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Engineers research effects of heat expansion on economically efficient bridge design (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Kansas State University researchers are studying the effects of integral bridge expansion resulting from heat to make these types of bridges a more viable alternative.





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Solution to high energy costs could lie underground

Solution to high energy costs could lie underground

Technology / Energy

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (32) | comments 5

Sandia National Laboratories researcher Georgianne Peek thinks a possible solution to high energy costs lies underground. And it’s not coal or oil. It’s compressed air energy storage (CAES).


MIT releases major report on geothermal energy

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created Jan 22, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (30) | comments 0

A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth's hard rock crust could supply ...



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