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UC Riverside team fabricates nanosilicon anodes for Li-ion batteries from waste glass bottles

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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to fabricate nanosilicon anodes for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. An open access paper describing the research was published in the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

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New light-driven photo-electrochemical cell produces hydrogen from contaminated gas, including air

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Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have developed an all-gas-phase solid and stand-alone photo-electrochemical (PEC) cell that produces hydrogen gas from volatile organic contaminated air and light. We use a small device with two rooms separated by a membrane. Verbruggen et al.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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Food waste is a huge problem, and there are a lot of people suffering from food insecurity in Pittsburgh,” Fang says. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. Fang left Harvard in 2017 to join Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor. CURRENT WORK.

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MIT researchers develop oxygen permeable membrane that converts CO2 to CO

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The energy input needed to keep the process going, Wu says, is heat, which could be provided by solar energy or by waste heat, some of which could come from the power plant itself and some from other sources. Essentially, the process makes it possible to store that heat in chemical form, for use whenever it’s needed. and Ghoniem, A.

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DOE issues FOA for up to $4M for development of advanced H2 storage systems and materials

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Most of the hydrogen that is used today is stored as a compressed gas (with pressures typically ranging from 150 to 700 bar) or a liquid (liquid storage requires cryogenic temperatures near 20 K). For 2017, the targets are 1.8 kWh/L (40 g H 2 /L); and $12/kWh ($400/kg H 2 stored). kWh/kg (5.5 kWh/kg (7.5 Click to enlarge.

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Construction on the four-story building, nicknamed the spaceship , was completed in 2017. Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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Most countries regards Gas as strategic and store plenty of the stuff to cover supply disruptions. Centrica closed the vast Rough storage facility in 2017 prompting concerns about gas pricing. Smart Meters waste. See report from the Guardian and Reuters. The cost of panels continues to slide.

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