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Current methods for cleaning trace metals out of water are inefficient, expensive or produce unwanted toxic byproducts. Researchers at Brown University are aiming to... Read More »
Today, Boeing and Southwest Airlines announced a firm order for 150 fuel-efficient 737 MAX airplanes. Southwest is the first airline to finalize a 737... Read More »
In the wake of higher oil prices and environmental concerns about greenhouse emissions, natural gas has emerged as a bridge between modern dependence on coal-fired... Read More »
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Jun 4, 2012
Janssen Biotech announced today that it has negotiated an agreement with Pharmacyclics to develop and market PCI-32765, an anti-cancer compound. Janssen Biotech, a... Read More »
Researcher Dr. Rachel Grant and colleagues from the UK's Open University recently published an article in the "International Journal of Environmental... Read More »
Back in the day, the United States – when it came to the automotive industry – was in the driver's seat.
But this is no longer the... Read More »
Ixmyelocel-T cell therapy proved safe in a mid-stage clinical trial by Aastrom BioSciences, according to data presented today at the annual meeting of the American... Read More »
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity."—Harlan Ellison
If we could figure out how to run our... Read More »
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Peter Sharma IIIThe key to hydrogen as burnable fuel is clean electricity for the generation of the gas. My wind-power at
Nov 11, 2011
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian biotech firm Ablynx said on Friday that it had regained the rights for its TNF-Alpha targeting nanobodies from Pfizer, which... Read More »
The late 1950s saw mass prescription of a sedative called thalidomide for morning sickness. Unfortunately, it was later discovered that one enantiomer of thalidomide... Read More »
Clean fuel production generally involves extraction of energy from biomass, such as corn or algae, but what if we could produce clean fuel without the biomass? ... Read More »
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA was abuzz with coffee-fueled conversation the weekend of Oct. 21-22nd as a very diverse bunch -... Read More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - BASF has applied for European Union approval for Fortuna, a potato genetically modified to resist a common plant disease, as the... Read More »
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Desertec, the world's most ambitious solar power project, is to start building its first power plant next year, a 500 megawatt (MW)... Read More »
When we think of patent law, we often think of technology, engineering, and intellectual property. Rarely do we think of living organisms. In 1980, however, the... Read More »
Climate change is a highly contentious issue among individuals, environmentalists, industries, governments and nations. Some claim that climate change is real and the ... Read More »
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Philip HaddadThere is no doubt that we are contributing to global warming. The amount can be readily calculated from the world energy consumption, most of which comes from fossil fuel. But it is not the CO2 which causes the rise in temperature, it is the heat period. In 2008 for example. the energy consumption was 50x10E16 BTUs, enough to raise the temperature two times the measured average. Other factors such as glacial melting has moderated the rise. Nuclear and geothermal power also contribute twice as much heat as their megawatt-hr production. CO2 actually cools the atmosphere through photosynthesis. It is the energy absorbed in this chemical reaction, not the physical removal of CO2 that causes the cooling. Removal of CO2 from power plant stacks is foolish and counterproductive, although our secretary of energy is trying to make this happen. The Kyoto protocol should be modified to penalize the heat contribution not carbon dioxide, and give credits for tree planting and nurture. Other than that a correlation exists between CO2 rise and temperature rise (which is to be expected since 80% of our energy comes from fossil fuels), I have not seen any data or equation which can relate temperature rise to an absolute level of CO2 concentration.
Oct 6, 2011