News tagged with green products
Wind energy creating a problem with military and weather radar
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the push for creating green energy, giant windmill farms are becoming more and more common for electricity production. However, the National Weather Service and the United States Air ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Ore. town uses geothermal energy to stay warm
(AP) -- When snow falls on this downtown of brick buildings and glass storefronts in southern Oregon, it piles up everywhere but the sidewalks. It's the first sign that this timber and ranching town is like few others.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 20, 2010 |
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Schwarzenegger, 'green' gadgets at giant high-tech fair
The world's biggest high-tech fair kicks off Tuesday hosting guest-of-honour Arnold Schwarzenegger and offering cutting-edge solutions promising to beat the economic crisis as well as climate change.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 01, 2009 |
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UN warns 25 pct of world land highly degraded
(AP) -- The United Nations has completed the first-ever global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report Monday that a quarter of all land is highly degraded and warning the trend must be ...
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Termite enzymes could be boon to cellulosic ethanol: research
Termite spit may soon help fill our gas tanks. University of Florida researchers have isolated two enzymes termites use to break up lignin, a tough plant material that is major problem during the production of cellulosic ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Eat your greens: they can prevent the ill-effects of toxins in foods
(PhysOrg.com) -- LLNL researchers have found that a small dose of chlorophyll or chlorophyllin, found in green leafy vegetables, could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning, a potent, naturally occurring ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
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Lost in translation: Perfectionist protein-maker trashes errors
The enzyme machine that translates a cell's DNA code into the proteins of life is nothing if not an editorial perfectionist.
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Jan 07, 2009 |
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New study shows how spikes in nitrite can have
A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Re ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds
Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Scientists Use Self-Assembly to Make Molecule-Sized Particles With Patches of Charge
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, chemists and engineers at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated a novel method for the controlled formation of patchy particles, using charged, self-assembling molecules ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Spain approves country's largest biomass plant
Spain's government Monday approved the construction of the country's largest biomass plant, the renewable energy group Ence announced Monday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Renewables could bring job boon to Poland: Greenpeace
An ambitious switch from fossil fuels to green energy could generate up to 350,000 new jobs by 2020 in the Poland, the European Union's most coal-dependent member, Greenpeace said Friday in Warsaw.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 11, 2011 |
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BMW to power Leipzig factory by wind energy
German auto giant BMW plans to build four wind turbines to power a factory with enough electricity to assemble hundreds of vehicles a day, auto newspaper Automobilwoche will report on Monday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Aug 21, 2011 |
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Green production guidelines give 'road map' for new administration
With good directions, anyone can find the right path. That's what George Mason University Professor Nicole Darnall is hoping with her new report that gives clear guidelines on how the government can help businesses ...
Sep 01, 2009 |
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Shrubby crops can help fuel Africa's green revolution
Crop diversification with shrubby legumes mixed with soybean and peanuts could be the key to sustaining the green revolution in Africa, according to a Michigan State University study.
Nov 23, 2010 |
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