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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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A new study finds that the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a “new phase of globalization” between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions. The paper is published in Nature Communications. trillion) in 2014.

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First-of-a-Kind Field Test for Enhanced Coalbed Methane Recovery with Simultaneous CO2 Sequestration

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Injection of CO 2 began in a first-of-a-kind US Department of Energy–sponsored field trial of enhanced coalbed methane recovery with simultaneous CO2 sequestration in an unmineable coal seam. These wells have been producing coalbed methane and water since 2004. CONSOL Energy Inc., Monitoring-and-simulation is an iterative process.

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Measurements of CO2 and CO in China’s Air Indicate Sharply Improved Combustion Efficiency

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The measurements provide the most detailed look at carbon emissions for a specific urbanized and industrialized region of China to date. Inefficient processes like wood- and coal-burning in domestic stoves convert less than 90 percent of the carbon fuel to CO 2 , releasing the remainder as CO and wasting some of the energy.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2%

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ).

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Dr. Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. billion in 2004 to $117 billion 2007 with the first three quarters of 2008 averaging 29% higher than 2007. Energy Markets in a State of Change.

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SUTD team proposes low-temperature thermionic converter with graphene cathode; about 45% efficiency

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Thermionic emission and TICs. The principle of thermionic emission and the development of devices exploiting it reach back to the late 19 th century. He developed an expression for thermionic emission current density, now known as the Richardson-Dushman (RD) equation. from engine exhaust or industrial processes.

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