News tagged with reusable energy

Researchers discover a way to simultaneously desalinate water, produce hydrogen and treat wastewater

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fresh water and reusable energy. Humans are on a constant hunt for a sustainable supply of both. Water purification requires a lot of energy, while utility companies need large amounts of ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (25) | comments 14 | with audio podcast




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Recycled, reusable storm drain filter

(Phys.org) -- A team of students from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering won the top prize at an international environmental design competition this month for a reusable ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile industry eyes savings by recycling

More than a billion mobile phones are made every year but fewer than one percent are recycled, experts say, noting that billions of dollars could be saved if consumers go green.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Go to work on a Christmas card

If all the UK's discarded wrapping paper and Christmas cards were collected and fermented, they could make enough biofuel to run a double-decker bus to the moon and back more than 20 times, according to the researchers behind ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IAA says 'Yes We Can' to power plants in orbit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from around the world have completed a study that says harvesting the sun's energy in space can turn out to be a cost effective way of delivering the world’s needs for power ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (28) | comments 93 | with audio podcast report

High toxic levels found at school, market neighboring informal e-waste salvage site in Africa

Tests at a school beside an informal electronic waste salvage site in Ghana's capital Accra reveal contamination due to lead, cadmium and other health-threatening pollutants over 50 times higher than risk-free ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

New device could help scientists design new fuel reprocessing methods

Designing better ways to recycle spent nuclear fuel could make nuclear energy a safer solution to the global energy problem, but there are a lot of gaps in our chemical knowledge -- and it's difficult to get ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers begin testing of promising new nanomaterial for hydrogen storage

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to optimize a promising new nanomaterial called nanoblades for use in hydrogen storage. During their testing of the new material, they have discovered ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO2 with a fluorescent twist

Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, large size, slow detection speed, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff

Friday’s scheduled liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis marks the beginning of the end of nearly four decades of collaboration between MIT and NASA on the nation’s space shuttle program -- a partnership that has shaped ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs

(AP) -- The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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