Humans turning up volume in oceans.
| Water Guzzlers Removed from City Hall Last Friday, Mayor Hickenlooper announced that new water-saving toilets and urinals are being installed in the City and County Building. Over the next couple of weeks, 133 water-guzzling toilets (averaging 3.5-5.0 gallons per flush) and 28 urinals (averaging 1-5 gallons per flush) will be replaced with 1.6-gallon toilets and half-gallon urinals. In 2006, occupants used [.] |
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| Thermo-chemical Conversion Technologies for Woody Biomass Utilization There are many ways to generate electricity from biomass using thermo-chemical pathway. These include directly-fired or conventional steam approach, co-firing, pyrolysis and gasification. |
| Humans turning up volume in oceans. This week the U.S. Supreme Court gave the Navy the OK to use sonar off the coast of California. But it turns out the planet’s oceans are actually getting louder anyway. A recent study finding that global warming is changing the way sound travels underwater. |