On the face of it, that seems like an odd statement to make with respect to carbon emissions and climate change, but a growing chorus of supporters and detractors are squaring off over “biochar.”
The concept is simple and ancient: apply intense heat to biomass in the absence of oxygen (pyrolysis) and the resulting elemental carbon, [...]

Today’s New York Times was heavily tilted to renewable energy, both purposely and not:
Debate on Clean Energy Leads to Regional Divide: The lack of a national grid is a common complaint/refrain for renewable power developers: optimal generating sites are located far from end users. This is an interesting scoop, then, from Matt Wald on [...]

Today’s news featured two stories that cry out for “compare and contrast.” T. Boone Pickens, the very public face of wind energy in the US, announced that he is downsizing his “world’s biggest” Texas wind farm plans in the face of various setbacks. And the other BP, oil and gas giant “Beyond Petroleum” said [...]