From Green Right Now Reports
As long as the world is busy refining crude oil for gasoline and other petroleum products, it may as well try to maximize the benefits from the process.
That’s the aim of “cogeneration” plants, such as the newest one put into action by ExxonMobil in Antwerp, Belgium. The refinery there will capture heat from the refining process to generate electricity, “cogenerating” or making dual use of the refining process, according to a press release.
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Ho, ho — hold it, a Death Map?
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Need a break from all the seasonal cheer? Researchers at the University of South Carolina have delivered this for the holidays: a detailed “Death Map” showing the weather that’s likeliest to kill us in whatever part of the U.S. we’ve decided to call home.
Happy Hanukkah! Merry Christmas!
The map, kidding aside, [...]
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