Wisconsin Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:21:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Side Effect of a Side Effect – Fracking Sand Mining and Human Health https://www.greenoptimistic.com/side-effect-side-effect-fracking-sand-mining-human-health-20141002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/side-effect-side-effect-fracking-sand-mining-human-health-20141002/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:21:32 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49454 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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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/side-effect-side-effect-fracking-sand-mining-human-health-20141002/feed/ 0 49454 New Discovery Could Make Platinum Fuel Cells Much More Durable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-discovery-could-make-platinum-fuel-cells-much-more-durable-20090922/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:31:04 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4494 Engineering assistant prof. Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that making the fuel cells from very small platinum nanoparticles decreases their lifetime. Making them bigger is, though, better.

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