Carbon capture

UK Stands By Green Energy Amid Big Budget Cuts

The UK government unveiled major spending cuts today, taking bites out of welfare benefits and other public programs while pledging to provide £2.2 billion pounds (about $3.5 billion USD) for renewable energy and carbon capture projects and preserving a feed-in tariff for solar power.

6 Ideas for Recycling Carbon

If six research projects awarded funding by the Department of Energy this week pan out, they could enable tons of captured carbon to be put to use as a building block for chemicals, fuels, concrete and other products.

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Wildlife vs. Energy in the Mojave: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) says she plans to introduce legislation today to establish two national monuments…

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“Carousel Fraud” Strikes Carbon Markets: Carbon credit fraudsters are increasingly “setting up complicated import and export schemes between EU member countries, charging…

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EU Gets Another Fuel Sipper: What’s not a hybrid, doesn’t have a plug and isn’t available in the U.S. — but gets…

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It’s official: Disney is joining Hulu (NewTeeVee) App review: NYT Crosswords Daily 2009 (TheAppleBlog) EV startup Phoenix Motorcars files for Chapter 11…

Skype 2.0 eats its young

Another day, another beta. Skype, a division of eBay launched Skype 2.0 beta for Windows. Just in time for some customers who…

Time Warner Phone is Ringing

Time Warner Cable has finally launched its Digital Phone service. $40 a month, unlimited calling. Go nuts. Actually, Vonage is cheaper. And…

B-MTV

Watching music video online is proving to be a hot ticket. From new 3G phones to new digital cable networks to broadband…