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Last month Prime Minister Harper confirmed government support for carbon capture technology and tossed $240 million into a generating plant in Saskatchewan to convert it to a carbon capture and storage unit. The plan is to generate power with coal, trap the emissions, then pipe it underground. Whether it will work or not is yet to be determined, and if it does there is the question of whether it could happen fast enough to significantly slow down our ballooning carbon emission problem.

Preventing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere is certainly a good thing, but technical fixes like carbon sequestering alone do not address the critical issue that we face with the environment, and alone are little more than an expensive public relations stunt.
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Stamford, Conn.-based Clean Diesel Technologies (Nasdaq: CDTI) announced today that it has licensed its Wire Mesh Filter technology to Zhucheng, China’s Headway Machinery, a commercial diesel engine exhaust company.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Clean Diesel said it would receive an upfront licensing fee and royalties on all Wire Mesh Filter units sold in China.

“This deal provides Clean Diesel comprehensive access to the world’s second largest automotive market,” said Bernhard Steiner, president and CEO of Clean Diesel.

“This agreement reinforces the value of our technologies as cost effective, robust emission control solutions for use worldwide.”

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South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region became the 10th Chinese locality to have replaced gasoline and diesel oil with bio-ethanol fuel on Tuesday out of environmental and energy efficiency concerns.

Petrol stations in all the 14 cities of Guangxi began to sell bio-ethanol fuel on Tuesday and in two weeks, traditional petrol and diesel oil will be phased out, said Fu Jian, an official in charge of transport with the regional government.

Fu said about 350,000 motor vehicles and more than 3 million motorbikes will have their tanks cleaned up for the fuel change.
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