Posts Tagged ‘Sounds’

New Catalyx Landfill Gas Project Makes Nanofibers from Thin Air

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Catalyx Nanotech, Inc. has started a pilot project to convert landfill gas to elemental carbon and hydrogen.

The concept sounds like spinning fabric out of thin air, but the science is rock solid.  Catalyx Nanotech, Inc., a relatively new player in the nanomaterials market, has completed its pilot project to manufacture nanofibers from landfill gas, using a patented cracking process to break down methane into soot free elemental carbon and hydrogen.  Based on Catalyx’s success with a similar production facility in Canada, it appears that yet another way to recycle old landfills is right around the corner.

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Indian Government Pushes Rural Electrification For Population Control: Television As Contraception?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009
television birth-control photo Television watching proposed as rural birth control measure. Image credit:TimesOnline. India's Health and Family Welfare Minister is pushing for a rural electrification scheme which sounds analogous to the TVA at its inception, back in the 1930's. But, India's proposed program uses a weird promotional angle: it's presented with population control as a major benefit. TimesOnline reports: “If there is electricity in every v...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Meme Watch: The Hundred Mile Holiday

Saturday, August 1st, 2009
100 mile vacation niagara falls Within a hundred miles of home Four years ago the Tyee published an article by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon called Living on the 100-Mile Diet; it became a meme, a successful book and a television show. Now the Tyee is in the meme biz again, with the Hundred Mile Holiday which sounds a lot less ugly and more fun that "Staycation." Nick Smith explains:
try convincing your friends that your "tourist in your own city" plans are exciting afte...Read the full story on TreeHugger