| Do-It-Yourself RV A Toyota Sienna minivan converts easily into a smaller, stripped-down version of the old Volkswagen Vanagons from the 1970s. travel.nytimes.com |
First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show] NEW HAVEN, W.Va.--A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant --a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven boasts a single 65-meter-high boiler capable of generating enough steam to pump out 1,300 megawatts of electricity--enough to power nearly one million average American homes a month--continuously. And now roughly 1.5 percent of the CO 2 billowing from its stack is being captured in an industrial unit rising from the concrete in its shadow and then pumped underground for storage. In case you were wondering, this last phase is called "clean coal". [More] rss.sciam.com |
Buying Your First (Energy-Efficient) Home EAST LANSING, Mich. - Krista and Micah Fuerst were looking near here to buy their first place together, and had narrowed it down to two houses: One built 25 years ago of standard materials, the other brand new and built to strict energy efficiency standards. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Sunday in the Park, Feeling Nature’s Call Finding a not-scary public restroom in New York is always a challenge, but finding one in a public park? Good luck. nytimes.com |
Jimmy Carter's solar panel makes it back to Washington, but not back onto the White House In 1979, President Jimmy Carter had 32 panels installed atop the White House to capture the sun's heat. Thirty-odd years later, at least one of the panels still works, warming up in the Northeastern sunlight of Boston and sending steam heat out of a spigot on September 8, en route down the east coast from its temporary home at Unity College in Maine. By September 10, that panel had made it back to the White House, courtesy of dedicated Unity College students and environmental campaigner Bill McKibben . [More] Jimmy Carter - Bill McKibben - White House - Unity College - Washington rss.sciam.com |