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According to a new scientific study on the eating habits that citizens in the United States exhibit, nearly 40 percent of the food supply in the country goes to the trash can after purchase, rather than being consumed. This waste only seem to be getting worse as the years go by, experts say and argue that measures sh... |
26 November 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Plastic wastes, which come from an abundance of sources, including wrapping, bottles and other commodities, take more than one hundred years to disintegrate when left into the environment, which makes them one of the most harmful substances on the planet. Even so, it would seem that people are more than willing to bu... |
3 March 2009
03:09 GMT |
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What would you say if you walked on the street and the air smelled like coffee instead of burned gas? Although the very few people who can't stand the smell of coffee (assuming there are any) may be disappointed, for those who aim at having waste turned into fuel, good news is here: coffee and biofuels just beca... |
16 December 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Layers of very thick vegetation can be a very effective means of preventing landfills from releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane into the atmosphere, a new test study at the Rockhampton's Lakes Creek Landfill in Australia recently showed. Using methane capture towers can be prohibitively ex... |
28 November 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Pseudoscience or finally the real thing? Well, that still remains to be seen, but if it indeed works then mankind will be able to generate large amounts of energy at room temperature without worrying about waste or fuel. In the last decades, researchers have been frantically trying to demonstrate that cold fusion is ... |
27 May 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Nuclear fission reactors produce high amounts of relatively clean electric energy by burning nuclear fuels, such as uranium. Higher-efficiency nuclear fuel is required for the next generation of nuclear reactors, which will burn longer and stronger to produce even higher amounts of energy. However, researchers say th... |
10 April 2008
05:42 GMT |
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It's not the first time scientists hear about Shewanella bacterium and something tells me it's not gonna be the last time neither. We know certain types of bacteria are capable of producing electric energy just through feeding, however this is the first time when University of Minnesota researchers reveal t... |
5 March 2008
05:52 GMT |
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Great power comes with great responsibility, a wise man once said. Indeed it does, and nuclear waste is only one of the problems that come along with this great power. Nuclear energy has great potential for electrical energy generation, as it uses relatively small amounts of fuel and converts it into a massive amount... |
4 March 2008
04:58 GMT |
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But why? Well, there are three big reasons for that. The ethanol is a highly corrosive substance, it has lower energetic value than butanol and, unlike the latter, ethanol also produces a great deal of carbon dioxide gas when burning. Both butanol and ethanol are being routinely used as gas additives, in order to boo... |
28 January 2008
06:35 GMT |
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1.What makes too many people on this planet for too few resources? The demographic boom, increased carbon dioxide emissions, the thinning ozone layer, deforestation and soil erosion. 2.The global warming will raise in 100 years Earth's temperature by 1.4-5.8o C, and this is already increasing the sea level. The ... |
5 December 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Here's a new one! While every single giant fish in the electronic industry is doing its best to fight against the monster pollution we're living in nowadays, the Americans are actually doing their best to do even more damage as usual, by shipping huge amounts of electronic waste overseas. They're clean... |
19 November 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Waste management began as a problem for the computer industry a few years ago and since then, big names representing powerful and well established companies decided to start their own electronic waste gathering programs in order to diminish the industry's environmental footprint.As this trend continues and grows... |
21 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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What in the world could be more comfortable that the flushing toilet? Still, some researchers fear that this will trigger an environmental disaster in the western world. More ecological toilets, like the "squat toilet" in which one squats over a hole dug in the ground, are common in parts of Asia, Europe and Africa, ... |
1 August 2007
05:12 GMT |
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Doing something about global warming and the rapid depletion of the world's non-renewable energy resources has recently become an important topic on some companies' agendas. The search for viable biofuels is well on its way and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "gree... |
27 June 2007
11:13 GMT |
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One of Russia's biggest radioactive waste storage facilities, located in the Kola Peninsula, in the Northwest, is, according to environmentalists, a ticking bomb, ready to explode in a short time if no countermeasures are taken.The blast would be worse than the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, a... |
5 June 2007
03:42 GMT |
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The search for viable biofuels is well on its way, and more and more car manufacturers are presenting concepts and prototypes of "green cars," that use alternative fuel sources.Making cellulosic ethanol seems to be a good a idea. Making cars run on this fuel instead of the polluting fossilized fuel is an even better... |
7 May 2007
10:39 GMT |
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