Raging wildfires, acidified oceans and soaring temperatures likely caused a mass extinction 250 million years ago killing 95 per cent of the Earth’s marine life and 70 per cent of terrestrial species. More »
Philanthroper has a really good donation up today: you pay a dollar and you can offset the lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions from an iPhone 4. Which means, you’ll help “suck and trap the greenhouse gas that’s driving climate change”. [Philanthroper]
As YouTube user/laser-magician Magx1 says, “it doesn’t get much more DIY than this!” After creating all sorts of gas lasers previously, he exhaled his own breath and created a carbon dioxide laser. What did you do with your breath today? More »
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University of Calgary scientists are working on a machine that would pull carbon dioxide from the air in an attempt to scrub out emissions from diffuse sources, such as car exhaust and home heating. These “diffuse emissions” account for roughly half of the CO2 that goes up into the sky every day, contributing to global warming.
Maybe you’ve heard the plans for “clean coal” (aka carbon capture and storage), a technology that collects carbon-dioxide exhaust from formerly high-polluting power plants, condensing and freezing it for storage in depleted natural-gas fields. This month, energy provider Vattenfall fired up the CO2 collection process at a plant in Spremberg (“Call Us ‘Spermberg’ and Die”) Germany. The plant’s transition is making green-energy history, but as you can imagine, some kinks still need to be worked out.
