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08/02/2018
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By Edsel Cook
Fracking companies are making HUGE money by crippling the environment with plastic
Fracking companies are the real-life equivalent of super-villain Lootin’ Plunder from the old Captain Planet cartoons. An EcoWatch article described the fracking industry’s profitable business model, where they earn billions of dollars of profits by encouraging petrochemical companies to overproduce plastic products made from shale fuel. Fuels extracted through hydraulic fracking processes are sold to customers like petrochemical companies […]
02/06/2018
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By David Williams
Scientists find improved approach for creating fuel from biowaste, making it a good substitute for fossil fuels
It seems like every day, researchers find yet another fossil fuel alternative. Not that anyone should be complaining. This time, a team of researchers from the University of Calgary have developed a method to produce a much higher quality and more stable fuel from biowaste, such as raw sewage, which is simpler and a lot […]
12/26/2017
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By David Williams
World Bank to stop financing oil and gas exploration and extraction in 2019
While most know it as one of the scariest and most influential organizations on Earth, the World Bank is a tremendous force for good. At least, it’s actively trying to be, as evidenced by its latest move to announce that it will be cutting the money supply to oil and gas exploration projects beginning in […]
09/28/2017
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By Russel Davis
Scientists have figured out how to produce a fuel that is cheap AND clean
Researchers at the Cardiff University in the U.K. recently discovered a cheaper and cleaner way of producing methanol from methane using oxygen from the air. Methanol was traditionally manufactured by converting methane into hydrogen and carbon monoxide at high temperatures, and then undergoing a second highly pressurized process to reassemble the chemicals in a different order. However, […]
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