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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 ...





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Italy recalls 'radioactive' wood pellets: report

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 4

An Italian court has ordered the recall of 10,000 tonnes of wood fuel pellets imported from Lithuania over fears that they could have dangerous levels of radioactivity, newspapers reported on Sunday.


Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest

Sustainable fertilizer: Urine and wood ash produce large harvest

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine mixed with wood ash as a fertilizer for food crops has found that the combination can be substituted for costly synthetic fertilizers to produce ...


Stakeholders use science to find common ground on wood supply from forests

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Northern Arizona University has released a report that identifies the potential volume of wood resources available from more than 2 million acres of Arizona forests, representing the first major agreement among groups typically ...


New biofuel from trees developed at UGA

New biofuel from trees developed at UGA

Chemistry /

created May 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

A team of University of Georgia researchers has developed a new biofuel derived from wood chips. Unlike previous fuels derived from wood, the new and still unnamed fuel can be blended with biodiesel and petroleum ...


Weeds that reinvented weediness

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Flowering plants are all around us and are phenomenally successful—but how did they get to be so successful and where did they come from? This question bothered Darwin and others and a paper published in the September issue ...


Termites eavesdrop on competitors to survive

Termites eavesdrop on competitors to survive

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The drywood termite, Cryptotermes secundus, eavesdrops on its more aggressive subterranean competitor, Coptotermes acinaciformis, to avoid contact with it, according to scientists from CSIRO ...


Energy consumption makes Spanish forestry unsustainable

Energy consumption makes Spanish forestry unsustainable

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spain is one of the leading European countries, along with Sweden, in terms of wood production for paper paste, but this uses large amounts of energy. Spanish and Swedish scientists have compared the environmental ...


Wood stoves -- a viable home heat source?

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

The stress of rising natural gas prices is leading many consumers to rethink how they heat their homes. For some this means moving towards modern alternative energy options, while others have been turning to a more traditional ...


Cancer drug may prevent cocaine relapse behavior

Cancer drug may prevent cocaine relapse behavior

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A drug in development to treat cancer could help prevent relapse behavior in people trying to overcome an addiction to cocaine, according to a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.


Predators key to sustainable farming

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Barn owls have emerged as the unlikely heroes in the fight against climate change, saving Malaysian farmers more than money, UQ PhD Student Chong Leong Puan has found.



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