Saw this in Whole Foods today - couldn’t resist posting it.

Seems it takes a lot of commitment to maintain a blog with meaningfully regular entries. It’s been more than a year since I last posted anything, and how life has changed!

• We had a beautiful daughter (Aditi) last year, and she turned one last month!
• I graduated from Hopkins with my Ph.D (finally!)
• Accepted a post-doc position with the Earth and Environmental Sciences group at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Aditi and Udaya joined me in Los Alamos recently and we are slowly adjusting to the new place.

Anyways, I spotted the “Wordpress for Android” app today and downloaded it with very noble intentions. Lets see how that works out.

The first commercial scale sequestration plant in the USA (a Basin Electric coal-fired plant in North Dakota) has been approved a loan of $300 miliion for plant modification. The capture carbon dioxide will be stored in oil-bearing formations. When completed, it is expected to sequester about 3000 tonnes of carbon dioxide each day, which is comparable to the Statoil operation at Sleipner in Norway. The press release is available online.