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JULY 14, 2023

Precautions taken due to the fuel’s inherent characteristics include the construction of a custom-built cold hall, which can contain ammonia vapor in the unlikely event of a leak with the activation of a water screen. The ammonia engine R&D project started in 2019 with a pre-study and investigation of ammonia combustibility.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Japanese authorities have been pumping that water into a vast array of tanks on-site: currently over a thousand tanks, and adding around one new tank per week. Now, Japanese authorities are preparing to release that water into the Pacific Ocean. Before they do that, they'll treat the water to cleanse it of radioactive contaminants.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Energetics Technology Center will build upon past successes with co-deposition experiments using palladium, lithium, and heavy water together to create an environment in which LENR can occur. CATHODE (CATHode scintillatOr Detector for Electrochemistry) - $1,500,000. Quantifying Nuclear Reactions in Metal Hydrides at Low Energies - $1,500,000.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

My work with environmental chemistry focuses on the interaction of gases with organic compounds present in low water activity environments such as the atmospheric aerosol, clouds and fog. Guzman and his students will study how these pollutants are transformed on surfaces by oxidizing atmospheric gases. —Prof.

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JULY 20, 2018

Using a variety of instruments which measured atmospheric chemistry and the molecular priorities of newly formed aerosols, NPF events were recorded in two surveys between March 2014 and February 2016. —Yao et al.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

These additional acidic sites on each hydrophilic side chain provide additional protons for the proton transport and allow for the formation of larger water channels. The water management in the PFIA membrane is of interest, since it is crucial for the performance of the fuel cell: in order to function it needs to be humid but never wet.

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MAY 22, 2012

Resource managers now have a method to determine the source of oil found in the waters off Southern California and differentiate between naturally seeped oils and those produced by offshore oil and gas production. Other platform oils need to go through a more extensive biomarker analysis to distinguish them from natural seepage.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

A study lead by researchers at Rice University suggests that current approaches to manage the vapor intrusion risk into buildings in the vicinity of conventional fuel spills might need to be modified when dealing with some higher ethanol blend fuel (i.e., The study is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Tesla held an open-door event in Grünheide on Sunday, September 11. At Sunday’s event , the company talked to local employees about Giga Berlin’s water usage and the factory’s environmental and water protection protocols. Giga Berlin Water Consumption. Currently, Giga Berlin consumes about 2.2

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Organic compounds detected in the two deep monitoring wells (purple and orange bars) during the last sampling event. EPA also re-tested private and public drinking water wells in the community. EPA began investigating water quality concerns in private drinking water wells three years ago at the request of Pavillion residents.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

FEV is developing a water injection system for internal combustion engines using condensate from exhaust gases, the “Extended Direct Condensate Injection” system. If water injection is used in addition to homogeneous lean combustion, an efficiency gain of 4.5% in the region of the minimum specific fuel consumption is achieved.

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AUGUST 29, 2021

This means its peaker plants already play a pivotal role, coming online each evening when the sun goes down or when events such as heat waves drive up electricity use for days at a time. The researchers believe studies like theirs could help key energy stakeholders make better-informed decisions.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Previous studies reported that exposure to small amounts of 6PPD-quinone (median lethal concentration (LC 50 ) of. Conversely, another study indicated that zebrafish and Japanese medaka can withstand even very high amounts of 6PPD-quinone. The LC 50 s in brook trout (24 h) and rainbow trout (72 h) were 0.59 g/L, respectively.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A team from the University of Illinois, Urbana and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (EMRE) has identified regions in the United States where bioenergy crops would grow best while minimizing effects on water quantity and quality. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Credit: ACS, Atul Jain.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Collaborators from 22 countries report that more than 80% of surveyed corals bleached and more than 40% of the total surveyed died, making this the most severe bleaching event ever recorded in the basin. The study appears in PLoS ONE , an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication.

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MAY 19, 2012

Pollution warms the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study by a team of researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Maryland published in Geophysical Research Letters. Generally, the top of the cloud spreads out like an anvil.

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MAY 6, 2020

announced positive results from an independent feasibility study conducted on its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario, Canada. The study contemplates expanding the existing facility and adapting it to be North America’s first producer of cobalt sulfate, an essential component in the manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles.

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APRIL 1, 2021

The prize was launched during NextGen Geo, a live virtual event uniting geothermal industry professionals, geosciences students, and clean energy entrepreneurs for a series of panel discussions on hot topics related to geothermal and renewable energy. Advancements that reduce energy and water consumption rates.

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JUNE 8, 2011

The international study could have implications for the air quality of fast-growing coastal cities in the United States and other mid-latitude regions overseas—the proliferation of strip malls, subdivisions, and other paved areas may interfere with breezes needed to clear away smog and other pollution.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

A new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns concludes that extreme rainfall will increase in the future. Previous studies have shown that average annual precipitation will increase in both the deep tropics and in temperate zones, but will decrease in the subtropics.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

A new study utilizing extreme value theory (EVT) reports no evidence for uniformly increasing trends in rainfall extremes averaged over the entire Indian region. Extreme value theory , used in science, engineering, insurance and risk management, provides a theoretical foundation for building statistical models describing extreme events.

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MAY 31, 2017

A joint study by Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) and Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) into 48V diesel mild hybrid technology verified a 9% reduction of NO x in raw engine-out emissions, while retaining the fuel economy and CO 2 benefits of diesel engine technology. —Paul Bloore.

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MARCH 25, 2024

If we can observe these events better, we will have an opportunity to react by making the world safer and cleaner for humans. This can help scientists better understand the structure and composition of celestial bodies as well as detect water on other planets. This information can be used to determine if these planets are habitable.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

In a new study, KPMG International has identified 10 “megaforces” that will significantly affect corporate growth globally over the next two decades. Water Scarcity: Water scarcity for many businesses can be a major risk to growth and development. Click to enlarge. billion by 2032.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The work, made possible by the ultrafast, ultrabright X-ray pulses at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is a breakthrough in studying atomic-scale transformations in photosynthesis and other biological and industrial processes that depend on catalysts, which efficiently speed up reactions.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Funded by the SEQ Urban Water Security Research Alliance, the study’s findings were published recently in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate. Up until the drought breaking 2010 La Niña event, the SEQ water storage level dropped to below 20%, the lowest level on record since data collection began in 1890.

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MAY 23, 2022

The open-access study , published in Nature , reveals an unexpected volatile reaction between nitric acid, sulfuric acid, and ammonia, synergistically creating new particles at a rapid rate. After learning about the former study, Mingyi Wang, a Ph.D. Ammonia is convected upward during events like the Asian monsoon. Bertozzi, B.

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APRIL 7, 2023

We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Unitree ] ORNL researchers study the effects of energy use on waterways and develop solutions to limit water pollution. B-Human ] A motion platform is just an upside-down quadruped robot.

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JUNE 12, 2011

A new study led by the US Geological Survey (USGS) suggests that snowpack declines in the Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years are unusual compared to the past few centuries. anthropogenic warming by decadal variability.Together these events. regional water supplies. The paper is published in Science. —Pederson et al.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

National Science Foundation —holds what are termed visioning events, wherein IEEE members and hundreds of other experts from academia, industry, and nonprofits can conceptualize bold ideas. Reports from recent visioning events are slated to be released to the public in the next few months. “The

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

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. Data indeed show that some areas are wetter than they used to be. —Jung et al. Jung et al.

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Yet governments have pledged to keep warming below two degrees to avoid the most dangerous aspects of climate change such as widespread water stress and sea level rise, and increases in extreme climatic events. Taking action to reverse current trends is urgent.

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JUNE 17, 2012

Schematic diagram of a shale gas well following hydraulic fracture treatment, with the relative depths of local water wells shown for scale. Earthquakes attributable to human activities are called “induced seismic events” or “induced earthquakes.” Source: NAS, adapted from Southwestern Energy Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 12, 2019

A) Water is injected at high pressure through damaged zones and weak layers, (B) crack branching initiates due to the presence of damaged zones and natural fractures, and (C) dense cracking happens in all directions, due to the presence of dam-aged zones, weak layers at closed natural fractures.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Microfractures in metal alloys, though impossible to see with the naked eye, can easily spread when exposed to water or hydrogen and lead to major problems in structures such as bridges, electrochemical and nuclear plants and hydrogen storage containers, leading to failures and expensive repairs.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

Given increasing emissions of CO 2 and the subsequent increased absorption by the oceans, ocean acidity could increase by 150% by 2050, according to a major new review and synthesis study released by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). —Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Climate change is already affecting the region, as shown by the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods and tropical cyclones in recent decades, the report notes. of combined gross domestic product (GDP) each year by 2100, more than twice the projected global average loss.

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