NUMBYism
The world’s first clean coal power station (discussed earlier here on LP) has been operating for a little while now. It’s working fine – except for one little problem. All the CO2 is still ending up in the atmosphere. As [...]
Who killed clean coal?
Joe Romm at Climate Progress has a fascinating story about a US Congressional inquiry into the cancellation of the FutureGen project, a massive demonstration of an integrated, commercial-scale clean coal plant (discussed earlier on LP). Staffers of the majority (Democratic) [...]
Carbon sequestration bill passed in VIC parliament
Amongst the other stuff that almost went without notice over the past few days, the Victorian parliament passed legislation covering carbon sequestration, with the support of both Labor and the Coalition. One of the stronger critiques of CCS is who [...]
Geoengineering from the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences is not a journal I’d imagine too many of you read on a regular basis – I certainly don’t. But their recent special issue is on a topic [...]
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