Speaking Tuesday at a briefing on Capitol Hill, EPA officials said that “black carbon” (BC), an important factor in global warming and major by-product of solid biomass fuel and dirty diesel emissions, would figure prominently in a International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due out next year. BC emissions can also seriously affect the health of residents in households that depend on burning wood, charcoal, animal dung, and agricultural residues for home cooking and heating. Another scientific paper due out early next year is likely to cast much needed light on the role of BC on global warming. The Continue reading
November 2010
The Charcoal Project & the creation of a global market for renewable energy & efficiency solutions
Dispatches from: Emerging Solutions for the Energy Poor. Technological, Entrepreneurial & Institutional Challenges NOVEMBER 5 and 6, 2010 Wittemyer Courtroom University of Colorado Law School Wolf Law Building 401 UCB, 2450 Kittredge Loop Boulder, CO 80309 USA The 2010 Conference is designed to be a sequel to the 2009 World Energy Justice Conference (WEJC 2009) which began examining ways of mainstreaming safe, clean, and efficient energy for the world’s Energy Poor (EP). The EP number two and a half billion people who live on less than $1-2 a day and have no access to modern energy services. The 2010 conference Continue reading
Lost Kittens for US Midterm Election Day
This issue of Lost Kittens brings a rich array of content drawn from the bounty of the internet. 1. Firing construction bricks can consume large quantities of woodfuel, especially if the kilns used are inefficiently designed. To address this problem, an architect working in Arabian Peninsula devised a brick-producing process that uses a chemical reactions instead of woodfuel to cure the bricks. The recipe for this bioengineered brick is well described in this article (Metropolis Magazine.) 2. There was much talk this past week about the landmark international agreement to protect global biodiversity. The highlight of the conference hosted in Continue reading