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Exxon Announce 80,000 gallon Oil Spill in Rural Louisiana
When we think of oil spills we tend to think of large slicks in the ocean, killing seabirds and damaging marine ecosystems. Following BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010, and Chevron’s spill off the coast of Brazil in 2011, there has been a lot of focus on oil spills and there prevention. Companies are looking into more efficient and quicker ways of containing oil spills in the ocean, and more effective ways of extracting the oil from the water. New regulations are being introduced to increase safety, and new technologies are being developed…
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The Art of Recycling: Converting Plastic to Oil
The days of dumping trash into overcrowded landfills may be over. Just as you would not dump gold, diamonds, or hundred dollar bills into garbage bins, you soon will hesitate to throw out your plastic water bottle, as the once typical trash is taking on a whole new value. New developments in technology seem to have done the unfathomable—and scientists have now found a means to turn plastic pollution into oil.Scientifically referred to as “Thermal Depolymerization” the depolymerization process reduces complex organic materials—usually biomass plastic—into light crude oil. Scientists originally based this process of the geological processes they believed produced…
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Fast Artificial Photosynthesis Could Change Solar Energy Forever
For more than 30 years scientists around the world have been working on creating an artificial form of photosynthesis, with varying results. Licheng Sun, professor of organic chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, said that the main problem has always been the speed of the reactions.However Licheng Sun along with his team of researchers believe that they have solved the problem. They have constructed a molecular catalyser which can oxidise water into oxygen at record breaking speeds. Natural photosynthesis generally takes place at 100 to 400 turnovers per second. The KTH catalyser reaches speeds of…
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Shell have told Cameron they won't Invest in North Sea Offshore Wind Farms
In the recent Clean Energy Ministerial meeting in London the British Prime Minister David Cameron made a plea to private sector investors to help with renewable power in the country. He described renewables as the “fastest growing energy source on the planet,” and believes that “the UK’s biggest opportunity is the North Sea.”Unfortunately Shell has announced that they will not be one of the investors in Mr Cameron’s North Sea wind revolution. Despite the fact that Shell is heavily invested in onshore wind farms in the US, where it controls nearly 1 gigawatt of wind power, Simon Henry, the finance…
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Giant Sails cut Fuel Consumption of Cargo Ship by 30%
All ships used to travel around the world driven by the power of the wind buffeting against their sails. Nowadays cargo ships travel, admittedly much faster, by burning diesel in huge engines to drive propellers, and emit huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. With the current focus on reducing carbon emissions, which has led to hybrid vehicles, it is about time someone started to build hybrid ships.Back in 2008 a hybrid cargo ship was chartered by the US Navy to deliver supplies from Europe to the US. The MS Beluga SkySail used a giant kite to help power the…
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Alex Salmond Hits Back at Donald Trump's Anti-Wind Farm Campaign
A few months ago Donald Trump declared that he would take all possible action to prevent the Scottish government developing wind farms within sight of his £750 million golf resort in Aberdeenshire. He promised to spend as much as £10 million in fighting the plans, which he claims will prove “financial suicide” as it will destroy Scottish tourism. First Minister Alex Salmond has previously refused to be drawn into a war of words, but has just recently made his first jibe at the American tycoon in his address to the Scottish Trades Union Congress yesterday.Referring to Mr. Trump he remarked…
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Ferrari to Produce its First Hybrid Supercar
Car manufacturers are under increasing pressure to reduce the CO2 emissions released by their models, and this has lead most to start producing hybrid or electric versions of their cars. Even European supercar companies such as Porsche, Jaguar, and McLaren have their own high powered, green supercars, utilising hybrid or clean diesel technology. Ferrari is the only company which has managed to become a leader in reducing its carbon emissions (mainly because its emissions were so high to start with) without using hybrid, electric, or diesel engines.Now Ferrari have announced that they have developed a new V12 engine which uses…
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New Company will Start Plans to Mine Asteroids in Two Years
Last week a team of high profile investors including; Eric Schmidt and Larry Page from Google, filmmaker James Cameron, Ross Perot Jr. (son of the former presidential candidate), space tourism pioneer Eric Anderson, and X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, announced that they were creating a company that would “overlay two critical sectors—space exploration and natural resources—to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP.”Today at 1.30pm it is expected that they will announce their plans for mining asteroids. The idea is to use space-based robots to extract the minerals and water from the thousands of asteroids located in the space surrounding…
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Floating Wind Turbines could see Wind Farms Arrive at the Great Lakes
The problem with offshore wind turbines is that they need to be positioned relatively close to the shore where the water is not too deep, and this upsets residents local to the coastline. Residents don’t want to see wind turbines spoiling their views of the water. The Scandia Offshore Wind project which was planned for the waters of Lake Michigan was cancelled due to local protests. However a new technology, floating turbines, means that offshore wind farms can be installed in Lake Michigan, placed far beyond site.The Seattle based engineering firm, The Glosten Associates, have worked for six years on…
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Goldwind to Release New, Ultra-Low Wind Speed Turbine
Goldwind, a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer, has launched a new permanent magnet direct-drive (PMDD) wind turbine designed for ultra-low wind speeds, areas where the annual average wind speed is less than 6.5 m/s.It has worked to develop a range of custom wind turbines for use in a diverse number of operating environments. Goldwind offers low wind speed, high altitude, low temperature, high temperature, offshore and tidal PMDD series.PMDD turbines use a permanent magnet generator and a full power converter which help them to meet national grid connection requirements and achieve zero voltage ride-through standards.The 1.5MW ultra-low wind speed PMDD turbine…
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