links for 2008-12-30

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• Is Carbon Capture and Storage the Fix? – BusinessWeek
  Promoted in Europe, the technology for storing CO2 emissions underground could someday transform electric utilities and other industry into eco-friendly businesses. Removing 800,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere annually is definitely a venture worthy of investment. Keep it out of the atmosphere until we can figure a better way to dispose of it. Hyper-growing plants with CO2 maybe?
  (tags: green carbonstorage carbon capture energy businessweek)

• Algeria’s Carbon-Capture Experiment – BusinessWeek
  Not all gas projects may be suitable for the technology being pioneered at In Salah. Some gas fields don’t have high CO2 concentrations. And having the right type of reservoir, such as the one that lies beneath Krechba, also helps make the project viable economically.
  (tags: algeria energy green co2emissions gas fuel)

• MediaPost Publications – Restaurateurs Find A Mixed Washington Outlook – 12/29/2008
  Increasing taxes on upper-income households could hurt many small restaurant operators who report their business income as part of their personal tax statements, he said, while supporting corn ethanol as an alternative energy source could result in further increases in food prices.
  (tags: mediapost obama politics publicpolicy restaurants food tax ethanol)

• USC Annenberg School’s Center for the Digital Future
  This year’s report contains a large module looking at on-line communities and social networking in great detail. Readers can compare the social networking data and correlate it to seven years of attitudes and behaviors on-line. As usual, the report continues to track off-line media use, purchasing both off-line and through e-commerce, social and political activity and a wealth of other data.
  (tags: USCAnnenberg CenterfortheDigitalFuture communication internet research future technology socialnetworking society trends web2.0 digital media statistics web)