Open publication - Free publishing - More climate change

Open publication - Free publishing - More climate change

Examples:

Examples:, a set by AGRITECTURE on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
In this album you will find a selection of examples of Building-Integrated Agriculture (BIA). There are infinite ways for Agritecture to be executed and I will post images of examples from the blog in this album.

Feel free to comment and share!
www.agritecture.co

AGRITECTURE - an urban gardening solution

Shoe Fetish: The Shoe Library at Lane Crawford HK - Luxury News from Luxury Insider

Shoe Fetish: The Shoe Library at Lane Crawford HK - Luxury News from Luxury Insider

Style Secrets - YouTube Playlist

NASA - NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System

NASA - NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System

Drought Masters Instructional DVD Trailer

Bareeze Winter Collection 2012 Embroidered Classics

Bareeze Winter Collection 2012 Embroidered Classics

TIME Picks the Best Viral Photos of 2011 - LightBox

TIME Picks the Best Viral Photos of 2011 - LightBox

Open publication - Free publishing - More dealer

Open publication - Free publishing - More spring 2012

Fire Ay Jibone (ফিরে আয় জীবনে)

Build a Green House for Under $25

Google Currents Demo

Absolute Newbie Guide to Hanging out on Google+

Follow'>http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/2563482/creative-resources?claim=eu9arzechcr">Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Open publication - Free publishing - More biomass

http://issuu.com/bbiinternational/docs/dec.11-bpt?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

Freaky Me...

Open publication - Free publishing - More brm

Navy Testing Hydrovolts Turbine Sept 2011.avi

Financial Model

Financial Model:

Financial model

'via Blog this'

AeroGarden Garden Starter System in Action

Vertical Farms: From Vision to Reality – State of the Planet

Vertical Farms: From Vision to Reality – State of the Planet

This is indeed an awesome achievement ....

The Canoe

The Canoe, a set by Peter Bowers on Flickr.

Awesome Photostream ... thanks to +Peter Bower ... cheers .. live life king size ..

Grameen Shakti

Find more photos like this on Aquaponic Gardening

Find more photos like this on Aquaponic Gardening

[Project Teamwork - GALAXY S II] Parkour Ep. 1 "Innovation"

Pipistrel Taurus G4 Electric Aircraft winner of $1.35M NASA Google "Gree...

Introducing AquaBundance - The Year Round Aquaponic Gardening System

Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu hang out on Google+

Occupy Wall Street song

OECD Key Titles Catalogue 2011

OECD Key Titles Catalogue 2011:

'via Blog this'

Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuel

Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuel

University of Illinois chemical and biological engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group joined forces with researchers at Dioxide Materials, a startup company, to produce a catalyst that improves artificial photosynthesis. The company, in the university Research Park, was founded by retired chemical engineering professor Richard Masel. The team reported their results in the journal Science.
Artificial photosynthesis is the process of converting carbon dioxide gas into useful carbon-based chemicals, most notably fuel or other compounds usually derived from petroleum, as an alternative to extracting them from biomass.
In plants, photosynthesis uses solar energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO₂) and water to sugars and other hydrocarbons. Biofuels are refined from sugars extracted from crops such as corn. However, in artificial photosynthesis, an electrochemical cell uses energy from a solar collector or a wind turbine to convert CO₂ to simple carbon fuels such as formic acid or methanol, which are further refined to make ethanol and other fuels.
"The key advantage is that there is no competition with the food supply," said Masel, a co-principal investigator of the paper and CEO of Dioxide Materials, "and it is a lot cheaper to transmit electricity than it is to ship biomass to a refinery."
However, one big hurdle has kept artificial photosynthesis from vaulting into the mainstream: The first step to making fuel, turning carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, is too energy intensive. It requires so much electricity to drive this first reaction that more energy is used to produce the fuel than can be stored in the fuel.
The Illinois group used a novel approach involving an ionic liquid to catalyze the reaction, greatly reducing the energy required to drive the process. The ionic liquids stabilize the intermediates in the reaction so that less electricity is needed to complete the conversion.
The researchers used an electrochemical cell as a flow reactor, separating the gaseous CO₂ input and oxygen output from the liquid electrolyte catalyst with gas-diffusion electrodes. The cell design allowed the researchers to fine-tune the composition of the electrolyte stream to improve reaction kinetics, including adding ionic liquids as a co-catalyst.
"It lowers the overpotential for CO₂ reduction tremendously," said Kenis, who is also a professor of mechanical science and engineering and affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. "Therefore, a much lower potential has to be applied. Applying a much lower potential corresponds to consuming less energy to drive the process."
Next, the researchers hope to tackle the problem of throughput. To make their technology useful for commercial applications, they need to speed up the reaction and maximize conversion.
"More work is needed, but this research brings us a significant step closer to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels while simultaneously reducing CO₂ emissions that are linked to unwanted climate change," Kenis said.
Graduate students Brian Rosen, Michael Thorson, Wei Zhu and Devin Whipple and postdoctoral researcher Amin Salehi-Khojin were co-authors of the paper. The U.S. Department of Energy supported this work.