Is Biofuel a Cure for Climate Change?
In our fight against climate change, biofuels are considered as an eco-friendly alternative to oil-based fossils fuels, primarily because they help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Any solid, liquid or gas fuel that is derived from biomass such as plants, metabolic waste, and organic waste, is termed as biofuel. Biodiesel, biogas, and biomass are some of [...]
New Technique to Determine Snowmelt without On-The-Ground Measurements
Although the hydrologic cycle can be simplistically defined as the movement of water in various forms across the planet, it is definitely not as easy to accurately track, measure or estimate in detail the individual processes
and constituents that form the entire cycle.
Flexible Concrete? No Longer An Oxymoron
A team of researchers at the University of Michigan has developed a concrete material that bends like rubber, cracks very little, heals itself with no manual intervention, and is almost as good as new concrete upon recovery, with its stiffness and strength intact.
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