News tagged with emission reduction
Major funding to help cut CO2 emissions
May 11, 2009 |
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The University of Nottingham is to share in £6.9m of research funding to investigate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies which could drastically cut CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel power stations. The funding fr ...
Action needed now for Minnesota to reach goals in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2015
Jul 22, 2008 |
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The state of Minnesota must act now if it wants to reach its Minnesota Next Generation Energy Act goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2015, according to a team of University of Minnesota transportation ...
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Program automatically shuts down office PCs when not in use
Nov 06, 2009 |
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NEC Corp. says it has developed the country's first software that automatically controls power consumption by personal computers in accordance with the patterns of its user's PC activity.
Kyoto treaty is ‘failing the world’s poor’, say scientists
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Initiatives aimed at cutting emissions while encouraging economic development are failing the world’s poorest countries, leading scientists from Oxford University are warning.
Mercury reduction tied to emissions laws
Apr 03, 2006 |
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Seven years after Massachusetts passed the nation's toughest mercury emission incinerator laws, mercury found in some freshwater fish is down 32 percent.
Economical and cleaner cars with lean-burn catalytic converter
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Karen Scholz has taken a careful look at the properties of a new type of catalytic converter found in cars. For this so-called NOx Storage Reduction (NSR) catalytic converter the fuel is alternately combusted ...
Nissan Cuts In Half Amount of Precious Metals Required in Catalysts
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nissan Motor Company Inc. has announced a new ultra-low precious metal catalyst that will cut in half the amount of precious metals used by car manufacturers. The new catalyst will be introduced in the new ...
Robots Reveal Insights into Evolution
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an ironic twist to our understanding of life, robots may offer a greater degree of realism for studying some of the intricacies of natural selection and evolution than real organisms offer. ...
Cow power could generate electricity for millions
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ...
GOP attacks Democrats for climate proposal
May 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Republicans on Saturday attacked the climate change proposal crafted by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama as doing little to reduce global warming while saddling Americans ...
Biological selenium removal: The solution to pollution?
Sep 15, 2008 |
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Selenium has been referred to as an "essential toxin" due to the fact that it shows only a marginal line between the nutritious requirement and toxic effects upon exposure. The steep dose response curve due to bioaccumulation ...
Recycling Food Scraps into Gardens
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Each weekday, food scraps are collected from the Maryland Food Distribution Authority in Jessup, Md., and from small local food service and marketing establishments. Materials that do not contain metal, glass, ...
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