Science
Monday, July 21st, 2008
Since the world's oceans are by far the largest carbon sink on the planet, they've been paid a lot of attention in recent years, not only as a gauge to measure climate change but also as possible repositories for excess CO2 currently floating in the atmosphere. Geo-engineering projects have been ...
Posted in Climate change, Nature, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
LEDs, light-emitting diodes, are the future of household and commercial lighting, there is no doubt about that; they are way more efficient than even compact fluorescent bulbs (they also contain no mercury), use very little electricity, and last about 50,000 hours, meaning they'll probably outlive us all. The question though, ...
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Green Buildings, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
To be perfectly honest we've not been fans of hydrogen around here, in fact we're pretty much against it for most suggested applications. The problem with hydrogen is that today the majority of it is produced from by-products of natural gas combustion which releases CO2 into the atmosphere, among other ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Efficiency, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
In a move that's a first for Australia, the Yang Power Station, a coal-fired facility located in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, has captured CO2 directly from the flue gases in what is being called a PCC, a post-combustion-capture device, which is being tested as a pilot project. The 35 foot high ...
Posted in News, Recycling, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Wave power is one of those renewable resources that everyone seems to agree on; it doesn't create an (arguably) unsightly view, and doesn't take up any usable land. It's also one of those great unbounded sources of energy, and since 2/3rds of the planet is water, there is a lot ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
There has been a lot of press lately about the UK's Professor Seamus Garvey, a researcher who designed a method of storing the excess energy produced by wind turbines for later use in a very novel way. Essentially it involves Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES), a principle that works by ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, Energy Efficiency, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
As strange as it may sound, the process that brings you your morning cup of coffee has the potential to increase the actual energy value of biomass, netting up to a 20% increase. The process, called torrefaction, was originally developed in France in the 1980s as a means to roast ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, News, Science, Technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Most people may not know it, but seaweed has, for centuries, been used for a multitude of applications including cosmetics, food, medical treatments, fertilizers, and it was even burned to get potash and soda ash for the soap and glass industries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Now Ireland's great ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nature, News, Science, Technology, Transportation | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Jacques Cousteau is probably the father of all modern ecological study and the great mouthpiece of 20th century conservationists. His death in 1997 left a void in the ocean and took a man from us who we knew growing up from his dozens of underwater documentaries and his collaborations with ...
Posted in Climate change, Education, Nature, Science | No Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
With the growing concern over farmland being used to produce crops that will be refined into biofuels instead of food, shortages of which are growing annually, researchers at the Carnegie Institute of Science have studied the potential for abandoned agricultural and pasture land to be used instead, and to see ...
Posted in Alternative Energy, Nature, News, Science | No Comments »
