Petrify, liquefy: New ways to bury greenhouse gas
Turn greenhouse gases to stone? Transform them into a treacle-like liquid deep under the seabed? The ideas may sound like far-fetched schemes from an alchemist's notebook, but scientists are pursuing...
View ArticleNow for the hydrogen powered cellphone
The French have invented a hydrogen powered cellphone
View ArticleTechnical and supply tangles tripping up electric car plans
Technical and supply issues are standing in the way of a Government target to have hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles in use here in the next seven years.
View ArticleComms company looks to install solar panels on customers' roofs
Cox Communications has announced initiatives to cut energy costs that include adding solar electricity to its headquarters and communications system and increasing fuel efficiency in its fleet vehicles.
View ArticleAdvisory group looking at incentives for electric vehicle buyers
The Ministry of Transport's Vehicle Energy and Renewables Group (VERG) is looking at ways of creating incentives for manufacturers to bring significant numbers of electric vehicles into New Zealand.
View ArticleFunding talks underway to start New Zealand electric car industry
EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand could soon be building its own electric cars.
View ArticleBusiness leaders: ETS fuels delay means incentives needed to buy electric...
Business leaders yesterday welcomed a Carbon News report that Ministry of Transport officials are investigating options for incentives to encourage people to buy low-emission vehicles.
View ArticleKitchen experiment leads to plastic bag recycling breakthrough
A kitchen experiment has led a Christchurch (New Zealand) man to a solution for one of the world's biggest environmental problems - how to dispose of the ubiquitous plastic shopping bag.
View ArticleAce Rentals trialing clean-fuel device already subject to ConsumerNZ doubts
One of the country's car rental firms announced yesterday it is trialing a device which is says is new and cuts nitrous oxide and particulate exhaust emissions. However, it did not say the Consumers...
View ArticleHolcim researching concrete's CO2 absorption potential
Concrete's reputation as a carbon-emissions bad-boy is under review as Holcim enters the second phase of research into the capacity for concrete to absorb atmospheric CO2.
View ArticleBritish companies unveil £2bn carbon reduction plans
Britain's largest energy and industrial companies have announced that they are looking at the possibility of implementing a £2 billion plan to capture carbon and store it in caverns.
View ArticleMarine leeches provide clues on climate change
Elusive marine leeches in Antarctica are the focus of study on how climate change is affecting vulnerable fish species.
View ArticleKiwi scientists eye commercial breakthrough with methane-muncher
Government scientists intend to take to market a methane-consuming micro-organism that they have identified in Rotorua's geothermal areas and which can flourish in extremely acidic conditions.
View Article'Missing' greenhouse gas poses problem for government's information...
Nitrogen trifluoride is a little-recognised greenhouse gas with a punch many times that of carbon dioxide. It is sometimes rated as 17,000 times greater, and it is an emissions contaminant deliberately...
View ArticleBlind Kiwi musician pioneers battery technology in US
A blind former Maori showband star is making a name for himself as a pioneer of energy conservation in the American state of Nevada.
View ArticleSilicon-fuelled power stations one solution, says NZ scientist
A Waikato University scientist has reached for his periodic table - which shows that carbon and silicon are in the same family - and has outlined what is being applauded as the most cogent argument to...
View ArticleNZX will use TZ1 to throw off the shackles and go global
Mark Franklin, the former head of Vector who now heads the NZ Stock Exchange's thrust into the carbon-trading sphere, knows that simplicity instead of complexity carries the day.
View ArticleGlobal leaders? We're not even close, says carbon-footprint pioneer
New Zealand is being left behind when it comes to quantifying its carbon footprint, says enterprise-level carbon-footprint accounting software provider Revolution ID.
View ArticleNZ joins international climate change initiative
New Zealand is becoming a founding member of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
View ArticleScientists fear another methane catastrophe
A major spike in the powerful greenhouse gas methane nearly 12,000 years ago wasn't the result of a catastrophic release of seafloor gas hydrates, scientists say.
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