Scientists have figured out that infusing coffee and foam together, it can take out harmful lead and mercury from it. This is made from spent coffee powder in a bioelastomeric foam. This mixture of the two items can remove up to 99 percent of the harmful lead and mercury in a 30 hour period in still still water. But in moving water it can remove up to almost 70 percent.
This to me can be very useful to areas that are not as developed as first world countries. With a bit more innovation and modification, this can help prevent lead and mercury poisoning. The coffee foam can definitely be modified to probably take out up to 99 percent of the lead in water down the line, given more research. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921095417.htm
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Myth: People claim that the more CO2 in the atmosphere helps sustain plants around the world. So the more CO2 the more the plants have to eat. This will help the plants grow overall.
This claim is trying to appeal to logic, our plants should therefor grow a lot taller and bloom bigger. But more is not better. more can be damaging to to the plant like with more CO2 in the air leads to warmer temperatures, which can lead to more desserts not as suitable for plants. Also besides more desserts form from more CO2, storms become intense which can not help the plant grow. One last thing the increased amount of CO2 does is increase the amount of water a plant needs to help with the less available water due to the drier, more hot weather. So overall, increased CO2 in the atmosphere does not help the plants well-being, rather it makes it harder on the plant. So limiting how much CO2 we emit each year will help the plants a great deal more than emitting more. http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm A research team from ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry C found that in common food waste are sugars that can open up the door way for a much better use of thermal storage of energy. These sugars combined with carbon nanotubes create a good heat transfer for the energy. Some scientists are going as far trying to use these sugars to store the energy overall instead of just using it to transfer it. This has great potential for storing and using thermal energy. It could be used as an alternative to other storage use like batteries. By using these instead of batteries we aren't using materials to make batteries rather recycling food that is useless. I feel that it can be a way not waste as much and better the environment. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160915133240.htm Scientists have developed a new solar cell that is much more cost effective than anything ever previously developed. This development uses two different layers of sunlight absorbing materials to capitalize on a wider range of the sun's energy. Eugene Fitzgerald, one of the leaders of the research, thinks the new cell will be ready for the market within the next two years. Traditional silicon solar cells, while cheap, are not the best at converting the sun's energy into electricity. The new manufacturing process is not only cheaper, but the overall process has been consolidated and is now much more efficient.
This new finding is especially exciting considering the push for cleaner energies in recent years. With the cheaper production and market cost, we may start seeing more and more solar panels on houses, whereas right now it may be too expensive for the average American. Hopefully this means a move away from fossil fuels and a quicker ascent to the energies of the future. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160829163522.htm |
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