Posts Tagged ‘envronment’
Friday, October 21st, 2011
The Impact of Trucking on the Environment
Pretty much everyone is now aware of the fact that greenhouse gas emissions in automotive exhaust are responsible for holes in the ozone layer and the global warming that is melting polar ice caps and wreaking havoc on weather patterns. (more…)
Tags: envronment, exhause, trucks
Posted in Green Living | 3 Comments »
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The Ability of Light to Produce Electrons, and Thus Electricity, Has Been Known For Over 100 Years.
At the Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratories, scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. (more…)
Tags: 100 years, albuquerque new mexico, article, batteries, bottles, climate, creating, crystalline silicon, efficiencies, electronic devices, electrons, Enviro, envronment, Everything Solar, flexible substrates, foundries, go, green, greg nielson, hikers, human hair, laboratory, Manufacturing, microelectromechanical systems, micrometers, millimeter, murat, photovoltaic, photovoltaic cells, plastic, power generation, pv panels, recycling, sandia national laboratories, sandia researcher, solar energy, solar particles, solar power, Technology, Temperature, wafers, water, wind
Posted in Everything Solar, Going Green, Green Living | 17 Comments »
Friday, November 20th, 2009
‘Robbing Peter To Pay Paul’ Is Pointless In Recycling
It defeats the green purpose to engage in recycling a product utilizing copious amounts of fresh water, a dwindling natural resource. But you have to wash plastic to recycle it. Processing plants use up to 100,000 gallons of water a day, mostly to wash food residue and chemicals off containers before they can be shredded into plastic flakes and returned to industry for use in hundreds of applications. (more…)
Tags: almighty dollar, bottles, climate, drain water, eco2 plastics, envronment, Everything Solar, flow density, food residue, intrinsic viscosity, landfill space, liquid carbon dioxide, patent pending process, perfect product, plant star, plastic, plastic flakes, power plants, recycled plastic, recycling, recycling process, research partnership, robbing peter to pay paul, san francisco california, us department of energy, us department of energy doe, water, wind
Posted in Going Green, Technology, recycling | 22 Comments »
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