Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century of Global Warming
By Brandon Keim July 29, 2010 | 1:05 pm | Categories: Earth Science, Environment
A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last [...]
Patent claims for exchange trading of royalties now allowed
San Diego, CA… Royalties or revenue participation contracts may well become a standard means of investing in the revenue growth of companies now that the U.S. Patent Office has issued a Notice of Allowance of Claims on SINIPCO Pte. Ltd.’s U.S. patent application #20080109344, now allowed, which [...]
25 Million Acres of Corn with nowhere to go?
Changes in bioenergy mix, corn productivity point to massive oversupply of acreage by 2030.
Buried inside the USDA’s Biofuels Strategic Production Report is a startling prediction from both EPA and USDA: if the Renewable Fuel Standard targets are to be met by 2022, there will be a wholesale [...]
Finland in the US
Approximately 650,000 people in the Unites States are of Finnish descent. In addition, there are thousands of professionals and students who spend at least some time in America. Finland also has its share of “snowbirds,” some 30,000 retirees who spend the winter in Florida.
There are many Finnish-American activities relating to Finland and [...]
Technology: Joule’s Helioculture process mixes sunlight and CO2 with highly engineered photo synthetic organisms, which are designed to secrete ethanol, diesel or other products.
However, unlike algae and other current biomass-derived fuels, the Helioculture process does not produce biomass, requires no agricultural feedstock and minimizes land and water use. It is also direct-to-product, so there is [...]
MHG launches free Web-based biomass moisture calculator
Posted July 9, 2009, at 1:03 p.m. CST
Finland-based MHG Systems has launched a free calculator service on its Web site. This calculator reveals how the moisture level of biomass affects the profitability of the biofuel business. The service has been designed during several different projects and in cooperation with [...]
Oulu, Finland Selected as Site for 2009 Near Field Communication Forum Members Meeting
R&D hotspot serves as venue to discuss the advances in NFC technology
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 12, 2009 — Oulu Innovation today announced that the NFC Forum (www.nfc-forum.org), a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, has selected [...]
Brüssel Kaupallinen is a rock band from Oulu