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What is the difference between Waste Disposal Services and Waste heat?
I came across these two terms and not sure if they could more or less be considered the same thing.
wikipedia defines it as:
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process
that ...
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Why is the energy transition start not reflected in the CO2 concentration graphs?
This is a graph from a reputable source of CO2 concentrations in atmosphere the last decades:
I would expect that, as we have been using clean energy for some years now, the graph would start to ...
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What are the major factors of energy coming into and leaving the Earth?
Earth is a very special goldilocks planet which somehow maintains a useful thermal range for life.
In order to do this, it must have some function of absorbing and releasing energy. If it absorbed ...
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How are we going to handle oxygen shortage problem arising due to massive usage of current fossil fuel combustion and future Hydrogen fuel cell tech?
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The current corona pandemic has created a situation where in order to save lives, there is a huge huge requirement for ...
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What is oldest known coal source?
I read coal form in all geologic times but what is oldest know coal source?
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Tidal current energy chart - Messina Strait
I am a student in industrial engineering, and I am doing a business plan related to exploiting Messina Strait current for electrical energy.
Does anyone have a tidal stream chart (either with velocity ...
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What part does methane play in the process of producing biogas?
I should point out first that I don't know the first thing about environmental science, I study mathematics, and the reason I am asking this question is because I want to understand the processes ...
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What is the most expensive project related to Earth's geology and/or to engineering geology on the Earth? [closed]
Costs related to space exploration are well documented.
However, what about the costs of Earth projects like dam/mines/tunnels?
What has been the most expensive projects? I know that nuclear power ...
