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Research provides octagonal window of opportunity for carbon capture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Filtering carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from factory smokestacks is a necessary, but expensive part of many manufacturing processes. However, a collaborative research team from the National ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Chemically scrubbing CO2 from the air too expensive

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is possible to chemically scrub carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere in order to lessen the severity of global warming, the process is prohibitively expensive for now. Best to focus ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 63 | with audio podcast

New analysis shows pulling CO2 from the air would not be cost-effective in the foreseeable future

Since most of the world’s governments have not yet enacted regulations to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, some experts have advocated the development of technologies to remove carbon dioxide directly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Can coal plants afford EPA's new air-toxics rule?

America has never had a nationwide limit on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants. That's about to change, though, and it will cost companies such as American Electric Power, which runs the Tanners ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revolutionary ultrasonic nozzle that will change the way water cleans

A team of scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a revolutionary ultrasonic attachment for taps, which massively enhances the ability of water to clean.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Growing algae could clean the Chesapeake Bay and create biofuel

Maryland's Eastern Shore is known for vast soybean and corn farms, but if Patrick Kangas had his way it would be covered in slime.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New technology could capture ammonia from liquid manure

Though it may not sound very glamorous, a new method of extracting ammonium from liquid animal manure could be exciting news for both confined animal operations and environmental groups, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multiple new strains of bacteria discovered in the human belly button

(Medical Xpress) -- New research released this week may find you spending a few extra minutes in the shower scrubbing your belly button. Researchers from the Belly Button Biodiversity project, led by Jiri ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Algal turf scrubbers clean water with sunlight

An article published in the June issue of BioScience describes the early scale-up stage of a new biotechnology with environmental benefits and possible commercial potential. Algal turf scrubbers are field-sized, water-treatment system ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human terrarium, Biosphere 2, looking good at 20

(AP) -- Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their mission back in the 1990s: To see whether humans might someday be able to create self-sustaining ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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