Recycling
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 ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Generally we associate Toyota with car manufacturing, but the reality is that Toyota is a massive company that has its hands in aerospace, financial services, education, and even growing flowers. It's the last of those endeavors that has attracted some recent attention because the Japanese giant is using waste C02 ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
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We recently wrote about the world's first renewable gasoline, made from algae, which is carbon neutral and can be pumped directly into your gas tank, but an even more interesting source of biofuel, which after refining could power many a tractor or car, is coming from pigs. More specifically, from ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
More and more frequently you will find slinking figures in dark alleys, not bent on mugging you, but rather poised to suck away as much grease and vegetable oil as possible from restaurant grease traps to fuel their cars. With rising fuel prices, this grease-thievery is becoming a common practice ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Traditional methods of producing ethanol generally revolve around the digestion of waste plant matter from farms, switchgrass, corn, or even rice husks. BlueFire Ethanol of Irvine, California, however, has plans to build a facility later this year that will be able to produce 3 millions gallons of ethanol each year, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
While the majority of us wait for an affordable electric vehicle here in the US, they are already out and about in Europe, but TH!NK, a Norwegian company, a manufacturer of EVs, has announced that they are bringing their vehicles here, for sale in the US by 2009. Their ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
We all know that even if we stop producing CO2 immediately, the effects of what we've already put into the air will be catching up to us even over the next 50 to 100 years. So while reducing our emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases is key, removing some ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
There has been much debate surrounding the production of biofuels, from using productive agricultural land to grow fuel instead of food to the falsity that biofuels are causing global food prices to rise. Much research has gone into the conversion of corn, palm, sugarcane and other crops into fuels, but ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Every year there is more than 2 million tons of household electronics that get tossed out in the US, and less than 20% of this is ever recycled. Despite many electronics manufacturers offering free recycling (or the cost being included in the price) of their products once you are finished ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This is our 6th article in a series covering the International Science and Engineering Fair.
Solar thermal hot water systems are awesome. They are simple to design, in fact many people make their own from scratch, and they immediately begin to save upwards of 40% of water heating costs. There is ...
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