Global Fuels Conference

Schnarre and Vexor Technology have coauthored a paper to be presented at the 2010 Fuels conference in Washington. More details are available at:

http://www.propubs.com/gfc/

NASA images

Even NASA appears to be getting into the game.  With their recent release of images since 2002 from the AQUA satellite, the hype will only continue well into next year.  No matter what happens in Copenhagen, it appears the country is headed toward something!?.  The EPA has declared CO2 and the five other polutants as health hazards, so will this help the economy or hurt it?  Stay tuned.

Whether your for or against the regulations that are coming, this video is still worth a watch.  Similar images are available on methane (but maybe not as conclusive).

The bigger question may be how is their Airs system calibrated??

CO2 video

Kerry - Boxer Bill

Latest new release:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A controversial climate change bill cleared its first hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, allowing President Barack Obama to tout progress in the run-up to next month’s global warming talks in Copenhagen.

Indicates things are heating up (no pun intended of course), all the more reason to get with the program and document your carbons.

Climate Bill

EPAs new GHG Reporting Rules

With industries heavily hit with the current recession, the EPA is not going to make it easier with the latest release in GHG reporting regulations.    The latest amendments may be found at

EPAs GHG Reporting Rules

You don’t need to read all of it to realize that many of the industries process engineers will by default become environmental engineers.  Both corporate and plant personnel are feeling the pinch already and it probably will not let up for some time.  

There is a glimmer of hope that keeps engineers like myself still interested in energy and the environment and that is the recognition by the EPA that biogenic content of alternative fuels is a GHG credit.  Some of the new rules in the above link begin to lay out the reporting structure that will be implemented across the board. 

Specifically,  in ‘Part 98 Mandatory GHG Reporting, Subpart A - General Provisions, Section 98.34 Monitoring and QA/QC Requirements (page 755)’,   the rules allow for now a ‘reporting structure’ that may be used in a future ‘cap and trade’ scheme.   You can ask Goldman Sachs how important that is going to be. 

So, substituting fossil fuels with alternative fuels high biogenic content  will soon become a higher priority if it has not happened already.

Information on determining biogenic content may be had at:

Beta Analytic

Cap and Trade - The Next Bubble

If you do nothing else over the next few days you should have a read of this article:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine

Besides shedding light on the future Cap and Trade scheme for carbon credits, it also exposes real problems with wall street and government.