Tag: Materials
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Plastic Particles Now Polluting Great Lakes
Floating plastic debris — which helps populate the infamous “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” in the Pacific Ocean — has become a problem in the Great Lakes, the largest body of fresh water in the world. Scientists reported on the latest findings from the Great Lakes here today at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of…
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CO2 to Methanol Model Explored at UT Arlington
Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are pioneering a new method for using carbon dioxide, or CO2, to make liquid methanol fuel by using copper oxide nanowires and sunlight.
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Sustainable CAFquiet Studless Wall System Provides Eco-Friendly Acoustic Protection
Sustainable construction materials manufacturer, Stramit USA, has introduced an interior partition system called CAFquiet™ Studless Wall System, made from their proprietary compressed agricultural fiber (CAF) board, which requires no studs to install unique, noise-insulated interior environments. Included in the GreenBuilder Editor’s Choice Hot 50 Products for 2013, CAFquiet walls are manufactured from agricultural waste to…
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Hydrogen Fuel Production Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Alternative Energy Market
“Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels,” said Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering “Hydrogen is one of the most important biofuels of the future.”
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Mixed Use Shipping Container Structure to be A First in St. Louis
Shortly after returning from Italy, where he was project manger on several villa rehabilitations, to St. Louis, Missouri, developer Patrick Barnidge has started his own firm, Delsa Development, under which he has proposed a mixed-use container structure. To be built on a Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) city-owned lot in the Grove area of Forest Park…