Mining Methane From A Rwandan Lake Offers to More Than Double Nation’s Electric Capacity

photo: Wikipedia This is one you definitely don’t hear about too often: Over at Green Biz Marc Gunther is highlighting the efforts of Contour Global to extract methane from Lake Kivu, on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Here’s how they are doing it:..

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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t

Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food , which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted.” 1.

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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)

Image: massaud Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our destinations on commercial airliners, hardly gives a thought to some of the crazy inventions of earlier eras

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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)

Image: massaud Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind.

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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)

Image: massaud Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our destinations on commercial airliners, hardly gives a thought to some of the crazy inventions of earlier eras.

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Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)

Are Zeppelins the Future of Air Travel? (Slideshow)

Image: massaud Concocting crazy flying machines has long been a favorite hobby of mankind. Our generation, accustomed to being whisked to our destinations on commercial airliners, hardly gives a thought to some of the crazy inventions of earlier eras

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Endangered and Threatened Species That are Apparently Delicious (Please Don’t Eat Them)

Credit: Giant Salamander Protection International It’s polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth. Actually, you can’t have permission for that last one: you can’t eat endangered species. You’re just asking for bad karma if you do

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Endangered and Threatened Species That are Apparently Delicious (Please Don’t Eat Them)

Endangered and Threatened Species That are Apparently Delicious (Please Don’t Eat Them)

Credit: Giant Salamander Protection International It’s polite to ask before eating the last cookie, or the last piece of cheese, or the last animal of its kind on Earth. Actually, you can’t have permission for that last one: you can’t eat endangered species. You’re just asking for bad karma if you do

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More Efficient Biomass Gasification Through Solar Concentrating Mirrors

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Zoo Explores Poop Power and Insulation to Cut Carbon

Image credit: 10:10 Campaign/Michele Turton Paignton Zoo in the UK has already hit the headlines for exploring vertical farming to feed its animals . Now the zoo will be recycling the nutrients from that animal feed to power itself. That’s right, Paignton zoo is seriously looking at getting into poop power.

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