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🌱 Filling abandoned oil and gas wells with bio-oil made from plant-based leftovers like 🌽 corn stalks and 🌲 forest debris could help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, returning carbon underground in deep shafts once used to extract it.

The emerging practice, the focus of a recent study by an Iowa State University research team led by mechanical engineering professor Mark Mba Wright , has a two-birds-one-stone appeal.

“On the one hand, you have these underutilized waste products. On the other hand, you have abandoned oil wells that need to be plugged. It’s an abundant resource meeting an urgent demand,” Mba-Wright said.

Read more: https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/bio-oil-made-corn-stalks-wood-debris-could-plug-orphaned-fossil-fuel-wells

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Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering

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Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering Position Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the College of Engineering at Iowa State University (ISU), invites applications for th...

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