CO2 storage - one piece of the global warming solutions' puzzle

Time to keep dust under the carpet

Whatever you have bought lately, it is almost certain it came in a wrapper or package that you ripped off straight-away and put in the bin. And there is no shred of doubt that oil, at least in one stage of the production process, has played a crucial role, be it serving as fuel to generate electricity or as raw material, what presents us with an impressive reality of consumption made up of one thousand barrels of oil per second. Linked to that, tons of carbon dioxide - one of the gases most responsible for the greenhouse effect - run together. So, the geological storage of CO2 has been increasingly focused as a solution to mitigate this enormous emissions rate. Although most experts vigorously defend this alternative, the subterranean storage of CO2 still causes controversy... full story


By LUAN GALANI
from Curitiba, BRAZIL

The 40 years of Internet

From an useless data exchange to a communication revolution

Despite the decentralized structure of Internet and the promises of freedom and openness, nowadays near all the service provided is in the hand of a few owners, configuring the network as an oligopoly of empowered companies. As well, even though it is passing through an evolution process in terms of accessibility by digital inclusion policies, there is still a big dark hole that impedes full access to the network... full story


By JANDRE BATISTA
from Pelotas, BRAZIL