metals, Tag

A new study by Consumer Reports found that some of the popular dark chocolate brands contain high levels of heavy metals. The study was carried out by scientists from the nonprofit advocacy organization, sampling 28 well-known...

Extra electricity from renewable energy could be used to split water to obtain hydrogen - but methods to accomplish this are usually prohibitively expensive, need too much power, or draw on catalyst materials that too rapidly...

About 300 people in rural British Columbia, Canada are without drinking water right now after the tailings pond at a nearby mine breached, spilling more than a billion gallons of toxic waste into the environment...

Last month we were all about the origami lamps and solar panels now we’re focusing our folding obsession around a company we just saw on Core77 called Industrial Origami...

This is a guest contribution by Dr Walter Youngquist, best known for GeoDestinies, his classic text on global resources and their depletion that was first published in 1997...

This is a slide video of the presentation given by Rolf Widmer and David Rochat at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. Rolf and David work at EMPA and SOFIES on more efficient material management...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been reading about the issue of mineral depletion, since I want to do some research on this topic. The basic question is whether we can keep relying on producing (rare) metals from the...