Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
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Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
Finally what might be some good news on the “Climate Change” front – that Big businesses’ are having a climate meeting – and possibly working towards trying to “out-green” each other. Maybe competition isn’t such a bad thing after all…
George Monbiot has posted an article discussing this, interesting reading.
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Posted on Thursday 11th January 2007 in Politics, Science tagged climate change, news, UK, with no comments.
Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]
The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]
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Posted on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged climate change, construction, Engineering, environmental, future, landfill, natural-disaster, news, Politics, recycling, UK, with no comments.
The news of this morning was that Saddam Hussein has been executed for crimes against humanity. While I am in no way sad to hear this news, instead I feel for the many people who were affected by his brutal rule that have not had full justice. He was tried for just one crime…
On November [...]
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Posted on Saturday 30th December 2006 in Politics tagged Iraq, UK, USofA, world_politics, with no comments.
George Monbiot, a journalist and activist, has proposed a 10 point plan to help us limit climate change by rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. While this will involve some changes in lifestyle, it will not be as radical as those changes that will be required if we don’t act now.
The general ideas can be [...]
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Posted on Friday 10th November 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged climate change, construction, energy, Engineering, environmental, future, Politics, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
