News tagged with oil concentration

Plant soybean early to increase yield

Over the past decade, two-thirds of Indiana growers have shifted to planting their soybean crop earlier because they believe that earlier planting increases yield. Planting date is probably one of the most important yet least ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Flame virus a new age cyber spy tool

The Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities confirmed fears that the world has entered a new age of cyber espionage and sabotage.

Technology / Internet

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Greenhouse gas levels hit 'troubling milestone'

(AP) — The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 39

Recovering water from tailings ponds

(Phys.org) -- As Alberta faces increasing pressure to make the oil industry more sustainable, one University of Alberta researcher may have found a natural solution to a problem that has been plaguing oil companies for years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Research: Negative leakage could be key to reducing carbon emissions

(Phys.org) -- The unilateral efforts of a single country or region to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases could reduce exports, increase imports and lead to higher emissions elsewhere – what economists call “leakage.” ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New model of geological strata may aid oil extraction, water recovery and Earth history studies

(Phys.org) -- A Sandia modeling study contradicts a long-held belief of geologists that pore sizes and chemical compositions are uniform throughout a given strata, which are horizontal slices of sedimentary ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

EU physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather

The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

ESA declares end of mission for Envisat satellite

Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Defects make catalysts perfect

There is now one less mystery in chemical production plants. For many decades industry has been producing methanol on a large scale from a mixture of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, as well as hydrogen. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mechanical motion rectifier leads to better energy harvesting

(Phys.org) -- Mechanical energy is all around us, whether in the form of a vehicle's vibrations, ocean waves, or vibrating train tracks. However, much of this energy is irregular and oscillatory - for example, road bumps ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 26 | with audio podcast report

World's first sea-floor mine signs first customer

Canada-based mining firm Nautilus Minerals said Tuesday it had signed China's Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group as the first customer of its pioneering Papua New Guinean sea-floor mine.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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