Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Promise of Natural Hydrogen as a Clean Energy Source Natural hydrogen, also referred to as white hydrogen , has emerged as a promising energy source in the global push for decarbonization. Advances in gas-detection technologies, geochemical soil surveys, and borehole drilling have accelerated exploration.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The dextrin backbone can be degraded by natural enzymes that are present in soil.’ Reference: Xiaohong Lan, Wenjian Li, Chongnan Ye, Laura Boetje, Théophile Pelras, Fitrilia Silvianti, Qi Chen, Yutao Pei, and Katja Loos: Scalable and Degradable Dextrin-Based Elastomers for Wearable Touch Sensing.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it. References.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

PFAS, often referred to as “forever chemicals,” are used to make fluoropolymer coatings and products that resist heat, oil, stains, grease and water, and are found in a variety of products from clothing and furniture to food packaging and non-stick cooking surfaces. Watson, professor of soil science.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2024

How to go from satellite data to actionable insights: How to calculate root-zone soil water content from near-surface soil water content Contributors: Thomas Frederikse & Amber Mulder Understanding soil moisture is essential for managing agricultural productivity, optimizing water resources, and tackling climate challenges.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Indoor air quality specialist and Radon expert Airthings, was among firms offering insight into the problem: “Radon enters a building as the air pressure within a building is usually lower than the pressure in the soil and rocks around the building’s foundation. It enters through a process referred to as advection.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This cycle depends on a healthy balance of nitrogen inputs and outputs, particularly in terms of nitrate; this reactive form of nitrogen is produced through a range of biological and chemical processes, and is required by plants and crops to grow, but human activities may be increasing nitrate production to dangerous levels.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Drip line refers to rigid, structural piping while drip tape is thin-walled plastic tubing most commonly used in drip irrigation applications due to its adaptability to various topography and soil conditions. Additional benefits of drip irrigation include: Adaptable to uneven topography and soil texture.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

Mark Lloyd, CEO of Rivers Trusts, said: “Rivers Trusts were delighted to work in partnership with others to deliver many of the pilot projects referred to in this excellent report, which we welcome.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. At the midpoint of that range, a farmer would net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel at today’s prices – which, van der Ent added, is “on par with some of the best-performing agricultural crops on fertile soils, while operating costs are similar.”.

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Grist

JANUARY 9, 2025

” Swain, along with researchers across the United States and in Switzerland, analyzed a flurry of recent research on what they refer to as hydroclimate volatility and developed a way to measure how it might get worse in the future. When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Carbon neutral refers to a policy of not increasing carbon emissions and of achieving carbon reduction through offsets. Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As a result, the plans of companies analysed in the study fall short of tying the firms to transformative action, with the report’s co-authors concluding the firm’s plans lack “the ambition necessary to significantly reduce pollution, environmental degradation, emissions or even increase soil carbon sequestration”.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater. Biological approaches to mineralise PFAS (i.e.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MAY 10, 2024

The impact of hydrogen migration on the soil microbiome and, subsequently, on vegetation, underscores the delicate balance of natural habitats and the influence of unseen geological activities.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Improve soil texture – Fine textured soils like clay have a lower infiltration rate, thus higher risk of runoff. Add a layer of well-drained topsoil along with compost or manure to improve the infiltration rate of your soil as well as attract worms to continue conditioning your soil.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Historically, when restaurants talk about composting, they typically refer to pre-consumer composting of items like fruit and vegetable scraps, egg shells, and coffee grounds and filters. It will however regain much of its bacterial properties once added to garden soil. It turns to soil overnight,”. Indoor Compost Bins.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report warns that if nothing changes, by 2050, we can expect significant hits to crop yields, the degradation of an additional expanse of land the size of South America, and the loss of carbon locked up in poor soils and threatened peatlands. The authors used “restoration” to refer to sustainable management of land and water.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Carbon storage refers to the process of sequestering or storing carbon in various forms in the natural environment, including in plants, soil, oceans, and geologic formations.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In recent years, the biggest agricultural polluters and food corporations have embraced this term, which refers to a wide range of farming techniques that improve the environment. All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity.

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Grist

JUNE 9, 2021

Commonly referred to as “forever chemicals,” their legacy can be found everywhere — in soil, groundwater, lakes, oceans, and now, even the rain. The findings highlight the ubiquitous nature of PFAS chemicals, man-made substances used in common household products because of their water-, oil-, and grease-resistant qualities.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Moving away from UAVs and ships and back to dry land, ET is pleased to have supplied two leading UK cities (Liverpool and Cardiff) with ‘reference method’ air quality monitoring stations in 2020. An AQM Station at Castle St, Cardiff. as well as a T200 NOx analyser has now been installed in pride of place, right outside Cardiff Castle.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. At nearly 20 feet long, the cylinders of ice reveal the deep past, holding the frozen remains of dead plants from 40,000 years ago. Sasha Peterson. “I We got hammered by Hurricane Harvey.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

A new ‘data pack’ available to anaerobic digestion (AD) operators provides a reference point for UK digestate characteristics. It is said to comprehensively report key positive and negative characteristics of UK digestates produced from different feedstock types.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 11, 2024

If you are looking to understand a drought’s impact on fire risk or irrigation activities impact on water resources, ideally you would use measurements of soil water content. The temporal resolution or revisit rate of Planetary Variables like Soil Water Content, Land Surface Temperature, and Crop Biomass can create a deluge of data.

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Low Impact

JULY 14, 2021

The project that I am referring to started in 1983 and was centred around sustainable and affordable living, away from the busy ‘non-sensica’ of what was then (and is now) modern life. The soil in those days was dead from decades of industrial scale ‘factory without a roof’ agricultural thinking, producing food for an unthinking populace.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Superhot rock energy refers to geothermal energy harnessed from deeper, hotter dry rock systems with temperatures of over 400 °C. The report indicates that superhot rock exists across about 40% of the land area of the Middle East, potentially providing 1791 GWe of energy capacity in the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia alone.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

What does it cost over the course of 100 years to ensure that the tillage isn’t happening on the soil such that the carbon isn’t re-emitted into the atmosphere?” How do we ensure forests are managed to minimize risk of fires? We don’t truly know what those costs are today for nature-based solutions.”.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 26, 2024

Transitioning to Environmentally Friendly Fluids While effective, traditional hydraulic fluids can pose serious environmental risks in the event of leaks or spills, contaminating soil and waterways. As a result, industries benefit from hydraulic systems that meet their operational needs and contribute to their sustainability goals. 

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. He has also referred to the Green Deal as a “massive plan of layoffs for our farmers”. “We

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

Reference: Pollutant Formation in Combustion Processes, Grzegorz Wielgosi?ski, It will quickly absorb moisture from air and soil and again get into non-composted organic form. Which will now rotten in the open soil. Reference: [link]. Such reaction at lower temperatures have a very harmful ratios of CO-CO2 and Nox gases.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To warming target.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The irrigation error we experienced was not visible to the naked eye,” says Nicolle, referring to vegetation indices that leverage the invisible, near-infrared spectral band. Imagery from RHIZA’s Contour app showing irrigation errors and changes over time after farmer took action to manage the field // Credit: RHIZA.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 26, 2019

Referred to by some as Europe’s “ new growth engine ,” Poland has gone through dramatic transformations in recent decades, while its economy grew by more than 50 percent since 2007, despite the global economic crisis. Winter wheat harvest in Pomorskie Voivodship, Poland // Credit: David Kaszlikowski and SatAgro.

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