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Hellisheidi Researchers Transform Carbon Dioxide into Mineral

Courtney Lepping — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 20:56:25 +0000

Researchers at the largest geothermal facility in the world, The Hellisheidi power plant beat the time constraints predicted for carbon storage. Storing carbon dioxide underground has been a problematic topic because of suspicions that the natural chemical reactions required would just take too much time. It took less than two years for 95% of the […]

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Climate Change Science “Compelling,” Americans Agree With Carbon Limits

Benji Jerew — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:33:25 +0000

No matter what the climate change deniers say, the science and the effects are quite “compelling,” according to President Obama, which has moved many regulators toward greenhouse gas reduction measures. While climate change science speaks of rising sea levels, aberrant weather, and scarcity of the basic necessities for human life, it also recognizes the principal […]

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Waste Heat May Boost Power Plant Performance by 10%

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:29:04 +0000

Vehicle mileage might be increased by 5% and power plant industrial process performance may be increased by up to 10%, thanks to physicists at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivity. The physicists studied non-toxic materials, including tin telluride that had iridium added to it for waste heat recovery. Earlier […]

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Oslo Imports Trash for Power Generation, But There’s Not Enough Trash to Go Around

Benji Jerew — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:05:58 +0000

The city of Oslo, Norway, burns its trash in specialize plants for power generation and heating, but there are more trash-burning plants than there is trash to feed them. The situation is similar in other Northern European countries, which exceed 700 million tons of trash-burning power generation capacity. The problem is, in an age of […]

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Dutch & Norvegian Researchers Say Osmosis Power Plants Could Suffice World's Electricity Needs

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:04:09 +0000

A new approach to generate electricity comes from engineers from Europe's northern countries of the Netherlands and Norway. They want to use the difference between salty and fresh water through osmosis in two different manners and say that their solutions could suffice the entire world's energy needs. The New Scientist joined them both in an interesting case study.

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New Metal-Organic Frameworks In Action for Capturing Carbon Dioxide

Cristi — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:52:33 +0000

Climate change is one of the most controversial subjects of the century, because it is changing our planet in an non-imaginable way. Scientists have developed different ways (more or less efficient) to capture the CO2 excess resulted from human activity.

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How to use solar energy at night or during rainy days

Cristi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:23:38 +0000

In Granada- Spain, German scientists of Solar Millennium AG, have developed a solar-thermal power plant called Andasol 1. The most interesting thing about this power plant is that it can produce energy even when the sun is not shining: at night, on clouding or even rainy days.

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Ontario Region Switches Coal with Biomass

Florin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:27:44 +0000

The company that produces the energy in Ontario, OPG - Ontario Power Generation started the process of finding providers for biomass fuel, by sending a "call for expression of interest" to those interested to change the coal to biogas for producing the electricity in the region.
The company is looking forward to create the list with...

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Freshwater and Electricity Through Osmosis

Cristi — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:49:24 +0000

Robert McGinnis, Yale doctoral student and Menachem Elimelech, Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, have developed systems that can harness the power of osmosis to transform non-potable water sources like seawater to freshwater and generate in the same time electricity.

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Would you like to host a nuclear reactor in your backyard?

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:28:35 +0000

NOT many people want a nuclear power station in their backyard, but that's the prospect facing communities on both sides of the Atlantic as governments weigh up where to build a new wave of reactors.

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