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Power Plants Use Rivers For Cooling, But Cause Stress To The Environment
Posted by RedOrbit: Michael Harper on April 22nd, 2013
RedOrbit: When thermoelectric power plants convert water to steam to turn large turbines and create energy, they’re left with plenty of what’s known as “waste heat.” This waste heat has to go somewhere and either flows up into the atmosphere or back into the rivers or ponds where these factories source their fresh water.
To better understand where this waste heat goes and how it affects the environment, scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the City College of New York (CCNY) ran a pair...
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Arctic Ice Melt Disrupts Balance Of Greenhouse Gases
Posted by RedOrbit: Michael Harper on February 20th, 2013
RedOrbit: Last year, so much sea ice in the Arctic had melted away that it beat the prior record amount set in the summer of 2007. By the end of the 2012 summer, the Arctic Ocean had lost about 2.1 million square miles of ice, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado. Experts began to predict the kinds of trouble such a speedy and significant melt could have on the earth’s ecosystems as a whole. Now, one of these effects has already been seen.
According to research from...