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Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO2) compressio ...
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SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2009 |
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You don't always have to have a rocket to do rocket science. Sometimes a mere airplane will do - that is, a mere Boeing 747 toting a 17-ton, 9-foot wide telescope named SOFIA.
Just use less: Energy savings to be big part of nation’s energy future
Nov 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Energy adviser and former Honeywell executive Maxine Savitz says there are enormous energy savings available through increased efficiency, as much as 30 percent by 2030.
Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy ...
LLNL licenses carbon nanotube technology to local company
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has exclusively licensed to Porifera Inc. of Hayward a carbon nanotube technology that can be used to desalinate water and can be applied to other liquid based separations.
Scientists seek safe carbon dioxide storage for 'greener' power generation (w/ Video)
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to fund research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering on technologies that would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the capture ...
Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This ...
How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical ...
Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions
Nov 01, 2009 |
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Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth.
Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances -- notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles -- that affect Earth’s climate. And they’ve been aided ...
Like a hungry teen, life on Earth had big growth spurts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Twice in the Earth's history, living creatures underwent astonishing growth spurts, and each time, new organisms emerged that were a million times larger than anything that had existed before.
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