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POPSOrganic Waste Ethanol Cellulosic ethanol is an exciting technology which promises to convert the abundant sources of organic waste worldwide (kitchen waste, yard waste, paper industry waste, etc.) into green alternative fuel. Unlike traditional ethanol, it won't use food crops or raise food prices. In addition, environmental impact studies have indicated that while traditional ethanol releases more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels, cellulosic ethanol could reduce emissions
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POPSKingspan Kooltherm Overview Critical Article with resources on kingspan kooltherm and where to buy it. Yet also discussing the issue that kingspan kooltherm is not the most environmentally friendly of products.
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POPSToray Membranes TORAY first began producing Reverse Osmosis spiral wound membrane elements in 1967, starting with cellulose acetate membrane elements. Today, our product line includes a full range of state-of-the-art polyamide composite membranes manufactured under ISO-9001 certification.
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POPSSalt and Paper Battery May One Day Replace Lithium Batteries more: The battery is made by coating the paper, made from this cellulose, with a conducting polymer and inserting a salt-solution-soaked filter paper between the paper electrodes. Chlorine ions travel from the batteries positive terminal to the negative terminal while current is produced in the external circuit by the flow of electrons. The battery can be recharged in tens of seconds because the ions flow through the thin electrode quickly. In comparison to a lithium battery that would take 20 minutes to recharge. The salt and paper battery is still in the early stages of development as compared to other thin-film technologies. For a battery to be cost effective you need to able to obtain the material at relatively low cost and have a good manufacture process in place. The battery could be produced commercially in about three years and made available to distributors. Via: RSC and Technology Review © 2009 PhysOrg.com
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POPSConformational and Linear B-Cell Epitopes of Asp f 2 BIO-SYNTHESIS, INC., is a leading life science products company with over 20 years of experience in the design and synthesis of Custom Peptide, small molecules and reagents for small scale research and bulk pharmaceutical trials. Using state of the art technology in our well-equipped laboratories.
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POPSTermites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber more: Between animals and microorganisms, this is the earliest example ever discovered of "mutualism," which is one type of symbiotic relationship in which two species help each other. "Termites live on cellulose, mostly from the dead wood they chew, but they depend on protozoa in their gut to provide the enzymes that can digest the wood," Poinar said. "These protozoa would die outside of the termite, and the termite would starve if it didn't have the protozoa to aid in digestion. In this case they depend on each other for survival."
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POPSStunning Government Billion-Dollar Giveaway to Paper Companies in the Works "Seventy-three percent of the energy we use in our mill system we produce," says Ann Wrobleski, IP's vice president for global government relations. "We feel like we're the original green industry, if you will." (In developed nations, paper is the third-largest industrial greenhouse gas emitter, behind the steel and chemical industries.) By adding diesel fuel to the black liquor, paper companies produce a mixture that qualifies for the mixed-fuel tax credit, allowing them to burn "black liquor into gold," as a JPMorgan report put it. It's unclear who first came up with the idea--Wrobleski told me it was "outside consultants"--but at some point last fall IP and Verso, another paper company, formerly a part of IP, began adding diesel to its black liquor and applied to the IRS for the credit. (Verso nabbed $29.7 million at just one of its mills in the final quarter of 2008 for its use of mixed fuel.)
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POPSPoisinous? I couldn't clip the whole article, but maybe you can find it for yourself. These things are practically POISON!
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POPS Whalers chased off killing zone by Sea Shepherd In the encounter, the ships struck each other without causing serious damage. But a whaling body backed by the Japanese government has claimed the activists' ship rammed the whaler, damaging a bulwark, while Sea Shepherd has accused the Kaiko Maru of steering into it. Watson insisted his group, in its fifth year of attempting to harass Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean, was behaving legally. He said of the 24-hour pursuit: "Our critics should just shut up. We've been doing this for five years . . . we've not broken any laws, we've not injured anybody."
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POPSFirst paper based transistor Furthermore, electric characterization of devices showed that the hybrid FETs’ performance outpace those of amorphous silicon TFTs, and rival with the actual state of the art of oxide thin film transistors. These results suggest promising new disposable electronics devices, like paper displays, smart labels, smart packaging, bio-applications, RFID tags, among others. te
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POPSVaTech, D.O.E, Russians, collaborators study rare microorganism that produces hydrogen So we finally found a clean energy solution ? guess not - no2liberals writes "I’m all for new sources of energy, but one has to look at the downside. The only emission from hydrogen as a fuel is water vapor, which happens to be the single greatest greenhouse gas. Do we really want vehicles and power plants spewing more of the gas that traps 80% of all radiant heat within the first thirty feet of atmosphere?"
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