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Turn Out The Lights

2013-12-30 04:06:49| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Don't forget about the light bulb ban: Lighting manufacturer Osram Sylvania recently released its sixth annual "Sylvania Socket Survey," which found that only 4 in 10 consumers were aware that 60- and 40-watt light bulbs are being phased out in 2014 as production ends.

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Green Oil: Scientists Turn Algae Into Petroleum In 30 Minutes

2013-12-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Forbes: Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are claiming success in perfecting a method that can transform a pea-soupy solution of algae into crude oil by pressure cooking it for about 30 minutes. The process, called hydrothermal liquefaction, also works on other streams of organic matter, such as municipal sewage. And the crude oil created is lightweight and low in sulfur and can be dropped in to refineries that process fossil crudes. Its a bit like using a pressure cooker, only...

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Canada: Alberta Families Fed Up With Energy Oil Fumes, Turn to the Courts

2013-12-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Canadian Press: An Alberta family that says it was forced to leave its home due to intolerable smells from a nearby heavy oil producer has turned to the courts to try to get the sickening odours to stop. "It's necessary to try and bring the venting of these emissions to an end as quickly as possible," said Alain Labrecque, who is asking a Peace River court for an eight-month injunction to shut down 46 wells owned by Calgary-based Baytex Energy (TSX:BTE). A Baytex spokesman said Monday that tests last spring...

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Google wins DARPAs robotics challenge, wonders if it was a good idea to turn down future military contracts

2013-12-23 18:20:53| Extremetech

DARPA's Robotic Challenge took place in Florida over the weekend, pitting some of the world's most advanced humanoid robots against each other in a series of complex tasks, and rather fortuitously for a famously acquisitive Silicon Valley company, the winning robot was fielded by a company called Schaft -- a Japanese company that was recently acquired by Google as part of its rather sudden segue into robotics. Google now officially, and probably not unintentionally, has its hands on the best humanoid robot in all the land.

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Murphy-Brown Partners to Turn Manure into Electricity

2013-12-20 18:50:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: Smithfield Foods Through methane generation, manure is being turned into electricity in a joint project at a hog farm in Utah. Murphy-Brown LLC's Circle 4 Farms and Alpental Energy Partners, LLC are producing electricity via two methane digesters that Alpental put into operation in November 2012 at the Circle 4 facility just outside Milford. Murphy-Brown is the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc. The two methane digesters are operational and are producing renewable energy. read more

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