Aug 27 2010

New Concept Harvests Power From Thin (and Humid) Air

Tag: Chemistry, Green Science, Lightning, Physics — Zahra Hirji @ 1:01 pm
A team of Brazilian scientists are turning to a naturally abundant resource to power up our lives: the air around us.

Aug 19 2010

Rocket Thrusters Make Water Treatment Emission Free

Tag: Alternative Fuels, Alternative Power Sources, Green Science, Green Tech, Zero Waste — David Teeghman @ 1:54 pm
Rocket engines may soon be used to neutralize the emissions from wastewater treatment plants.

Aug 08 2010

Giant Glacier Breaks on Anniversary of Global Warming

Tag: Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Conservation, Geophysics, Glaciers, Global Warming, Green Science, Oceanography, Weather, Wildfires — Michael Reilly @ 7:50 pm
Thirty-five years after the term "global warming" was coined, a stark reminder of its symptoms reared its head in the Arctic.

Aug 05 2010

Churning Butter into Biodiesel

Tag: Alternative Fuels, Alternative Power Sources, Chemistry, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Green Science, Petroleum — Teresa Shipley @ 4:33 pm
Could cows be producing fuel soon instead of food?

Aug 03 2010

Is Solar Power Worth It?

Tag: Alternative Fuels, Alternative Power Sources, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Conservation, Electricity, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Fossil Fuels, Green Science, Green Tech, Off The Grid, Renewable Energy, Smart Grid, Solar Power — Cristen Conger @ 9:26 pm
It's not yet competitive with coal, but its value goes deeper than dollars and cents.

Jul 19 2010

Is Wind Power Green?

Tag: Alternative Power Sources, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Conservation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Engineering, Fossil Fuels, Green Science, Green Tech, Renewable Energy, Wind Power — Cristen Conger @ 6:24 pm
As the U.S. energy industry inches away from reliance on fossil fuels, experts have heralded various greener technologies, but none match wind power’s squeaky clean performance.

Jul 17 2010

A Giant Plastic Island to Cure the Garbage Patch

Tag: Climate Change, Global Warming, Green Science, Oceanography, Pollution, Recycling, Renewable Energy — Michael Reilly @ 12:43 am
A group of architects have a radical new idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: turn it all into a giant island the size of Hawaii's Big Island.

Jun 29 2010

First Solar-Powered Blimp to Cross English Channel

Tag: Carbon Emissions, Engineering, Green Science, Renewable Energy — Zahra Hirji @ 10:01 pm
French engineering students built the first solar-powered blimp. The aircraft is scheduled to fly across the English Channel later this summer.

Jun 23 2010

Bacteria Turn Coal and Oil Into Renewable Energy

Tag: Coal, Engineering, Everyday Science, Geology, Green Science, Mining, Renewable Energy — Michael Reilly @ 2:59 am
Underground microbes have been found converting waste CO2 and coal into natural gas. Left in the ground, the dirty fossil fuel might be transformed into a source of renewable energy.

Jun 18 2010

Giant Dams Mess With Global Sea Level Rise

Tag: Engineering, Global Warming, Green Science, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Water — Michael Reilly @ 1:28 pm
The world's largest dams skim a little off the top from the ocean, but also depress Earth's crust, making sea level do funny things.
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