Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global …
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Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global warming. Now …
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Now two Stanford University engineers are developing a new sewage treatment process that would actually increase the production of two greenhouse gases — nitrous oxide (aka, “laughing gas”) and methane — and use the …
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Within the sludge of wastewater treatment plants is an invisible world teeming with microbes. Here, diverse species of bacteria convert solid and liquid wastes into gases, some of which contribute to global …
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IMAGE: Stanford engineer Brian Cantwell and colleagues originally designed this nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft. A similar device could be used at wastewater treatment plants to decompose nitrous oxide gas into …
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Stanford engineer Brian Cantwell and colleagues originally designed this nitrous oxide thruster for spacecraft. A similar device could be used at wastewater treatment plants to decompose nitrous oxide gas into hot air …
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MIDDLETOWN — As crop fields browned out in record heat waves this summer, two historic farms here stayed green and growing, thanks to a modern water recycling project. The Clay and Jester farms are the first …
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A few local farmers no longer have to worry about their crops when drought season comes around. The Town of Middletown has teamed up with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control …
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A few local farmers no longer have to worry about their crops when drought season comes around. The Town of Middletown has teamed up with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Control …
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The first prototype of lab-on-a-chip system for detecting microbes in water, food and air. (Photo credit: UA Biosensors Lab) (PhysOrg.com) — The UA’s Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli …
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