What are China’s Priorities?

There is somewhat of a standoff going on between all the countries in the world over this cap and trade emissions idea.  Most notably is the US and China as we account for 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. So what happens if we cap our emissions and China does not? First we should look [...]

The Carbon cycle

Go back two hundred years The carbon cycle has been occurring for four billion years.  Plants take carbon from the air and store it in themselves. When the plants die the carbon is either composted or trapped underground to become coal. Animals take carbon from plants and become oil in death. As a result the [...]

Who will stop burning coal? Transferring our Carbon footprint to the Third World

Nobody. By most estimates we have used about a third of the coal deposits on the planet. Led by western Europe, industrialized nations are moving towards a sustainable future.  Unfortunately this may mean that developing nations will reject sustainable technology in favor of the technologies we left behind. With the rise of Nanosolar it may [...]

My question about clean coal

What happens when the ground moves? Quick background on clean coal (many seem confused by the ads):  The idea is to pump the CO2 emitted by the burning of coal underground and keep it there forever.  The underground storage containers would ideally be already existing geologic formations. Say we found enough natural underground airtight spaces [...]