Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
By Green Guest | February 6, 2010
The practical storage options for carbon capture are suspending the carbon matter in mineral blocks and injection deep into oceanic masses or geological sites. This is reminiscent of burial of nuclear waste material and trash dumping sites, but with more technological add-in and greater cost. But critics of carbon capture and geological mineral carbonate deposits raise questions of ultimate environmental viability.
The additional cost and demand for fuels to process the capture carbons into mineral or deposit eligible from can cripple any savings or benefit scenario. To capture the carbon from air or particulate matter is one process, sequestering or storing the carbon storage volumes is another. Even if an originating commercial enterprise or entity is willing to pay the cost, the process is burdensome, experimental, and not without critics.
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Carbon Capture Is It The Answer To Carbon Emissions?
By Green Guest | February 6, 2010
Today’s challenges of providing energy and fuel for transportation, shipping, and commerce is blocked by a new awareness of concrete damage to the environment of by products and pollution, emissions and exhaust. Carbon emissions is one of the most serious concerns in any discussion of toxicity . This includes carbon storage after capture of matter and ultimate endpoint introduction into soils, air, and water tables.
The dynamics of carbon capture lie in the layer of carbon poisoning perceived to be most serious and threatening. Health risks for excessive carbon dioxide in the air we breathe, excessive carbon dioxide distribution into the air due to automobile exhausts, and exposure of climate and atmospheric conditions to mining and industrial processes emitting carbon dioxide require conscientious application of carbon capture to rebalance the natural order.
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Frito Lay Canada Unveils 100% Compostable Chip Bag
By GreenCompany | February 3, 2010
Often the source of litter near any convenience store, the ubiquitous chip bag has now gone 100% compostable. Now you can eat snacks that are only bad for your diet and not the environment!
Frito Lay Canada with their SunChips brand snack chips unveiled new packaging for the product that may just change the way Canadians look, feel and think of packaged foods and their impact on the environment. Product packaging doesn’t need to be a one way trip to the local landfill once opened anymore.
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First Solar Powered Billboards
By Green Guest | February 2, 2010
Though a single billboard doesn’t have substantial impact on the environment, combined with millions of other billboards throughout the world, the impact can at least not be overlooked. The emission of carbon & the quantity of garbage it contributes after the advert campaigning is over alarming. The use of energy efficient LED instead of halogen bulbs will subsequently reduce their carbon emissions. Some advertising companies are making use of completely bio-degradable materials to create billboard adverts and some cities are providing space for advertisements as an incentive in exchange for the funding of environmentally friendly projects.
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Mini Solar Panel Solutions for RVs
By Green Guest | February 1, 2010
One of the great things about going out and having an adventure is taking a solid build vehicle such as an RV to the locations in which you will be traveling to. Ensuring that you get a large amount of your usable energy through solar panels is a very efficient way to not only save money but have power when you are on the road. Mini solar panels can be integrated into your RV rooftop to get an adequate amount of power from the sun no matter where you are, providing that you park where you are able to get sunlight.
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