EXHAUST HEAT PUT TO CREATING USEABLE ENERGY

Yet another automotive gas-electric hybrid technology looms The energy crisis has certainly catalyzed a great deal of thought about how we harvest all that energy we previously wasted. The petroleum-burning internal combustion engine has traditionally leaked energy from the exhaust system in the form of heat, but new ThermoElectric Generator (TEG) research at Purdue University [...]

Posted on November 26th, 2010 by Editor
Filed under: BY-PRODUCTS, CLEANING, ENERGY EFFICIENCY, EQUIPMENT, FUEL, HEAT TRANSFER, POLUTION EMISSIONS, POWER GENERATION, SAVE ENERGY | No Comments »

DECONTAMINATE YOUR SOIL WITH CHICKEN MANURE

Chicken Manure Biodegrades Crude Oil In Contaminated Soil Science (Mar. 9, 2009) — It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break [...]

Posted on October 10th, 2010 by Editor
Filed under: ANIMALS, CLEANING, ECO ISSUES, GENERAL, SOILS COMPOSTS WORMS | No Comments »

OIL MUNCHING BACTERIA EAT OIL SPILLS IN OCEAN

Oil-hungry microbes aid spill cleanup NEW YORK (UPI) — Among workers involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup will be some very tiny ones, U.S. researchers say — microbes that love to munch on crude oil. One of the hidden stars of the cleanup effort is an oil-hungry bacterium called Alcanivorax, one of [...]

Posted on August 11th, 2010 by Editor
Filed under: ARTICLES, BACTERIA, CLEANING, ECO ISSUES, ECO REPORTS, FUEL, NEW TECHNOLOGIES, OILS PETROL | No Comments »