DOE – One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Fuel

The average American throws away more than 900 pounds of trash every year. Organic waste degrading in landfills produces methane gas – a gas 21 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Although most landfills vent this gas in the atmosphere, some...

Pakistan on the brink of an energy crisis?

ScienceNews (UPI) — Pakistan is bracing for a major shortage of petroleum products as the Pakistan State Oil company moves closer to a financial emergency, a source suggested. PSO is on the verge of defaulting on its international payments as $190 million in...

Whats seats 4 and gets over 100mpg non-hybrid?

EcoFriendEco Factor: Lightweight car achieves 102mpg.Manufactured by a Virginia-based company, Edison2 Very Light Car Number 98 has took the top honors in the Automotive X Prize competition with a fuel-efficient engine that gets about 102mpg. The developers took home...

The Economic Impact of Obesity in the United States

Brookings Institution… more than two-thirds of  Americans now overweight…Estimated medical costs of obesity are as high as $147 billion a year for 2008, or almost 10% of all medical spending. This is a substantial increase from their 1998 estimate of $78.5...

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