35 results about "Carbon offset" patented technology

Real-time monitoring of an energy characteristic of a building such as an energy performance of the building or a carbon offset of the building is performed by first computing a heat transfer coefficient of the building from nighttime steady-state thermal load data of the building and from nighttime steady-state indoor and outdoor temperature data of the building. A thermal inertia of the building is then computed from nighttime transient indoor temperature data of the building and nighttime transient thermal load data of the building. During daytime, a solar radiation gain coefficient is computed from daytime thermal load data, daytime indoor and outdoor temperature data, incident solar radiation data, and the heat transfer coefficient. The energy characteristic of the building is then estimated in real time from the heat transfer coefficient, the thermal inertia, and the solar radiation gain coefficient.

A method and process is described for producing negative carbon fuel. In its broadest form, a carbon-containing input is converted to combustible fuels, refinery feedstock, or chemicals and a carbonaceous solid concurrently in separate and substantially uncontaminated form. In an embodiment of the invention, biomass is converted via discrete increasing temperatures under pressure to blendable combustible fuels and a carbonaceous solid. The carbonaceous solid may be reacted to synthesis gas, sold as charcoal product, carbon credits, used for carbon offsets, or sequestered.

A method and process is described for producing negative carbon fuel. In its broadest form, a carbon-containing input is converted to combustible fuels, refinery feedstock, or chemicals and a carbonaceous solid concurrently in separate and substantially uncontaminated form. In an embodiment of the invention, biomass is converted via discrete increasing temperatures under pressure to blendable combustible fuels and a carbonaceous solid. The carbonaceous solid may be reacted to synthesis gas, sold as charcoal product, carbon credits, used for carbon offsets, or sequestered.

Disclosed is a method and system for incorporating a carbon offset calculation into a shopping cart subsystem of a merchant website that calculates an estimated cost to offset a calculated estimate of the carbon emissions generated from shipping purchased products in order to allow the incorporation of the estimated carbon offset cost into the cost for the purchased products and allocate at least a portion of the payment of the estimated carbon offset cost to an entity building, managing, or operating a carbon offsetting application. Some embodiments may permit the customer purchasing the products to optionally select to incorporate the carbon offset costs in the costs for the purchased products. The estimate of carbon emissions generated calculation is based on specific information for the purchased products and the selected shipping methods for shipping the purchased products such as the shipping weight of the purchased products, a distance the purchased products are being shipped, and a designation of the shipping or transportation method. Additional embodiments may include dimensional weights of the purchased products, additional factors to account for the specific aspects of the selected transportation method for shipping the purchased products, and permitting the customer to select a specific carbon offsetting application to fund.

Compositions, methods and business applications of using new and recycled cardboard infused with a plurality of saprophytic (including endophytic) and mycorrhizal fungi matched with seeds of plants (including trees, vegetables, herbs and grasses) whereby the cardboard can be sprouted by end-users to start ecosystems. Such containers may have carbon-credit value for companies and consumers when planted and grown as a carbon sink or carbon offset for the photosynthetic and mycelial sequestration of carbon dioxide. The relative weight of the Life Box's added seeds and spores does not significantly affect the total weight of the infused cardboard, thus not increasing transportation costs.

A club or community of mineral producers or other interested parties is put together for the purpose of responsibility account for CO2 and/or other pollutants in produced minerals. The community utilizes a community system to track the amount of CO2 that is associated with produced minerals. The community member sponsoring the mineral contributes to the community fund an amount representative of the value of the estimated CO2 as determined by the community system. The community then utilizes the received funds to invest in carbon offset activities which in turn are returned as benefits to the community members so that either those members can sell carbon offset accounted minerals or the community can do so on the community members' behalf.

A method, a system and a computer program product for specifying the source of power and provider of carbon offsets for an electrical device or service. A power supply specification (PSS) utility enables a user or program to specify a preferred blend of power sources and preferred carbon offset provider via a set of programmable requirements and the utility dynamically configures the electrical device or service, based on those requirements. The PSS utility determines the instantaneous power consumption of the device based on the outputs of sensors that measure voltages and currents associated with the operation of the device. The PSS utility compares the device's power consumption with the power from available power generating sources against the set of programmable requirements. When the available power is unable to satisfy the programmable requirements and/or is not sufficient to fully power the device, the PSS utility automatically places the device into a reduced power state. The PSS utility reports information about the device's power consumption to the power supplier.

The invention is an optimization method comprising of: (a) uniform and efficient model and associated methods for computing the energy and emission impacts of each of a range of technological and commercial options, and (b) an integrated and efficient optimization model for trading off the technological and commercial options against each other to arrive at a financially optimal solution that complies with regulatory caps on emission. The energy and emission impact model handles options such as energy efficiency measures, renewable energy projects, carbon capture projects and carbon offsets. In addition to handling the direct emissions, the model handles indirect emissions resulting from purchased electricity or fuel. The integrated optimization model selects the solution that maximizes the total net present value of savings across the various technological and commercial options considering the location specific rates, prices and carbon caps as well as the different levels of investments within each project to choose from; this model performs this optimization over a series of time periods respecting capital budget and operational budget constraints. The quantities of carbon offsets that must be purchased or sold are also determined as part of this integrated model.

Novel tools and techniques for management of urban forestry projects. Some tools feature the integration of forestry tools and business intelligence techniques to provide enhanced insight into urban forestry projects and/or can incorporate data from a wide variety of data sources without the need for complex data transformation processes. In an aspect, some tools to enable urban forest project owners to capitalize on project offset credits as a revenue source. In another aspect, such tools can provide a variety of different analyses, from canopy analyses to tree health analysis, to work order generation, to carbon offset calculations, including the calculation of carbon offsets using accepted standards, to allow a project owner to quickly and easily establish the amount of offsets to which the project is entitled.

A system and method for facilitating and incentivizing resource conservation. A monitoring module generates data regarding consumption of energy or other resources by one or more devices. A processing module automatically compares the resource usage data to a baseline, and determines a direct cost savings based on the comparison, optionally along with indirect value based on tax shelter value, investment, carbon offset credits, and the like. Based on this, a financial module automatically directs money to a set of financial instruments. A feedback module provides a user with indications of resource usage data, monetary value, and status of the set of financial instruments. A database configured for accumulating information related to device resource consumption, device performance, and device-related context is also provided.

There is a system for carbon offsetting a travel product comprising a system provider server configured to provide one or more user screens to one or more computing devices used by a user of the travel product, a travel provider of the travel product or a carbon offset sponsor of the travel product, allow selection of a travel product by one or more of the computing devices through interaction with one or more user screens of the system provider server, arrive at the environmental currency required by the travel product, receive, from one or more of the computing devices, environmental currency, or value used to purchase environmental currency for the travel product, and add the received or purchased environmental currency to a total of received environmental currency for the travel product.

According to the present invention, a route search condition input from a user via an input unit is received from information processing terminal, at least one route satisfying the received route search condition is created by using route search information stored in a storage unit. For created at least one route, it is determined whether the route has been carbon offset in other systems for each of transportation facilities or each of operating distances of the transportation facilities, based on attribute data stored in the storage unit. When it is determined that the route has been carbon offset in other systems, the carbon-offset route is excluded from the created at least one route, and emissions emitted at the time of using the created at least one route are calculated for each corresponding the route, by using a calculation standard stored in the storage unit.

Methods, systems, services and program products are provided for implementing carbon offset computing. During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

An article/asset tag and a system for managing a plurality of articles/assets using the tag, including a database system storing information on assets or articles, and the tag providing a plurality of electronically readable elements, such as 2D barcodes and/or RFID tags, that provide a link to the database containing information that relates to an asset or article to which the tag is applied. At least a portion of the plurality of electronically readable elements store different data which can be read individually to retrieve information on a particular aspect of the asset or article, such as, but not limited to, asset management information, financial information, service history information, waste management information, or carbon offset information.

During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

The invention discloses a carbon offset method for methane synthesis gas prepared from dry distillation gas. The method is implemented through that a carbonate carbon offset raw material with a mineral powder particle size of less than or equal to 80 meshes is added into retort coal and uniformly mixed, the obtained mixture is added into a dry distillation furnace to heat, red heat furnace charges are cooled to room temperature, the obtained product is sieved so as to obtain a solid clean fuel, and produced CO2 and CO gases are directly fed into the dry distillation gas to match with excess H2 gas, so that the hydrogen-carbon ratio requirement for the synthesis of synthetic oil is met, thereby achieving the purpose of carbon offset. According to the method disclosed by the invention, carbonate minerals are directly added into the retort coal, and a carbon offset effect on dry distillation gas is achieved by using CO2 and CO gases produced by thermal decomposition, therefore, the method has the characteristics of rich raw material sources, simple technological processes, equipment investment saving, low carbon offset cost, good economical efficiency and the like, and can be widely applied to the comprehensive utilization projects of high and medium temperature dry distillation gas.

A carbon offset credit calculation system utilizing waste oil includes a first terminal device inputting information relating to waste oil regarded as a biomass resource; a second terminal device owned by a fuel manufactory and inputting information relating to biofuel, which is purified from waste oil. The fuel manufactory produces the biofuel based on the waste oil. The system includes a third terminal device owned by a site consuming biofuel and inputting information relating to power generation and fuel consumption; and a carbon offset credit calculation server, which calculates a carbon offset amount based on information input by the first terminal device, the second terminal device, and the third terminal device, and calculates a carbon offset credit based on the carbon offset amount. The first terminal device, the second terminal device, the third terminal device, and the carbon offset credit calculation server are connected to one another via the network.