Pair again working on greenhouse gases
Matt Nelson - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 9/20/07 Section: Metro
- Page 1 of 1
"It's an absolute honor anytime you get to work with Jerry Schnoor," Ney said.
As a consultant for Sebesta-Blomberg, a sustainable-technology company, Ney works with industrial and major institutions such as universities to manage and reduce carbon emissions.
He is representing the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association on the Iowa Climate Council and bringing with him a knowledge of emission trading programs, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange.
Ney earned his doctorate from the UI working on the Chariton Valley Biomass Project, analyzing the potential of switchgrass use instead of coal. It was one of many projects he worked on with Schnoor, from the first greenhouse-gas inventory in Iowa to quantifying the benefits of reforestation in Wisconsin.
Schnoor, who first worked with Ney on the UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, noted that there were several major differences in the plan Schnoor and Ney had put together compared with now.
"We recommended wind energy [in the original plan]," Schnoor said - they called for 200 megawatts of energy supplied by wind power. Iowa now has 750 megawatts derived from wind per year.
"We didn't foresee how popular that would be," Schnoor said.
Schnoor noted that although some of the large-scale plans that he and Ney had called for, such as poplar planting along rivers to sequester carbon and prevent irrigation runoff, haven't come through, reforestation in Iowa is improving.
"Some options that seemed quite promising now, we didn't think of or they weren't available then," Schnoor said. "On the other hand, some things we touted as quite important, then didn't come to pass as we thought they might."
Ney and Schnoor haven't met together at the council, but they're looking forward to it. Commissioned by Gov. Chet Culver in April of this year, the Climate Change Advisory Council will prepare a report on Iowa's greenhouse-gas emissions and present suggestions to reduce the emissions.
Since the initial report prepared by Schnoor and Ney 11 years ago, Iowa's greenhouse-gas emissions have grown by 38 percent.
E-mail DI reporter Matt Nelson at:
matthew-s-nelson@uiowa.edu
As a consultant for Sebesta-Blomberg, a sustainable-technology company, Ney works with industrial and major institutions such as universities to manage and reduce carbon emissions.
He is representing the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association on the Iowa Climate Council and bringing with him a knowledge of emission trading programs, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange.
Ney earned his doctorate from the UI working on the Chariton Valley Biomass Project, analyzing the potential of switchgrass use instead of coal. It was one of many projects he worked on with Schnoor, from the first greenhouse-gas inventory in Iowa to quantifying the benefits of reforestation in Wisconsin.
Schnoor, who first worked with Ney on the UI's Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, noted that there were several major differences in the plan Schnoor and Ney had put together compared with now.
"We recommended wind energy [in the original plan]," Schnoor said - they called for 200 megawatts of energy supplied by wind power. Iowa now has 750 megawatts derived from wind per year.
"We didn't foresee how popular that would be," Schnoor said.
Schnoor noted that although some of the large-scale plans that he and Ney had called for, such as poplar planting along rivers to sequester carbon and prevent irrigation runoff, haven't come through, reforestation in Iowa is improving.
"Some options that seemed quite promising now, we didn't think of or they weren't available then," Schnoor said. "On the other hand, some things we touted as quite important, then didn't come to pass as we thought they might."
Ney and Schnoor haven't met together at the council, but they're looking forward to it. Commissioned by Gov. Chet Culver in April of this year, the Climate Change Advisory Council will prepare a report on Iowa's greenhouse-gas emissions and present suggestions to reduce the emissions.
Since the initial report prepared by Schnoor and Ney 11 years ago, Iowa's greenhouse-gas emissions have grown by 38 percent.
E-mail DI reporter Matt Nelson at:
matthew-s-nelson@uiowa.edu
Be the first to comment on this story