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Chemistry World November 18, 2008 Matt Wilkinson	The promise of algae As the hype surrounding corn-derived ethanol fades, interest in liquid fuels harvested from an alternative biological source - algae - is rapidly increasing. Several companies' efforts are detailed.
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Samuel K. Moore	The Water Cost of Carbon Capture Coal power's carbon savior could double its water woes
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Pienkos et al.	Betting on Algal Biofuels Algae could make the perfect renewable fuel. Major oil companies, including Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Royal Dutch Shell, are studying this idea.
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Dutch Power Ahead with Carbon Capture The first Dutch trial to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's waste gas emissions has been launched in Rotterdam, Europe's largest port.
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 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 October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Chemistry World September 15, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Oxyfuel carbon capture trial launched The world's first coal-fired power station to capture and store its own carbon dioxide emissions was launched on 9 September by Swedish power company Vattenfall in the north-eastern German city of Spremberg.
Popular Mechanics July 22, 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	Swapping Smokestacks for Stores, Startups Market CO2 as Green A novel way of eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere is to turn it into salable consumer goods.
National Defense October 2007 Michael G. Frodl	USAF Synthetic Fuel Program Could Help Solve Unwanted Carbon Problem The Air Force is seeking to acquire 50% of its fuel needs from domestic sources by 2016, and half of that is expected to come from synthetic fuel, mainly made from coal.
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.
Chemistry World October 9, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	New catalyst converts waste CO2 to useful molecules Super-efficient catalysts for conversion of waste carbon dioxide from power stations into useful cyclic carbonate molecules could help reduce emissions and the petrochemical industry's dependence on fossil fuels, say UK chemists.
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock The first systematic environmental assessment of an industrial plant that produces polyols from carbon dioxide has revealed that they significantly reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and the demand on fossil fuel reserves.
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 November 19, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Bayer to reduce cost of chlorine production German chemicals giant Bayer is commercialising a new way of making chlorine that it says uses 30 per cent less energy than current production methods.
Popular Mechanics March 29, 2007 Amanda Leigh Haag	Pond-Powered Biofuels: Turning Algae into America's New Energy Using a complex photosynthetic process, breakthrough innovators have developed biodiesel and ethanol from an unlikely source that can double its output overnight and just might help give alternative energy the bump it needs.
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.
National Defense May 2008 Breanne Wagner	Market for Synthetic Aviation Fuels Off to a Shaky Start Makers of synthetic fuel are eager to offer their wares to the military as a lower cost and nationally produced alternative to petroleum-based products.
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Phillip Broadwith	Waste CO 2-derived plastic hits tonne scale Waste carbon dioxide has been incorporated into a polymer at bulk scale. The resin can be used as a feedstock in existing polyurethane products, providing a sustainable way to divert carbon emissions away from the atmosphere.
IEEE Spectrum March 2008 Prachi Patel-Predd	Carbon Capture Starts From Coal-Plant Advances in Lab Two research groups come up with super carbon-capturing materials.
Popular Mechanics October 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot	5 Companies Making Fuel From Algae Now Companies here and abroad show off their strategies for advancing in this area.
Chemistry World September 11, 2008 Hepeng Jia	China forging ahead with carbon capture China's first carbon capture trial is making money by selling its carbon dioxide to beverage companies to add fizz to their drinks, according to China Huaneng, the state owned energy firm that is running the trial.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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.
Popular Mechanics September 17, 2008 Chris Ladd	5 Clean Jet Fuels to Wean Planes Off Oil (& Make Tickets Cheaper) As cheap oil fades into memory, we get an update on research into new ways to power tomorrow's airplanes and lower the cost of riding them.
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner	U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas.
Chemistry World November 2, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	How Best to Use Biomass? Researchers have developed an efficient way of turning renewable resources like vegetable oils -- and potentially biomass - into hydrogen-rich gas. The gas could be converted to synthetic fuels and industrial chemicals, or used in fuel cells.
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.
Industrial Physicist Oct/Nov 2004 Jesse H. Ausubel	Big Green Energy Machines Zero-emission power plants and Continental SuperGrids can multiply the power of the energy system 5-10 times while shrinking it in a revolutionary way.
BusinessWeek December 3, 2007 Gail Edmondson	Here Comes Pond Scum Power Algae biodiesel isn't practical yet, but startups and giants are enthusiastically exploring the possibilities.
Geotimes February 2006	Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York...
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Adam Aston	China's Surprising Clout in Cleantech U.S. energy players are looking to the mainland for help.
Chemistry World October 2011	Waste not, want not Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality
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.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 William Sweet	Winner: Restoring Coal's Sheen A Swedish energy company is the first to initiate and complete a project of significant scale to demonstrate carbon capture and storage with a coal plant.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Site chosen for long-awaited US clean coal project The FutureGen Alliance - a consortium of international power companies responsible for designing, building and operating the site - announced on 28 February that Morgan County, Illinois, US will host the carbon dioxide (CO 2) storage site.
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.
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2009 Adam Hadhazy	How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint.
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 September 2008 Chris Ladd	7 Next-Gen Biofuels to Drive Beyond Gasoline Forget food crops. Future fuels will come from more practical feedstocks. Plus, each generation will use fewer resources and pack more energy than the last.
Geotimes March 2003	Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible.
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 October 9, 2014 Rebecca Trager	World's first carbon capture coal plant opens The world's first first large-scale power station equipped with carbon capture and storage technology officially opened in Canada and it's expected to trap around 1 million tons of carbon dioxide every year.
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.
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	It's Alive! Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter.