In-depth articles from the foundation's archive on carbon removal, clean energy and environmental solutions. Original page dates are preserved.
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A great deal has been written about Negative Emission Technology - an approach to mitigating CO2 levels by the removal of CO2 or methane from the atmosphere or the ocean. The importance of negative emissions…
Despite resistance by many environmental groups (1) there is a growing consensus among climate scientists (2) that efforts to reduce global warming by decreasing the use of fossil fuels is failing. In fact,…
It is clear from the lukewarm reception of global warming by the political establishment in this and other countries of the world, that economic factors operating now are more important than combating global…
There are a number of very worthy foundations that are addressing the problem of plastic in the ocean. Many of them work to clean up beaches and harbors and reduce the amount of plastic entering the ocean.…
4. CHERP-Locally Grown PowerSM: Novel Solar Panels with a Novel Economic Twist The 501 (c)(3) CHERP-Locally Grown PowerSM is licensed to manufacture a novel advanced solar panel developed by idealPV®. In…
The book Drawdown compiled a list of 100 projects that would help combat global warming and assessed the relative impact of each. Number 1 on the list was the release of refrigerants into the…
This is a list of other non-profits supporting a range of methods of combating climate change as documented in Drawdown, 2017. The following are some of the Drawdown solutions and organizations that are most…
The advantages of the use of Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs) for the safe production of electricity was reviewed in the Comings Foundation.org web site -> 1. Support of Nuclear Energy -> Molten Salt Reactors. In…
.. if weakness in other [reactor] systems are revealed, I hope that in the second nuclear era, the molten-salt technology will be…
If one were to fantasize about an ideal solution to replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy some of the requirements would…
Fusion Energy is dramatically different from Fission Energy. Fusion is the process that powers the sun by fusing lighter atoms such as hydrogen to produce heavier atoms such as helium. The process releases…
NDB says the batteries will be cost-competitive with and sometimes significantly less expensive than – current lithium batteries. That equation is helped along by the fact that some of the suppliers of the…