Mar 5, 2010 – What is the tagline for the ad by Earthjustice? “Because the earth needs a good lawyer.” OK, I know there are too many lawyer jokes to list here. Does that mean that the earth currently only has bad lawyers now. Of course, as I have indicated before, most ads, even in [...]
Feb 19, 2010 – Earlier this month the NRDC, “The Earth’s Best Defense” [Who are they?] of NYC had full page ads donated by Peter Morton [Who is he?]. The NRDC is Natural Resources Defense Council & its Trustee’s include well-know actors, actresses, celebrities, wealthy businessman, etc. The ad was directed to US Senators & [...]
Feb 10, 2010 – Longview Power, LLC, owner of the state-of-the-art power generation facility currently under construction in Maidsville, WV, has selected Siemens Energy to conduct an innovative study analyzing the applicability of post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology. The Longview Power project includes a new 695-MW rated (net) advanced supercritical pulverized coal power [...]
Dec 2, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald writes “Big Utility To Close 11 Plants Using Coal” in The New York Times. A large Southern utility said Tuesday that it would close 30 percent of its North Carolina coal-fired power plants by 2017, a step that represents a bet that natural gas prices will [...]
Nov 22, 2009 – Are you into games? Chevron has 2-page ads promoting Energyville, an energy game developed by The Economist Group. “You have the chance to power your own city. How will you do it? …. Energyville is a lot more than just a game. It’s a chance to better understand and discuss the [...]
Oct 8, 2009 – You have a chance to power your own city. Play Energyville at Chevron’s website.
Sep 22, 2009 – Matthew L. Wald reports in “Refitted to Bury Emissions, Plant Draws Attention” in The New York Times today that American Electric Power will be injecting CO2 into the ground from its huge Mountaineer power plant in New Haven, West Virginia. It will thus become the world’s first coal-fired power [...]
Sept 17, 2009 – A mobile test installation for electrostatic precipitators is helping to reduce the emissions of coal-fired power plants. Plant operators can use it to monitor and optimize the performance of flue gas filters. This is possible because electrostatic precipitators, filters which remove tons of dust from flue gas daily, work up to [...]
Jun 30, 2009 – FutureGen is an initiative to build a first-of-its-kind coal-fueled, near-zero emissions power plant. The plant, to be located in Mattoon, Illinois, will establish the technical and economic feasibility of producing electricity from coal (the lowest cost and most abundant domestic energy resource), while capturing and sequestering the carbon dioxide generated in [...]
Jun 24, 2009 – Longwei Petroleum Investment Holding Ltd. (OTC Bulletin Board: LPIH), a leading China-based energy trading company operating in Shanxi Province, China, announced its plans to complete construction on a 70,000 metric ton capacity oil storage facility in the city of Gujiao, a major industrial center located in Shanxi Province. The new facility [...]
Jun 17, 2009 – The Department of Energy [DOE] is providing $1.3 billion to non-energy companies for work related to carbon capture. Industrial sources produce about 19% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Previously, most funds went to electric power generators. These funds are targeted specifically to industrial sources of emissions. More information is available at [...]
Mar 31, 2009 – Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Chairman Edward J. Markey of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee released a draft of clean energy legislation that will create jobs, help end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and combat global warming. The American Clean Energy and Security Act [...]
Apr 13, 2009 – Michael Moody and Jeff Johnson write in the April 6, 2009 Chemical & Engineering News [C&EN] an article titled, “Dealing With CO2″, in which they report on technologies to capture greenhouse gas. Dow Chemicals and Air Products & Chemicals have signed agreements to test competing technologies for capturing CO2 emitted by [...]
Mar 30, 2009 – Jeff Johnson reports in Chemical & Engineering News on March 16, 2009 that Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, is reviewing President George W. Bush’s administration to cancel a large-scale, clean-coal gasification project. FutureGen was to have been a carbon capture project that would generate electricity by burning synthetic fuel produced at [...]
Mar 11, 2009 – Siemens and E.ON are building a pilot facility for sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2). Starting in summer 2009, the facility is expected to remove around 90% of the CO2 from a part of the exhaust gases emitted by the Staudinger coal-fired power plant near Hanau, Germany. Thanks to a special CO2-scrubbing process [...]
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