Mazda Makes Eco-Friendly Plastics from Biomass
Mazda Motor Corporation and Hiroshima University are researching together to develop a brand new "green" plastic material from cellulosic biomass. They want to use it in vehicles by 2013.
Low Energy Water Desalination Through Nanotechnology
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found out a greener way to desalinize sea water. It uses carbon nanotubes which have pores that are 100,000 times smaller than a human hair, and were able to determine the rejection mechanism within the pores.
Delaying Internet's Data Could Reduce Its Carbon Emissions
The servers, routers, switches and other components of a network are designed to work with much larger quantities of data than they do daily,...
The Nuclear Era Will End Before 2030
A parliamentary group, called "The Greens" has released a report on Wednesday in which they underline the lack of nuclear development during the latest...
Nobel Winner Says Biodiesel Production Pollutes More Than Fossil Fuel
Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel...
How To Turn Plastics into Diesel Fuel
Global Resource Corporation (GRC) found a way to convert all plastics scrap and especially tire rubber to... guess what... DIESEL oil!
The secret behind this...
A new catalyst can split carbon dioxide gas
Tom Simonite, www.newscientist.com
A new catalyst that can split carbon dioxide gas could allow us to use carbon from the atmosphere as a fuel source...
How much does it cost to make the world carbon free?
Are you carbon neutral yet? It sure seems like everyone else is. Al Gore has wiped away his carbon footprint. The World Bank aims...
Abu Dhabi plans the world's first fossil free city
It may seem strange that the emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the planet's largest suppliers of oil, is planning to build the world's first carbon-neutral city.
