industry, its utility and industrial customers...
- Tags: Emerging Energy Research, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- The future could be a gas with Carbon Science
- Diagram courtesy Carbon Sciences. Don't bury it, use it. That's the goal of Carbon Sciences and their plans to make CO2 an asset. We already know it's a problematic greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. I recently blogged about the push by supporters...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Carbon Sciences, Elton, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Is 2009 the year of carbon sequestration?
- Emerging Energy Resrearch's new report says the carbon sequestration tech will get serous attention this year and may be at significant scale by 2016. The petrochemical industry is very interested in carobn sequestration as a way of making their products and processes produce less green house gas. EER...
- Tags: Coal, Carbon Dioxide, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Economic problems forestalling alternative energy growth?
- The folks at EER are tracking the effects of the economic dyspepsia on alternative energy projects around the globe. Their conclusion: some slowdown in 2009, but numerous projects are moving forward outside the U.S. Here the industry awaits details on a federal stimulus plan if it's enacted. ...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Geothermal Energy, EER, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- Global Warming & Your Business
- The World Resources Institute and their partners have come up with a list of risks and business trends that could arise from predicted climate change. You can read their summary here. WRI and some global corporations that support them used real-life case studies to determine where...
- Tags: Ecosystem, Global Warming, WRI, Channel Management, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- From gas to solid, that's not just physics, that's green tech
- Courtesy: Carbon Sciences Every inspirational speaker will tell an audience to take a negative and turn it into a positive. Politically CO2 emissions have become a negative in many parts of the world. CO2 is deemed to be one of the greenhouse gases...
- Tags: Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, CSA, CS, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
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