Australia is eager to fully embrace clean green solar power and money shouldn't represent a bump in the road, even if this ambitious project requires a lot more than pocket change. In order to exploit the entire potential of renewables, Canberra would have to come up with $100 billion.
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6 December 2011
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A group of scientists at the Arizona State University (ASU) is currently investigating the possibility of using biomaterials as an alternative to petroleum, for the production of styrene. This is an absolutely critical chemical, used in a wide range of applications today.
Styrene is useful for creating tires, shows... |
29 November 2011
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Bus and truck fleets are considerable sources of pollution, if we think about the amount of CO2 they spread into the atmosphere. Purdue University thinks it is able to improve the efficiency of these vehicles and has taken this matter into its own hands, by starting a five-year trial which has as a main goal a 50 per... |
10 November 2011
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Ethylene, one of the most popular compound used in the manufacturing process of obtaining several plastic items has a great market worth nearly $160 billion every year, where innovations of all kinds are more than welcome.
Especially green ones, since the main concern of experts in this field of activity is to liber... |
8 November 2011
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On an international scale, we are responsible for leaving 227 million tons of plastic materials behind every year.
An average individual from China uses 12 kg of plastic annually. Western Europe contributes with 65 kg , and North America with 90 kg, increasing the dimensions of the global issue represented by the d... |
7 November 2011
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The University of Delaware proves that scientific improvements can be developed while manifesting a great concern towards environmental preservation. This is a huge step towards reducing the institution's carbon footprint and also a great way of saving a significant amount of money which otherwise had to be spen... |
26 October 2011
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Joule managed to obtain the 2011 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for following its ambitious, eco-friendly objectives throughout this year. The company's officials are excited that the enterprise got the Silver award across all the 16 categories , and succeeded to make its name visible among all ... |
18 October 2011
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Using initial funding totaling $20 million, researchers at the San Francisco, California-based startup Siluria are now trying to develop a method of transforming methane directly into ethylene. If they succeed, then they could change the way a wide variety of plastics and chemicals are produced.
Methane is the pri... |
3 October 2011
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According to naturalists, certain types of microbes that can be found in nature have the potential to simply dissolve petrochemical residues, which means that they could possibly be used to break up major oil spills whenever they happen. The microorganisms attack only the oil molecules, breaking them up and rendering... |
30 March 2009
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The news came as a huge surprise even to environmentalists – a product that not only eliminates the need for oil-based plastics, but also does not require the cutting of a ridiculous amount of trees yearly. Liquid wood now exists, and can be molded and shaped just like plastics, with just a fraction of the cost... |
22 December 2008
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We live in an oil dominated world: who gets it holds the power. That's why the western world is struggling to find new fuels that would free it from an oil-and-gas based economy, which renders them vulnerable to the blackmail of some oil-and-gas rich countries, like many in Middle East, Russia or Venezuela, wher... |
12 December 2007
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Incredibly or not, the first diesel engine didn't use petroleum diesel to power itself, but instead it used vegetable oil. Most of us recognize the German engineer, Rudolf Diesel, as the father of the diesel engine, but the truth is that the first internal combustion engine, which operated on a diesel cycle, has... |
6 December 2007
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