Sped-Up Bacteria Could Transform Carbon Dioxide into Natural Gas
Bacteria naturally turn carbon dioxide into methane gas over billions of years. Now Japanese researchers want to give that process a speed boost, to help counter global warming and create some...
View ArticleCould Bacteria Placed In Oil Wells Convert Oil to Natural Gas While It's...
Since untold quantities of oil started flowing into the Gulf, there's been a lot of talk about bacteria that eat oil. While those microbes might help remediate those millions of barrels of crude, one...
View ArticleAerodynamic Rocket Nozzle Tech Could Be Repurposed to Efficiently Capture CO2
It's not exactly rocket science, but the same company that builds the rocket boosters that launch the Space Shuttles into orbit has a novel idea for bringing down the cost of carbon capture. Aerospace...
View ArticleNew Process Uses Genetically Modified Yeast to Turn Carbon Dioxide Emissions...
A method developed at MIT and modeled after seashells could provide a new way to sequester carbon dioxide— by using it to manufacture new carbonate building materials.
View ArticleReplacing Water With CO2, New Geothermal Scheme Sequesters While it Generates
Common geothermal electricity setups generally involve extracting hot water from subterranean rock formations deep inside the Earth’s crust and using that heat to turn…
View ArticleBrilliant 10: The Sludge Miner
Susannah Tringe spends a fair bit of her work time, currently for the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, in the fragrant, murky wetlands of California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta....
View ArticleNew Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented...
If cleaning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was easy, we'd already be doing it. But carbon capture has proven to be a tough technology to feasibly roll out on a grand scale, and that means all the...
View ArticleRogue Geoengineer Dumps 100 Tons Of Iron Off Canada's West Coast
The very idea of geoengineering--large-scale tampering with the planet's natural climatological or geological systems to produce a desired effect--is brazen enough, but…
View ArticleTiny Poisonous Trees Could Fight Climate Change In The Desert
Five German scientists have proposed a new strategy for mitigating the effects of climate change: turn coastal deserts into forests. Why? Forests, full of trees that…
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Can We Stop The Surge Of Man-Made Earthquakes?
Katie Peek / Popular Science / Source: M. Weingarten et al., Science, 19 June 2015Earthquakes East Of the Rockies, 1973-2014.In a recent study, published in Science, geophysicists analyzed earthquakes...
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