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Dutch Town to Be Paved With Air Pollution-Sucking Bricks [Green Concrete]

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2008-08-07 05:39:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...pollutant nitrogen oxide (a key smog and acid rain ingredient) sucking it out of the air and rendering it harmless. The special bricks contain a component based on titanium dioxide that acts to "fix" the pollutant with the aid of sunlight. The best bit is that the resulting nitrates just wash away with the next rain. Clever stuff: and if the...
 
Tags: concrete, air, rain, acid rain ingredient, dutch town, car-exhaust pollutant, air quality, concrete road, pollutant
 
 
 
 
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Pocketable gas sensor aims to better understand asthma

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2008-01-28 08:26:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...pollutant pathway" from the volunteer's basement into the living room that was allowing vehicle exhaust and gasoline fumes to infiltrate the house. From here, the creators are hoping to downsize the device even further and make it more sensitive, but we've no idea if the current iteration will ever be used commercially Via NewScientist Read...
 
Tags: pocketable device, device, asthma symptoms, pollutant pathway, asthma attacks, vehicle exhaust, gasoline fumes, sufferer breathes, current iteration
 
 
 
 
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Flameless LED Scented Wax Candle (4-Inch Round) with Auto On Off Timer

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2008-03-08 21:30:03 by Phi in GadgetGrid
...pollutant, as burning candles generate large volumes of waxy soot.Each candle has a pleasant hint of vanilla fragrance Product Features Real wax candles with the warm glow of flickering candlelight, but without the worry of real fire Enjoy outdoors in the breeze, use safely around pets and children, fall asleep with peace of mind Set the...
 
Tags: wax candle, candle, round candle measures, light bulb candle, led candle, auto, led candles, candles, candle carver
 
 
 
 
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Bacterial Chemical Sensors on the Horizon?

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2008-06-13 06:18:19 by jhbarad in Medgadget
...pollutant such as toluene, said Laub Cheap chemical sensors that you could simply grow in a beaker would be incredibly useful Press release: MIT researchers unravel bacteria communication pathways Image caption: Diagram shows the structure of a histidine kinase (blue ribbons) and its target response regulator (green ribbons). The specificity...
 
Tags: amino acids, amino acids govern, target response regulator, response regulator, pathways, bacterial communication pathways, target, target amino acids, amino acid co-evolution
 
 
 
 
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Helios: Changing Barbeques as we know it

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2008-07-31 17:52:38 by Mark R in Coolest Gadgets
...pollutant because it smells so funny It appears that someone has addressed this issue with the Helios, an energy-efficient outdoor cooker. The dish that you see is not designed to pick up 400 stations, but for collecting solar energy. The solar dish, which is safely pointed away from you while cooking, is designed to heat a coil inside the...
 
Tags: helios, gadgets gift guides, gadgets, dish, huge carbon footprint, renewable energy sources, solar dish, barbeques, coil inside
 
 
 
 
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HP and Walmart make laptop packagings eco-friendly

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2008-09-02 21:00:04 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...pollutant, but you might not know that retailers get even bigger boxes than you do! Yes, we're talking about an enormous box that contains a smaller one, with foam and all that padding material. HP and Walmart are trying to tackle the problem by shipping several laptops in the same (small) box. The laptops come in their protective bags and...
 
Tags: laptop packagings eco-friendly, cardboard box, box, walmart, laptops, enormous box, cardboard boxes, protective bags, bigger boxes
 
 
 
 
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HP and Walmart make laptop packagings eco-friendly

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2008-09-03 01:09:31 by admin in GadgetBB News Blog
...pollutant, but you might not know that retailers get even bigger boxes than you do! Yes, were talking about an enormous box that contains a smaller one, with foam and all that padding material. HP and Walmart are trying to tackle the problem by shipping several laptops in the same (small) box. The laptops come in their protective bags and not...
 
Tags: laptop packagings eco-friendly, cardboard box, box, walmart, laptops, enormous box, cardboard boxes, protective bags, bigger boxes
 
 
 
 
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"Clean Coal" No Longer Oxymoron at New Power Plant [Clean Coal]

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2008-09-21 16:30:00 by Wilson Rothman in Gizmodo
...pollutant free Critics say that this is just a diversion from investing resources in truly non-polluting technologies. While I tend to lean with those critics, I am a fan of clean coal because the US uses so much coal to produce electricity for cities. Still, I'm not 100% clear on the whole pumping-greenhouse-gases-into-the-earth thing. I...
 
Tags: plant, coal, clean coal, co2, co2 collection process, spremberg plant, spremberg, massive co2 geysers, basic system
 
 
 
 
 
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