Human Blood to Help Capture CO2 Emissions
Biological systems have always been used to develop new technologies, and have proved to be very effective in different activity areas. Today, a New Jersey company is trying to reproduce a similar system in order to capture more efficiently carbon dioxide emissions.
Researchers started from the idea that in our body, the blood contains an enzyme able to capture two pounds of CO2 every day and convert it into bicarbonate. Then, when we exhale, the same enzyme converts the rezulted biocarbonate back into CO2.
Ozone Layer and Air Pollution
Ozone is concentrated in the stratosphere at an altitude of 15-35 km. It is formed of O2 molecules passing through a photo-dissociation process. In the stratosphere, there is a balance between ozone formation and decomposition processes. Usually this balance is broken by a substance called ChloroFloroMethane coming from aerosols and cooling systems.
How to Capture CO2 Emissions
CO2 released in the atmosphere is nothing but a source of environmental pollution, a factor with a huge role in global warming process. We all know that carbon dioxide is the result of fossil fuel combustion (coal, oil or natural gas). Currently, highest carbon emissions are produced by cars, trucks and non-nuclear power plants. Because of that, urban areas are considered as areas with high concentration of carbon dioxide. To reduce the effects of pollution, carbon dioxide can be captured and stored. Today, carbon dioxide effects on atmosphere is a controversial issue.
Soil Pollution Process Explained
I think it is not necessary to define again “soil pollution” term, because I already did this in an older post. So, we will go straight to the point!
Soil can be polluted:
A)directly;
B)indirectly;
How Forests Improve Human Health
We talked in some older posts about forest influences on global warming and the influence of vegetation on climate evolution.
Today I will present some special qualities of forests, and more specifically, the role of forest on human health (health role).
So I will continue to list some of these special qualities:
Fish from American Waters are Contaminated with Mercury
Americans, attention!!! It is not a joke! All information in this post are real! Recently, American Geological Services announced, after several studies, that all freshwater-fish from United States, contain a neurotoxic substance…mercury!!!Some studies made by US Geological Survey shows that 292 rivers and lakes in United States are full of fish contaminated with mercury.
Stressed Plants Could Negatively Influence the Climate
On “My Green Treasure” we talked several times about the factors influencing climate evolution and global warming. We strive to present some unusual factors that were not so popular lately. Today I want to start from the next idea: plants can positively influence the climate but on the other hand could lead to an intensification of global warming process.
Marine Cloud Whitening – Artificial Created Clouds to Prevent Global Warming
An important factor influencing climate evolution and global warming on our planet, is represented by solar radiation. Many countries consider solar radiation as a very important alternative energy source but it seems that radiations emitted by the sun can have negative effects on our planet.
$40 Air Filter Could Reduce Fuel Consumption by 20%
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Nowadays, researchers find different ways to improve the efficiency of our cars, by reducing consumption, increasing power or change car design (lines and shapes). Sometimes big discoveries may come from small countries. Same thing happened with the product I will present in this post.
Many Islands from Pacific Could Disappear in Only Few Years
Global warming is a phenomenon that frightens increasingly more countries, several organizations and many more people. Polluting gases, greenhouse gases, in large quantities can cause an increase in global temperature up to 6 Celsius degrees. This thing could lead to dramatic changes of our planet.
Walnut Tree Shadow is Harmful to Humans and Could Increase Pollution
In this post I want to talk about the positive and negative effects that the walnut tree have on humans, plants and animals around it.
Cycling Safety Improved by Lacoste Eco-Friendly Bike Helmet
I think that we all heard about Lacoste company, and we all know that the products offered are high-quality products. Recently Lacoste launched an Eco-Friendly Bike Helmet, very resistant, made with comfort providing materials and also with recyclable materials.
Air Pollution Could Decrease Newly Born Childrens IQ
Pollution of air, water, soil and many other natural elements, have as side effects destruction of plant and animal habitats,leading to the disappearance of plant and animal populations and also can affect human organism. Air pollution can affect respiratory system, water pollution and soil can affect digestion and other similar processes. Recently, a study made by researchers from NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) shows that human IQ can be also affected by athmospheric pollution(eg, mothers exposed to any kind of pollution could born children with a low IQ).
GreenAir Natural Air Purification System
The main elements that maintain life on earth are water and the air.The air is one of the most polluted natural elements, especially by CO2 emissions from different sources.Especially in urban air is very polluted because of intense traffic (burning fossil fuels) and because of the large factories.Until now researchers have discovered several methods to transform polluted air into clean, fresh air.Nowadays exist several types of air purification systems, but these systems consume a considerable amount of energy and also do not bring anything natural in spaces where are used.These are two problems that have been solved by a new, revolutionary product named GreenAir.
Green Firefighter Training in Colorado
In many cases of environmental pollution,the main factor is the burning process, which often can be started accidentally.Burning process can be found also in any car’s engine that run on fossil fuels or in big factories that burn materials to obtain other various products. In this post I want to present another aspect of environmental pollution, respectively pollution made by accidentally fires.Building fires can generate a large amount of pollutant gases that are not only harmful to the environment but are also toxic to humans.
The Coca-Cola Company to get more environmental-friendly
As a consequence of being the world’s largest beverage company, Coca-Cola also holds the record for world’s biggest PET plastic bottles producer. It is known that this polyethylene terephthalate or PET plastic bottles are non-renewable. Less known is that Antimony triacetate is being used in the production of PET plastic which remains in the material and can, in principle migrate out into food and drinks. Although antimony trioxide is of low toxicity, its presence is still of concern to the health.
2009 Urban Environmental Problems
Environment is one of the three pillars of sustainable development.Human activity has accumulated problems that have left increased pollutants in the atmosphere, vast areas of land resources degraded, depleted and degraded forests, biodiversity under threat, increasingly inadequate freshwater resources of deteriorating quality and seriously depleted marine resources. Read more
Solar Powered Nano Sensors-Pollution Detector System
Pollution is a process that is present today in many places on earth.People have tried and still trying to reduce as much as possible this pollution process and the effects of this global phenomenon.But how people will know where they have to intervene most? Until now this thing was done statistically or with many previous studies and analysis.
Recently Queensland University of Technology has been awarded a $ 1.3 million for the invention of a solar powered nano sensors system, able to detect and monitor environmental pollution.The main advantage of this system is represented by a lower energy consumption,perfectly adjusted for high performances.Another similar system is named GIS(Geographic Information System).”GIS use geographical coordinates of various locations on the planet, store them in special tables in order to be analyzed.This program is very useful in many fields: transportation, real estate, planning, public safety, ecology, environmental protection, environmental events.” – http://www.mygreentreasure.com/2009/04/gis-environmental-monitoring-system/
Solar powered nano-sensors: “The sensors are contained in self-contained boxes which could be placed where needed. The devices are tiny carbon tubes with a diameter of a few millionths of a millimeter, which will be covered with hair-like sensing modules. This unique structure increases the sensitivity of the detector, since it increases the exposed surface area. The energy-efficient sensors will be powered by a new kind of solar cell developed in Australia by Dyesol that would transmit data to monitoring stations using radio or a UMTS system.” – www.ecofriend.org
1227 Bird Species Will Disappear due to Global Warming
International Union For Nature Conservation has created a list of birds that could disappear very soon due to pollution and global warming.This list was made by BridLife International, shows that 12% or 1227 species of birds could disappear.The most threatened bird is Eriocnemis isabellae from Colombia, similar to Heteromirafra sidamoensi from Etiopia.The list made by IUNC represent the most real statistics of the animal species conservation on the planet.Anti Desertification SeedBomb Designed by Hwang Jin Wook
We all know that deforestation is one of the reasons that cause air pollution and impicitly,global warming.At the end of last century one of the major mistakes that people have done was to cut a large area of forest from the earth surface.Because social and economic reasons, justified or unjustified, forests have disappeared.This thing has resulted in an urgent need of afforestation.What you can see in the picture below is not a bomb attack … is a new method to plant saplings in deforested areas.