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A research team at Heriot-Watt University, UK, is investigating whether urine could be used to create energy via new, low-cost fuel cells. — full article at physorg.com

Youtricity: clean water & energy from waste Youtricity is developing the world's first Direct Urea Powered Fuel Cells targeting applications in water treatment/purification and renewable energy where urea is a problem contaminant. Youtricity is developing the worlds first Direct Urea Powered ... — full article at eps.hw.ac.uk

What can I study? Undergraduate study Explore our comprehensive range of courses and programmes of study and enjoy a first class educational experience. Postgraduate study A superb environment for postgraduate study and top-level research, with over 70 postgraduate taught courses News & events ... — full article at hw.ac.uk

Bamboo wings (Master project TU Delft, in cooperation with EvenDimmen, INBAR, Bosman Watermanagement and INHolland ComposietenLab Delft) Bamboo is a versatile material with very good mechanical properties. Bamboo has been used for thousands of years as building material and for craft products. ... — full article at gijsbertkoren.nl

Behind government dismissals of 'alarmist' fears there is growing concern over critical future energy supplies Speculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted has been fuelled by the revelation that they are canvassing views ... — full article at guardian.co.uk

NH GOP Senate candidates (l-r): Jim Bender, Gerard Beloin, Bill Binnie, Kelly Ayotte, Dennis Lamare and Ovide Lamontagne Every single Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is a global warming denier. Appearing at a debate hosted by the Seacoast ... — full article at wonkroom.thinkprogress.org

Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 7:07 PM Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010, 5:20 AM PAULSBORO — A new wind may be blowing in electricity for New Jersey but there are concerns it may bring a chill to ratepayers. Gov. Chris Christie today signed an act that aims to facilitate offshore wind ... — full article at nj.com

Renewable energy now accounts for 18.4 percent of energy production in the European Union, just behind natural gas, which provides 19.3 percent — full article at green.blogs.nytimes.com

Enlarge Image This illustration shows a plume of hydrocarbons emanating from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The plume was identified using the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry , instrumented with a TETHYS mass spectrometer. The vehicle made numerous criss-cross penetrations to map ... — full article at whoi.edu

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009 -- Zhao and Running 329 (5994): 940 - — full article at sciencemag.org

In 2006, the state passed AB 32, a law that, among other things, establishes a cap-and-trade market in California starting in 2012. An oil-industry-backed proposition to suspend the law made its way onto this year's ballot, threatening to undo the most aggressive climate law in the country. ... — full article at theatlantic.com

Digital Globe Questions? Partner Login Home Zhugqu, China Mudslide | Image Collected August 10, 2010 | Click image to see more Nowshera, Pakistan Flooding | Image Collected August 5, 2010 | Click image to see more The Pearl, Doha, Qatar | Image Collected July 23, ... — full article at digitalglobe.com

Obama's pledge to invest in energy research seems to have vanished from White House Web sites. — full article at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

Berries, photo by Michael Porter A few years ago, I stumbled on a United Nations study that transformed how I think about the climate crisis. In the report, researchers pegged greenhouse gases from the livestock sector at 18 percent of total global emissions. Combine this with other aspects of ... — full article at yesmagazine.org

Actor Ryan Reynolds discusses the true cost of a gallon of gas. Join him in calling on the Senate to address the BP oil disaster and to get back to work on c... — full article at youtube.com

For Jeff McCabe, turning a muscle-y Porsche into an electric vehicle became an obsession about weight. Pound-by-pound McCabe stripped off unnecessary gear (and some actual gears) — electronics, flip up headlights, even the glass windows — from his Porsche. In all he stripped out ... — full article at earth2tech.com

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A climatologist proposes a new way to convey how a warming climate will affect extreme weather. — full article at dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com

Que significa o número 350? 350 é o número mais importante do mundo – é aquilo que os cientistas consideram ser o limite máximo de segurança para a concentração de dióxido de carbono na atmosfera. Há dois anos, climatologistas de topo, após terem observado o rápido derretimento do gelo do ... — full article at 350.org