Mining Methane from the Sea Floor
08 Jun 09 •
Christopher Mims, a freelance journalist I was fortunate enough to meet at a recent conference on the future of science parks, has a great piece on Technology Review today on Japanese and U.S. efforts to extract usable fuels from methane hydrate formations on the cold Arctic sea floor. According to one source in the US [...]
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Coastal Zone ‘09 Conference in Boston (0)
5/17/09 •
The fourth in NOAA’s “Coastal Zone” series, bringing together scientists and other professionals working in coastal management, will take place in Boston July 22-26. If the archived proceedings from the last three conferences (07 • 05 • 03) are any guide, it ought to be a gathering of major importance for Blue Economy types. I [...]
Carbon Sequestration Trial to Launch in New Jersey (0)
5/14/09 •
Long the butt of jokes about air pollution, Linden, New Jersey is now poised to become the site of one of the world’s most ambitious experiments in carbon sequestration, according to MIT Technology Review:
Now a new plant in Linden, NJ, will test an ocean carbon-sequestration technology that could expand its potential dramatically. If permits are [...]
Mission Malfunction (0)
2/25/09 •
This is a real setback. There’s no easy way to sugarcoat this one. We need good data on carbon dioxide and carbon sequestration if we’re ever to move forwards on achieving something of substance. Otherwise all the policy grandstanding in the world won’t amount to anything.
I find it irksome that NASA was [...]
WIRED: Feature on the Seasteading Institute (0)
1/21/09 •
Our masthead identifies “potential settlement sites” as one of the opportunities of the Blue Economy. Yet, we've said remarkably little about it to date, largely because it is probably only realistic in the more distant future.
But that distant future may be coming closer. This month's WIRED magazine is running a feature-length story on the Seasteading [...]
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