The natural gas produced at Sleipner contains unusually high levels (about 9%) of carbon dioxide (CO2), but the customers buying the gas from Statoil need less than 2.5%. A special platform, Sleipner-T, has been built to support a 20-m-high (65-ft), 8,000-ton treatment plant that separates CO2 from the natural gas. The Sleipner-T plant produces about 1 million tons of CO2 per year.

To encourage companies to reduce their carbon emissions, the Norwegian government imposes a carbon tax equivalent to about $50 per ton of CO2 released into the atmosphere. To avoid paying this tax, and as a test of alternative technology, all of the CO2 extracted since 1996, when gas production started at Sleipner, has been pumped back deep underground.

Most of the world’s electricity comes from turbines driven by steam. The heat for that steam comes from coal, gas or nuclear power and in some places solar thermal. Solar thermal power stations can replace coal and nuclear simply by using the sun’s heat, and can continue to use the turbines and infrastructure which exist already.
As the sun shines most days in the hot areas chosen to build the power stations the ‘fuel’ needed to run the stations is delivered free of charge by the sun, and without the digging, extraction, refining, transport, health or safety risks of coal, gas or nuclear.

I got this little gem from an article on Jet Engine Efficiency, priceless.

Many of us assume that the nation's first serious push to develop renewable fuels was spawned while angry Americans waited in gas lines during the "energy crisis" of the 1970s.

Held hostage by the OPEC oil embargo, the country suddenly seemed receptive to warnings from scientists, environmentalists, and even a few politicians to end its over-reliance on finite coal and oil reserves or face severe economic distress and political upheaval.

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Scientists at the Hydrogen Engine Center (HEC) have designed an ammonia-powered engine that can run 24 hours a day and meet California's strict emissions standards. In addition, ammonia is safe to store, is prevalent, and actually has more hydrogen per cubic foot than liquid hydrogen does.

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Do we really want this to be our future?

Of course not, nor do we want the ice to melt at the Poles.

The LiveFuels alliance is the largest and most intensely focused group in the country commercializing technology that can make millions of barrels of biocrude oil per day. The initial focus of LiveFuels’ team will be algae-to-biocrude.

Algal oil is similar to soybean oil but can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops. Thriving on sunlight and CO2, algae can be grown in fresh or brackish water. This makes algae an ideal solution for farmers dealing with issues of agricultural run-off. Moreover, a shortage of vegetable oil has been predicted within 3 to 5 years in the United States, and algal oil could fill the gap for non-edible uses like biofuels.

You simply pay this solar rental company the same rate per kilowatt for power that you used to send to your utility company, but it gets more interesting. This solar rental company will guarantee that your rate per kilowatt for up to 25 yrs. With constantly rising electricity rates, this gives U.S. residents comfort and can equate to significant cost saves. This innovator even have a solar energy service on their site that displays how much you may recoup over 1, 5, and 25 yrs. Personally, we saved over $18,000 and by using solar power; it is the same as taking 27 trucks off the road or planting 400 trees. Fantastic!

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THE ozone layer is on track to a full recovery, with the latest sets of satellite images showing the hole is shrinking, scientists say.

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And made it our mission to become inventors on behalf of the most important client ever: our planet.

What we discovered was this: energy alternatives to fossil fuels are right under our feet. By looking deeper into nature's abundance, we discovered that plants, grasses, corn stalks, wood chips, and more can be turned into clean fuel. Even more encouraging, waste products – material left to decay and be buried in our land today – can be recycled into fuel tomorrow. Our new fuel is innovative. Eco-friendly. Sustainable.

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The US first celluosic plant

It gives you a lot of information, there's even a short video on the website.

Its simple, easy to install and really every petrol guzzler should have one.

If it really does what it says it will this could really make a big difference not only to your gas bill, but also to our planet.

And isn't that what we really want?

By Chris Brummitt, Associated Press

TUMBANG KULING, Indonesia — Naingolan shunts the excavator into high gear and tears into a patch of smoldering forest on Borneo island, clearing the way for yet another palm oil plantation that Indonesia hopes will tap into a surge in global demand for biofuels.
Despite government claims pristine jungles are escaping the effects of the "green solution" to the energy crunch, the boom is threatening the survival of animals like the endangered orangutan and turning the country into a major global warming contributor, environmentalists say.

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Peter Andrews. Australian Story.Monday, 6 February , 2006.

He's a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded salt-ravaged land into fertile drought-resistant pastures.

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October 17, 2007

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