Tag Archives: Environment

Fly the Clean Skies

Next week, Qantas Airlines will use cooking oil to power a flight from Sydney to Adelaide, in what will be Australia’s first biofuel-powered commercial flight. On April 13, the Airbus A330 test will consist of a “drop-in” fuel, meaning that the biofuel (cooking oil) will be mixed with conventional jet fuel, and will run in [...]

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The Future of Energy

The 7th Annual MIT Energy Conference held March 16-17 in Boston, MA, was an all-around inspiring event filled with conversations of hot topic scientific research and intense policy discussion. It was impressive, considering this event is entirely planned and executed by the student body, with well over 500 in attendance. From the scientific prowess of [...]

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Happiness

Environmental correlates of happiness

Happiness is the feeling everybody searches for the most. It sometimes seems unattainable and ureachable but people never stop fighting for it. Many things can influence a person’s happiness to a smaller or a greater extent. Basics: Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety [...]

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Car batteries–impact on environment

With cars being irreplaceable and indispensible parts of our lives their every-day usage brings up the question of their influence on our environment, to be more precise the impact of car batteries on the environment. Basics: An automotive battery is a type of rechargeable battery that supplies electric energy to an automobile. Usually this refers to an SLI battery (starting, lighting, ignition) to [...]

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