Georgia Institute Of Technology

Dispersants Make Oil 52 Times More Toxic … And Delay Cleanup of Oil Spills By Many Years

by WashingtonsBlog

Here’s the Real Reason Why Oil Companies Use Them On Spills

The Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexicopublished an article in the journal Environmental Pollution finding that dumping the dispersant Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico increased the toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone.

Phys.org notes:

Using oil from the Deep Water Horizon spill and Corexit, the dispersant required by the Environmental Protection Agency for clean up, the researchers tested toxicity [...]

DEEPWATER Horizon OIL spill ‘CLEANUP’ made TOXICITY WORSE!

The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. The findings were published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

Over the course of three [...]

PROF: Drones Will Soon Be Able To Kill During War Without Human Assistance

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Drones could soon operate without the help of humans.

Agence France-Presse is reporting that the Pentagon wants its drones to be more autonomous, so that they can run with little to no assistance from people.

“Before they were blind, deaf and dumb,” Mark Maybury, chief scientist for the U.S. Air Force, told AFP. “Now we’re beginning to make them to see, hear and sense.”

Ronald Arkin, a professor at the Georgia Institute [...]

Revolutionary device that ‘smells cancer on your breath’

Screening technique for breast and lung cancer developed by Georgia Tech
Breathalyzer awaiting clinical trials

A simple invention could save thousands of lives and drastically reduce the amount of time and expense in screening patients for cancer.

The cancer-detecting breathalyzer system was unveiled on June 2 at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago and is able to detect the early signs of breast and lung cancer.

It is still awaiting clinical trials but [...]

The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry

by James Stafford of OilPrice.com

The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry

As the global warming debate increases in its intensity we find both sides deeply entrenched, hurling accusations and lies at one another in an attempt to gain the upper hand. This divide within the scientific community has left the public wondering who can be trusted to provide them with accurate information and answers.

The IPCC, the [...]

Battery Storage Could Get a Huge Boost from Seaweed

Here’s a technology story that may be more agreeable to the berry picker advocates.

http://www.zeitnews.org/energy/battery-s…

Lithium-ion batteries could hold up to 10 times as much energy per cell if silicon anodes were used instead of graphite ones. But manufacturers don’t use silicon because such anodes degrade quickly as the battery is charged and discharged.

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Clemson University [...]

iPod ‘charged by the human heart’

Scientists hope that as the nanotechnology used in the chip evolves, it could lead to electronics which don’t require batteries or mains power.

Hailed as a milestone, it can use tiny movements such as the pinch of a finger to generate power.

The team, presenting their findings at the National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, have used it to power [...]

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Dispersants Make Oil 52 Times More Toxic … And Delay Cleanup of Oil Spills By Many Years

DEEPWATER Horizon OIL spill ‘CLEANUP’ made TOXICITY WORSE!

PROF: Drones Will Soon Be Able To Kill During War Without Human Assistance

Revolutionary device that ‘smells cancer on your breath’

The IPCC May Have Outlived its Usefulness – An Interview with Judith Curry

Battery Storage Could Get a Huge Boost from Seaweed

iPod ‘charged by the human heart’

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