Giants’ Danny Clark drives a Smart; Japan buries greenhouse gases; Probe to track climate change; San Diego gets $154 million for solar; Methanol fuel cells for gadgets

Giants’ Danny Clark Chose to Go Green With a Smart Car D, N.J. — Danny Clark of the Giants says he gets a lot of long looks from curious motorists when he drives his Smart car between Manhattan and the team’s practice complex in New Jersey. But the glances turn to stares and smiles when he parks his 1,600-pound vehicle and his 6-foot-2, 245-pound body emerges from behind the wheel.

Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. The cutting-edge but controversial technology of carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being tested at the Mikawa power station, located near the coast of Japan’s southern Fukuoka prefecture.

Probe to track impact of warming on Earth’s water A 315-million-euro satellite that will gauge the impact of climate change on the movement of water across land, air and sea was hoisted into space early Monday.

San Diego Solar Projects Get $154 Million Funding A total number of 192 solar installation projects in the public sector of San Diego were awarded with $154 million in allocations through the Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program.

Methanol fuel cells for gadgets gain steam Not sure how I feel about this idea yet, but a company called Direct Methanol Fuel Cell said on Monday it has licensed a patent from CalTech to build methanol-based gadget chargers, a week after Toshiba took the wraps off its own portable fuel cell.