Rising food prices have recently been blamed in part on the redirection of corn to ethanol plants. By growing less corn to take advantage of ethanol prices and subsidies, demand and speculation of food supplies has...
I'm not sure that those in the timber
industry know how lucky they are, and what
opportunities they are sitting on. First let me inform you of certain
current affairs which you have no doubt heard of....
"What would happen if technology could deliver a renewable way of creating gasoline in relative minutes as opposed to the millions and millions of years it takes to create the base of gasoline we pump out of the...
This is the kind of story you'd find on an eco-supermarket-tabloid: a sports car that goes 150 mph, made out of veggies, and runs on veggies. Apparently this is no joke, however.Gizmodo has done a story...
"The UK has unveiled its first zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future.
The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home.
It also...
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"Many security systems use a confirmation “second entry” in order to verify the clearance of an individual through a specific pass gate in a secure environment.
In a biometric secure system, however, a...
Well it looks different put no mention if we can afford it. More importantly with Global warming and Climate Change being such a hot issue and the fact that there are so many homes already built, I would have thought they would have looked at how to convert older houses to...
Rather than using aluminum pellets, this version of the alt-fuel car would use starch from the local grocery store.The obstacles are efficiency of conversion and the medium in which the hydrogen is carried."The...
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How big is this?"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 14 (UPI) -- U.S. chemical engineers have created an environmentally friendly process for producing huge amounts of liquid fuels from plant matter.
The Purdue University...
In a report found in the Scientific American, a team of economists and ecologists at the University of Minnesota say that "these diverse grassland species [prairie grasses] constitute a carbon-negative source of...
"After mounting opposition for a newly proposed power station at Port Talbot's deep water harbour, Port Talbot Chat thought it prudent to give local residents other sides to the story."