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How Can Wood Waste Make Cement, Concrete Stronger and More Watertight?

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:48:34 +0000

Furniture factories in Singapore generate huge amount of wood waste – about 530,000 tons in 2016 alone. This carbon-rich waste are usually either incinerated or dumped in a landfill. But thanks to a team of researchers in National University of Singapore (NUS) who developed a method that recycles these tons of carbon-rich waste into an […]

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Biobattery Plant Makes Gas, Oil, and Fertilizer

Mila Luleva — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:08:25 +0000

A new biogas power plant prototype, which is also a biobattery, can utilize various types of raw materials to produce electricity, ready to use purified oil and gas, and fertilizer, at the same time. A team of scientists at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Energy and Safety Technology are currently testing their latest invention, which […]

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Adding Biochar To Soils Increases Their Fertility And Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Mila Luleva — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 15:58:50 +0000

Scientists from University of Tubingen have discovered a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural land. Microbiologists Johannes Harter and Jans-Martin Krause and team, explored whether adding biochar to the soil will allow farmers to reduce the amount of needed nitrogen fertilizer, and to cut down the emitted nitrous oxide. It turns out, it […]

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Biochar, The Best Solution For Cattle-Linked Nitrous Oxide Emissions

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:41:04 +0000

The cattle growing activity has been associated for some time with increased greenhouse gas emissions, such as nitrous oxide. Grazed pastures have been studied and their increased nitrous oxide emissions have been proven to be reduced by biochar, which can sequester the embodied carbon in the soil and alters soil nitrogen transformations in a beneficial way.

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Biochar: A Soil Fertilizer Used by Amazonian Indians Could Effectively Capture CO2

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:19:26 +0000

Mass production of biochar could capture and sock away carbon that otherwise would wind up in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Their report appears in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology, a bi-weekly journal.

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