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Scotland – Home of World’s Largest Wind Turbine
Over the winter of 2013, pieces of the world’s largest wind turbine were carefully put into place on a beach in Scotland, and is...
Earth Day – How Big is Your Footprint?
Tomorrow, April 22, 2014, marks the 44th Annual Earth Day, which started in 1970. Today, over a billion people participate in Earth Day activities...
Ridiculous – Guy Pees in Reservoir, Portland Drains 38 Million Gallons of Potable Water
Open-air reservoirs are slowly becoming a thing of the past, judging from what Portland did to its thirty-eight million gallon reservoir of potable water...
China’s Power Mix Will Be Dominated by Coal for Decades
China’s economic growth is very much at odds with her environmental problems. As the economy grows, so does need for power, two-thirds of which...
MIT Engineers Propose Tsunami-Resistant Floating Nuclear Power Plants
The reason why people are always reluctant when it comes to nuclear power is the fear of explosion. Although it is a source of...
EU Funds Indoor Air Pollution Sensors to Monitor Toxic Gases at Home
Urban pollution attracted quite a lot of attention over the past few months, with concentrations of toxic emissions the world's metropolitan cities of Beijing,...
Tesla Motors, Clearing the Air in China?
Moving Tesla Motors manufacturing to China could bring that price down, but the Chinese nouveau-riche love their import luxury cars. In fact, one Chinese...
What Is Graphene, Anyway?
We’ve covered graphene on this site a number of times, but of course, what is it? Where does it come from? What does it...
Saltwater Graphene Generator Discovered
Scientists and researchers are still coming up with ways to use graphene, perhaps the greatest wünder-material in recent memory.
Graphene, an atom-thick single-layer two-dimensional lattice...
Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Various Energy Sources
According to climate change scientists, reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is an absolute necessity to address the source of the problem, if it isn’t...
