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Virus Is The Remedy For Industrial Chemistry

Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by Ross.

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Industrial chemistry has long been the epicentre of energy efficiency breakthroughs. With large-scale chemical manufacturing processes sometimes requiring thousands of atmospheres of pressure and tens of thousands of degrees of heat, the search for more effective catalysts, cheaper substrates and alternative synthetic pathways has dominated a century of achievement in chemistry.
Now a team of molecular [...]

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Industrial Farming Has Already Saved The World From Climate Change!

Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Ross.

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Worried about what the climate will be like in twenty years time with the continuing escalation in carbon dioxide emissions? About how much the planet will have warmed by, how high the sea level has risen and how many more storms, droughts and other extreme weather conditions will plague civilisation?
Without industrial farming we’d already be [...]

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Artificial Life, Biofuels & Climate Change: The ABC Of Synthetic Biology

Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Last week the mainstream media was set alight by the news that scientists had created the world’s first artificial bacteria, leading to excitement at the applications of the science, accusations of playing God and bewilderment at the speed of new advances in synthetic biology.
Whilst ten years ago such ground-breaking advances in biochemistry were all focused [...]

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Retrofit Comparison Calculators: T5 vs Metal Halide Lighting

Posted on 18. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Looking to buy new lighting for your warehouse? Looking for a simple way to compare metal halide lighting with low-energy T5 fluorescent technologies?
The decision is a no-brainer really: high-quality intelligent T5 fittings such as the energy efficient Somar Eluma lighting system result lower energy bills, better light qualty, less light degradation and lower carbon emissions [...]

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All The Green Eggs In One Basket: Why China Is Not The Bottom Line Of Offshoring Climate Change

Posted on 14. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Worried about China’s inexorable financial growth and exploding levels of carbon dioxide emissions?
Worry less about China and more about everyone else, as the most populous country on Earth starts to see the effects of one of global capitalism’s least popular phenomena: offshoring.
The growing strength of the yuan is starting to destroy the margins of domestic [...]

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LED Lighting Still Not Ready For Commercial Buildings

Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Ross.

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Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will remain too expensive for mainstream commercial applications for the next decade compared to other energy-efficient lighting systems like Somar Eluma.
Despite grand predictions of LED lighting taking over the world, and of rapidly falling costs in the manufacture of these semiconductor-based low-carbon lights, they will remain too expensive to effectively compete against [...]

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Carbon Dioxide Becomes A Resource, Not A Risk

Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by Ross.

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In the future, chemistry teachers will regale their pupils with stories of how people used to think that the biggest threat to civilisation was carbon dioxide, and that it was once thought of as a pollutant. About how nations dithered and delayed in their actions to deal with the threat, and how developing countries fought [...]

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Energy-Efficient Supermarket Lighting Supercharges Your Spinach

Posted on 23. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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File this particular study in the ‘Popeye’s Secrets’ category: not only does spinach contain plenty of key vitamins essential for a healthy existence, but it is also more potent when bought from a supermarket than pulled out of the ground.
Why? Fluorescent lighting.
According to research published in the Journal of Agricutural and Food Chemistry, energy-efficient supermarket [...]

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Green Virgin To Rock The Low Carbon Boat

Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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The rise of the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs across the world saw an explosion in world shipping trade, with 85% of worldwide cargo travelling by ship, and so it’s no surprise that shipping is a major contributor to climate change.
Always one to spot a keen business opportunity - even if it’s to the benefit of [...]

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Carbon Trust Building The Low-Carbon Workplace: £350 Million Commercial Energy Efficiency Fund

Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Is £100 million in interest-free loans to UK companies for energy efficiency projects through the Carbon Trust’s Big Business Refit not enough? The Carbon Trust seems to think so, as it is now amassing a new fund in order to push forward the retrofitting of commercial properties into new high-specification, low-carbon environments.
By collaborating with fund [...]

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CBI: We Want Energy Efficiency On Driving Tests

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Ross.

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Business lobby organisation the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called for mandatory energy efficiency testing as part of the driving test, doing a U-turn on its growing resistance to UK low-carbon legislation in the wake of the failed Copenhagen conference.
Smooth driving and the avoidance of sharp braking or acceleration can reduce fuel use by [...]