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The ‘Unfolding Global Disaster’ Happening Right Under Our Feet

by Natasha Geiling

(Think Progress) – With all that’s going on in the world — from record-breaking warm spells to rapidly melting ice sheets — it’s easy to ignore something so seemingly mundane as dirt.... Read more →

Fixing the Flaws of Flaring: A Conversation with Dr. Adam Brandt

by Katie Brown — 15 hours ago

(Stanford University) – Until renewable sources of energy like wind or solar become more reliable and less expensive, people worldwide remain reliant on fossil fuels for transportation and energy. This means that if people want to reduce... Read more →

The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla’s Tower

by Gilbert King — 15 hours ago

(Smithsonian Magazine) – By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, the Serbian physicist, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla was penniless and living in a small New York City hotel room. He spent days in a park surrounded by the... Read more →

Flint water crisis: How AI is finding thousands of hazardous pipes

by Frank Swain — 15 hours ago

(New Scientist) – Efforts are under way to replace the lead pipes that have been contaminating the water supply in the city of Flint, Michigan. Nobody knows which of the 55,000 properties are directly affected, but an artificially intelligent... Read more →

Production of novel applicable derivatives from biodiesel glycerin

by Afshin Abrishamkar, Armin Franz Isenmann, Amin Abrishamkar — 17 hours ago

(De Gruyter) – Glycerin (glycerol) is a co-product of biodiesel production that is widely produced and is available at a low cost. To date, various applications have been investigated and introduced for biodiesel glycerin. The authors... Read more →

Nanotechnology for the oil and gas industry – an overview of recent progress

by Zhang Zhe and An Yuxiu — 17 hours ago

(De Gruyter) – Nanotechnology has brought about revolutionary innovations in many aspects of the oil and gas industry. Nanomaterials have large surface areas and high volume concentrations. Given these dimensional effects, nanomaterials... Read more →

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