December 03, 2009
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Water & Wastewater Newsletter December 03, 2009 |
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Algae biofuels still 10 years away, says Shell
The head of Royal Dutch Shell has said that second-generation biofuels are unlikely to be in widespread commercial use for another decade despite a strong research and development focus from both companies and governments. Peter Voser, who took over as chief executive of the oil company from Jeroen van der Veer in July, told the Financial Times it would be a number of years yet before a commercially proven plant was operational. The firm has more ongoing projects in the area of second-generation biofuels than any of its rivals and Voster claimed that it was 18 months ahead of them in terms ... |
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Track soil particles moving through watershed
Soil erosion of croplands, rangelands, and urban areas is one of the most common problems that negatively affects the environment. Soil particles carried by rainwater along slopes may transport a variety of harmful agricultural and industrial chemicals, cause the soil to lose fertility, and inundate streams. Quantifying the movement of soil through watersheds is a complex task, which requires sophisticated sampling and modeling methods. At the present time, there is a limited number of reliable field techniques capable of tracking soil movement through a watershed, and the experimental data is ... |
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