Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS)

10/12/2018

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01/10/2017

sees as an insurance policy and key technology for &D investments https://t.co/k2b8ElUGXl

Get the whole picture - and other photos from RECS

01/07/2017

Dr. Sally Benson (RECS faculty and one of my inspirations for creating the RECS program) is speaking in Washington, DC on Jan 10th. Please join me if you can!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/clean-energy-rd-tickets-29386787673

With the newly elected president set to enter the White House in January, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy are convening a series of panel sessions to highlight pressing environment and energy challenges and risks facing the new administrati...

01/04/2017

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has a new electric reliability primer that is a good resource.https://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/2016/reliability-primer.pdf

01/04/2017

Good overview of Petra Nova CCUS project (w support from DOE) and innovative Net Power plant http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/science/donald-trump-carbon-capture-clean-coal.html?_r=0

Progress has come in fits and starts, but supporters believe a new plant in Texas may provide a clear economic argument for fighting global warming.

12/27/2016

Retweeted DOE Fossil Energy ():

Apply now for the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship Program!
Deadline is January 3, 2017. https://t.co/EccW2kKRJS https://t.co/hA7Kz6yUPD

The mission of the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) Program is to provide students with fellowship opportunities to gain hands-on research experience in the STEM disciplines with the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy.

12/27/2016

Retweeted Sam Krevor ():

New tax incentives for CCS under consideration in US. Very interesting https://t.co/TxNCJYgGIT

The most expensive fossil-fuel power plant ever built in the U.S. could soon get a financial lifeline thanks to President-elect Donald Trump, who has signaled interest in clean-coal tax credits as a way to preserve mining jobs.

12/25/2016

As co-founder of Folia Water, Jonathan Levine (RECS 2007) has been deploying an innovative, low cost filter (a "drinkable book") that produces safe drinking water to developing countries. Check it out: https://www.facebook.com/foliawater/?fref=nf&pnref=story

Pioneering. Affordable. Healthy.
With a simple and robust new technology, Folia Water can provide sa

12/20/2016

Retweeted Southern Company ():

Congratulations to Roxann Laird, the 2016 POWER-GEN Woman of the Year! https://t.co/4E7e3cWdyv https://t.co/b4wVGMyvZe

POWER-GEN International has named Southern Company's Roxann A. Laird its 2016 Woman of the Year. Laird is director of the National Carbon Capture Center, a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored project managed and operated by Southern Company, and also directs the company's reduced carbon, renewable a...

12/20/2016

Retweeted GreatPlainsInstitute ():

14-State Work Group Releases Federal & State Recommendations on Capture https://t.co/euN7YDkpJX https://t.co/7qHkHV3LSr

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 2, 2016 14-STATE WORK GROUP RELEASES FEDERAL AND STATE RECOMMENDATIONS ON CARBON CAPTURE  MINNEAPOLIS – Wyoming Governor Matt Mead and Montana Governor Steve Bullock, along with colleagues and officials in 12 other states, released a new report today outlining growing…

12/11/2016

Nicolas Bompard (RECS 2014) on-site in Oman for Phase I of the Oman Drilling Project to examine the world's largest exposed section of oceanic crust and upper mantle. Does it make a good CO2 storage site? Other RECS involvement: Amelia Paukert Vankeuren (RECS 2009) and Juerg Matter (faculty). http://www.omandrilling.ac.uk

12/11/2016

RECS faculty member, Dina Kruger, quoted on the EPA transition.

An administrator such as Scott Pruitt can steer in new directions, but that clout is offset by legions of staffers carrying on routines, enforcing rules, and, increasingly, caring about climate change.