Green Cement Absorbs Carbon (Wednesday 12th of August 2009 04:45:01 PM)
Peace Corps Online writes "Concrete banking for more than 5 percent of human-caused carbon
dioxide emissions annually, mostly because cement, the active fixing in concrete, is made by
baking limestone and clay powders under intense heat that is generally ...
(more)What the US Can Learn From Europe's Pollution Credit System (Thursday 02nd of July 2009 12:30:01 PM)
Al writes "Technology Review discusses what a US carbon trading scheme could learn from the
flawed provencal experience. Advocates of carbon-trading schemes like to point to Europe's
cap-and-trade program as a model worthy of emulation, but the reality ...
(more)Nuclear Testing Helps Identify Fake Vintage Whiskey (Tuesday 05th of May 2009 08:45:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Industry experts claim the market for vintage whiskey has been flooded
with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit
made just a few years ago. Now researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon ...
(more)Hungry Crustaceans Eat Climate Change Experiment (Friday 27th of March 2009 08:15:03 AM)
Earlier this month, an expedition fertilized 300 square kilometers of the north atlantic ocean
Ocean with six metric tons of dissolved iron. This triggered a bloom of phytoplankton, which
doubled their biomass within two weeks by taking in carbon dioxide ...
(more)NASA Tests New Moon Engine (Saturday 21st of February 2009 10:45:01 PM)
Iddo Genuth writes "Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Florida has successfully
completed the third round of its Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine (CECE) testing for the
national Aeronautics and Space management (NASA). CECE is a new deep ...
(more)The Environmental Impact of Google Searches (Monday 12th of January 2009 06:45:01 PM)
Paleshadows writes "The Times Online reports that researchers claim that each query submitted
to Google has a quantifiable impact. Specifically, two queries performed through a desktop
laptop* induce about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling ...
(more)The Inexact Science of Carbon Neutrality (Friday 09th of January 2009 03:00:02 PM)
Snydeq writes "Sustainable IT's Ted Samson raises interrogate against the real wages of carbon
offsets, a use growing in universality among tech companies such as Dell, Yahoo, and Google in
an attempt to achieve 'carbon neutrality.' fundamentally budgeting ...
(more)Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ...
(more)Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called
'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space. The rollout represents
another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the ...
(more)Nanotube Production: From Sooty Mess In Test Tube To Ready Formed Chemical Microsensors (Saturday 10th of May 2008 09:00:00 AM)
Carbon nanotubes' latent as a super matter is blighted by the fact that when first made they
often take the form of an unprepossessing pile of sooty black mess in the bottom of a test
tube. Now researchers in the schooling mash of Warwick's arena ...
(more)Self-Healing Artificial Muscles (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
Valor1016 writes "Researchers in California have developed an artificial muscle that heals
itself and generates electricity. 'We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply
electricity to it, it expands, more than 200 percent, the motion and energy ...
(more)Biofuels Make Greenhouse Gases Worse (Sunday 10th of February 2008 11:00:09 PM)
Vortex2.71 sends us to the Seattle Times for an account of two studies published in the
prestigious journal Science pointing to the conclusion that almost all biofuels used today
cause more greenhouse-gas emissions than conventional fuels if the full ...
(more)Move to a Mainframe, Earn Carbon Credits (Monday 05th of November 2007 04:30:05 PM)
BBCWatcher writes "As Slashdot reported previously, Congress is pushing the U.S. environmental
monitoring Protection Agency to develop energy efficiency measures for data centers, especially
servers. But IBM is impatient: Computerworld notes IBM has signed ...
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