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CO2 Capturing System to be Installed at Norwegian Cement Factory

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:57:45 +0000

A new and innovative CO2 capturing system is to be installed in Norway, at a Norcem cement producing plant in Brevik. Developed by Aker Solutions, the carbon capturing system is the first in the world to do this at a cement station. While most of today’s efforts only focus on capturing emissions resulted from coal-fired […]

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Genetically Modified Enzyme Leads to Better Carbon Sequestration at Coal Powered Plants

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:02:14 +0000

Capturing the carbon dioxide that a coal-powered plant produces and sequestering it is not an easy task, and until now it rose the costs of the electricity produced by 80 percent. Due to researchers at Codexis, a Redwood, CA, company, genetically modified enzymes can make carbon dioxide capture much cheaper, increasing the cost of electricity by less than a third.

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Carbozyme Mimicking Blood's CO2 Capturing Process for Industrial Use

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:11:31 +0000

Carbozyme, a NJ-based company is trying to mimic a phenomenon that happens when you breathe: capturing CO2 via a naturally occurring blood enzyme. Our body captures about two pounds of carbon dioxide per day - scaled-up industrial systems could do a lot more if put up properly.

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Microalgae Biofuel an Alternative to Crop Biofuel

Cristi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:29:11 +0000

Using crops as a source of energy generated in the past years a great controversy. Once because we could use those crops as food for people and second because we use good agriculture lands to generate energy. But what if we could use an alternative to the crops and use smaller areas of lands to generate the same amount of energy?

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Complex Algae-Powered Energy System Made by a 15-Year Old

Cristi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:21:36 +0000

This years scholarship prize of $20,000 of Invent Your World Challenge went to a 15 year old fellow from Texas called Javier FernÃƒÆ’¡ndez-Han, who proved us all that renewable energy is the way we should direct our creativity upon.

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