Tag: university
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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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28 College Teams to Compete in Sustainable Home Design Challenge
Teams will be judged on design and construction packages, project plans and energy-saving strategies…
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Wash U Sit-In Enters Historic 3rd Week: Peabody Moment of Truth Arrives
In an emerging public relations nightmare for Washington University officials, the sit-in against Peabody Energy…
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Unsustainable Seafood: A New Crackdown on Illegal Fishing
When people talk about illegal trafficking in wildlife, the glistening merchandise laid out on crushed ice in the supermarket seafood counter—from salmon to king crab—probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But 90 percent of U.S. seafood is imported, and according to a new study in the journal Marine Policy, as much as one-third of that is caught…
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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…