clemson university Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:43:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 $1.2 Million Grant To Clemson University For Studying How To Safely Deploy Plutonium Waste https://www.greenoptimistic.com/clemson-university-grant-plutonium-20101115/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/clemson-university-grant-plutonium-20101115/#respond Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:43:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=11810 Because plutonium, a radioactive byproduct of spent nuclear fuel, can move pretty fast through the soil, the U.S. Department of Energy granted $1.2 million to Clemson University scientists to study how the nuclear substance interacts with soil and how damages to the environment could be minimized.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/clemson-university-grant-plutonium-20101115/feed/ 0 11810 STES: Underground Heat Storing Solution Designed for the Military, Also Applicable to Your Home https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stes-underground-heat-storage-20100611/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stes-underground-heat-storage-20100611/#respond Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:54:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7964 Storing hot materials while it's cold and storing cold materials while it's hot isn't anything new in concept, but transplanting the idea in geothermal science is both attractive and economic. For example, the Defense Department spends $3.5 billion on the energy needed by its bases, out of which most money go to cooling and heating.

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