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Sarah Loftus
November 5, 2013March 10, 2014 Sarah Loftusenergy, PhD, student life, students

If You Build It, They Will Donate Electrons

What does it take to make your own simple microbial fuel cell? Find out what some students have been experimenting with in a Bioenergy course at Duke.

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Sarah Loftus
October 21, 2013March 10, 2014 Sarah LoftusPhD, student life, students

Composting Commences at the LSRC

One housemate armed herself with a can of fly repellent while another removed the small, covered trash bin from underneath our kitchen sink. She swiftly relocated the pungent bin of food waste to the frontContinue reading

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Sarah Loftus
October 8, 2013March 10, 2014 Sarah Loftusenergy, PhD, students, water

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Algae Food

Abundant waste sources can serve a new purpose and be used to grow algae for biofuels. This post lists a sample of some of these waste sources, have you heard of all of them?

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Sarah Loftus
October 1, 2013March 10, 2014 Sarah Loftusenergy, environmental health, events, human health, PhD, students, water

Becoming Informed About Fracking

My experience at Duke’s monthly Energy Mix, and how it prompted me to learn more about fracking and its current state in North Carolina.

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Sarah Loftus
September 21, 2013March 10, 2014 Sarah LoftusPhD, student life, students

Preface

A little about myself and why I’m excited to be blogging.

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About Sarah

Sarah is a PhD student in the University Program in Ecology within the Nicholas School. Her motivation for pursuing graduate research comes from a desire to develop practical solutions to environmental problems. Learn more >

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In “Fuel for Thought,” Sarah muses on the fields of sustainability and energy from environmental, scientific and engineering perspectives, and shares her experiences as a graduate student in the Nicholas School.

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