http://sustainablecities.dk/en/tags/energy The taxonomy view with a depth of 1. en http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/hot-flat-and-crowded <p>Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy&mdash;both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument takes its cue from an American context, but the issues at stake are global in reach..</p> <p><a href="http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/hot-flat-and-crowded">read more</a></p> http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/hot-flat-and-crowded#comments energy green revolution sustainability books Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:31:27 +0000 Henning Thomsen 168 at http://sustainablecities.dk http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/carbon-capture-and-storage-technology <p>The world's first complete demonstration of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology will begin next week at a coal-fired power station in Germany.</p> <p>Built alongside the 1,600MW Schwarze Pumpe power plant in north Germany, the demonstration experiment will capture up to 100,000 tonnes of CO2 a year, compress it and bury it 3,000m below the surface of the depleted Altmark gas field, about 200km from the site.</p> <p>The &euro;70m (&pound;57m) project has an output of around 12MW of electricity and 30MW of thermal power, enough for more about 1,000 homes.</p> <p><a href="http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/carbon-capture-and-storage-technology">read more</a></p> http://sustainablecities.dk/en/blog/2008/09/carbon-capture-and-storage-technology#comments Carbon Capture Storage CCS coal energy Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:08:23 +0000 Henning Thomsen 157 at http://sustainablecities.dk