News tagged with fossil fuels
Related topics: climate change , energy , carbon dioxide , biofuel , global warming
How heating our homes could help reduce climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- A radical new heating system where homes would be heated by district centres rather than in individual households could dramatically cut the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Spain approves country's largest biomass plant
Spain's government Monday approved the construction of the country's largest biomass plant, the renewable energy group Ence announced Monday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Finland aims to build first ever green highway
Finland wants to build the world's first "green highway," with service stations offering charging points for electric cars and pumps filled with local biofuels, the project manager said Thursday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Is solar power cheaper than nuclear power?
One of the issues associated with shifting from using fossil fuels to alternative energy sources is the cost. While adherents of alternative energy tout its benefits, many are skeptical, pointing out that ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 09, 2010 |
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Federal OK sought for loans for California energy projects
Plans for a massive expansion of clean energy in California are being jeopardized by federal foot-dragging, according to state officials who say that more than 20 nearly shovel-ready solar and wind projects are being held ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 28, 2010 |
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New study gives first indication that smog might trigger cell death in the heart
An early study in rats provides the first direct indication that a major component of smog might trigger cell death in the heart, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2010 ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Breathing the filth: Hydrocarbons in the air are more toxic than oil in the gulf
What a relief it will be when the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico gets plugged, ending the colossal mess caused by gushing crude. Or will it?
Jul 10, 2010 |
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T.25 City Car makes debut
Gordon Murray Design showed today for the first time its T.25 City Car at Oxford University as part of the Smith School's World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment validating a low-carbon approach to transportation. ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Carbon sequestration: Boon or burden
The idea to sequester carbon is gaining support as a way to avoid global warming. For example, the European Union plans to invest billions of Euros within the next ten years to develop carbon capture and storage ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Democratic senators set path on US energy bill
Senate Democrats said Thursday they had come to an agreement on the framework of an energy bill sought by President Barack Obama to reduce US dependence on fossil fuels.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Green and fair economic growth with more expensive fossil fuels
Why are the international climate negotiations moving so slowly? Because countries have so far been unable to define what global fairness really is, says Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Abu Dhabi to build 'world's largest' solar plant
French oil firm Total and Spain's Abengoa Solar will partner with Abu Dhabi's alternative energy company Masdar to build "the world's largest" concentrated solar power plant, Masdar announced on Wednesday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jun 09, 2010 |
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Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts: UNEP panel
How the world is fed and fueled will in large part define development in the 21st century as one that is increasingly sustainable or a dead end for billions of people.
Jun 02, 2010 |
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CSU scientist simplifies aerosols for modeling
The large number of tiny organic aerosols floating in the atmosphere - emitted from tailpipes and trees alike - share enough common characteristics as a group that scientists can generalize their makeup and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2010 |
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Turning CO2 into fuel
With new fossil fuel power stations being built every week, and the idea of burying CO2 [carbon sequestration] regarded by many scientists as unproven or even unworkable, coming up with an alternative solution ...
May 13, 2010 |
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