Bloom vs. Solar: Which One Is Best?

Bloom Energy Thursday formally unveiled its energy server, an industrial-strength, solid-oxide fuel cell that can convert natural gas or other hydrocarbons into electricity pretty much on demand. Read more:

Something Fishy? Eco-Guide Lists Seafood To Avoid:

SINGAPORE - Love your seafood as much as the environment? A new guide to sustainable fish stocks in the Asia Pacific aims to help diners in Singapore enjoy their meals without harming one of the world's major marine ecosystems. Story continues:

Waste could generate up to 7 percent of electricity in Spain:

Researchers from the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) have calculated the energy and economic potential of urban solid waste, sludge from water treatment plants and livestock slurry for generating electricity in Spain. These residues are alternative sources of renewable energy, which are more environmentally friendly and, in the case of solid urban waste, more cost effective. Read more:

Agricultural Policy stimulus funding available:

The Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy has announced the availability of applications for the 2010 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act On-farm Energy Efficiency & Production Incentives Program. Story continues:

Journal of Happiness Studies:

People who work hard at improving a skill or ability, such as mastering a math problem or learning to drive, may experience stress in the moment, but experience greater happiness on a daily basis and longer term, the study suggests.
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The illusion of gravity -

A popular introduction to holography:

Raging Climate Debate:

Should We Geoengineer Earth’s Climate?

“Significant recent changes in Italy’s energy legislation provide the country with new opportunities to build on past successes”

said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Rome at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries – Italy 2009 Review. He highlighted that over the past five years, the Italian government had gone a long way towards addressing some of Italy’s considerable energy challenges thus strengthening the country’s energy security. “... Read more

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Renewables Standards

Analysis shows benefits of efficiency and renewables standards:

Vaccines matter

See why vaccines matter and how investments improve
medical care in poor communities.

Clearing the air: the use of bio-oxidation for industrial air emissions control

The wood products industry began rather ardous road to emissions control in the early 1990s with the first installation of a thermal oxidizer (an RTO) at a California MDF facility, for volatile organic compound (VOC) control.
During the ensuing years, virtually every panel board facility has had to control emissions of VOCs, and up until the last few years, always with some sort of thermal oxidizer-RTO, or a catalytic oxidizer.

The amount of natural gas that has been burned for...
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Timing of Seasons Is Changing:

The Earth's seasons have shifted back in the calendar year, with the hottest and coldest days of the years now occurring almost two days earlier, a new study finds. Read more: