Oilfield filter socks, used to filter wastewater at drilling sites, have turned up in some odd corners of North Dakota, including a roadside, an Indian Reservation, a city garbage can, and tucked under other waste trucked to landfills.
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by Jeff McMahon Corporations exploit yoga, goes the refrain. They make decisions for profit motives that conflict with yogic principles. They divorce yoga from its philosophy and ethics. They take only one of Patanjali’s eight limbs—asana—and turn…
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz wants electric-vehicle drivers to know how much money they save by cruising past the gas pumps, so the U.S. Department of Energy unveiled the eGallon last month—a calculation of the gasoline-equivalent cost to drive an…
A few years ago, I studied tai-chi with a Buddhist teacher who was, like me, a writer and a teacher of writing. After class one evening I asked her, “How has your practice affected your writing?” “It stopped it!” she said. “In Buddhism, there is no…
by Jeff McMahon I’ve always mistrusted money. That mistrust has helped me steer clear of compromising jobs and situations all my life, but it’s also helped me steer clear of prosperity. It was the voice I heeded when I decided to become a writer.…
What were you thinking the moment you were born? There was sudden light, a painful rush of sensation—maybe it was cold, maybe it was dry, maybe you were slapped—and then you felt the thrill of doing something for the first time that your body was…
Toyota engineers have been driving hydrogen fuel-cell hybrid vehicles around Japan since 2007, so the United States, which deemphasized hydrogen as a vehicle fuel during the early years of the Obama Administration, has some catching up to…
About 10 percent of electricity in the United States is fueled by enriched uranium originally produced in Russia for nuclear warheads, according to the National Nuclear Security Administration, which announced last week this fuel source will be used…
Researchers found higher than expected levels of radioactive iodine at a Long Island sewer plant that receives effluent from the thyroid cancer treatment center at Stony Brook University, they report in the latest issue of Health Physics.
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• Cheap Gas Spurred Exelon To Cancel Nuclear Upgrades, Exec Says
Cheap natural gas has not only made new nuclear plants unfeasible, an Exelon executive said in Chicago Thursday, but has undermined Exelon's plans to upgrade its existing fleet.
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