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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010An exciting announcement was made this week about the ability to grow plants without the need for irrigation. The applications for this new technology will go a long way to ensuring food is available for all who need it, and in areas in need of reforestation but with a lack of water, this will certainly [...]
UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy
Thursday, March 4th, 2010Cigdem Eskicioglu who is a professor of engineering at UBC Okanagan is aiming to turn various sources of organic waste into methane for renewable energy and as a highly usable organic fertilizer. With so many possible places to glean waste organic matter and to keep it from ending up unused and in local landfills, this [...]
Solar Panel Manufacturing Problems
Thursday, February 18th, 2010The incorporation of solar panels, in regular products and even in automobiles has been useful to some extent in reducing the global dependency on fossil fuels. Even though solar power is thought to be a cleaner alternative to fossil fuels, the exorbitant amount of chemicals and energy consumed for manufacturing the solar panels is the [...]
Carbon Capture and Storage Technology
Saturday, February 6th, 2010The practical storage options for carbon capture are suspending the carbon matter in mineral blocks and injection deep into oceanic masses or geological sites. This is reminiscent of burial of nuclear waste material and trash dumping sites, but with more technological add-in and greater cost. But critics of carbon capture and geological mineral carbonate deposits [...]
Carbon Capture Is It The Answer To Carbon Emissions?
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Today’s challenges of providing energy and fuel for transportation, shipping, and commerce is blocked by a new awareness of concrete damage to the environment of by products and pollution, emissions and exhaust. Carbon emissions is one of the most serious concerns in any discussion of toxicity . This includes carbon storage after capture of matter [...]
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