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Magnetic leaves reveal Bellingham's most polluted byways

Tree leaves may be powerful tools for monitoring air quality and planning biking routes and walking paths, suggests a new study by scientists at Western Washington University in Bellingham. The research will ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Used frying oil to power MIT shuttles

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you catch a whiff of french fries this fall when an MIT shuttle rolls past, it won't be a coincidence. Part of the fuel in its tank may have come out of a kitchen deep fryer just a few ...

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created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

London bids to be world's greenest by 2012: mayor

Mayor Boris Johnson outlined plans to make London "the cleanest, greenest city on earth" by the 2012 Olympics and called for commitments from other world cities at a climate change conference.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Go to work on a Christmas card

If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind ...

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created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Delhi's air as dirty as ever despite some reforms

(AP) -- A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi's answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever - partly because breakneck development has brought ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Post-doctoral researcher makes strides in fuel cell technology

Liang Wang, a post-doctoral researcher in the University of Delaware's Center for Fuel Cell Research in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is developing new materials and structures that can improve ...

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created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

KAIST's successful transfer of green technology

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, December 1, 2011—The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has reaped the fruits of its hard work in developing an innovative green technology that will ...

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created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Laboratory on wheels

Electric and hybrid vehicles will be conquering the cities: cars, bicycles, buses and trains. This is why new ideas are in demand for individual and public transportation. In "Fraunhofer's System Research ...

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created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

University of Houston to test local buses for fuel efficiency

It seems fuel economy is on everyone's minds these days.

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created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British adventurer returns from global eco-bus trip

An eco-adventurer arrived back in Britain on Friday after driving round the world in a battered old "biotruck" rescued from a junkyard and powered by used cooking oil.

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created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arctic Whisper - First fast-charging hybrid electric bus debuts in Sweden

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Spanish "green" technology firm, Opbrid, has delivered a new kind of diesel-electric hybrid commuter bus to the northern Swedish town of Umea for initial testing of its over-head fast ...

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created Apr 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

UConn reactor uses more efficient process to make biodiesel fuel

Deep inside the University of Connecticut’s chemical engineering building in Storrs, Professor Richard Parnas and a team of students quietly monitor a murky brown emulsion bubbling inside an enormous 6-inch diameter ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Clean fuel worsens climate impacts for some vehicle engines: study

A pioneering program by one of the world's largest cities to switch its vehicle fleet to clean fuel has not significantly improved harmful vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles – and worsened ...

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created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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