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admin commented on The Future of Mobility

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:57:07 +0000

admin commented on The Future of Mobility I was asked to comment on the above question in my role as director of Clecat. CLECAT is a non-profit international association based in Brussels. The range of interests of the vast majority of EU enterprises which offer logistics, freight forwarding and Customs services both within and outside Europe are taken care of by the [...]

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Ken Doust commented on The Future of Mobility

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:52:06 +0000

Ken Doust commented on The Future of Mobility The answer comes back to the more fundamental question of our collective sustainability vision for our community and how large our collective community is. Much of the world’s population today lives in cities and the trend is accelerating. Cities in particular have a complex relationship between urban form and transport. These aspects need to be [...]

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Gary Haq commented on The Future of Mobility

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:11:37 +0000

Gary Haq commented on The Future of Mobility Increasing global mobility and the over-dependence on motorized transport poses the greatest challenge to achieving a low carbon future. It is also critical to achieving a good quality of life. Whether it is traffic congestion, road crashes, noise, urban air pollution, landscape destruction or greenhouse gas emissions, the damage and the costs of our current [...]

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Jurgen Janssens commented on Can CCS Work?

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:00:26 +0000

Jurgen Janssens commented on Can CCS Work? Lack of real governmental actions, dreamy green tech processes without the financial dimension and non-discussed market conditions all strongly contribute to a big picture that looks good, that feels good but that doesn’t take off yet from its design stage, despite apparent first step support. - Words vs Effective market potential Gut lacking governmental speeches [...]

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Filippo Salustri commented on Can CCS Work?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:06:34 +0000

Filippo Salustri commented on Can CCS Work? Many points noted above are, IMHO, accurate. Additionally, the question is a bit vague. CCS, as a concept, is certainly reasonable. The problems start to emerge when one looks at specific forms of CCS. And when looking at specifics, there really hasn't been enough work done to demonstrate the environmental feasibility of these technologies. Much [...]

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Rianne C. ten Veen commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:24:45 +0000

Rianne C. ten Veen commented on Can CCS Work? It is not happening faster because it would highlight how much of it we produce, how addicted we are to fossil fuels and in a world where of 100 biggest economic entities on the planet more than half are companies not countries; and of 10 largest companies, 7 sell oil/ gas or cars (biggest company [...]

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Bernard Gore commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:20:24 +0000

Bernard Gore commented on Can CCS Work? Simple. It costs. A lot. No-one can agree who should bear this cost. And at the moment no-one has much money to invest in this. And the climate change deniers are winning the public opinion battle through their lies and the public's reticence to accept responsibility, so the groundswell for such action is faltering, and [...]

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Ray Miller commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:19:30 +0000

Ray Miller commented on Can CCS Work? The reasons for little progress for CCS are legion. Exceedingly expensive, unverified technology, massive energy consumption for the process, no value added to the process without severe carbon tax penalties, etc. A recent study here in the midwest for a first installation on an existing 600 MW coal plant would require 200 MW of the [...]

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Nikolaos Koukouzas commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:18:30 +0000

Nikolaos Koukouzas commented on Can CCS Work? The reasons for the delay in the implementation of CCS technologies are: a) high cost, b) political priorities to promote Renewable Energy Sources (RES), and c) difficulties in CCS adoption by third countries.

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Steve Bottomley commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:16:34 +0000

Steve Bottomley commented on Can CCS Work? The cost of capturing and storing the average amount of CO2 produced by UK citizens is estimated at £200 p.a. which doesn't sound a lot. However, to capture and store the volumes produced by an entire nation requires huge initial investment. Most investment in the UK energy sector was made by the state many years [...]

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Sean Blinn commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:15:52 +0000

Sean Blinn commented on Can CCS Work? For better or worse, we have to start with the premise that economic calculations are a significant and often decisive factor in how decisions are made. When examining the question of carbon capture and storage, this economic reality could mean that incentives, such as tax benefits and grants, aren't present in sufficient amounts to motivate [...]

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Pierre Le Thiez commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:14:48 +0000

Pierre Le Thiez commented on Can CCS Work? Despite recent progress in actions for effective commercial deployment of CCS, important gaps remain such as: • Lack of financial incentives worldwide: Only Europe has a nation-wide carbon price on industrial emissions. The current carbon price alone is insufficient to drive large-scale development and deployment of CCS to meet the required levels of CO2 mitigation. [...]

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Ferdinand Swart commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:14:18 +0000

Ferdinand Swart commented on Can CCS Work? The only sustainable way to store carbon is in wood (and in algues, biochar and other photosyntheses based solutions). Not only is underground storage too energy consuming, too expensive and difficult, it might be simple madness, considering that while storing CO2 valuable O2 will be locked up also, potentially lowering O2 concentration. Growing trees is [...]

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JosÃ© Miguel GonzÃ¡lez SantalÃ³ commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:13:28 +0000

José Miguel González Santaló commented on Can CCS Work? This is a good question that can also be applied to just about any other climate change mitigation option. It seems that the decision making levels in countries all over the world have not gotten the point of the urgency of reducing and limiting climate change, even if there is a lot of activity going [...]

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Andrew Horan commented on Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:10:48 +0000

Andrew Horan commented on Can CCS Work? Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is urgent. However, the existing power structure has not accepted the need for CCS. It does not have a major political block backing its adoption while it has many of the old political power structures in opposition. The political structures which spurred the Industrial age - manufacturing and oil/coal grew [...]

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admin wrote a new post: Can CCS Work?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:46:28 +0000

admin wrote a new post: Can CCS Work? The world will continue to rely on fossil fuel to supply the bulk of its energy for decades to come. So, finding ways to reduce the carbon emissions that come from burning these fuels is a major challenge that must be addressed. An important opportunity for reducing these emissions is through the introduction of Carbon [...]

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Vanessa Kummer commented on Energy: the Next 20 Years Part 2.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:01:27 +0000

Vanessa Kummer commented on Energy: the Next 20 Years Part 2. Through U.S. farmer funding for research and promotion over the past 20 years, the United Soybean Board (USB) helped develop biodiesel into a viable alternative to petroleum-based diesel fuel in the United States. This cleaner-burning, homegrown fuel represents a renewable, nontoxic alternative to the oil we over-rely on from other countries. Perhaps most importantly, biodiesel [...]

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