Monat: Mai 2015

Projects

Ministry of Earth Sciences of India: Project on Geoengineering – CO2 Sequestration

„Objectives: To understand the mechanism of ocean CO2 sequestration techniques in the ocean by capacity building;[nbsp] study and establish the feasible CO2 capture technology from industrial sources, arriving feasible field executable transportation technology; and[nbsp] development of ocean instrumentation for EIA observation and monitoring. -[nbsp] Participating Institutions: National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai“

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HubPages: Geo-engineering Solutions for Climate Change – Myth, Plausible or Catastrophic

„Geo-engineering solutions to climate change have been bandied about for both Earth, and for Mars – to make the red planet suitable for humans, when we stuff up the one we are currently living on. While many of these proposals have been regarded as science fiction there have been a series of proposals put forward by various respectable scientific organisations.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Somsen, Han (2015): Towards a Law of the Mammoth? Climate Engineering in Contemporary EU Environmental Law

Somsen, Han (2015): Towards a Law of the Mammoth? Climate Engineering in Contemporary EU Environmental Law (SSRN).

„In an article that made waves when it was first published in 1996, judge Easterbrook scorned the idea that the technological reality of cyberspace justified talk about or a need for ‘Cyber Law’. Just as there is no need for a ‘Law of the Horse’ merely because horses give rise to legal claims, he argued, conventional legal principles and reasoning are sufficiently accommodating to absorb new legal challenges that arise in the wake of cyberspace. We may likewise doubt the need for a ‘Law of the Mammoth’, even though technologies emerge that harbour the prospect of bringing back the woolly mammoth from extinction, reversing climate change, and creating new life forms.“

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The Long Now Foundation (Video): David Keith: Patient Geoengineering

„“Temporary, moderate, and responsive” should be the guidelines of responsible geoengineering, in David Keith’s view. For slowing global warming, and giving humanity time to bring greenhouse gas emissions down to zero (and eventually past zero with carbon capture), he favors the form of “solar radiation management” that reflects sunlight the way volcanoes occasionally do—with sulfate particles in the stratosphere.“

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physicsworld.com: How to efficiently capture carbon dioxide out of thin air

„A novel synthetic material that is a thousand times more efficient than trees at capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was presented by Klaus Lackner, director of Arizona State University’s new Center for Negative Carbon Emissions, at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Maryland last Sunday. According to Lackner, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached the point where simply reducing emissions will not be enough to tackle climate change.“

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Everything and the Carbon Sink Blog: “Pre-pay” carbon policy: how carbon removal enables regulatory alternatives

„A “pre-pay” carbon policy might work something like this: before a company extracts a ton of carbon from the ground (be it in the form of oil, natural gas, coal, trees, soil, etc.), it would have to “pre-pay” for a credit demonstrating that the organization (or a third-party) had already removed and sequestered an equivalent ton of carbon from the atmosphere.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Dowd, Anne-Maree; et al. (2015): Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry

Dowd, Anne-Maree; Rodriguez, Michelle; Jeanneret, Talia (2015): Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry. In Energies 8 (5), pp. 4024–4042. DOI 10.3390/en8054024.

With some discussion on CE. „Some state the key problem for bioCCS is cultural, lacking in a ‘community of support’, awareness and credibility amongst its own key stakeholders and the wider public. Therefore, the industry can benefit from the growing social science literature, drawing upon other energy and resource based industries with regard to social choice for future energy options.“

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