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By Bill Lucia, Seattle Crosscut Some of the Seattle Steam Company’s equipment looks like scenery pulled from a factory-set in an old silent film. In the company’s two buildings on Western Avenue near Union Street, there are tangles of pipe, wall-clock-sized gauges, groaning boilers, foot-long wrenches and a fiery furnace incinerating wood pulp. Outside, a tall black smokestack […]

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Originally published on CleanTechnica A new, relatively low-temperature means of creating liquid fuels from common plastic waste has been developed by researchers from the Centurion University of Technology and Management, and the National Institute of Technology, both in India. The new process utilizes a common waste material, low-density polyethylene (LDPE), to produce an effective oil-substitute […]

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In 2011, Centurylink Field became home to Washington’s largest solar array. The Solyndra solar panels click into place and capture light from all directions rather than just one which is great for those typical overcast days. The solar array spans the area of two football fields on top of the CenturyLink Field Event Center, generating more than 800,000 […]

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The cup that holds your morning coffee is a seemingly simple item to be used and discarded. It probably hasn’t changed much over the years. No big deal, except that Americans go through 137 billion disposable beverage cups each, generating a tremendous amount of waste. That looks like a huge opportunity toMicroGREEN Polymers, a company […]

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