Plant to Make Clean Power from Turkey Droppings
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Turkey leftovers will take on a whole new use after a Minnesota company finishes construction of a power plant fired by the birds' droppings.
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By Ken Dey, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Jun. 13--Washington Group International will help design what backers are calling the nation's first coal-fueled, near-zero-emissions electric power plant.
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Robert Stec would like to help clean up the nation's dirty air, but at &#36;1 million a plant to install air-pollution control technology, it would be cheaper for him to move his furniture manufacturing business overseas.
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A Balinese project uses low-wattage electrical current to stimulate the regrowth of a badly damaged coral reef. It's the world's largest coral nursery ever built using this technology, in an area where most of the world's coral species live.
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A solar cell made with spinach has been developed that promises electronic devices incorporating photosynthesis, the highly efficient process plants use to produce energy from sunlight.
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EU adopts green energy plan.Plus: Robotic salamander sides with evolution.... President Bush says go solar? And more.
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Many plants can naturally clean chemically contaminated soil and groundwater. Researchers are now helping them do a quicker, better job of rehabbing polluted sites.
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The smell of smoked turkey from the LSK Smoked Turkey Products plant is a nuisance to some residents of the Bronx.
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TISZAKESZI, Hungary - This summer the cardinals at the Vatican accepted an unusual donation from a Hungarian start-up called KlimaFa: The company said it would plant trees to restore an ancient forest on a denuded island by the Tisza River to offset the Vatican's carbon emissions.
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Environmental advocates question the earth-friendliness of burning turkey waste to generate electricity.
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Another small, eco-friendly business is scooped up by a corporation.
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Science & environment: Plastic pipes could pump water to bring up nutrients.
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Greenhouse gases bagged Dell has brought is carbon-confounding Plant a Tree For Me scheme to Europe, allowing buyers to make a small donation an help counter the emissions arising from keeping their computers powered up.â¦
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Tyson Foods Inc.  and Syntroleum Corp.  are set to announce plans for a $150 million plant that would turn fat from Tyson plants into fuel, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Monday.
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Monsanto and BASF team up to grow better plants.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb. 12--Flip a switch and the lights come on -- no thinking required. But think about what happens on the other end of that switch. To generate some of the power for that light, it takes a plant burning coal miles away.
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By WALTER C. JONES  ATLANTA - An innovative company from the West has chosen the pine forests of Southeast Georgia as the location for the country's first plant to process pine scraps into ethanol, the alternative fuel mostly distilled from Midwestern corn.