Many people remember disastrous ocean oil spills such as the 1989 Exxon Valdez supertanker incident in Alaska, and of course the 2010 BP drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A major part of the problem is that cleanup becomes…
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University of Alberta mechanical engineering researchers have shown that a simple glass surface can be made to repel oil underwater. This has huge implications for development of a chemical repellent technology for use in cleaning up oil spills. At the…
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Bigger challenges need bigger solutions. In an academic environment, that can mean pulling together a team of researchers dispersed across a campus, a country, or the entire world. “If I’m able to solve the problem myself I shouldn’t be working…
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Carbon-dioxide emissions created by the combustion of oil, coal and natural gas account for 90 per cent of human-caused CO2 emissions each year. Without a determined effort to curtail or contain those emissions, the global warming implications could be dire.…
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