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APRIL 22, 2022

Fifteen early-phase “milestone round” winners from the Elon Musk-funded $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition were announced on Friday. The XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition was launched to encourage the development of innovative techniques that can help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Hydrogen—or hydrogen carriers such as ammonia ( earlier post )are potentially ways for Australia to export renewable energy. Hydrogen can potentially be used as a way for Australia to export renewable energy to other countries, particularly in Asia with demand expected to increase. CSIRO Hydrogen to Ammonia – $1,175,000.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have conducted a lifecycle analysis and net energy analysis (LCA/NEA) of a hypothetical large-scale solar-electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. This is higher than the global average of 510 g CO 2 -e kWh -1. Process flow diagram and construction phase boundary.

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. of global greenhouse gas emissions (or about 1.4% —MacFarlane et al. Generation 1.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

Bank of America has joined Stanford University’s Global Climate & Energy Project (GCEP), a collaboration of academic and business experts that identifies and supports new avenues of research to make environmentally sustainable, low-cost energy available to everyone.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Under these targets, Rio Tinto’s overall growth between now and 2030 will be carbon neutral. Produce materials essential for a low-carbon future. The production of aluminium, copper and high-grade iron ore will play a part in the transition to a low carbon economy. Reduce the carbon footprint of operations.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

Scientists from the University of Birmingham launched a major research project to investigate how “clean cold” could help to achieve almost all of the United Nations’ (UN) global Sustainable Development Goals. They will develop strategies using novel low-carbon and zero-emission technologies and new policy approaches.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have developed an electrochemical process for the conversion of nitrogen to ammonia with nearly 100% current-to-ammonia efficiency. These processes, taking up around 1% of global energy consumption, are largely fossil fuel-based. of total global CO 2 emissions. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Relying more on natural gas would reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, but it would do little to help solve the climate problem. It would be many decades before it would slow down global warming at all, and even then it would just be making a difference around the edges. —Tom Wigley. degree Fahrenheit (less than 0.1 degrees F (0.1-0.2

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MAY 20, 2010

The University of Wyoming (UW) has received a $2 million grant from coal giant Peabody Energy to create the Peabody Energy Clean Coal Technology Laboratory in the UW Energy Resources Center in Laramie. This gift will be doubled by the Wyoming State Legislature matching fund.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Variations in atmosphere carbon dioxide around 40 million years ago were tightly coupled to changes in global temperature, according to new findings published in the journal Science. Algae use photosynthesis to harvest the energy of the sun, converting carbon dioxide and water into the organic molecules required for growth.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The results have important implications for Earth’s climate because methane is about 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to warming the planet over a long period. In addition to coal mining, other major sources of methane emissions globally include wetlands, agriculture, and oil and gas facilities.

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JULY 5, 2022

A study by researchers in Australia and China has determined that global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions; moving fruit and vegetables in refrigerated vehicles is particularly emissions-intensive. Food trade plays a key role in achieving global food security. GtCO 2 e (3.5–7.5

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. This is the first time we’ve ever been able to compile observations such as this for a global analysis.

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MARCH 3, 2009

Tropical rain forests have so far absorbed an estimated one billion tons of carbon a year from CO 2 in the atmosphere, and “ hopes have been high ,” according to the researchers, that the forests would soak up even more in the future as the amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere grows.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. The consortium is led by UBC and NORAM Engineering and Constructors, Ltd., of Vancouver.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. The approval process for carbon offsets has two goals. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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MARCH 6, 2009

Because of their chemical makeup, when the rocks are exposed to carbon dioxide, they react to form common limestone and chalk in a process called mineral carbonation. Worldwide, other formations are scattered across Eurasia and Australia. The US survey is the first of what Lackner hopes will become a global mapping effort.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Comparison of surface temperature projections from the high-end emissions scenario, without carbon cycle feedbacks. F) rise in global temperatures if the current high emissions of greenhouse gasses continue. If carbon cycle feedbacks are strong then a 4 degree warming could occur even earlier. Source: Met Office.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

At the Boeing-Embraer Joint Research Center in the São José dos Campos Technology Park, the companies will coordinate and co-fund research with Brazilian universities and other institutions. Studies have shown that sustainably produced aviation biofuel emits 50 to 80 percent lower carbon emissions through its life cycle than fossil jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Here we perform a sensitivity analysis on a global model to quantify the uncertainty in cloud radiative forcing over the industrial period caused by uncertainties in aerosol emissions and processes. The finding could further complicate attempts to model climate change.

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APRIL 26, 2010

A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) south-west of Perth, Australia. Image: CSIRO. Click to enlarge. Image: CSIRO. Click to enlarge. Dr Rintoul.

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JULY 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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APRIL 17, 2010

A new study co-authored by CSIRO (Australia) scientists Paul Durack and Dr. Susan Wijffels finds evidence that the world’s water cycle has already intensified. The period of analysis extends from 1950-2008, taking care to minimize the aliasing associated with the seasonal and major global El Niño Southern Oscillation modes.

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JUNE 14, 2014

Trees play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. Collectively, they represent a major terrestrial repository of carbon and play both active CO 2 capture and processing and passive storage roles. —Alexander Myburg. —Gerald Tuskan.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

Oyster is fitted with an 18m-wide oscillator based on fundamental research at Queen’s University Belfast led by Professor Trevor Whittaker. Based on figures from the Carbon Trust, each Oyster’s annual carbon saving could be as much as 500 tonnes. It is also silent in operation. Ronan Doherty.

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JULY 31, 2011

The joint venture will also pave the way for Asia’s fourth-largest economy to take part in a project to develop lithium carbonate in the region, officials said. POSCO plans to bid for construction of lithium-carbonate manufacturing and processing facilities in Uyuni, it added. China and Argentina total 5.4 million tons and 2.6

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. by Jack Rosebro.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

2 ] Rasmussen’s “one agreement, two steps” plan was quickly endorsed by US President Obama, as well as Australia’s Prime Minister Rudd and Russia’s President Medvedev, all of whom were present at the APEC summit. AR4 also affirmed that warming would have to be held to no more than 2 ºC to 2.4

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JULY 30, 2009

This is an opportunity to make a major new contribution to the future of electric drive in the US and to forge a closer relationship with a major global car maker. This project at Argonne is proposing three approaches: Investigate novel electrolytes that include glycerol carbonate, and modifications thereof.

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OCTOBER 30, 2014

The study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor Adam Liska, funded through a three-year, $500,000-grant from the US Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America. Liska et al.

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APRIL 12, 2009

As the climate change crisis goes from bad to worse (while the deniers get nuttier and more cult-like with each passing day) and Australia gives Californians an advanced sneak preview at what is without a doubt headed our way sooner than you expect , your Creative Greenius has only gotten more Fired Up, Ready to Go! The Greenius in Yosemite.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Land surface temperature anomaly across Australia between 25 January and 1 February, 2009, during the first of two heatwaves in the Southeast as well as flooding in the North. In South Australia, Adelaide suffered five consecutive days with temperatures above 40 ºC, peaking at 45.7 by Jack Rosebro. Source: NASA. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2009

Current climate change policies which focus on overall carbon emissions are failing and should be abandoned, a consortium of research institutes concludes. The paper’s twelve co-authors come from leading research institutes in Europe (England, Germany, Finland), North America (Canada, USA) and Asia (Australia, Japan).

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JULY 28, 2018

Researchers from Nanjing University have developed a new method for the extraction of lithium metal from seawater using solar-powered electrolysis with a NASICON solid-state electrolyte as the selective membrane. A LiClO 4 -propylene carbonate solution is on the cathode side and seawater is on the anode side. Yang et al.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Peabody Energy and GreatPoint Energy signed an agreement to pursue development of coal-to-gas and coal-to-hydrogen projects in the United States and around the world with carbon capture and storage (CCS) that would achieve near-zero carbon emissions, while increasing the production of stranded oil via enhanced oil recovery.

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MARCH 18, 2013

SMART is focusing on global urban regions, and has identified five “themes” that fill unaddressed gaps and guide and inform the program’s collaborative research, pilot projects, and education activities. The initiative, which funds 10 global sustainability research projects in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia and the United States.

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