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Strider-like water sensor will help detect contaminants in water

By Guest PostAugust 2, 2014Environmentdetect, environmental disaster, gesunder menschenverstand, gewaltige wallberge, ibm q, katie pooley, lakes, michigan state university, philip walther, quantenrennen, quantum algorithms, quantum computing processors, reinhard drews, rivers, roi baudouin schelfeis, streams

To help clean up an oil spill or any other kind of environmental disaster, sometimes humans can learn a thing or two from nature.

A team of researchers from the Michigan State University College of Engineering is creating a kind of robotic sensor that could eventually be used to collect environmental pollution data from rivers, streams and lakes. (more…)

Between the Nightmare of the Gulf and the Magic of Solar Impulse

By PravdaJuly 18, 2010Economy, Sciencealberta, alternative, bp, canada, China, cost efficient, deepwater horizon, deforestation, deserts, electricity, energy, environmental disaster, fort mcmurray, gulf of mexico, largest oil reserve, oil, oil sands, saudi arabia, Scandinavia, solar impulse aircraft, solar plane, solar stoves, sun ray, tar sands, thermo conversion, tibet, tibetan women, tsedang, unicamp data

While the BP Deepwater Horizon well spits tens of thousands of barrels of oil offshore on the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental disaster of proportions never before imagined, a beautiful new kind of bird flies silently in the skies on its first test flight.

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