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[Jul. 30th, 2006|04:22 pm] |
Ocean PH levels are 30% higher than ever* before
please read this article by Martin Mittelstaedt of the Globe/Mail. Many have been discussing it, Forbes has talked about it, even Fox News mentioned it, but this is a great explanation. And it;s a serious issue, based on this report that came out earlier this month from Joan Kleypas and her krewe at Boulder's NCAR.
Basically 1/2 of the CO2 we've 'allegedly' been pumping in to the atmosphere has been winding up in the oceans. which is good cause it slowed down global warming (imagine if there was twice as much CO2 there already) but the HORRIBLE thing about it is that it is turning our oceans into acid. And faster than has probably ever happened before on the planet. There is already a 30% higher PH level in the oceans, than there has been since the industrial revolution (actually 30% higher than its beein in over 600,000 years). And that's bad news for shellfish, as the acid eats their shells, and also deadly bad news to the coral reefs (as if they already weren't having enough problems) and of course, that is bad news for over 25% of the Oceans species who live at least part of their lives in the corals... ok and bad news for every animal who eat that 25% once they leave the reefs...
its the opposite of the old high school experiment where one would take some vinegar (acid) and some cacium (baking soda) and it would produce bubbling CO2... here you take the air's CO2 and the Shellfish's calcium and get acid. And it ain't pretty.... What do we do to stop this? |
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| ....in the "waste = food" department: |
[Feb. 12th, 2006|02:16 pm] |
Governor visits Carson for announcement about plant that reuses refinery wastes and captures greenhouse gasses.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joined oil company and electric utility executives in Carson today to announce plans to build a new hydrogen-burning power plant that reuses refinery wastes and captures greenhouse gasses. The $1 billion electric-generating station at the BP Carson refinery would run on hydrogen extracted from wastes created in the routine production of gasoline, and would vastly reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the process.
"Ve set the most ambitious goals for reducing greenhäus gases of any state," Schwarzenegger said. “Ve vill not meet these greenhäus goals vithout a strong commitment from the private sektor.”
( continue la vista, baby ) |
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| they were born in Roswell NM... But are now coming to your town!!!! |
[Nov. 26th, 2005|03:53 pm] |
No, Seriously, this slimy green climate change solution did actually come from Roswell New Mexico. But far from Alien, they're older than us!
There's a company I think everybody ought to be watching. It's called GreenFuel Technologies and in the same way that SVO Biodiesel has far outpaced the old B20, this new technology will take biodiesel to a new level. This technology will actually suck CO2 out of the air, compost half and use the rest to drive people around. Yes it's just that good. What GFT do is grow algae (who love Carbon Dioxide and turn it into chlorophyl about 1500 times faster than the next fastest plant). They grow it in the waste gas of coal-fired electricity plants. I've heard that they are getting between 30-80% reductions of CO2 from their system, which looks very modular, and easy to fit in most coal fired generating plant. It looks like this:
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This is quite an evolution! When the technology was first discovered and perfected by John Sheehan and the folks at the NREL, they were getting 90% efficiencies. But of course it was on flat beds of slimy water that went on for acres and acres.... this new systems may not be as efficient (yet!) but is certain to spread.... keep your eyes peeled and tell all your friends! |
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