Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 15 Dec 2013 07:34:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Company Uses Stored CO2 to Harvest Geothermal Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-geothermal-power-20131215/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-geothermal-power-20131215/#comments Sun, 15 Dec 2013 07:34:46 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=44502 At the American Geophysical Union meeting on Friday, December 13, scientists from Ohio State University, University of Minnesota, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), debuted a geothermal power plant that will lock away unwanted carbon dioxide underground and use it as a tool to boost electric power generation by at least 10 times that of […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/co2-geothermal-power-20131215/feed/ 1 44502 US Annual Energy Waste is Appalling, Declare Experts https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-annual-energy-waste-appalling-declare-experts-20130827/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-annual-energy-waste-appalling-declare-experts-20130827/#respond Wed, 28 Aug 2013 02:19:52 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=41114 In July, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) published a report that suggested that the US is only 39% energy efficient. LLNL’s findings suggest that 2012 was the most energy-wasteful year in over 10 years AND the third most wasteful year since the 1970s. Calculations suggest that the amount of energy wasted in the US annually […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-annual-energy-waste-appalling-declare-experts-20130827/feed/ 0 41114 World’s Deepest Carbon Sequestration Monitoring System Developed at LLNL https://www.greenoptimistic.com/llnl-deep-carbon-sequestration-20130613/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/llnl-deep-carbon-sequestration-20130613/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:40:59 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=38363 Millions of years ago, carbon sequestration occurred when plant and animal matter were buried and compressed in layers of rock. Mining operations have been pushing deeper into these layers of rock to extract fossil fuels. Burning these fuels has the opposite effect of carbon sequestration, releasing carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. Natural gas wells, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/llnl-deep-carbon-sequestration-20130613/feed/ 0 38363 A Cleaner And More Efficient Way to Capture Carbon Dioxide https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-cleaner-and-more-efficient-way-to-capture-carbon-dioxide-20090726/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-cleaner-and-more-efficient-way-to-capture-carbon-dioxide-20090726/#respond Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:25:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4130 The process of separating CO2 from its source is called capturing (CO2). The new method discovered by the scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory might replace all the existing Carbon Dioxide capturing devices and improve a lot their performance and stability.

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