Environment

Biofuels include

 "Bioethanol, Biobutanol, Biodiesel, Vegetable oils, Biomethanol, Pyrolysis oils, Biogas, Biohydrogen. Biodiesel: Technically, Mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from renewable lipid feedstock such as vegetable oils and animal fats fo ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 22 2012 - 10:35am

Climate Change

In recent years, international climate  policy has increasingly focused  on limiting temperature rise,as opposed  to achieving greenhouse-gas-concentration-related  objectives.  The agreements reached at the United Nations  Framework Convention on Climate ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 25 2012 - 11:52am

Frack, The Water Is Clean? Activists Disappointed In Science Again

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that, despite claims by some that the water has been polluted by gas drilling, extensive tests in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock found it safe. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 26 2012 - 2:14am

European Food Safety Agency: Feed Additives Could Protect Environment

Livestock is an essential part of the human diet and farm productivity is dependent on animals being healthy, which depends on adequate nutrition. Existing evidence shows that livestock feed can be improved by the use of feed additives which improve diet ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2012 - 1:39pm

Beijing Deluges, Manholes And Urban Planning

Everytime I hear the word 'manhole' I think I have a hearing problem, or that my English is really, really bad. It sounds like a word I should understand, consisting of the two well known words 'man' and 'hole', both of which ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - Aug 6 2012 - 10:35am

President Obama Backflip On Climate Could Win Hypocrisy Olympics, Say Activists

Climate change advocacy groups are not happy with U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern's recent statement at Dartmouth College renouncing a limit of 2 degree celsius (2C) temperature rise as a global goal for UN climate negotiations. Stern said that agreeing ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2012 - 9:30pm

Light dependent activation of RuBISCO and Carbon dioxide fixation

Photosynthesis inplants can fall into three types C3, C 4 and CAM. C3 photosynthesis: Photosynthesis is conversion of light energy into chemical energy utilizing chlorophyll ( LHC II.PS II and LHC I  PS I) along with water and generating ATP, reducing NAD ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 18 2012 - 12:31pm

EPA Says Water Is A Pollutant?

The EPA has declared water, the substance  the Clean Water Act was created to protect, a pollutant- and it is getting the federal government dragged into court. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 20 2012 - 4:34pm

Key players in the Calvin cycle: Light reaction and Light dependent Carbon fixation

Melvin Calvin at Berkeley in 1945 showed that Chlorella could take up 14 CO 2 and produce 3-phosphoglycerate.   This article is for wider audience interested to know that carbon fixation cycle  is not “Dark reaction”  or  ” Light independent carbon fixatio ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Aug 24 2012 - 10:00am

Villa Åkarp: Sustainable Homes That Are Energy Positive

There are LEED-certified buildings and there are zero-energy buildings. And then there’s Villa Åkarp outside of Malmo, Sweden — an energy-plus residential home. In other words, a home that produces more energy than it uses. Since construction was completed ...

Article - Brita Belli - Sep 12 2012 - 4:30am