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  1. DayTrader


    Air miles should be banned because they encourage excessive flying, according to a report commissioned by the government’s climate change advisers. Frequent flyers should be hit by an “escalating...
      

  2. DayTrader


    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light for genetically modified cotton to be used for human consumption, paving the way...
      

  3. JF


  4. cv


    Dow to Deploy Plastics-to-Oil Process     Bloomberg) -- Dow Inc. is partnering with the Dutch developer of a method for turning plastic trash back into oil...
      

  5. James Regan


    The current wildfires are causing a similar situation within the the Brazilian political arena, with AGW Gurus and international press are pushing it hard https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-deforestation-norway-fund-2639894385.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/08/22/photos-heres-how-amazon-wildfires--look-space/ and are...
      

  6. Tom Kirkman


    New research is being done on new forms of enhanced oil recovery for conventional oil wells. Squeezing oil from rock At a time when much of...

  7. James Regan


    Has anyone had any bad experiences with ResearchGate? Looks like a Chinese hacking Mecca? ResearchGate has also been criticized for failing to provide safeguards against "the...
      

  8. James Regan


    Human data mining where we are completely open and exposed to being manipulated, at what point does it change from being freaky when targeted...
      

  9. cv


    China new-energy vehicle sales drop for first time in over two years     BEIJING (Reuters) - Sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China fell 4.7%...
      

  10. Marc Linquist


    Here is another great video that just came out. Published on Aug 4, 2019. This research was done by Tony Heller, please share it...
      

  11. DD


    The most powerful street-legal Ford Mustang ever built will go on sale this fall. A 5.2-liter supercharged V8 will crank out 760 horsepower in...
      

  12. Marc Linquist


    Hey everyone,      I have something here that I believe is a beautiful example of a person applying pure scientific reasoning. A retired geologist by the...

  13. MP


    https://qz.com/1638096/the-story-behind-the-worlds-first-large-direct-air-capture-plant/ This is a 'premium' article on Quartz, so one only gets a 'free look' for a limited time period.
      

  14. FR


    https://news.rice.edu/2019/07/12/rice-device-channels-heat-into-light/?T=AU Carbon nanotube films created at Rice University enable method to recycle waste heat The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels –...
      

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  15. FR


    https://electrek.co/2019/07/23/ford-f-150-electric-prototype-tow-train-carts/ Video of battery electric prototype Ford F-150 towing over one million pounds of trains and cargo.
      

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  16. James Regan


    Just feel it’s worth mentioning how much these guys did for us, as we hold the piece of tech in our hands or type...
      

  17. Tom Kirkman


    This is a remarkable article.  2 big thumbs up. Please don't get turned off by the fairly pedantic beginning of the article.  I assure you...

  18. YK


    Scientific awareness of the greenhouse effect, and human influence on the climate, has existed for over three decades. During the 1980s, there was a...

  19. James Regan


    Reading back from some older posts it appears that we should all be suffering physically NOW from AGW I think it’s AGE we are...
      

  20. cv


    Building a marine supply infrastructure as part of a future hydrogen society   As a transport fuel, hydrogen has already become a solution for road transport,...
      

  21. cv


    The transition to a 100 percent renewable U.S. power grid would need investment of up to $4.5 trillion over the next 10 to 20...
      

  22. PP


    Trade tensions risk throwing the global economy’s transition to greener energy into disarray and could hurt energy companies’ preparations toward it, BP Chairman Helge...
      

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  23. Tom Kirkman


    Thought this was pretty interesting. Scientists Dissolve Crude Oil in Water to Study Its Composition Researchers from MIPT, Skoltech, the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of...

  24. cv


    Oil and gas industry gearing up for robotics adoption, says GlobalData   The oil and gas industry is gearing up to deploy robotics across a wide...
      

  25. cv


    Bitcoin leaves a carbon footprint as large as Las Vegas, study finds   A new study found that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin requires a lot of electricity,...
      

  26. TH


    If you will notice, high rates are obtained not by exploration wells, but by production wells. case in point. Eland, CrownPoint, Whitebark. even Transglobe drills...

  27. RD


    While cleaning leaked oil engine oil from the garage floor it occurred to me that this waste might be a useful catalyst for heavy...

  28. Guillaume Albasini


    Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a novel technology that produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide...

  29. Marina Schwarz


    Fracking with CO2 instead of water could be more efficient - study That could be a win-win.
      

  30. MP


    Principles of Dynamic Heterogeneous Catalysis: Surface Resonance and Turnover Frequency Response https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscatal.9b01606 This is computer simulations so it may not mean much. If there is any...
      

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