American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007
...uce the cost of producing clean-burning fuels from underground deposits of coal. In a study scheduled for the Jul...f failed efforts to tap the potential of shaftless underground coal gasification, the most economical kind of underground gasification, in which laborers are not r...... South Dakota, as the site for a multipurpose deep underground science and engineering laboratory. The proposal,... of the countrys top philanthropists, the new deep underground research facility will be named the Sanford Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (SUSEL). ...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
...ity in heavy rainfall associated with typhoons and underground faults, because these are common to the study area. But the system could be easily adapted to a region where that consistency does not hold. Saldivar-Sali, who is now working toward a Ph.D. in building technology at MIT, hopes that the system will be...Ground gas gizmo boosts brownfield building
...pany that monitors dangerous methane gas lingering underground could lead to greater development of brownfield si... of information about the movement and build-up of underground methane. The system has the ability to transmit measurements using GPRS technology, allowing those...In nature, proteins sweep up nanoparticles
... into piles that are too large to be swept away by underground currents. Precisely how and why the bacteria undertake this bit of housecleaning remains a mystery, but it suggests that proteins could play a key role in bioremediation strategies designed to trap harmful metals such as arsenic, lead, uranium, and p...Researchers examine carbon capture and storage to combat global warming
...n, coordinating lead author of the IPCC chapter on underground geological storage. With fossil fuels already comprising 85 percent of the world's energy consumption, and their use rapidly increasing due to the growth of developing countries, such as China and India, the need to find solutions to curb carbon em...Study of underground lakes in Antarctica could be critical, prof says
... years away from conducting U.S. research on these underground lakes, Kennicutt believes. We believe these lakes may exert important controls on large ice sheet movement and that they are just like above-groundwater systems and include a range of features such as streams, rivers and lakes, only they are under ...Montana State University researchers to compare Montana, Japanese copper mines
...t had neverbeen used before, Walker said. They had underground electrical systems.They had railroad systems and complicated smeltering systems.Each mine helped modernize its country and allowed it to thrive in aninternational economy, Walker added. Both operations were entrenched inlocal politics. At the same ti...Christian Paradis announces $4 million for renewable energies
...a, will cover the costs associated with installing underground pipelines, constructing a compression station and biomethane capture networks, and supplying water to the greenhouse complex. "Our government is taking serious action on climate change, but we cant do the job alone," said Mr. Paradis. "All Canadia...New petroleum-degrading bacteria found at Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
...ace in the heavy oil that seeped upwards from deep underground oil reservoirs," said Crowley, the research paper's other author. According to the researchers, most of the more than 200 species of microorganisms they identified represent entirely new branches in the tree of life, some being classified as new f...FSU pushing boundaries with environmentally friendly community
... Geothermal loops that circulate water through underground pipelines to produce hot water using the Earths natural heat. The hot water then would be piped to all of the homes within each pod to conserve energy. Various sustainable-energy technologies, including optimal combinations of solar collectors, fu...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...ests could help uncover the presence and extent of underground contamination by a class of toxic liquid contaminants, new experiments show. After injecting the chlorinated solvent trichloroethylene, or TCE, into water-saturated aquifer samples, Ajo-Franklin et al. used an ultrasonic measurement system to study t...Pioneering approach to wastewater treatment earns Stanford engineer the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize
...organic compounds and pollutants in wastewater and underground aquifer systems. His pioneering research has allowed the development of more effective treatment practices." The committee also noted that McCarty's recent work on microbial biofilms "has wide-ranging implications for the design of treatment system...Genes and groups of genes commonly shared between species, studies show
...ry out the various metabolic tasks needed for life underground - work that revealed information about the machinery used to adapt to the extreme conditions in which they live. More recently, in 2006, research scientist Brett Baker, Banfield and colleagues reported that the biofilms harbor novel archaeal organism...Mine runoff continues to provide clues to microbial diversification
...al community thriving in battery acid-like streams underground at Richmond Mine near Redding, Calif., combines recently developed ways to sequence microbial genes with methods to identify the range of proteins from specific microbial members. Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UC Berkeley disco...Orbiter provides new hints of past groundwater flows on Mars
...y provided a pathway for substantial flows from an underground reservoir of some kind. The timing of the flows remains uncertain, Okubo said, but could have occurred many millions or several billions of years ago. "The fractures helped to increase the fluid flow through this area," Okubo said. And the associat...Cold storage solution for global warming?
...cal Survey (BGS) have proposed storing CO2 in huge underground reservoirs as a way of reducing emissions- and have even identified sites in Western Europe that would be suitable. Their research, published in the journal, Planet Earth, reveals that CO2 can be contained in cool geological aquifers or reservoirs,...Researchers earn $200,000 prize for filtering arsenic from water wells
...e government of Bangladesh build tube wells to tap underground aquifers whose water was presumed to be safe for drinking. It was not until 1994 that toxic levels of arsenic were discovered in the wells, SenGupta says. (Arsenic is not present in the region's surface water, he adds.) The arsenic was not generate...Investigating the invisible life in our environment
...very different environments: ocean surface, acidic underground mine water, whale bones from the deep sea and farm soil. "Most of the DNA we found fits into the evolutionary ancient parts of the tree of life, which means that the organisms are probably not close relatives of the species sequenced and known so ......he long-term survival of cells here is better than underground in icy rock. This could be crucial for the scientists and engineers planning future Mars missions to find life."...