News tagged with waste transportation

An analyzer to measure the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emission

Chiang Mai University researchers invented an analyzer capable of measuring the quantity and size of pollutants and aerosols in smoke emissions, providing an equally accurate, lower-priced, local Thai substitute for pollution ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US energy use chart shows we waste more than half of our energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- This flow chart of the estimated US energy use in 2009, assembled by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), paints a pretty sobering picture of our energy situation. To begin with, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 09, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (27) | comments 101 | with audio podcast report

UGA licenses technology to make fuel from dead forests and agricultural waste

An innovative process for turning waste biomass - such as dead trees, agricultural waste and lumber byproducts - into a liquid fuel to power conventional engines has been licensed by the University of Georgia Research Foundation, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WFU researchers are developing a cheaper way to make biodiesel

Biodiesel is not likely to replace gasoline as the main source of transportation fuel in most of our lifetimes. But researchers at Wake Forest University are convinced that they have a formula for a catalyst that could lower ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Logical reversal: Reverse logistics helps environment, gives competitive advantage

During an economic downturn companies, particularly in the computer sector, could gain an advantage of their competitors by adopting reverse logistics, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Environment an ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0