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Moon Has a Hundred Times More Water Than Thought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2010
National Geographic: Not only does the moon's surface hold a "significant amount" of water--as two NASA crashes confirmed in October--but, a new study says, the moon's interior may hold at least a hundred times more water than previously estimated. "If we could take all the water which is locked up in the moon's interior, it would make a one-meter-deep [one-yard-deep] ocean covering its entire surface," said lead study author Francis McCubbin, a geologist with the Carnegie Institution for Science in ...
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Pumping up the heat for a climate-friendly future
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 14th, 2010
ScienceDaily: Making ground-source heat a cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels has long been a dream for countries that depend on energy imports and need to cut their carbon dioxide emissions. A team of businesses and researchers in Slovenia and Serbia set out to develop the heat pump technology that would make this dream a reality. The chaos caused by a volcanic eruption in Iceland April 2010 and the dispersal of its ash cloud across European airspace was a reminder of the tremendous forces ...