Why Google Energy - The explosive growth of low-carbon economy :

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Why Google Energy - The explosive growth of low-carbon economy :

1. Carbon Market - Market could be worth $3tn a year.
2. Virtual Electric Utility - Cheaper to operate virtual electric generator rather build own solar farm & other clean energy. therefore, this will lead to acquisition of EnerNOC (market cap - $ 688 million as Feb 21, 2010) soon. 

"Google’s Niki Fenwick told us (and is quoted in the other media reports) that Google has no plans to become an energy seller but that the creation of Google Energy is an attempt to proactively address hurdles it could face in its plans to go carbon neutral. Given the legal permission to act as a utility — basically buying and selling clean energy (it owns a large rooftop solar project at its headquarters) — Google could help offset its carbon emissions that result from its large power needs." - Earth2tech.

 Regards,


Syawal.
21/02/2010.

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How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

Image: Courtesy The Vulcan Project. The units are log(million metric tons/year/100 square km.), so sayeth our team of commenters. The data is drawn from 2002 via Wired Science 2008.

From: Google Tech Talks, December 16, 2008




ABSTRACT

The Vulcan Project has estimated US fossil fuel CO2 emissions at the scale of individual factories, powerplants, roadways and cities. It has placed the inventory on a common 10 km x10 km grid at the hourly timescale for the year 2002. In addition to improvement in space and time resolution, Vulcan is quantified at the level of fuel type, economic sub-sector, and county/state identification. Vulcan is now estimating other years and including Canada and Mexico in its spatial domain.

Two development paths are planned: performing this effort across the planet at scales of ~ 100 km2 and downscaling the Vulcan effort within the US domain to all emitting sources with full energy demand-driven modeling in near realtime (codename: Hestia)

Slides for this talk are available click here:

http://www.purdue.edu/eas/carbon/vulcan/Google.pptx


Speaker: Dr. Kevin Gurney

Dr Gurney is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University and an Associate Director at Purdue Climate Change Research Center. He has participated in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change) and sits on the steering committee of the Global Carbon Project. He works on simulation of the global carbon cycle, deforestation, and climate change policy.

Source: How to Count ALL Human Carbon Emissions in the US

1. Japan launch satelite for GHG.
2. Nasa launch CO2 satelite tracker.

My Question:

1. When Malaysia government going to measure it own carbon print. To participate in carbon economy - we need to design, measure, analysis and improve the our strength and weakness.
2. What is MOSTI and EPU status and measure (implementation) on this issue?

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