Category Archives: research

Co-Trustees?

As a trustee for coastal resources, NOAA protects and restores habitats injured by hazardous waste sites, oil spills and vessel groundings.

From Gulf Stream to Gasland

New business opportunities, nicely packaged proposals with the proper amount of environmental consciousness, for the greater greed, er, good.

Corexit Stage Left

A $20 billion escrow account won’t begin to compensate for the environmental damage over time.

Use of a GCIM (Global Climate Impact Model)

Feeding the energy crop Miscanthus × giganteus to IMOGEN

Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy

By observing schooling fish, Dabiri believes his research team has found a better way to set up VAWT wind farms. CalTech has begun a pilot project to test different configurations.

One Pot Process

And, here I thought furans, like dioxins, were something to avoid producing because they are toxic and possibly carcinogenic.

More Cost Effective Solar Thermal Electric Power

Google-sponsored R&D has focussed on new materials and systems that reduce cost per kilowatt.

An Emissions Adjusted Renewable Energy Standard

Such an adjustment would discourage continuance for economic reasons of the dirtiest fuels and plants (see BAUAAAE).

Aversive Conditioning and Moral Judgment

When you have them by the replicating systems, their memory and actions will follow.

Stratospheric

Decreased water vapor in the atmospheric layer ten miles above the Earth may account for less surface warming

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