carbon neutral Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:05:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Swiss Startup Climeworks Opens Facility in Italy, Turns CO2 into Natural Gas https://www.greenoptimistic.com/swiss-startup-climeworks-opens-facility-in-italy-turns-co2-into-natural-gas-20181009/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/swiss-startup-climeworks-opens-facility-in-italy-turns-co2-into-natural-gas-20181009/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:05:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=67348 Swiss startup Climeworks is championing new technology that helps in the fight against climate change. While many sectors are focusing on reducing future emissions by developing more effective fuels and technology, Climeworks is in the business of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide already released by human activity, even so far as creating ‘negative emissions’ […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/swiss-startup-climeworks-opens-facility-in-italy-turns-co2-into-natural-gas-20181009/feed/ 0 67348 NexusHaus Carbon Neutral Houses to be Built in Austin, TX https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/#respond Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:43:10 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56967 The city of Austin, TX welcomes 100 new citizens every single day. That has caused a significant increase in the resources needed to keep the city running, so the Austin Community Desing & Development Center’s Alley Flat Initiative has been hard at work to design a carbon neutral house to alleviate some of the energy […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-house-nexus-haus/feed/ 0 56967 Carbon-Neutral-ish Audi A3 G-Tron Initiates Sales in Germany https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-ish-audi-a3-g-tron-initiates-sales-germany-20140214/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-ish-audi-a3-g-tron-initiates-sales-germany-20140214/#respond Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:51:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45933 The Audi A3 G-Tron is a multi-fuel vehicle, which runs on regular gasoline or natural gas. Combined with the installation of an all-new e-gas plant, the car runs carbon-neutral, sort of. First, Audi A3, which is probably the cheapest way to buy into the Audi luxury brand, is equipped with a turbocharged dual-fuel 1.4ℓ i4, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-ish-audi-a3-g-tron-initiates-sales-germany-20140214/feed/ 0 45933 Melbourne, Australia Certified as Carbon Neutral https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melbourne-carbon-neutral-20130325/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melbourne-carbon-neutral-20130325/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:17:27 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=35283 The National Carbon Offset Standard of Australia (NCOS) certified the city of Melbourne as the latest carbon-neutral metropolis in the country. Although this is already a remarkable achievement, the city officials are not planning to stop there. They have identified a number of key areas where further emission reductions can take place, as part of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/melbourne-carbon-neutral-20130325/feed/ 0 35283 Carbon Neutral Methane Obtained Cheaply From CO2 and Water https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-methane-obtained-cheaply-from-co2-and-water-20090331/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-methane-obtained-cheaply-from-co2-and-water-20090331/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:11:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=3241 We all know most of world's greatest inventions have been made by mistake. A team of researchers from the Penn State, led by Bruce E.Logan, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, discovered how to produce methane from water and carbon dioxide. Here's what he says: "We were studying making hydrogen in microbial electrolysis cells and we kept getting all this methane. We may now understand why."

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/carbon-neutral-methane-obtained-cheaply-from-co2-and-water-20090331/feed/ 1 3241 How much does it cost to make the world carbon free? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-the-world-carbon-free-20080129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-the-world-carbon-free-20080129/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:33:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/01/29/how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-the-world-carbon-free/ Are you carbon neutral yet? It sure seems like everyone else is. Al Gore has wiped away his carbon footprint. The World Bank aims to be carbon neutral by buying only green energy. Sky Broadcasting is touting itself as the first major media company to go carbon free.So how does Joe Consumer drop the carbon […]

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