Five radical science fixes to global warming
The following has been adapted, with permission, from Top 10 Wacky Geo-Engineering Ideas to Save Our Planet, by the guys over at TotallyTop10.com.
While politicians and world leaders try to hammer out agreements on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, some are looking to other solutions in the form of geo-engineering. The idea is to use technology to compensate for warming effects, and a wide diversity of strategies
Water-wise around the house
The U.S. population nearly doubled between 1950 and 2000; however, the demand for water during that period more than tripled. Americans now use an average of 100 gallons of water every day, enough to fill 1,600 drinking glasses.¹
With increased demand comes increased prices, not to mention the threat to our water reserves and environment. The Chesapeake Bay Program estimates that only 4 of those 100
Nanotech breakthrough: Self-cleaning solar panels
Solar panels may have just become more low maintenance. While conducting research on a cure forl Alzheimer’s, scientists at Tel Aviv University ended up with a nanotech breakthrough that could mean no more worrying about keeping solar panels clean – they can clean themselves!
The researchers were conducting experiments on ways to control peptide atoms and molecules (Alzheimer’s sufferers have a particular peptide found in the
