CANBERRA Nike Air Force 1 , April 23 (Xinhua) -- A new material that prevents plastic from aging has been developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), offering huge environmental and cost savings for the energy industry, CSIRO said Wednesday.


When applied to plastic lining, this new material can clean up exhaust gases from power plants much more effectively than existing methods.


Currently, the techniques industry use to separate out raw materials such as gases, liquids and solids are extremely energy- intensive Cheap Air Force 1 , accounting for 40 percent of the world's energy use each year.


According to lead author Dr Sam Lau, the new technique offers a solution that will make the separation process a staggering 50 times faster.


Lau said at the moment power generators rely on plastic linings made up of tiny holes just one nanometre wide, a tiny fraction of a width of a human hair.


For decades, scientists have been trying to improve the efficiency of this process by using plastics with larger holes. However, these larger openings tend to age very quickly and collapse within a matter of days.


"What we've done is make use of incredible compact materials known as Metallic Organic Frameworks, or MOFs Air Force 1 Sale , which have the surface area of a football field in just one gram."


"We found that the density of the MOFs acts like a shot of botox and actually freezes the larger holey structures in place for an entire year."


This suddenly makes the lining with larger holes a viable option for industry, allowing them to complete separation processes at 50 times the speed.


"This is a much more environmentally friendly approach and of course translates into huge cost and efficiency savings for the companies who take this up," Lau said.


According to Lau, not only does the technique have incredible potential for cleaning up exhaust gases from power plants, it could also be used to enhance the purity of natural gas streams, the separation of water from alcohols Air Force 1 Shoes , a key process in biofuel synthesis and for dye removal in the textile industry.


"We're extremely excited by this discovery and hope to see it being applied commercially within one to two years," he said.


LISBON, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Portuguese Judiciary Police (PJ) have seized 450 kilograms of cocaine from a yacht sailing off the coast of the city of Setubal, about 30km south of Lisbon, according to a statement on the PJ website on Friday.


The drugs were seized in the early hours of Friday morning and two "foreign" men were arrested in the operation carried out in partnership with the National Republican Guard, the Portuguese Air Force and Setubal Criminal Investigation Department Air Force 1 Ultra , the PJ said.


"This operation, which had the cooperation of the GNR Coastal Control Unit, the Portuguese Air Force and the Setubal Criminal Investigation department, is part of a vaster framework to identify, combat and dismantle organized crime networks that have been using this modus operandi to bring cocaine into the European Continent, using leisure yachts usually from South America and the Caribbean to transport it Air Force 1 Low ," the statement said.


The suspects, who were arrested on a Belgium-registered vessel, will be questioned this afternoon, the PJ noted.


On 10 Sept. the PJ seized 1.3 tons of cocaine with an estimated street value of 80 million euros, and arrested three men in the Algarve region, some 280km south of Lisbon Air Force 1 High , as part of an international operation in coordination with Spanish police.


BEIJING, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Less fireworks were set off across China in the Lunar New Year, banned in many places, over air pollution concerns.


Two thirds of people polled in 35 major Chinese cities last year by the center for public opinion research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University were in favor of fireworks bans at Spring Festival.


Public concern over air quality means people routinely check air quality and wear masks; many own air purifiers. Air quality only improved marginally last year in the area around Beijing, data from the Ministry of Environmental Protection suggests. In Shanghai, fireworks are banned completely downtown Air Force 1 Mid , and firework purchases require real name registration to track violators.


A total of 138 cities in China have banned fireworks while another 536 cities have curbs in place, according to the Ministry of Public Security.


The bans have made sanitation workers' life easier. They cleaned up 80 percent less firework waste in Shanghai this year.


In nearby Hangzhou, host city of this year's G20 summit, fireworks have been banned for the whole year and police have offered rewards for reporting any sales, storage, transportation or lighting of fireworks.


Still Air Force 1 Lv8 , there are people concerned that the ban kills off a harmless tradition. While fireworks may add to air pollution, some are calling firework makers to develop more environmentally friendly alternatives.


Panda Fireworks, one of the country's biggest firework makers, said its traditional business has been hit badly by the ever expanding ban.


The company said in June last year that it had began operating a P2P lending platform as part of a transition plan to reduce reliance on its firework manufacturing business.


Panda fireworks told Xinhua that it is developing fireworks that produce less smoke and sulphur to reduce the environmental impact. Some new products went on the market this year and were well received.


Lin Qiang, a business man in the eastern city of Wenzhou, said his firework budget for the Spring Festival this year shrank from over 3 Air Force 1 ,000 yuan of stunning fireworks to just 100 yuan of firecrackers for his kids.


"I'm thinking more about the environment and safety this year," he said.




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