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Sprinkling basalt over soil could remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Physics World

Sprinkling powered basalt over natural ecosystems would remove vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the Earth’s atmosphere while also improving soils. But even in best case scenarios for renewable energy and industrial decarbonization, it looks certain that significant carbon dioxide emissions will continue for decades.

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North Dakota Supreme Court to Hear Case on Pore Space Rights

Energy & the Law

Denbury Resources determined in 2017 that subterranean pore spaces are owned by the landowner. North Dakota is a promising area for carbon dioxide injection. Incidentally, the court in Mosser v. Disputes involving pore space are likely to continue in North Dakota given increased oil and gas activity.

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Electrification and decarbonization of chemical synthesis

Physics World

Chemical synthesis is responsible for the significant emission of carbon dioxide worldwide. We are developing an electrosynthetic toolkit in which distributed feedstocks, including carbon dioxide, dinitrogen, water and renewable electricity can be converted into diverse fuels, chemicals and materials. Join the audience.

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Ask a Scientist: Calling Out the Companies Responsible for Western Wildfires

Union of Concerned Scientists

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al. And the third is “gas exchange.”

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Ask a Scientist: Gas Plants Disproportionately Harm Marginalized Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. Its primary component is methane.

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Something Stinks: California Must End Manure Biomethane Accounting Gimmicks in its Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Union of Concerned Scientists

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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How molecular catalysts mediate the electrochemical generation of fuels

Physics World

The conversion of energy-poor feedstocks like water and carbon dioxide into energy-rich fuels involves multi- electron, multi-proton transformations. Want to take part in this webinar? Join the audience. She joined UNC in 2012.

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