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Desertification, an overlooked Threat

Desertification is essentially land degradation, an undesirable effect that leads to a drop in, or disappearance of biological or economic productivity on dry and irrigated agricultural land, pastures and grazing land, and forests and woodland in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid … Continue reading

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Christmas lights

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, ushered in the Christmas season by lighting up the National Christmas Tree on December 9 at a chilly but festive Washington D.C. ceremony attended by people in their droves. Ever since 1923, … Continue reading

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Toward an energy New Deal [1]

The world is suffering today from total dependency on fossil energies. Accounting for over 80 percent of global energy demand, if oil and natural gas were to suddenly stop flowing from producing countries to consumers, our cars, trucks, trains and … Continue reading

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Bioethanol and Energy Security

  Energy security, defined as the capacity of a country to satisfy future domestic energy demand sufficiently, opportunely, sustainably, and at a suitable cost, is a crucial issue for any nation. With the e Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Bitacoras.com Meneame

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Biomass for generating energy

Biomass is the organic material from trees, plants and animal waste that can be turned into energy; it is a renewable source of energy because it has a fast regeneration cycle and, ultimately, it gets its energy Twitter Facebook LinkedIn … Continue reading

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How to reduce electricity consumption

Energy efficiency, understood as the set of measures intended to lower energy consumption, is related to the entire integral energy cycle, ranging from generation and transmission to distribution and consumption. Increased efficiency includes any Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Bitacoras.com Meneame

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The price of renewable energies

One of the main drawbacks attributed to renewable energies is that presumably they cost more than fossil sources. Their opponents therefore assert that widespread consumption of renewable energies would bring about a substantial increase in consum Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Bitacoras.com … Continue reading

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Variations on the effect of biofuels on the price of food

Since the beginning of the latest worldwide hike in agricultural commodity prices, numerous sectors have put the blame on biofuels for these increases and high prices. This blog contains several articles that spell out the benefits of biofuels. Th Twitter … Continue reading

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Bioethanol or Biodiesel?

Bioethanol and biodiesel are two liquid biofuels [1] that feature the possibility of their application to today’s internal combustion engines [2]. Biodiesel is a blend of methylic esters [3] of different fatty acids obtained through sterification o Twitter Facebook LinkedIn … Continue reading

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Desalination and efficient water management

Water is essential for life and is considered a basic right of all inhabitants on Earth [1]. However, almost a third of the world’s population lives in countries suffering a moderate to high degree of hydrological stress; a situation that … Continue reading

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