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Saturn Moon Could Power 150 Billion Labor Day Barbecues

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens in 1655, Saturn's most massive moon, Titan, has been known as a place of mystery and intrigue. The large, cloud-enshrouded moon is ...


Oil, gas, propane? Penn State site compares home heating options

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 09, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- That nip in the air means fall is here, and many homeowners are facing a drastically more expensive home-heating season. An energy specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says it's not ...


Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane

Scientists discover new platinum catalysts for the dehydrogenation of propane

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The process to turn propane into industrially necessary propylene has been expensive and environmentally unfriendly. That was until scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National ...





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New material could expand applications and lower costs for solid oxide fuel cells

New Sulfur- and Coking-Tolerant Material Could Expand Applications for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ceramic material described in this week's issue of the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly from a ...


Organic apple orchard floor maintenance techniques

Organic apple orchard floor maintenance techniques

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Successful organic apple farming literally starts from the ground up. Maintaining a healthy orchard floor is the key to preventing weeds and keeping soil healthy. Logically, finding effective methods to increase ...


New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems

New supercomputer to reel in answers to some of Earth's problems (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 4

The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook ...


Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (42) | comments 27

The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years ...


Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...


Grilling with charcoal less climate-friendly than grilling with propane

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Do biofuels always create smaller carbon footprints than their fossil-fuel competitors? Not necessarily, finds a paper published in Elsevier’s Environmental Impact Assessment Review. The article, “Charcoal versus LPG grilling: ...


Many Tricks Can Save Electricity

Technology / Energy

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The electric bill this winter is more than a car payment, and you've decided to take action. But if you're not well-schooled, it's best to take some advice from the pros before stalking heat-saving products up and down the ...


Important Tests for Lunar Habitat Power System Began

Important Tests for Lunar Habitat Power System Began

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon.


Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight

Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (23) | comments 32

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have determined a way to use arrays of nanotubes in a solar-based process to convert carbon dioxide and water into methane and other hydrocarbon ...


Mobile home owners have many ways to increase energy efficiency

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2008 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Of the 413,000 housing units in Montana in 2000, about 59,000 were mobile homes. However, almost half of existing mobile homes were manufactured before 1976, when a federal housing code was passed that required them to be ...



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