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Reuters: U.S. Company Hopes To Make Fuel From Sunlight, CO2Reuters: Arctic Tundra Hotter, Boosts Global Warming: ExpertReuters: Recession Cuts Pollution But Also Green InvestmentReuters: Attorney Helps Algae Startups To See The Light Of DayReuters: World Fisheries Collapse Can Be Averted: StudyReuters: Embassy Suites Site Reaps $250,000 In Energy SavingsReuters: Intel Actively Looking At More Cleantech DealsToronto Star: Caribou in peril, Ontario warned Ottawa Citizen: Boost for businessVancouver Sun: Proposed rules aim to double distance boats must stay away from whalesVancouver Sun: This is not the place to cut corners in constructionVancouver Sun: Alberta set to benefit from finite cap on greenhouse gasesVancouver Sun: Fisheries outlook remains bleak in CanadaVancouver Sun: Transport Canada probes spill at Canada PlaceClimateWire: Senate Democrats Tie Climate Effort to National SecurityKansas City infoZine: Carbon Reduction Supporters Link Clean Energy and National Security OfficialWire.com: David Rivkin Testifies At Senate Hearings Climate Change And National Security Emerson Opens New Green Global Data CenterReuters, 31-Jul-09, By GreenerComputing Staff Manufacturing and technology company Emerson opened its new $50 million state-of-the-art global data center today -- a 35,000-square-foot facility that's expected to be 31 percent more energy efficient than a standard facility. With Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt on hand, the company conducted an opening ceremony at the St. Louis site, which is expected to have 99.982 percent uptime.
The 7,800-square-foot system has more than 550 solar panels and can generate 100 kilowatts of energy. The construction of the new facility is part of Emerson's efforts to consolidate more than 100 of its data centers around the world to four. Besides the St. Louis site, where IT applications go live in August, one in Marshalltown, Iowa, has been completed. The remaining two are to be built in Europe and Asia. In building the St. Louis facility, about 80 percent of the construction waste was recycled. Design innovations also helped avoid the use of more than 2.5 miles of copper piping, according to the company. Emerson is seeking green building certification under LEED standards and is aiming for a gold rating, the second highest of four. U.S. Company Hopes To Make Fuel From Sunlight, CO2Reuters, 31-Jul-09, By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON - U.S. start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company, which launched on Monday, hopes to make up to 20,000 gallons per acre of fuel a year by late 2011 or early 2012 at prices competitive with $50 oil. It concentrates sunlight in a solar converter, directing it and carbon dioxide to engineered organisms to make fuel similar to ethanol. "This is the first solar company that is producing liquid fuel as opposed to electrons," said Joule President and CEO Bill Sims. He said Joule is different from companies that make biofuels from plants because its process does not need a lot of land to grow food and energy crops like corn or switchgrass. "This is definitely not a biofuels company," Sims added. He would not reveal what the organisms are, only saying they are not algae, another life form companies are experimenting with to make biofuels. In addition, Sims said the organisms do not need fresh water but can be grown in both brackish water or graywater, which is nonindustrial waste water from sources like baths and washing machines. Joule, which has less than $50 million in funding, is one of dozens of companies hoping to make motor fuels from sources other than corn. Making ethanol from that grain has been criticized for needing a lot of water and land and helping to lift food prices. Some companies hope to make cellulosic ethanol, or fuel from the tough woody bits of plants like switch grass and poplar trees, but progress has been slow. The federal government offers incentives for companies to blend advanced fuels into gasoline and mandates for the such blending rise annually. Sims said since the Joule organisms absorb the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, the fuel could eventually play a role in efforts to cut such emissions. He hopes the company will be allowed to generate carbon credits from making the fuel, which should help keep the cost of producing the fuel competitive with oil. Arctic Tundra Hotter, Boosts Global Warming: ExpertReuters, 31-Jul-09, By David Ljunggren OTTAWA - Regions of Arctic tundra around the world are heating up very rapidly, releasing more greenhouse gases than predicted and boosting the process of global warming, a leading expert said on Wednesday. Professor Greg Henry of the University of British Columbia also said higher temperatures meant larger plants were starting to spread across the tundra, which is usually covered by small shrubs, grasses and lichen. The thicker plant cover means the region is getting darker and absorbing more heat. He said tundra covers about 15 percent of the world's surface and makes up around 30 percent of Canadian territory. Henry, who has been working in the Arctic since the early 1980s, said he had measured "a very substantial change" in the tundra over the last three decades, citing greater emissions and plant growth. Since 1970, he said, temperatures in the tundra region had risen by 1 degree Celsius per decade -- equal to the highest rates of warming found anywhere on the planet. "We're finding that the tundra is actually giving off a lot more nitrous oxide and methane than anyone had thought before," Henry told reporters on a conference call from Resolute in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. "We're really trying to get a handle on this because if (further tests show) that's true, this actually changes the entire greenhouse gas budget for the North, and that has global implications," he said. Scientists blame climate change on a surge in emissions of greenhouse gases. The effects in Canada's North and Arctic regions have been particularly notable. Henry said his research station in Nunavut had recorded record high temperatures virtually every summer since the early 1990s. The warmer temperatures mean plants are growing bigger and faster, while larger species are spreading northward. "The tundra is getting a lot weedier all the way around the globe. This has major implications," said Henry, who also chairs an international project studying tundra. "You're changing the color of the surface of the earth by making it darker ... so the consequence of that is increased warming again." Some scientists also fear that as the permafrost in the Arctic melts, it will release vast amounts of carbon and methane into the atmosphere.
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