Tag: Energy
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Feds Charge Man in Fracking Wastewater Dumping Case
ECOWATCH — Federal prosecutors have charged a Northeast Ohio man with violating the federal Clean Water Act after dumping at least 20,000 gallons of toxic and potentially radioactive fracking wastewater into a storm drain that empties into …
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Is Fracking Wastewater Being Dumped into Coal Mines in Western Pennsylvania?
PUBLICSOURCE — She said that with the amount of natural gas drilling and coal mining going on in Greene County, it’s better to question things than to turn a blind eye …
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Guest Post: Alternative Heating Systems Should Be Given a Chance!
To elaborate, biomass is the energy that comes mainly from living things like trees and plants. These store energy from the sun that can be further transformed into heating energy. A biomass system produces significantly less carbon dioxide than some fuels and costs less. Studies have shown the possibility to reduce the costs dedicated to…
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Lithium-Ion Battery Developed at USC: Cheap and Strong
Researchers have long attempted to use silicon, which is cheap and has a high potential capacity, in battery anodes. (Anodes are where current flows into a battery, while cathodes are where current flows out.) The problem has been that previous silicon anode designs, which were basically tiny plates of the material, broke down from repeated…