MORGANTOWN — For more than a century, coal mining has provided the basis of industry for small-town West Virginia. But an unseen downside of this extraction appears below the surface,
MORGANTOWN — For more than a century, coal mining has provided the basis of industry for small-town West Virginia. But an unseen downside of this extraction appears below the surface,
A WVU researcher is studying a plant that can help restore surface mine lands by creating missing topsoil and capturing carbon out of the air and storing it underground. The above ground plants can also be used as biomass which can be turned into biofuels or even particle board.
Interesting Engineering interviewed two researchers who demonstrated that growing the grass miscanthus can completely decarbonize the aviation industry.