Green Car Congress
AUGUST 5, 2022
Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M and Stanford have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks. The low cost of porous melamine means that the material could be deployed widely.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
The process uses relatively little energy and a relatively cheap material—iron sulfide with a trace amount of molybdenum as an additive. Herein, we demonstrate a sulfur looping scheme in a one-reactor system using a low-cost and environmentally safe iron-based sulfur carrier. —Jangam et al.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2014
The two main components—the electrochemical conversion hardware through which the fluids are flowed (which sets the peak power capacity) and the chemical storage tanks (which set the energy capacity)—may be independently sized. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Researchers at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, with colleagues at the Université de Toulouse, France, have developed a process for the direct production of levulinates from cheap residual lignocellulosic biomass using an affordable homogeneous catalyst. A paper on their work is published in Fuel.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 14, 2010
And oil only seems cheap. We’re about to enact the “Home Star” and “Building Star” programs—putting people to work on “Cash for Caulkers” retrofits that will make buildings more comfortable and cut owners’ fuel costs. Cash for Conversions” will start by fixing many of our 100 million trucks, vans, and buses.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2015
Currently, renewable hydrogen may be produced from water by electrolysis with either low efficiency alkaline electrolyzers that suffer 50–65% losses, or by more efficient acidic electrolyzers using expensive rare platinum group metal catalysts (Pt). 2 , equivalent to ~10% solar photoelectrical conversion efficiency. Click to enlarge.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Electrocatalysts are needed for the conversion between chemical energy (bonds such as the H–H bond of hydrogen) and electricity in future systems for the storage and use of energy. Electricity is produced from the oxidation of hydrogen in low-temperature fuel cells, but the best catalyst is platinum, a precious metal of low abundance.
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