New Tech Harvests Reservoir Logs
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years &#151; converting wood to mineral.
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Gordon Wassenaar has his eye  on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he  repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just  bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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Rollo, they are taking old plastic and turning it into backyard equipment.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.
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Technology has unlocked more oil from old fields, challenging forecasts that reserves are drying out.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 19--TENINO -- Plans to log the hillside above the historic quarry swimming pool have some residents and city officials in this south county community on edge.
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A new Âgas gaugeÂ chip for laptop batteries provide much more accurate readouts of time left.
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Sensors will be used to relay data to medical files.
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By Rogers, Shane W; Ong, Say Kee; Stenback, Greg A; Golchin, Johanshir; Kjartanson, Bruce H  ABSTRACT:  Expedited site characterization and groundwater monitoring using direct-push technology and conventional monitoring wells were conducted at a former manufactured gas plant site.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 14  /PRNewswire/ -- With oil and gas drilling activity in Pennsylvania on a record-setting pace for the third consecutive year, the Department of Environmental Protection is mobilizing staff and resources to provide prompt and effective reviews of incoming permits.
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This top-of-the-line equipment blurs the line between hunting and military operations.
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Finding the wreck of a 19th-century steamer in Florida has taken special technology and the results have been extraordinary.
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A vast new energy supply in hard-to-tap older oil fields may be generated simply by feeding fertilizer to some deep-dwelling, gas-making microbes, new research suggests.
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MIT researchers produce a tiny water-skimming robot prototype they think could monitor water supplies for toxins or skim contaminants off the top of water.
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By Ellyn Pak, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Feb. 6--The drilling of two holes in the Cleveland National Forest began  Monday to test if 646 millions gallons of water can be transported daily  through a tunnel between Riverside and Orange counties.