Articles tagged with: CO2
Posted in Designer, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Go green, Green, concept on 13 August 2008
Cycling is good for our health and our planet’s too! The vehicle gives out zero emissions. We all know that but what we don’t know and might find it to be bizarre is the fact that someone’s creativity has resulted in an Eco-bike Concept that facilitates growing plants on your bike!! Yes, I too was intrigued and took time to absorb the fact. But Aji Kusuma’s latest bicycle design is creating ripples of excitement among the co-contestants who participated in the Design 21 (a social design network)’s competition.
Posted in Companies, Green, Technology on 28 July 2008
Being from the technology background does not necessarily mean that one has an eco-bent of mind. Going green is not just an activity. It starts with forming a similar mindset and that’s usually the hard part. So it came as a very motivating surprise when I read about the eco-responsibility initiative taken up by Sun Microsystems, an industry giant by many standards, to modify their data-centers (place where a lot of energy-consuming technical stuff happens on many huge machines simultaneously) in such a way that they emit less heat and CO2 and become smaller in size while not compromising with issues such as capacity and security of these data-centers. I felt that if a huge company like Sun is taking such a definitive step towards “going-green”, I as a speck in this huge universe also have certain responsibilities towards planet Earth.
Posted in Animals, Earth, Efficiency, Energy, Environment on 26 July 2008
Cow power could emerge as one of the green and renewable energy sources to generate electricity in future. Till now the manure produced by bovine and livestock animals has been used in farms only (that too to a certain extent). But now, it can be used to generate electricity which might meet upto 3 % energy (read electricity) consumption needs of entire North America!
The research being conducted by scientists at University of Texas (Austin) believe the results of it will imply on all countries with a large number of livestock (including India). Production of biogas from cow dung is not a new thing and it has been used in rural India to cook food and for other heating purposes. But this research stresses upon the anaerobic digestion (a process which helps in compost formation) of manure which yields energy-rich bio-gas potent enough to generate electricity by rotating standard microturbines.
In recent times, the interest and efforts in analyzing and using cow waste for studying its effect on climate change, has seen an upward trend. The IPCC reports that nitrous oxide and methane (both are Green House Gases) produced by naturally decomposing livestock manure heat up our atmosphere many times more than what CO2 does! Hence, the panel recommends proper utilization of this livestock manure. The latter if utilized fully could generate approximately 100 billion kilowatt hours of electricity (a scenario where the Americans will thank cows profusely for providing resources beyond milk and meat!)
Posted in Electricity, Fuel, Power, Products on 23 July 2008
It’s a well thought stride out to make available 20% of electric power to Beijing’s Olympic site via 64,500 kilowatts competence wind power set up. This extensive power production venture would anticipatory bring in 100 million-kWh electricity every year. With internally build up 43 wind power entities this scheme intends at accumulating 50,000 tones of coal per year. While coming into action on Jan. 20, besides delivering 35 million kWh of eco-hazard free power to Beijing this plant former division assists in incising annual secretion of CO2 by 100,000 tones. This electrifying wind power plant, China’s first of its own kind endeavor assures to accomplish an eco friendly Olympics and convene for the ever-increasing requirements of 100,000 family circles on a daily basis.
Via FarEastGizmos
Posted in Earth, Environment on 21 July 2008
Scientists and environmentalists from world over have expressed their concerns over the far-reaching devastating effects of rapid destruction and drying of wetlands.
Gathered at the 8th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference (Cuiaba, Brazil), some 700 experts from 28 nations believe that quickly drying up wetlands invariably lead to climate change via global warming.
Wetlands store a vast amount of carbon (in form of CO2). Their complete destruction will lead to massive release of this stored up CO2 into atmosphere, thereby heating it up. Besides, carbon dioxide other greenhouse gases like methane (more potent than the former) will also be released which will further strain our Earth’s atmosphere.
It is interesting to note that, wetlands (including peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, marshes, mangroves, tundra, lagoons and river floodplains cover only 6% of Earth’s land surface. But, they store upto 20% of its terrestrial carbon! According to an estimate these waterlogged areas contain nearly 771 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases (this is equivalent to present-day carbon levels found in atmosphere).
Posted in Energy, Fuel on 16 July 2008
Carbon confinement in a safe and sound lay free from leakage has always been a major concern. Till some rock-hard solution could be discovered for carbon storage, Germans are making an effort for this to slow global warming. Besides a lot of carping by critics they planned out a project named CO2SINK in April 2004, whose opening shot took place lately in June, 2008. The abovesaid project will confine CO2 in salt water-filled porous rock about 600 meters beneath the earth. Sited on the exteriors of Berlin at Ketzin in Germany, this project intends to propel 60,000 tons of carbon dioxide over two years into the earth. Keeping in view the ecological bangs of CO2, Germans have got to figure out every single one menace of the project making large scale carbon storage practicable.
Via MediaCleanTech
Posted in Eco-Friendly, Fuel on 16 July 2008
In this era of latest technologies here is a new eco friendly eco route provider that works as eco managing service it decreases the amount of co2 emission. Excess co2 gas is very harmful to all of us and so this new service of decreasing co2 emission is really a gift for us to protect our environment.
We all are upset about the gasoline prices the continuous increase in the price is really problematic but you don’t have to worry about you have a chance to wound on your co2 emission. Navitime Japan has launched a rout finder service, co rout Application Service Provider. Eco rout ASP is an eco friendly service by a website which shows modified ecofriendly routs and reduce co2 emission therefore saves your money as well.
This process is very simple you may enter the name of your car and kilometer traveled by you then eco rout manager calculates the fuel efficiency as compare to national average and will gives you tips to reduce fuel utilization.
Posted in Global warming on 10 July 2008
While scientists and governmental experts worldover are busy in figuring out ways to effectively reduce Global warming, their Argentinean counterparts have embarked on a unique study that critically examines a cow’s fart! This isn’t a bizarre-science expedition but a serious study by researchers, who are trying to understand (clearly) the link between gas produced by cows + other bovine species, global warming and climate change.
A lot of hue and cry has revolved around C02 – the greenhouse gas which is considered to be the culprit behind soaring temperatures around the globe. But now, a beginning is made to understand the role of other GHGs like methane in global warming. A cow’s sluggish digestive system results in a lot of gas (methane) being expelled from it’ behind.
Scientists in Argentina thus collected cow farts in plastic tanks attached to their backs and examined the gas composition. It was revealed in this attempt that more than 30 per cent of the country’s total greenhouse emissions consist of methane from these ruminants. It is a startling fact as Argentina tops the list of biggest beef producing countries with more than 55 million cows grazing in its famed Pampas grasslands. Even more startling is the figure found out by Guillermo Berra, a researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology. According to him every cow produces 800 to 1,000 litres of emissions every day! I’m wondering if calculated for our Indian Cows what an astronomical figure it would be?
Posted in Earth, Ocean, Pollution on 4 July 2008
Rising CO2 levels is just not a nuisance for those living above the seas but for those dwelling underneath oceans as well. So far, the focus is shifted more towards the implication of increased levels of this gas in atmosphere; concerns on Global Warming thus being voiced by Governments and Public alike every other day. But oceanographers have warned that there’s another reason to check our carbon emissions as more carbon dioxide in the air means more of it in our oceans and seas. Most of us don’t realize that oceans are the absorbing-pits of this green house gas. As per an estimate, the world’s oceans have absorbed 40 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions produced by humans in the industrial age. And more and more CO2 in oceans is becoming a threat to Coral reefs - nature’s most lively and intricate architecture. Since the time Earth’s landscape comprised of nothing more than huge primordial soup in hot water bodies, these corals are being formed and today they are important for the healthy survival of other marine flora and fauna.