June 2nd, 2008
Unless you have the observation skills of modern day Helen Keller you have probably noticed that over the last decade or so the weather has changed quite a bit. In the simplest form it probably feels to many that seasons have just simply changed in a way that it almost feels like they start a [...]
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May 6th, 2008
Yes folk, clean air is taking its toll on the Amazon rainforest. At least according to a study done by UK and Brazilian climate scientists presented in the journal Nature. The new study proclaims that there is a link between reducing sulphur dioxide emissions from burning coal and increasing sea surface temperatures in the tropical [...]
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April 17th, 2008
Sounds like a mediocre Scientific Method, science project for a grade schooler doesn’t it? Well…I know you realize that there was probably a purpose to this question that had something to do with energy. It did.
According to the study: it takes between 3,000 gallons and 6,000 gallons of water to power a 60-watt incandescent bulb [...]
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April 10th, 2008
Sugar gets us rolling, why not cars?
Chemists are describing development of a “revolutionary” process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which could be used to cheaply and efficiently power vehicles equipped with hydrogen fuel cells without producing any pollutants.
The method is being described as the most efficient method for creating hydrogen ever introduced. Of [...]
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March 6th, 2008
San Frisco is a city that on being one of America’s Greenest cities coming in at #2 in CNET’s recent study. Mayor Gavin Newson recently answered questions about his plans for the city that include being carbon-neutral by 2020 by retooling laws and taxes related to energy, transportation, buildings, wildlife, waste, and environmental justice in [...]
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February 27th, 2008
Today I realized that there is a serious lack of actual science articles here. Now I understand that space/astronomy is considered science, but at the same time there are many other fields out there and a lot of interesting articles that I read that need comment from time to time. Not sure if this subject [...]
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February 1st, 2008
The never-ending search for alternative fuel sources for our planet that has not only a future of shortages, but fuels that are contributing to problems in our atmosphere may have some solutions in space.
New discoveries about magnetic field lines and the first-ever direct observation of their reconnection in space are offering hope that scientists [...]
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November 16th, 2007
Hydrogen may now be closer to an everyday fuel source than most of us had originally thought. With new research it is being said that it may be possible to convert cellulose and other biodegradable organic materials directly into hydrogen. Researchers used naturally occurring bacteria in a microbial electrolysis cell with acetic acid — the [...]
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October 11th, 2007
I don’t usually post many of these articles, but this one is pretty interesting to me. Every other year the U.S. Department of Energy and various sponsors put on what is called a Solar Decathlon. This year it is sponsored by an energy leader in BP, so it is being called the BP Solar Decathlon.
What [...]
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March 23rd, 2007
So what do you put into your gas tank? Obviously it is some sort of fossil fuel that is pulled out of the ground as a derivative of petroleum, but what about soy beans? More technical bio-diesal. Instead of being derived from petroleum, biodiesal is a processed fuel that comes from biological materials such as [...]
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