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Tapping Tesla to Save Trapped Miners: Low Energy Magnetic Communication Penetrates Rock

Basically, the generator works like an electromagnet. Powered by standard alternating current or battery, it runs electricity through a wire that is coiled around a metal cylinder, creating a harmless, low-energy magnetic field that extends for hundreds of meters. Just like radio, the field can carry an audio signal by modulating (raising or lowering) its [...]

Physical geonomics: Combining the exergy and Hubbert peak analysis for predicting mineral resources depletion

This paper shows how thermodynamics and in particular the exergy analysis can help to assess the degradation degree of earth’s mineral resources. The resources may be physically assessed as its exergy content as well as the exergy required for replacing them from a complete degraded state to the conditions in which they are currently presented [...]

Natural Gas Plays in the Marcellus Shale: Challenges and Potential Opportunities

Tapping the lucrative Marcellus Shale natural gas deposits may have a host of environmental concerns. DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es903811p

Worldmapper World Population Atlas: The countries of the world as you’ve never seen them before

Worldmapper World Population Atlas: The countries of the world as you’ve never seen them before

Valuing Drinking Water Provision as an Ecosystem Service in the Neuse River Basin

The valuation of ecosystem services such as drinking water provision is of growing national and international interest. The cost of drinking water provision is directly linked to the quality of its raw water input, which is itself affected by upstream land use patterns. This analysis employs the benefit transfer method to quantify the economic benefits [...]

The physical dimension of international trade : : Part 1: Direct global flows between 1962 and 2005

The results show increasing global trade with global direct material trade flows reaching about 10 billion tonnes in 2005, corresponding to a physical trade volume of about 20 billion tonnes (adding both total imports and total exports). The share from European countries is declining, mainly in favour of Asian countries. The dominant traded commodity in [...]

Life-cycle Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture for Enhanced Oil Recovery

The development and deployment of Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) technology is a cornerstone of the Norwegian government’s climate strategy. A number of projects are currently evaluated/planned along the Norwegian West Coast, one at Tjeldbergodden. CO2 from this project will be utilized in part for enhanced oil recovery in the Halten oil field, in [...]