News tagged with salinity gradient
Unique salt allows energy production to move inland
Production of energy from the difference between salt water and fresh water is most convenient near the oceans, but now, using an ammonium bicarbonate salt solution, Penn State researchers can combine bacterial ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 01, 2012 |
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'Blue energy' seems feasible and offers considerable benefits
Generating energy on a large scale by mixing salt and fresh water is both technically possible and practical. The worldwide potential for this clean form of energy - 'blue energy' or 'blue electricity' - is enormous. However, ...
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Oct 30, 2009 |
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Rivers flowing into the sea offer vast potential as electricity source
A new genre of electric power-generating stations could supply electricity for more than a half billion people by tapping just one-tenth of the global potential of a little-known energy source that exists ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 18, 2012 |
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IBN's 'fish and chips' may help accelerate drug discovery
A cheaper, faster and more efficient platform for preclinical drug discovery applications has been invented by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world’s first ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Soil microbiologists discover Aberdeen microbe of global agricultural significance
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organisms that oxidise ammonia were first discovered in 1890. Although a natural process, a major consequence of the activities of such organisms in soil is the transformation and loss of ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Exploring Beneath Antarctic Ice
The NASA-funded ENDURANCE project has completed its second field season robotically exploring the waters of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica. Insight gained by the expedition will help scientists prepare ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 13, 2010 |
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NASA Demonstrates Novel Ocean-Powered Underwater Vehicle
NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Now in broadband: Acoustic imaging of the ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have developed two advanced broadband acoustic systems that they believe could represent the acoustic equivalent of the leap from ...
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Researcher devises new solar pond distillation system
Ecosystems of terminus lakes around the world could benefit from a new system being developed at the University of Nevada, Reno to desalinate water using a specialized low-cost solar pond and patented membrane ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 05, 2010 |
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Call for network to monitor Southern Ocean current
The senior science advisor to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) has called for the establishment of a Southern Hemisphere network of deep ocean moorings to detect any change in ocean circulation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2007 |
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All itches not created equal -- Different parts of brain activated depending on cause
Intense itching and the urge to scratch are symptoms of many chronic skin ailments. A new study conducted by Oxford University researchers has found that different reactions in the brain to two common allergy triggers -- ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 06, 2006 |
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