Sustainable Technologies

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Sep 5 2018

BioLEC: A way to power the world with plants and industrial waste

In June [2018], the U.S. Department of Energy made an announcement that seemed fairly banal—it set aside $100 million this year to fund 22 new Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) and renew several others. One of them, a new lab at Princeton […]

Aug 4 2013

A look at Omega’s living sewage treatment plant

In a large greenhouse two hours north of New York City, banana trees, flowers, and other tropical plants grow amid frogs, fish and burbling waters. Outside, bullrushes and cattails wave in the Hudson Valley breeze. Each year, more than 20,000