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The world is about to witness something that no one has expected. A large scale portable energy generating facilities, and this time it has nothing to do with solar, it is nuclear. Yes, you read correctly. The Russians announced the...
Nutrients in soils are one of the most essential components that determine land productivity and consequently availability of food resources. The balance between these components, or more precisely the presence of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in sufficient quantities, is strongly...
Honda Soltec, a subsidiary of Honda Motor Corporation , has been producing solar panels since 2006, but will be shut down in early 2014. It seems to me that any company that's producing electric vehicles, in the interest of truly...
At a recent Tesla Store opening in London, the first of its kind in the UK, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was personally on hand to answer questions from Tesla owners and enthusiasts for nearly an hour. We've been gleaning...
Thanks to China's growth-at-all-costs economic expansion policy, one of those costs has been manifested in worsening air pollution. According to some studies, up to 40% of premature deaths linked to air pollution are occurring in China highlighting an even greater...
As part of the University of Western Australia (UWA) Inquiring Minds Series, Oceans Institute Director Carlos Duarte, along with UWA PhD student Julia Reiser, presented findings that give a global picture of plastic concentrations in the world’s oceans. Computer modeling...
Addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions could probably be referred to as a passive step in the right direction, but geoengineers want to make a more active steps. Man has been geoengineering since he discovered agriculture. Plowing, planting,...
In theory, biofuels programs could gives us a ready supply of carbon-neutral fuels for use in everyday applications, but the process is expensive and inefficient. Researchers have been looking for ways to improve biofuel synthesis, speed up the process,...
Passivhaus, the one and only internationally recognized concept solely for its energy saving performance, has taken over the property market, as energy bills continue to increase. The buildings are self-sufficient, super isolated and air-tight, and are equipped with windows...
For most states in the U.S., except Hawaii and Arizona, daylight saving time (DST) was officially over this weekend. The clocks went one hour back, meaning we not only get one hour extra sleep in the morning, but we...