While climate change negotiators struggle to agree on ways to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, they have paid inadequate attention to other greenhouse gases associated with livestock, according to an analysis by an international ...
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In theory, Maxwell's demon can decrease the entropy of a system by opening and closing a door at appropriate times to separate hot and cold gas molecules. But as physicist Leó Szilárd pointed out in 1929, entropy does not ...
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Nothing, it seems, makes the hand of Vernon Brejcha quiver. Not the heat from a furnace that burns a few thousand degrees, not the weight of a five-foot pole with a ball of fire attached to its end, and not even the frailty of a very, ...
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It’s all about speed. For the last decade Nike has continually evolved college football uniforms for the country’s best teams. Among these, the Oregon Ducks football uniforms are on the cutting edge of innovation, with the ...
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Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it is to supply more than 700 mt of high-performance stainless steel grade from its European mills to the Indian engineering company, Thermax Limited, for the construction ...
North Carolina is famous for its high-tech Research Triangle, but lately it seems that state government IT projects are bound for IT's equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. As you may remember from an earlier Risk Factor story on state ...
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Spiral steel pipe seam weld porosity affects not only dense, causing pipeline leak, which will become a point of corrosion-induced, severely reducing weld strength and toughness. Weld porosity factors are: the flux of water, dirt, iron ...
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One of our readers from last month's article Make a PCB with your laser printer raised an interesting concern about the disposal of chemicals used to make a homemade PCB. In that particular article, we discussed making your own PCB using ...
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Alsa Refinish, a California-based company, has process and utility patent applications in place for a medication delivery method. If successful, Alsa will hold patents for a device that delivers medications and herbal preparations ...
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OAO NOVATEK (“NOVATEK” and/or the “Company”) announced today that the Board of Directors of Yamal LNG approved a final investment decision (“FID”) for the Yamal LNG project, consisting of the development ...
Used in oil and gas transmission pipe, often referred toughness is the Charpy V-notch impact energy test, or sample the plastic fracture morphology percentage share of the entire sample to measure the fracture area. Charpy absorbed energy ...
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate family and friends, enjoy the fall harvest, and to stuff our faces full of delicious food. ?No matter your specific traditions, I'm certain the stuffing-of-faces is common across all Thanksgiving tables. ...
The Injection Moldings Services in China is famous for its correct precision and the finest quality. All the companies have kept some significant points in mind and they will never compromise with that. Those are the lovely quality molds, ...
Bendable materials are changing how we think of and use substrates. R&D announcements are made nearly daily on new scientific research that will help enable flexible electronics (electronic products that are bendable or those that can be ...
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Bosch power tools offers the consumer a full line of both cord and cordless power tools. They offer a large selection of power tools as well as accessories. In addition to the basic power tools that are offered including saws, drills, ...
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