Tuesday 14 July 2009

Save the Planet – Manchester Report

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Manchester Report: Carbon capture plants part-fired with wood

Staffan Gortz explains the potential of carbon capture and storage plants that burn a mix of coal and wood

Manchester Report: Adding lime to the sea Tim Kruger explains how putting lime into the oceans could stop or even reverse the accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere

Manchester Report: Thorium nuclear power Kirk Sorensen explains how the nuclear energy fuel thorium could replace coal to meet our energy needs

Manchester Report: Energy bonds Tim Helweg-Larsen explains how energy bonds could be used to fund Britain's renewables revolution

Manchester Report: Carbon conversations Rosemary Randall explains how psychology and emotion are key to driving the behavioural change needed to reduce our carbon footprints

Manchester Report: Biochar Laurens Rademakers explains how turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

Manchester Report: Giant algae stomachs Mark Capron explains how kelp and algae farmed at sea can be digested in a giant underwater 'stomach' to create fuel and bury carbon

Manchester Report: Hydrogen fuel cell cars Hugo Spowers explains how hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars can lower transport emissions

Manchester Report: Solar power Jeremy Leggett explains how solar photovoltaic technology is poised to become the fastest-growing energy market in the world

Manchester Report: Ceramic fuel cells Mike Mason explains how domestic fuel cells can efficiently and cheaply provide electricity and hot water

Manchester Report: Efficient cooking stoves Peter Scott explains how simple and inexpensive biomass cooking stoves can slash emissions, save forests and avoid lung disease

Manchester Report: Cloud-making ships Stephen Salter explains how ships spraying minuscule droplets of seawater into the air could create clouds that would reflect more solar energy and reverse global warming

Manchester Report: Regenerating grasslands Tony Lovell explains how grazing cattle in a way that imitates the movements of wild herds could lock huge quantities of CO2 into the world's dry soils

Manchester Report: Concentrated solar power Gerry Wolff explains how concentrating solar power in deserts could supply enough electricity to power the whole of Europe

Manchester Report: New indicators of human development Andrew Simms explains why we need to stop measuring the success of our economy and develop new indicators that reflect the ecological efficiency with which we deliver long and happy lives

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