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Earlier this year I wrote about cloud seeding for better skiing out west. Now, WSJ reports, China is using cloud seeding for climate control, specifically to end drought. “SuperFreakeconomics” discusses geoengineering, (cloud seeding is one geoengineering technique) as a means to combat global warming. Envirowords thinks, more attention should be focused on [...]
Yesterday I wrote about how seaweed (marine algae) can be used as a biofuel. The remarkable thing about seaweed is that it takes up a lot of carbon dioxide as it grows. Now, check out Ternion Bio Industries; a company that reuses harmful carbon dioxide emissions to grow algae and convert it to [...]
Seaweed is an algae and algaes offer promise as biofuel because algae pulls a lot of carbon dioxide emissions out of the atmosphere when if grows and algae does not produce a lot of CO2 when combusted as a fuel. Biofuels are interesting alternative energy source for cars because they do not require significant [...]