Archive for the Category ‘Waste’

Leaving Behind a Legacy: Fluffy Brown Clouds

Leaving Behind a Legacy: Fluffy Brown Clouds

 As the United States and European countries grow in population they also begin to more understand (albeit slowly) the environmental impacts of our coal and fossil fuel energy consumption and ozone choking vehicle emissions.  As a result, Europe along with the US has become more aware of the environmental benefits of green, alternative energy sources [...]

Saving Energy – Is Your Central Heating Wasting More Energy Than It Should?

Saving Energy – Is Your Central Heating Wasting More Energy Than It Should?

Manually bleeding radiators is a messy and time consuming chore that the majority of people would prefer to avoid, but it isn’t advisable to allow the air to collect in your central heating as it will make the system much less efficient. This means that you will use more energy to heat your home than [...]

Save Energy: Find Out How Much Water is Your Home Wasting?

Save Energy: Find Out How Much Water is Your Home Wasting?

Find out how much water you are wasting at home. http://www.elocal.com By: Jaclyn

Grateworks – Hazardous Waste into art

Grateworks – Hazardous Waste into art

Bobbi Mastrangelo, The “Grate Artist”, is internationally known for her unique creations based on the theme of manhole covers. Deeply embossed prints on her hand-made paper transform the mundane iron covers into jewel like mandelas. Her tromp ‘l oeil sculpture relief works artistically capture the essence of utility covers in urban settings. Their appearance is [...]

Waste Energy:Turning Wastewater into Ethanol

Waste Energy:Turning Wastewater into Ethanol

As the world continues to search for alternative fuels to fuel our cars and heat our homes, many different opportunities are being explored and there has finally been a significant breakthrough in turning wastewater into ethanol as an automobile fuel source. Qteros and Applied Clean Tech have teamed up to create a biofuel that will [...]

Nanotube Technology Transforms CO2 Into Fuel

Nanotube Technology Transforms CO2 Into Fuel

Presence of surplus carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has taken center stage in the environmental science. All over the world people are worried about the excess amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because it’s causing undesirable changes in the surroundings such as green house effect, global warming, melting of ice caps on the glaciers [...]

Trans-America Journey Powered by Waste Vegetable Oil

Trans-America Journey Powered by Waste Vegetable Oil

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 [...]