Tag: science

June 21, 2013 0

Lester Leaps In

By News Desk

Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional. His colleagues are smart, but they have a curious inability to see the holes that they dig for themselves

June 12, 2013 0

Oxidation of CO

By News Desk

First part of an occasional series Oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO) to carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a vital last step in combustion and the atmospheric degradation of just about any hydrocarbon.  It is slow, taking about two months in the troposphere, but the lifetime is not really slow, like methane (5-10 years) or like forever in the troposphere like the chloroflorocarbons.