By: Jose Luis Caceres One of the greatest challenges of our generation and presumably of the generations coming after us, is to confront Climate Change, and more specifically, the negative environmental effects of human-made carbon emissions as a consequence of burning fossil fuels. This article constitutes part one out of three in the hydrogen series. These …
By: Jose Luis Caceres Review of ‘The Carbon Sequester’: “A revolutionary technological breakthrough aimed to act on Climate Change, which brings along a spectacular geopolitical plot. More than a thriller this novel reverberates on the crude reality the world is currently facing and the impending need to act in order to confront it.” I started …
‘The Carbon Sequester’ – not another novel, but a ‘life changing’ one Read More »
By: Jose Caceres We live in a society that ‘still’ uses oil intensively. Wouldn’t that make a strong enough reason for Eastern Canada to use the oil that is produced at home, in Western Canada? Refineries in Eastern Canada import around 80% of their oil supply. The Energy East pipeline if built could provide a reliable …
By: Jose Caceres The recent trends on becoming ‘greener’ are not a fad, but are here to stay. The global community is embracing the desire of becoming greener and the concerns on Climate Change are without a doubt a major catalyst for this transition. As an example, technological improvements are making more affordable than ever …
By: Jose Caceres The ‘holy grail’ of a low-carbon economic scheme is one in which energy, and specifically electricity generation, is produced in complete absence of fossil fuels and therefore without greenhouse gas emissions. Geothermal power or in other words, the ‘heat of the earth’, is a clean and renewable source of energy available anywhere …
The heat of the Earth, an unparalleled opportunity for Alberta Read More »
By: Jose Caceres The province of Alberta in western Canada is reckoned for its energy wealth and it is also known for being an economic powerhouse of the country, though this latest title is lacking some luster in recent times (for reasons that will be discussed further below). This energy wealth, in the form of …
By: Jose Caceres As of mid-2016 the fossil fuel era is facing a critical phase. Although fossil fuels prevail in a dominant position in the energy supply of the modern world, its gigantic grip seems to be losing strength. That strength once extremely vigorous might not ever fully recover. In other words, and particularly in …
By: Jose Caceres First we need to understand that carbon is found in fossil fuels. Fossils fuels are the result of anaerobic decomposition of the remains of plants and animals after being buried in oxygen-free environments and under specific conditions of temperature and pressure and over long periods of time (millions of years). Coal, petroleum …
By: Jose Caceres It is well known and understood, at least within the scientific community and the educated segment of the population, that the climate is changing and that this change is reflected in a warmer planet, and because of this it is called ‘global warming’. In essence, global warming is the increase of the …
By: Jose Caceres Peru, located at a tropical latitude, in the proximity of the Equatorial line and at the shores of the Pacific Ocean in the western side of South America, is often assumed to possess a tropical climate. This is in part true, but given Peru’s rough landscape and the influence of the rather …
From ambiguous rhetoric to factuality: Global Warming is real – The Peruvian case Read More »
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