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Fracking Does Contaminate Groundwater With Methane, But Jury Still Out On Process Overall13 May, 2011 12:15 am A study by Duke University has shown unsafe levels of methane gas in water taken from wells closer than 1000 m to gas-shale hydraulic fracturing ("fracking")...Carbon nanotube springs have potential to compete with batteries5 Oct, 2009 02:46 pm MIT scientists find that carbon nanotubes springs have potential to store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries. They are also more reliable and more...Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty23 Sep, 2009 03:17 pm Earlier this month, the Royal Society of the UK issued a report entitled "Geoengineering the climate : science, governance and uncertainty"..."Slime" Could Be Latest Weapon in Climate Fight Arsenal4 Sep, 2009 12:20 pm No - this is not an obscure Ghostbusters reference. According to the Financial Times, geo-engineering experts at the UK-based Institution of Mechanical...Geoengineering the Climate: Bad for You and Our Energy Future3 May, 2009 06:29 pm Proposals to reduce global warming through giant engineering projects or so-called geoengineering abound. Almost all are in the idea stage...Limits to growth? Hush!18 Jun, 2008 04:46 pm The International Energy Agency (IEA) is calling for a major boost in clean technologies to address the world's soaring demand for energy...Improving Soil Strength Under Roads with Ethanol Co-Products27 Dec, 2007 12:05 pm Iowa?s soil is great for growing corn. But it?s not so great for building roads. Iowa?s soil is mostly soft clay and till deposited by glaciers. It?...My Predictions for 200820 Dec, 2007 01:31 pm Each year the Center for Bioethics and Culture asks me to predict what will happen in the next 12 months regarding the major bioethical and biotechnological...A Red Sea Dam: Huge Power and Massive Destruction18 Dec, 2007 11:30 am Today?s technological know-how makes it possible to construct a dam across the southern entrance of the Red Sea. Evaporation is high in the Red Sea,...Seeding the Ocean: a Discredited Strategy10 Dec, 2007 10:51 am New research indicates that the putative strategy of "seeding" the oceans with iron filings and other nutrients in an effort to cause blooms of phytoplankton...CNN: Supermouse Report9 Nov, 2007 12:03 pm On November 2, researchers at Case Western University announced the "super mouse": mice who have been genetically tweaked to produce large amounts of ...Paving the Way2 Nov, 2007 10:09 am This is the second in a series of video podcasts for the PBS series e2 energy. Each podcast takes you beyond the episodes and deeper into the world of...Ad Astra! News and Discoveries from the the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn29 Oct, 2007 01:01 pm The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched on 15 October 1997; 10 years later, we speak to Professor Andrew Coates, head of Planetary Science Group in the...Climate-driven Change in the Northern Bering Sea29 Aug, 2007 12:58 pm Chief scientist Jackie Grebmeier's May-June cruise aboard the oceanographic research icebreaker USCGC HEALY looked at climate change and its impact on...Deafness Research Has a Sound Future29 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm The inner ear contains six sensory organs, one auditory organ and five vestibular organs that subserve our sense of balance...Carbon Dioxide Levels Controlled By Degassing and Chemical Weathering Over Time26 Dec, 2006 05:08 pm Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas and its concentration in our atmosphere is naturally controlled over geologically long (millions of years) timescales..."The cyclic universe model is a simple mechanism for solving the cosmological constant problem"19 Sep, 2006 10:22 am The search for a single theory of everything has led scientists to propose a surprising, new and non-intuitive description of our Universe... |