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Chemistry World August 7, 2006 Ned Stafford |
Sea Sediment Storage Proposed for Carbon Dioxide It may be possible to fight global warming by burying carbon dioxide in reservoirs hundreds of meters below the ocean floor. |
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma |
Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it. |
Chemistry World April 20, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
Putting the cement industry in the calcium loop Scientists in the UK have shown that two major industrial processes that generate large amounts of carbon dioxide could usefully be linked together to deliver significant savings in energy and CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World February 2010 |
Solar surge The sun is the only non-polluting energy source available to humankind on a huge scale and there is an urgent need to drive forward the science to exploit this fact and put into place clever technological solutions for reducing CO 2 emissions. |
Chemistry World April 1, 2009 Hayley Birch |
Take carbon dioxide, dissolve slowly in water Carbon dioxide can be safely stored for millennia in deep, underground reservoirs, according to a new study by a team of international researchers. |
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Kathleen Kerwin |
CO2: The Debate Heats Up Is carbon dioxide an air pollutant? That will be the key issue in any legal challenge by auto makers to California's proposed rules to reduce carbon dioxide in auto exhaust. |
Chemistry World January 16, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Azo-cops nab CO 2 but let N 2 go free Scientists have developed a new class of porous polymer that can efficiently trap carbon dioxide while actively rejecting nitrogen. |
Chemistry World September 2, 2011 Tegan Thomas |
Offsetting the Cost of a Green Solvent Scientists have conducted a study to show how waste carbon dioxide can become an exploitable resource. |
Chemistry World December 6, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Atmospheric carbon capture costs underestimated Capturing carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate climate change is likely to be too expensive to be practical, a new study suggests. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Calls for UK Investment in Carbon Capture The UK government must invest immediately in carbon capture and storage technologies to meet carbon emissions targets, a parliamentary committee has urged. |
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 John Carey |
Greenhouse Gases: Who's Cheating? The amounts of carbon in the atmosphere are out of whack with predictions and reported output. |
Chemistry World October 2007 Stuart Haszeldine |
How to Bury the Problem Carbon capture and storage could allow us to burn fossil fuels without climate consequences - but only with more investment in R&D. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Frozen Fuel Find Rewrites Rule Book Earth scientists are revising their ideas about natural gas hydrates after discovering that large deposits of the water and methane mixture can form at surprisingly shallow depths below the sea floor. |
Chemistry World October 21, 2015 Mark Peplow |
The carbon capture challenge Attention is shifting toward carbon capture and utilization, which aims to use CO 2 as a feedstock to make fuels, chemicals and other useful products. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2006 Arthur Rogers |
EU-Wide Carbon Capture Project A four-year carbon sequestration project backed by 30 European universities and energy companies will test the viability of CO 2 capture as a means of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. |
Popular Mechanics November 17, 2008 Jon Luoma |
Scientists Recommend Permanent Method For Carbon Sequestration: Turn CO2 into Rock A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman and the same principle could be transferred to rock formations in shallow seas. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
Sublime Leidenfrost In the Leidenfrost effect, a liquid collides with a surface much hotter than its boiling point, forming a protective cushion of gas that also becomes an insulating layer, slowing further evaporation. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2011 James Urquhart |
For clean carbon dioxide conversion just add water Japanese researchers have shown that photocatalytic reduction of CO 2 is possible using water as the reducing agent. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 James Urquhart |
Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst UK scientists have taken inspiration from the sea urchin and shown how nickel nanoparticles could be a cheap and re-usable catalyst in a key step for capturing carbon dioxide produced by power plants and the chemical industry. |
Geotimes March 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Revisiting the Lost City This discovery of this hydrothermal vent community has a wide range of implications, from Earth's methane cycles to the search for early life forms -- and life elsewhere in the universe. |
Chemistry World September 13, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Carbon capture schemes pose low risk to people Any health risk associated with leaks from carbon capture and storage sites will be minor, according to a new study. |
Chemistry World February 2011 |
Rehabilitating captured CO2 Rather than burying it underground, companies are developing processes that use carbon dioxide emissions as chemical starting materials. Andy Extance investigates |
Chemistry World June 21, 2007 Michael Gross |
A Mirror for the Moon Cosmologists have said that a Moon-based telescope with a parabolic mirror made of a rotating liquid would be ideally suited to studying very distant structures of the universe. Researchers using a chemical approach have now succeeded in creating a liquid based system. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes. |
Chemistry World February 8, 2010 Rebecca Renner |
Coming clean on emissions outsourcing Industrialized countries 'outsource' a large proportion of the carbon dioxide emissions associated with manufacturing the items they consume, according to a new study that, for the first time, details this outsourcing on a global basis. |
Chemistry World October 2007 Bernard Bulkin |
Can Chemistry Save the Planet? If we are to scale back our greenhouse gas emissions without society juddering to a halt, 21st century transport will need 21st century fuels. And of all the sciences, it is chemistry that is best placed to deliver them. |
Chemistry World June 29, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Stripping down the carbon storage problem Chemists looking at solid amine materials to capture carbon dioxide from industrial flue gases need to pay more attention to how they will be regenerated in a practical setting, say US researchers. |
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2009 Peter Kelemen |
What East Anglia's E-mails Really Tell Us About Climate Change What stolen e-mails from climate scientists corresponding with East Anglia University tell us about global warming and what they don't. |
Wired February 25, 2008 Peter Schwartz |
Humans Have Been Changing the Climate for Eons. That's Reason for Hope. Our epoch needs a new name. Scientists like Anthropocene to represent the era when people started messing up nature. |
Chemistry World December 1, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Magnesium Cage Shows Promise for Carbon Capture US chemists have shown that a hugely porous chemical cage containing large numbers of exposed magnesium centers can efficiently and selectively capture carbon dioxide from a mixture of gases and subsequently release it using little energy. |
Chemistry World September 2010 Tsouris et al. |
Do we really need carbon capture and storage? The two sides of the CCS debate go head to head - should CCS be backed or sidelined? |
Chemistry World April 24, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
EPA decision threatens chemical industry Chemical facilities could face burdensome permits and pricey construction requirements following the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) preliminary determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2015 Phillip Broadwith |
Catalytic carbon dioxide convertors The world's demand for energy, and the resultant carbon dioxide emissions, are drastically changing our climate. UK startup Econic Technologies is developing catalysts that could take some of that CO 2 and lock it up in high-performance polymer materials. |
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2004 |
Letters Reader feedback on Global warming... Spinning spheres... Hydrogen overflow... etc. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2007 Peter Mitchell |
Newly Identified Side to Global Warming An atmospheric mechanism has emerged that could lift global temperatures by even higher than the 2-5 C rise predicted by the end of the century as a result of greenhouse gas emissions. |
Chemistry World March 18, 2011 Yuandi Li |
Carbon capture with sawdust Plants may help to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere when dead as well as alive, say scientists from Spain. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2013 Daniel Johnson |
Unconsidered chemistry could amplify global warming A link between the world's oceans' pH and climate change that has, until now, passed unnoticed could dramatically speed up global warming by lowering production of a smelly molecule, dimethyl sulfide, important for cloud formation. |
Chemistry World May 26, 2009 Hayley Birch |
A concrete solution to climate change? A better understanding of how carbon dioxide is absorbed by concrete could help scientists accelerate absorption processes and offset a greater proportion of the emissions from cement production |
Geotimes October 2006 Megan Sever |
Giving Carbon a Deep-Sea Burial While many people are calling for an immediate reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, others are looking toward ways to dispose of the excess carbon dioxide. Burying the gas in sediments below the ocean could be a potential solution |
Chemistry World January 3, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Recycling Carbon Dioxide Into Petrol A new reactor could make chemically recycling carbon dioxide back into petrol a worthwhile endeavour. |
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Manufacturers Achieve Emissions Goals Here is a short list of the many goals and achievements reached by manufacturers in their voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon dioxide is a primary component of greenhouse gases. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2008 Matt Wilkinson |
Rocks to soak up carbon dioxide Oman's peridotite alone could lock away over a billion tons of CO 2 a year - a significant slice of the 30 billion tons of CO 2 emitted annually worldwide by human activity. |
Popular Mechanics March 28, 2008 Joanna Borns |
Spongelike Air-Capture Gadget Scrubs Away Carbon Emissions Researchers have invented a phone-booth-size device that can take back the carbon dioxide emissions that have already reached the atmosphere. |
Scientific American February 2009 Charles Q. Choi |
Ocean Acidification from CO 2 Is Happening Faster Than Thought Carbon dioxide may be acidifying seawater faster than thought |
Chemistry World July 19, 2012 Helen Gray |
MOF gate opens selective CO2 gas storage door UK researchers have designed a metal -- organic framework that, unusually, selectively adsorbs CO 2 over ethyne by a dynamic gate-opening mechanism and has potential applications in fuel gas separation. |
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 Mary Badcock |
CO2 aids oxidation reactions Carbon dioxide enhances the catalytic oxidation of cyclic alkenes, leading to higher conversions at low pressures, say researchers from South Korea. |
Chemistry World June 5, 2012 Tamsin Phillips |
Targeting organs with therapeutic carbon monoxide Scientists in the US have created a gel that can be used to deliver therapeutic carbon monoxide gas to selected organs in the body. |