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Airbus and South Africa’s National Aerospace Centre will jointly fund research by Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners. The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility.

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A research collaboration between South Africa-based Sasol and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) has led to the commissioning of high-tech equipment to gain better insights into the properties and performance of synthetic diesel fuels.

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and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits) signed an exclusive representation agreement to commercialize the Fischer-Tropsch-based fuel and chemical production process developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) located at The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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MARCH 17, 2009

Water consumption or withdrawals per unit of energy produced, by energy type, in the United States. With increasing frequency ,” write the Pacific Institute researchers, “ we value energy production over water production. ”. by Jack Rosebro. Source: DHI Group. Click to enlarge. Climate change.

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MARCH 25, 2020

New research led by the University of Washington (UW) is the first to measure this phenomenon’s effect over years and at a regional scale. The new study uses observations from 2003 to 2015 in spring, the cloudiest season, over the shipping route between Europe and South Africa. Michael Diamond/University of Washington.

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JULY 29, 2023

The IEEE member from Kigali, Rwanda, participated in installing portable sinks in nearby rural markets to curb the spread of COVID-19 and provided clean water and sanitation services to people displaced by the Mount Nyiragongo volcano eruption in 2021. She also got involved in organizing conferences in Africa.

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Anond Snidvongs, Chulalongkorn University and Southeast Asia START Regional Research Center, Thailand; Gordon McBean, University of Western Ontario, Canada. Adapting to Climate Change: Protecting Water Resources in West Africa and Canada. Sauchyn, University of Regina, Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. The nature of the fermentation process dictates that fermentation products are dilute, comprised primarily of water.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. The reaction heat of the exothermal reactions is used in the newly developed reactors to generate steam from boiler feed water, which is then utilized as an energy source for the process.

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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The soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere, including major portions of Australia, Africa and South America, have been drying up in the past decade, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. —Beverly Law, a professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University. Jung et al.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Maps of land available for bioenergy production under one of the scenario 4 in US, Europe, China, India, South America, and Africa. Under any of the projections, Africa has more than one third, and Africa and South America have more than half of the total land available for biofuel production. water for refinery industry).

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Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. Rip currents are dangerous phenomena that can pull swimmers into deep water. University of California, Santa Cruz. Bayhan, who lives in ?zmit, Kerem Bayhan. The invention earned her $400.

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The analysis also indicated that emissions varied by region: New hydropower facilities in Western Europe were estimated to have near-zero climate impacts, whereas those in Western Africa yielded climate impacts greater than coal and natural gas plants over all timescales. —Ocko and Hamburg (2019).

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Dr Richard Betts, Head of Climate Impacts at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, presented the findings at a special conference called “ 4 degrees and beyond ” at Oxford University. For the UK, topics will include water scarcity, farming and forestry, and adaptation.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The European Union (EU) market, which is home to about 30% of algae activity, will be limited initially by the industry’s focus on university research, and later by insufficient access to water, land, and nutrient sources. Ultimately, algae potential is greatest in regions where there is an abundance of land, water, and sunlight.

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Nexen has major positions in three of the world’s most significant conventional basins: the UK North Sea, Offshore West Africa and the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. CNOOC Limited will continue to support oil sands research at Alberta universities and participate in the Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA).

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JULY 19, 2021

They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but they’re not generating electricity—especially in developing countries. This kind of turbine, you don’t need to flood large areas,” says Michael Craig , an energy systems researcher at the University of Michigan , and formerly of NREL. .

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Oyster is fitted with an 18m-wide oscillator based on fundamental research at Queen’s University Belfast led by Professor Trevor Whittaker. The oscillator is fitted with pistons and, when activated by wave action, pumps high-pressure water through a sub-sea pipeline to the shore. The Oyster prototype. Click to enlarge. Ronan Doherty.

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This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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IBM is opening its 12 th global research lab, and its first in Africa. IBM Research - Africa will have its first location in Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration between the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) through the Kenya ICT Board. Operations at IBM Research - Africa will commence immediately.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Dan Fisher of the University of Glasgow, who has published on SIVE. For more than a decade, European courts have documented and declared illegal routine European state border agency actions that include navy vessels pushing migrant boats back into international waters and abandoning them there. Member States,” says geographer.

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The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., Indian Ocean sea levels are rising unevenly and threatening residents in some densely populated coastal areas and islands, a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience concludes.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

Water : The UNFCCC estimate of US$11 billion excluded costs of adapting to floods and assumes no costs for transferring water within nations from areas of surplus to areas of deficit. The study concludes that, with such levels of adaptation, about 80% of the cost of potential impacts might be avoided, but about 20% might not.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

Strengthened land-use/transport planning, codes and enforcement; for example, ensuring universal access to safe cycling and pedestrian routes and to rapid transit/public transport for basic routines. million deaths annually are due to physical inactivity.

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The metabolism of a city can be interpreted either primarily in terms of energy flows or more broadly including a city’s flows of water, materials, and nutrients. Authors of the study included: Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto. Julia Steinberger, University of Klagenfurt. Barrie Gasson, University of Cape Town.

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JUNE 14, 2014

By tracing their evolutionary lineages and expression in woody tissues we defined a core set of genes as well as novel lignin-building candidates that are highly expressed in the development of xylem—the woody tissue that helps channel water throughout the plant—which serves to strengthen the tree. —Alexander Myburg.

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MARCH 28, 2009

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa and Rutgers University are proposing new Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) reaction chemistry and process designs that they say could increase F-T process efficiency and reduce CO 2 emissions by 15% compared to the conventional process. Credit: Adapted by P.

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Partially funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the working group is co-led by Jessica Hellmann and Jason McLachlan of the University of Notre Dame, Dov Sax of Brown University, and Mark Schwartz of the University of California at Davis.

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However, the report notes, renewable energy price improvements are not universal, and costs range widely according to resources and the availability of financing. kWh in Africa. In the IRENA report, all LCOE results are calculated using a fixed assumption of a cost of capital of 7.5% Source: IRENA. Click to enlarge.

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This development is a significant step towards the implementation of CO 2 hydrogenation technology in South Africa. The synthesis gas is then reacted over a suitable FT catalyst, to produce hydrocarbons and water. Sasol’s suite of cobalt catalysts is highly efficient for the latter process.

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Green hydrogen generated by water electrolysis, a process that takes place without CO 2 emissions, has the advantage of being able to use the existing capillary gas infrastructure. Italy could import hydrogen from North Africa, at cost 14% below domestic production.

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In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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But sulfate aerosols—the combination of particles and water—can destroy the planet-protecting ozone layer. Faye McNeill’s group at Columbia University. In 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines, it created a haze of particles so dense that it temporarily cooled the planet by. about 0.6 °C. candidate in V.

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Some offset projects may provide further benefits, such as: (a) the promotion of sustainable development; (b) improvements in air or water quality; (c) the creation of new domestic and international economic opportunities; and (d) the incentivization of innovation as parties seek new methods of generating offsets. CCX, “ CCX Offsets Program.

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February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people.

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