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$20,000 Solar Powered Autonomous Robots to Clean up Oil Spills

Posted by Mike in Green News on August 26, 2010

The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has determined the emergence of a new market for technologies that could handle and remedy such problems. BP deployed an oil-separating centrifuge system made by Ocean Therapy Solutions in June. Another solution was turning to oil-hungry bacteria grown in the lab.

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Finland’s Proposed Green Highway To Be The World’s First

Posted by Mike in Green News on August 21, 2010

The “green highway” will link Turku, Finland’s southwestern coast with Vaalimaa near the Russian border and will measure almost 130 kilometers. In charge of the project is the town of Loviisa, which is located in the east of Helsinki, the ones who proposed making this road “green”.

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Researchers Develop New Green Paving Slabs to Improve Air Quality

Posted by Mike in Green News on August 20, 2010

In the German cities, the toxic nitrogen oxide concentrations are exceeding the maximum levels but this is about to change with the new innovative paving slabs which are reducing the amount of the nitrogen oxide in the air.

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Chinese Oil Company Cleaned Up 1,500 Metric Tons of Spilled Crude

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News on July 26, 2010

Maybe this is not the typical alternative energy article we’ve gotten you used to, but it may look like BP could use some Chinese people in their fishing boats to clean up the spill.

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Powering The Future: Discovery Channel’s Newest Show on Alternative Energy Premiering June 17

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News on July 15, 2010

The 4 hour show is going to be hosted by a specialist in alternative energy: Dr. M. Sanjayan, lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Its purpose is to identify how humanity could tap “a clean, limitless, secure energy supply and addressing how it could possibly be delivered.”

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Space Rocket Nozzle Technology Could Capture CO2 and Turn It Into Dry Ice

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News on July 9, 2010

ATK, a company that builds the space shuttles’ booster rockets may have a solution for the massively-polluting coal power plants, by using rocket nozzle technology to turn the carbon dioxide into dry ice, and capture it easier than they can do with chemicals.

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Air-Purifying Concrete Paving Stones Remove Nitrogen Oxides from Vehicle Emissions

Posted by Mike in Experiments, Green News on July 7, 2010

Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands claim to have invented a new type of paving material that actually removes some pollutants from the air as vehicles travel over the surface. Combined with concrete or normal asphalt, the new material is able to eliminate 25% to 45% of nitrogen oxides from vehicle gases.

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Research: Postponing 5 O’Clock Tea By 1 Hour Could Offer Huge CO2 Savings

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News on June 27, 2010

You surely remember how it’s like in winter: you wake up, it’s dark, you turn the lights on. When you go to work, there’s finally more light, but when you return at around 5, say, it’s dark again, and you feel like you’ve been missing the whole day. But that’s not the point. The idea is that you consume much more electricity and resources if your schedule doesn’t match the daylight.

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Recently Discovered Nanocoating Makes Heat Transfer Happen Much Easier

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News, New Inventions on June 10, 2010

The action of cooling things down plays a critical part of any mechanical or electric system, because the inevitable heat, produced by friction, is the number one cause of almost instant failure. So far, different methods that cool systems have been discovered, but not to the extent of performance that engineers dream of building their computers or mechanical devices (cars, for example).

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Dutch Scientists Say Reducing Speed Limits to 50 MPH Would Cut CO2 Emissions by 30%

Posted by Ovidiu in Green News on June 7, 2010

Holland is a country many people mention for its cleanliness and low-speed driving (120 km/h max on motorways). Still, there’s room for more, as Mattijs Otten and Huib van Essen from the University of Delft released a study saying that the CO2 emissions would be reduced by 30% in the long run by reducing the speed limit to 80 km/h (50 mph).

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