Boyan Slat, a 20-year-old inventor from the Netherlands, has developed an innovative system to clean up oceans of plastic debris! The strong currents used to make it almost impossible to catch debris, but Boyan's idea is to build floating barriers on the surface of the water, which will remain motionless thanks to the anchors. The ocean currents...
240 km off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, where the sea depth exceeds 1600 m, a floating factory - the drilling platform EVA-4000, owned by Noble Jim Thompson - operates non-stop. This space age structure was created to search for treasure - oil. The giant oil platform is designed solely to...
Oil definitely has similarities with the precious metal, even though oil is liquid and gold is solid. Both oil and gold are minerals found in the bowels of the earth. To find and get them, you need to make a huge effort. Moreover, the number of both fossils is limited. Both oil and gold are non-renewable...
The ECONAD company develops and implements environmental technologies aimed at protecting the natural environment from oil pollution. Production of ecological products: Oil sorbents, "Econadin" oil and petroleum product sorbents, and oil and chemical sorbents; Bonnet barriers and barriers; Sorbent beans, wipes, and mats for collecting oil, materials for collecting oil and chemicals; Oil skimmers; "Econad" ecological first aid kits; Tanks for storing...
Oil is one of the most sought after minerals in the world. With its help, cars drive, trains fly and motors move. It would seem, what could be better and more useful? However, it is oil that causes an unprecedented appearance to the environment. The extraction of "black gold" from the bowels of the earth leads to...
Oil spills often have enormous environmental consequences, both immediate and long-term. The effects of the oil spill have been felt for decades. Oil spilled from damaged pipelines, tankers and production units destroys everything that it “touches”. Oil is carried over the surface of the water for many kilometers, and when it reaches the coastline, it...
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform is an accident that occurred on April 20, 2010, 80 kilometers from the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Macondo field. The oil spill that followed the accident became the largest in the history of the United States...
This oil is considered a real benchmark, the best oil in the world. This is due to the fact that the composition of such oil makes it possible to achieve maximum recovery of oil products from Brent oil. Such oil is produced in the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and southeast...
"Junk" energy: sludge. California produces 700,000 tons of dried sludge (insoluble deposits from steam boilers as sludge or in solid form) per year, from which about 10 million kWh of electricity per day can be produced. The University of Nevada, Reno, dries the sludge to make it combustible for a gasification process that turns it...
The geographical location and features of the transport infrastructure of the Odessa region have led to the intensive development of oil transshipment and oil refining enterprises in this region. At the same time, its functioning should be harmonized with the solution of the problems of preserving the unique recreational potential of the northwestern Black Sea...
