Tag: research
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Rice University Researchers Create Tiny Film That Could Replace Lithium Batteries
It’s only one one-hundredth of an inch thick…
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Paul Smith’s College and Cornell University Launch New Initiative to Connect People and Planet
The Adirondack Center for Working Landscapes is a multi-phase project that will link policy, education and practice …
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Oregon State Professor’s Breakthrough Uses Sun to Produce Solar Cells
New research shows that the sun could be a “one-stop shop” for energy, production and cost reduction…
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UC Davis Converts Waste Into Clean Energy With Nation’s Largest Campus Biodigester
Trash isn’t simply trash at the University of California, Davis, it’s an important tool to create on clean energy. The waste-to-power conversion takes place in a large, white tanks on campus, together known as the Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester (READ). UC Davis unveiled the biodigester on Earth Day. Using UC Davis biological and agricultural engineering professor Ruihong Zhang’s…
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New Study Delivers Blow to Climate Deniers, Refutes ‘Natural-Warming’ Theory With 99% Certainty
An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy. The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new…