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New Artificial Photosynthesis Leaves Algae Biofuels Foaming At The Mouth

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Frog foam could provide the answer to the ultimate biofuels, as well as the promise of other chemical feedstocks via artificial photosynthesis.
First there was wheat and corn biofuels, along with controversy over threatened food supplies and question marks over their carbon-neutrality. Second generation biofuels from non-food crops are still starting to emerge and gain funding [...]

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What Is The Best Enterprise Carbon Accounting Solution?

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Enterprise carbon accounting has seen massive growth over the past 12 months, as companies flock to engage with sustainable business practices, comply with new carbon reduction legislation and justify green PR claims.
Numerous companies have set up their stalls in this new emerging marketplace, but which is the best enterprise carbon accounting solution? Here are some [...]

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What is the Carbon Footprint of Whaling?

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The last century of whaling has released as much carbon dioxide into the air as 128,000 Humvees driving continuously for 100 years: and that’s without taking emissions from the whaling fleet into account.
One of the flagship issues of the environmental movement in the 20th century, whaling has long been condemned not just by green groups but [...]

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UK Regulator Says Free Market Has Failed And The Lights Will Go Out

Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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UK energy market regulator Ofgem, once the strongest proponent of applying free market economics to energy companies, has waved a white flag and acknowledged that the system is failing the country, and that UK energy prices will go up by 20%.
In an amazing about-turn, Ofgem is now recommending a new part-nationalisation of the energy markets [...]

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Government Funding Ignores UK’s First Low Carbon Economic Area; Orecon Sinks

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Ross.

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The government has turned a blind eye to a key pledge in the world’s first Carbon Budget by allowing funds for wave power companies to be allocated almost entirely outside of the geographic area designated to see the benefits of the technology. As a result, Cornish wave power company Orecon has been forced to close, [...]

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Algae Biofuels Need Sewage And Coal To Be Green

Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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Hailed as the greenest form of biofuels, algae-based biofuels have come under fire for being less environmentally friendly than other forms of biofuel by using more energy, water and greenhouse gas emissions to produce. However, coal power stations and sewage treatment plants could easily turn the tables to make algae biofuels the greenest solution available.
A [...]

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Malaysian Energy Prices Set To Rise

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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Malaysia is bracing itself for substantial energy prices rises, with many companies and industries making a deliberate push towards energy saving solutions in order to counter the possibility of rising cost overheads.
Presently, Malaysia’s tariff rates are the third lowest in the region after Vietnam and Indonesia, but a tariff review will be imminent if international [...]

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Carbon Trust Puts Energy Saving LED Lighting Against The Wall

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by Ross.

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When it comes to helping businesses save money and carbon through energy efficiency, the Carbon Trust has seen the light at the end of the tunnel.
Through interest-free loans via the Carbon Trust’s Big Business Refit to businesses looking to save energy, as well as helping the UK’s biggest companies slash energy operating costs, the Carbon [...]

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Tale Of Two Droughts: Venezuela and India Hit By El Nino Energy Shortages

Posted on 23. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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One nation left Copenhagen happy with the weak international climate change deal; the other left screaming at the developed world and capitalism. Both have experienced severe energy shortages as a result of climate-induced droughts which have decimated the two countries’ hydroelectric power stations.
The difference between India and Venezuela, however, is that India has averted the [...]

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Copenhagen Results In Higher Energy Prices

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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Whilst power companies in the USA’s Ostrich Block are relaxing in the aftermath of a weak Copenhagen deal, their European counterparts are warning consumers that higher energy prices lay ahead as a result of the feeble international agreement on climate change and its direct effect upon the carbon market, and are calling for the market [...]

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After Copenhagen, What Is Business As Usual?

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by Ross.

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Copenhagen was supposed to start the world on a path to fighting climate change, but with the talks largely derided as meaningless what now constitutes business as usual?
The Copenhagen conference descended into diplomatic farce at the 11th hour, with agreements negotiated over weeks, months and years between 192 countries discarded in a meeting between just [...]