Those researchers in the department of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Nevada in Reno are at it again. Last year they showed the world that it was possible to make biodiesel fuel from coffee grounds. This time, it’s chicken feathers. In a paper in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Mano [...]
The answer to easing the energy crunch in one of the nation’s most populous states could lie underwater. Sea turbines make electricity which moves via cable, left, to shore. A hydrogen by-product is collected on a ship. Imagine if your utility company could harness the ocean’s current to power your house, cool your office, even [...]
We love to read about different travelers and their adventures, wishing secretly that we could be in their shoes. Here is a young traveler, Stacy Jurich, 2006 graduate of Ohio State University. She is on a 3 ½ month journey across the country, driving her 1981 Mercedes across America. So what is new? She is [...]
Environmental and climate friendly politics can be combined with economic growth. This is the message the Swedish Presidency want Europe’s Ministers of Environment and Energy to bring home from the upcoming EU meeting in Åre and further to the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this year. “For my part it’s about making the Ministers [...]
Ask the people of Tuvalu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, what they think about climate change and many of them will simply point to their disappearing shoreline. Only three feet above sea level, the island has suffered in the wake of rising waters — and even went so far as to sue [...]
Minnesota can capitalize on wind energy and spark job growth in a down economy with the right amount of government support, according to a recent report by think tank Minnesota 2020. Minnesota, the fourth largest provider of wind energy in the nation, could create more than 2,200 jobs and generate about $9 billion in economic [...]
At first glance, it might look like oil companies are pulling out of renewables. At the end of June, BP closed its alternative-energy headquarters. The oil company also has cut its alternative-energy budget and closed several solar factories in Spain. And that’s after Shell sold off most of its solar business at the end of [...]
