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.

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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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Aerogel has been around since 1931, but its high cost has limited its use. The new process to make Maerogel cuts the cost of producing aerogel by 80 per cent, making it so affordable that it could become a commonplace material with wide use.

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Synopsis:

a film about extraordinary entrepreneurs and their mums, chronicles the impact mothers...

Director: Mary Mazzio

Featuring:

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	Richard Branson	...	As Himself
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	Tom Scott	...	As Himself
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435688/

Review:

Inspiring documentary about innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Find about Child Slavery.
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We do not see slavery as belonging to our world, not as something which is still happening today"

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Description:

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The search is now on for a similar drug that could help women. Research is revealing that female sexuality is more complex than expected. For women suffering from a loss of desire many scientists believe that drugs acting on the brain may be the way forward. A pioneering Scottish study may have identified just such a drug and begun testing it scientifically.

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