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(1st July 2009)
I loved this review from the Three Dog Book Blog, particularly the last couple of lines.
(25th June 2009)
I have written an op-ed on diarrhoea for The New Statesman, which is here.
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(23rd June 2009)
So I was reading this news release about an apparently innovative algae-to-biofuel project which uses wastewater. The wastewater's nutrients feed the algae which is turned into feedstock. I'm not quite sure how it then becomes fuel. Anyway while trying to understand it, I came across two things I didn't know but probably should have. Firstly, that Severn Trent Plc does not only run ...
(23rd June 2009)
In far too many wastewater treatment plants, the methane that is created by digesting sewage sludge is simply burned off in flares, because plants don't know what else to do with it. It's an environmentally unfriendly practice, methane being a greenhouse gas, but it's also a waste of a perfectly good energy source. Only a third of UK wastewater treatment plants use the methane, usually ...