Wood Computer Chips: Finally, Some Good News From Wisconsin
Despite the Koch-fueled pall hovering over the great state of Wisconsin, the public university system has produced a game changing wood computer chips.
Despite the Koch-fueled pall hovering over the great state of Wisconsin, the public university system has produced a game changing wood computer chips.
Modern medicine does not fall behind other business in this age of technology. Modern medicine focuses on integrating life-changing advances with progressive technological advances. A recent marriage of medicine and technology hopes to enable progress in monitoring and administering treatment with difficult health circumstances. This recent progress is a biodegradable, … [continued]
A novel new form of medium-density fibreboard (MDF) that’s both biodegradable and recyclable can be created by substituting a resin derived from common plant starches, such as those in potatoes, for the urea and formaldehyde that are typically used in MDF. The new creation is thanks to research from the … [continued]
What’s the best way to clean up an oil spill? Using raw, unprocessed cotton to sop it up, apparently. New research, just published in ACS journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, has found that unprocessed, raw cotton may be the ideal material for cleaning up oil spills — it has … [continued]
Geothermal developers from AltaRock Energy, a Washington state-based company, have been working on creating geothermal reservoirs with their own technology. They have recently made three such reservoirs from a single well, which means there is a greater chance a commercial geothermal plant can be built because with more reservoirs there … [continued]
The US Department of Agriculture has just kicked off a $10 million bioproduct and biofuel research project aimed at the automotive industry, and in case you’re wondering why the USDA is involved in auto manufacturing, just look at that word bioproducts again. Part of USDA’s mission is to help the agriculture … [continued]
Puma, the well renowned German sportswear company, recently announced the launch of a range of biodegradable shoes and clothes. The company has continually been praised in various reports by the United Nations as being a corporate leader in the development of sustainability, and making a real effort to limit … [continued]
Two graduates from Princeton University and Northwestern University have developed a process for converting greenhouse gases from sewage treatment plants, landfills, and power plants into a biodegradable plastic called AirflexTM. Under the auspices of their company, called Newlight Technologies, LLC, the technology counts as a way to capture methane and carbon dioxide, … [continued]
For those wanting replacements for non-biodegradable and fossil fuel-dependent plastic, Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has announced a new material for that is cheap to produce, biodegradable, and biocompatible.
A recent study released by North Carolina State University reveals that biodegradable products might not be as good for the enviornment as was previously thought.