Sentences with phrase «focusing on carbon storage»

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This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Understanding this leads to three posible pathways we can follow to lower greenhouse gas concentrations, and explains why I've chosen to focus my research on carbon capture and storage.

This year's spending plan is focused on carbon capture and storage technologies and gas hydrate research.

What the authors would like to see is the prospect of limited and expensive coal get a serious consideration; currently, most energy policy decisions, such as a focus on carbon capture and storage for coal plants, assume that coal will remain cheap enough to compensate for its added costs.

And industry leaders have focused recently on ways to impose cleaner coal technologies, including at a major conference in Delhi earlier this month featuring high - level government and industry leaders focusing on coal gasification, carbon capture and storage, upgrades and other measures to improve efficiency and reduce pollution.

(One question is why the bill is focused only on permanent storage of the captured gas; there are other proposals to harvest carbon dioxide and «reprocess» it, in a way, to create fuels.)

Ms. Ahmad focuses on financing opportunities and policy development for energy technologies, including carbon capture, use, and storage (CCUS).

This technical document provides a brief review of the benefits from various agriculture - based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce emissions or enhance carbon storage in agricultural soils and biomass, focusing in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project - level data.

The Center's research will initially focus on building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles.

Mørk added that «as part of our commitment to helping the industry transition to a low - carbon energy mix while maintaining safety and reliability of supply, we focus our efforts to develop industry guidelines on grid - scale energy storage to help designers, manufacturers, investors, insurers, and authorities mitigate risks and control costs in energy storage projects».

This PCIC Science Brief focuses on recent research in the journal Climatic Change that examines a type of geoengineering that involves using biomass for energy production, together with carbon capture and storage.

Dr Hulvey and her team focused on the carbon stored in the above - ground tree biomass (tree trunks and branches), using above - ground biomass as a proxy for carbon storage in planted forests.

My columns have covered LEDs, solar power, wind power, demand - response, green chemistry, smart grid innovation, water technologies, geothermal, biofuels (with a big focus on algae), electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, nuclear, wave and tidal power, biogas, waste reduction, energy storage, advanced materials... you name it.

Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.

The sensible energy and climate change plan for the UK, MacKay said, was for the country to focus on nuclear power and carbon capture storage technology, which traps the carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning.

you've made two points in particular that i think are spot - on: the fact that small, organic farmers are more likely to use bio-diesel and / or alternative fuels in bringing their produce to market, especially in the bay area where the Salon piece focused, and also that the storage time post-harvest for the wholesalers is not insignificant from a carbon footprint angle by any means.

Kate Kenny, a Caterpillar spokeswoman, said the company wants to focus on carbon capture and storage projects, such as FutureGen, an Illinois plant that is partly financed by the federal government.