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Fuel spill at same Alaska reef as Exxon Valdez

Space & Earth / Environment

Dec 25, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

A tugboat struck the same reef as the Exxon Valdez tanker 20 years ago, spilling diesel into Alaska's Prince William Sound and creating a three-mile-long slick, the US Coast Guard said on Friday.

Method makes refineries more efficient

Chemistry / Other

Dec 22, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Refineries could trim millions of dollars in energy costs annually by using a new method developed at Purdue University to rearrange the distillation sequence needed to separate crude petroleum into products.

Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics

Chemistry / Materials Science

Dec 21, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (17) | 5

Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.

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