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Pitt engineers using membrane distillation to recycle water used in fracking and drilling

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Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are using membrane distillation technology to enable drillers to filter and reuse the produced water in the oil and gas industry, in agriculture, and other beneficial uses. The method is already being tested in Texas, North Dakota, and most recently in New Stanton, Pa.

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Researchers suggest that air quality tests need simplifying to help reduce dangerous emissions

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The production of air pollution from motor vehicles, industrial power plants, and fossil fuel emissions are determined by complex chemical reactions. The researchers compared current techniques used to describe atmospheric chemical reactions against more historical techniques. We consider this to be a “bottom-up” approach,” says Stockwell.

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As Tesla waits for Giga Berlin’s final approval, critics reiterate water supply concerns

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Despite this commitment, Giga Berlin critics have so far been steadfast in the notion that there is not enough water in the area to accommodate the electric vehicle production facility. Irina Engelhardt, the head of the hydrogeology department at Berlin’s Technical University, described the issue.

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Study finds methane leaks from three large US natural gas fields in line with EPA estimates

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We are beginning to get a sense of regional variation in methane emissions from natural gas production. The gas fields we studied for this paper produced about 20% of the natural gas in the United States, and more than half the shale gas, so this moves us closer to understanding methane leaks from US natural gas production.

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Sustainable Weather Balloon Wins Student a $10,000 Scholarship

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The scholarship is administered on behalf of IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. In comparison to launching 2,000 to 5,000 balloons that stay up for just two to three hours, my balloon can stay up in the air for 52 days.” He added GPS to track his radiosonde in real time.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. By comparison, realized capacity in a graphite/copper composite anode is only ~ 150 mAh g -1. —Kreder et al.

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Consortium proposes large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICCM) as solution to global energy, food, and climate issues

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Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues. —Greene et al.

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