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- Researchers Discover Nearly 6,000 Natural Gas Leaks in Washington, D.C. Thu, 23 Jan 14, 4:00amA street-by-street survey of the District of Columbia has found nearly 6,000 natural gas leaks in the city’s aging pipes. A dozen of those leaks were found beneath manholes, where methane has accumulated to potentially...
- Researchers Discover DC is Swimming in Leaked Natural Gas Wed, 22 Jan 14, 10:00pmA street-by-street survey of the District of Columbia has found nearly 6,000 natural gas leaks in the city’s aging pipes. A dozen of those leaks were found beneath manholes, where methane has accumulated to potentially...
- Study Estimates US Emits 50 Percent More Methane than EPA Claims Tue, 3 Dec 13, 3:30amCow photo via Shutterstock As a top industrialized nation, the United States is responsible for spewing a great deal of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere...
- Dinosaur Farts May Have Caused Prehistoric Global Warming Tue, 8 May 12, 1:40amWe know that today’s cows are responsible for producing staggering amounts of heat-trapping methane gas, a major driver of climate change, but British scientists now claim that dinosaurs with vegetarian diets may have...
- Meet the RE:VOLT, Chevy’s Next-Generation Green Vehicle Mon, 2 Apr 12, 5:29amMuch has been made about the environmental costs associated with natural gas drilling, but there’s a different type of natural gas that’s produced by every one of the planet’s more than 7 billion inhabitants...
- BMW Launches Program to Transform Landfill Gases Into Hydrogen Fuel Sat, 6 Aug 11, 5:50amBMW’s Spartansburg, South Carolina plant is launching a program to convert methane gas into hydrogen. If successful, the manufacturing facility will be able to power its fleet of production vehicles with hydrogen fuel-cells....
- Crazy Stacked London City Farmhouse Design Draws Its Power from Human Waste Tue, 26 Jul 11, 10:34pmRead the rest of Crazy Stacked London City Farmhouse Design Draws Its Power from Human Waste Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Animals, Bartlett School of Architecture, bio-gas, Catrina Stewart, eco...
- PurposeEnergy Turns Beer Brewery Waste Into Clean-Burning Biofuel Thu, 17 Feb 11, 6:30amFirst farts and now beer, methane gas is quickly becoming a popular alternative energy source. Eric Fitch, CEO of PurposeEnergy Inc, has turned his love of beer into energy by creating a device that recycles the waste from...
- Adobe Installs A Dozen Bloom Boxes Thu, 30 Sep 10, 4:15amAdobe, the company behind Flash Player and Adobe Reader, has always been a supporter of renewable energy – remember when they installed a wind farm at their headquarters in San Jose? Well now they’ve taken another...
- Poo-Powered VW Bug Hits British Streets Fri, 6 Aug 10, 1:16amPOO POWER! GENeco, a waste treatment company in Bristol, UK set out to prove that bio-gas could be a reliable alternative transportation fuel, so they imported special equipment to help process their waste and upgraded a...