President Obama faces an old challenge of creating a national energy policy. That policy will be designed with multiple objectives in mind. After a year of record oil prices that added to U.S. economic troubles, some want an energy policy that will maintain lower energy prices. With nearly 150,000 troops still in Iraq and tensions raised with Russia over the Georgian invasion, some want an ener...

The escalating level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is one of the most pressing environmental concerns of our age. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) from large point sources such as power plants is one option for reducing anthropogenic CO(2) emissions; however, currently the capture alone will increase the energy requirements of a plant by 25-40%. This Review highlights the challenges for capture...

Capture of bacteria with flexible carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was done in vitro. Bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) or multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) was mixed with Streptococcus mutans. Precipitation assays and colony-forming unit formation assays showed free S. mutans in the solution was significantly decreased by the addition of the CNTs. Observation of the precipitate by...

Abeli, T., Dalrymple, S.E., Mondoni, A., Orsenigo, S., and Rossi, G. 2014. Integrating a biogeographical approach into assisted colonization activities is urgently needed. Plant Biosyst. 148(6):13551357. Adamidis, G.C., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G., Manolis, A., and Papageorgiou, A.C. 2014. Genetic diversity and population structure of the serpentine endemic Ni hyperaccumulator Alyssum lesbiacum. Plan...

Dynamic and flexible operation of a carbon capture plant is important as thermal power plants must be operated very flexibly to accommodate large shares of intermittent energy sources such as wind and solar energy. To facilitate such operation, dynamic models for simulation, optimization and control system design are crucial. In this paper, we present a dynamic mathematical model for the absorp...

Efforts to utilize metal-organic frameworks, a new class of materials exhibiting high surface areas, tunable pore dimensions, and adjustable surface functionality, for CO2 capture will be presented. Open metal coordination sites on the framework surface can deliver a high CO2 loading capacity at low pressures. However, additional criteria such as water stability and the selective binding of CO2...

Amid the dire warnings of severe weather perturbations and globally rising temperatures, scientists, engineers, policy makers, and others are searching for ways to reduce the growing threat of climate change. There is no single solution, but the development of carbon capture and sequestration technologies, which has accelerated greatly in the last decade, may play an important role in addressin...