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Side Effect of a Side Effect – Fracking Sand Mining and Human Health

Benji Jerew — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:21:32 +0000

Fracking, colloquial for hydraulic fracturing, has led to a great boom in natural gas production, and therefore prices. Unfortunately, fracking has also led to a similar “boom” in side effects. Natural gas emits slightly less carbon dioxide than petroleum does, and far less than coal, but is still a fossil fuel. One might hale the […]

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Utilities to Offer Lower Rates for Electric Vehicle Charging in Minnesota

Benji Jerew — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 01:52:36 +0000

Switching the load from gas pumps to electric vehicle charging stations has gotten some wondering if the power grid is sufficient, in more ways than one. For example, tell a utility that 500 electric vehicles are going to be charging on the grid, they start running calculations, some of them quickly realizing that the local […]

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Climate Change Killing Moose at Alarming Rate

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:47:14 +0000

Climate change is playing a huge role in the gradual population decline and anticipated extinction of the moose. Minnesota had two different moose populations twenty years ago, and they were geographically separate. Since the 1990s, one of the populations has declined from 4000 to 100. The second population, located in northeastern Minnesota, has been dropping […]

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