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Turning Tires Into Gas for Energy and New, Valuable Materials
April 4, 2013 — Tire recycling represents an untapped opportunity, that may prove a success if processing costs do not become ... > full story -
Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Production Could Revolutionize Alternative Energy Market
April 3, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the ... > full story -
Deadly Effects of Certain Kinds of Household Air Pollution Lead to Call for Biomarker Studies
April 1, 2013 — Almost 4 million people die annually from household air pollution (HAP) caused by exposure to the combustion of biomass fuels, kerosene, or coal. A new article explains the need for studies into ... > full story -
Discovery Opens Door to Efficiently Storing and Reusing Renewable Energy
March 28, 2013 — Researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology opens the door to homeowners and ... > full story -
Proximity to Coal-Tar-Sealed Pavement Raises Risk of Cancer, Study Finds
March 28, 2013 — People living near asphalt pavement sealed with coal tar have an elevated risk of cancer, according to a new study. Much of this calculated excess risk results from exposures in children, age six or ... > full story -
Discovery May Allow Scientists to Make Fuel from Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
March 26, 2013 — Excess carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere created by the widespread burning of fossil fuels is the major driving force of global climate change, and researchers the world over are looking for ... > full story -
Clean Electricity from Bacteria? Researchers Make Breakthrough in Race to Create 'Bio-Batteries'
March 25, 2013 — Scientists have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria. New findings show that proteins on the surface of bacteria can produce an electric current by ... > full story -
Ash from Refuse Could Become Hydrogen Gas
March 25, 2013 — Every year, millions of tons of environmentally harmful ash is produced worldwide, and is mostly dumped in landfill sites or, in some countries, used as construction material. The ash is what is left ... > full story -
Engineers Explain Physics of Fluids Some 100 Years After Original Discovery
March 22, 2013 — Intuition says two or more jets of fluid should coalesce into a single stream of fluid, but that is not always the case. Velocity ... > full story -
A Milestone for New Carbon-Dioxide Capture/clean Coal Technology
March 20, 2013 — An innovative new process that releases the energy in coal without burning -- while capturing carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas -- has passed a milestone on the route to possible commercial ... > full story
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