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What Is A Rammed Earth Home?
Image via Wikipedia Rammed earth homes are edifices with the walls that are built from a mixture of sand and clay. A mixture of sand and clay is poured into “forms” (molds) to build the walls. A building made with rammed earth is typically constructed on-site, using locally available sand, earth, water, clay, and a [...]
Could Landfills and City Sewage Be Utilized to Create Energy Rather Than Just Create More Pollution?
Image by ecosan via Flickr Landfills and sewage plants presently just add pollution to the environment, despite brave attempts to contain the damage they render. They are also an almost completely untapped source of “Biogas ” that could help society meet it’s energy needs. What Is Biogas? Biogas is primarily contains methane and carbon dioxide. [...]