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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

C-Zero’s technology, which was initially developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, uses innovative thermocatalysis to split methane into hydrogen and solid carbon in a process known as methane pyrolysis. Resources. The catalyst plays a crucial role in this process. Srilatha, D. Bhagawan, S. Shiva Kumar, V.

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APRIL 27, 2020

A comprehensive three-year scientific study into the air, water and soil impacts of hydraulic fracturing (HF) in coal seam gas (CSG) in Queensland, Australia has found little to no impacts on air quality, soils, groundwater and waterways. CSIRO scientist sets up a solar-powered air-quality-monitoring station in the Surat Basin, Queensland.

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JULY 8, 2014

After a critical review of the literature on the air impacts of increased natural gas acquisition, processing, and use, a team of US researchers has determined that that actual measurement data on various individual segments of the natural gas life cycle are sparse or critically lacking. jobs vs environmental stewardship). —Moore et al.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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JUNE 30, 2017

Cellulosic biofuels could provide an environmentally sustainable way of meeting energy needs—but with a few important caveats, according to a new review of research by a team from the US Department of Energy-funded Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC). Resources. Their paper is published in the journal Science.

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APRIL 14, 2021

But a new study led by Sujay Kaushal of the University of Maryland warns that introducing salt into the environment—whether it's for de-icing roads, fertilizing farmland or other purposes—releases toxic chemical cocktails that create a serious and growing global threat to our freshwater supply and human health.

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MAY 10, 2011

A study by Duke University researchers has found evidence of methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale-gas extraction via directional drilling and hydraulic-fracturing technologies. high levels of methane in well water collected near shale-gas drilling and hydrofracking sites. Source: Osborn et al.

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MAY 11, 2020

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are proposing a roadmap to renewable ammonia being produced in the future at a scale that is significant in terms of global fossil fuel use. The H-B process is no longer required; instead, the reaction is driven by electrochemical reduction and the H source is water. MacFarlane et al.

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APRIL 15, 2009

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has released the final external peer review documents regarding the proposed Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation. The four peer reviewers were: Linsey Marr, Virginia Tech. Denise Mauzerall, Princeton University. These included: Greenhouse gas modeling.

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DECEMBER 1, 2016

The GDL in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell provides a steady supply of gas to the catalyst layers, which are located on both sides of the ion exchange membrane and which convert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and water. W/cm 2 at 0.6 CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., 2011.12.148.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

The results of the study were published in the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Another study by Assoc Prof Salvo that was published in 2018 found that households consumed more water from the grid when exposed to air pollution. 40% of the developing world’s population live in the tropics, and PM 2.5

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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. Lorenson, T.D., Rosenbauer, R.J., Campbell, P.L., Hostettler, F.D., Greinert, J., Finlayson, D.P., Bradley, E.S.,

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JANUARY 24, 2018

South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007. An article on environmental mapping of biomass resources in the continental United States will also be published in that issue. The goal would be to replace 30% of the petroleum consumed in the United States with biofuels.

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JUNE 6, 2011

The five successful research teams were selected through a rigorous peer-review process. 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.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

University researchers also concluded that many reports of contamination can be traced to above-ground spills or other mishandling of wastewater produced from shale gas drilling, rather than from hydraulic fracturing per se, said Charles “Chip” Groat, an Energy Institute associate director who led the project. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials (in an edition focused on materials for sustainable energy), a team from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has reviewed milestones in the progress of solid-state photoelectrocatalytic technologies toward delivering solar fuels and chemistry. —Montoya et al.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A new report commissioned by Western Resource Advocates, a non-profit environmental law and policy organization, finds that oil shale’s Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is extremely low, falling between 1:1 and 2:1 when self-energy—the energy released by the oil shale conversion process that is used to power that operation—is counted as a cost.

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JULY 13, 2011

related to five topics: groundwater and surface water; biodiversity; land management; the marine environment; and. well as research purchasers and providers such as universities. the delivery of quality peer-reviewed and publicly available. available following review by CSIRO’s peer-review. socio-economic impacts.

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MAY 5, 2014

A new review of Li-air battery technology by a team from Argonne National Laboratory, Beijing Institue of Technology and Hanyang University focuses on the most critical issues that must be addressed for the successful development and commercialization of high energy density Li-air batteries. air batteries have been published.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Phillip Savage at the University of Michigan has found that with appropriate parameters, hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) can convert 65% of wet algae (a Nannochloropsis species) into biocrude in one minute. Biocrude from Nannochloropsis. Credit: Savage Lab. Click to enlarge. A team led by Prof. Faeth and Phillip E.

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DECEMBER 10, 2011

The report reviewed more than 300 studies on health outcomes from different types of land transport systems in a “scoping exercise” designed to identify those mitigation measures most closely associated with specific health co-benefits or risks. million deaths annually are due to physical inactivity.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The BMW Group and Toyota are consistent industry leaders, creating extremely positive Sustainable Value over the entire review period—i.e., they use all the economic, environmental and social resources considered in a value-creating way. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Prototype sodium silicate hydrogen generation system as presented earlier this year at DOE merit review. Sodium silicides rapidly liberate hydrogen from water (or water solutions) leaving sodium silicate, a benign common industrial chemical. NaSi and NaSG Powder Hydrogen Fuel Cells (SiGNa Chemistry, US DOE Merit Review 2009).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Pioneer Natural Resources Company; SWEPI LP (Shell); Southwestern Energy; Talisman Energy USA; and XTO Energy, an ExxonMobil subsidiary. During hydraulic fracturing, liquids that typically consist of water, sand and additives are injected at high pressure into low-permeability formations. Source: UT Austin. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

In October 2009, the RSC commissioned an expert panel comprising Canadian scientists ands chaired by Dr. Steve Hrudley, FRSC, Professor Emeritus, Analytical and Environmental Toxicology, University of Alberta. Impacts on the regional water supply. Impacts on regional water quality and groundwater quantity.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The study led by a team from the University of Leicester (UK) suggested that 86 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 50 years) or 100 Mg CO 2 -eq ha -1 yr -1 (over 25 years) represent the best available estimates of typical emissions from peat decomposition in palm plantations. fertilization, land use history) or regional geographical variations.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Under that, the plan sketches out 3 strategic goals: Strategic Objective One: Advance the goals and objectives in the President’s Climate Action Plan by supporting prudent development, deployment, and efficient use of “all of the above” energy resources that also create new jobs and industries.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine. Develop a novel photocatalyst particle-based slurry reactor with the potential for low-cost renewable hydrogen production via solar water splitting. University of Delaware. University of New Mexico. Giner, Inc. Versa Power Systems. 2011.04.043.

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AUGUST 13, 2014

A catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has different electrochemical properties from catalysts made with smooth copper in reactions involving carbon dioxide, according to a new study by a team from Brown University. Hori et al. Sujat Sen, Dan Liu, and G. 4, pp 30913095 doi: 10.1021/cs500522.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands) have concluded that the energy demand and climate impacts of using CO 2 to produce synthetic hydrocarbon fuels by using existing technologies can be greater than the impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels. Credit: ACS, van der Giesen et al.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

The report, Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: a review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates , adds that costs will be even more when the full range of climate impacts on human activities is considered. Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change: A review of the UNFCCC and other recent estimates.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Alternatively, aqueous (water-based) asymmetric ultracapacitors can provide improvements not only in cost, safety and in some cases, environmental impact, but can also provide greater energy and power densities than the non-aqueous approach. Resources. ? 3-D Nanofilm Asymmetric Ultracapacitor (DOE Merit Review presentation , 2012).

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., H 2 is not currently available in large quantities from renewable resources and H 2 costs can be high. —Fu et al. —Fu et al.

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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Battelle recently won multiple awards from the US Department of Energy and the World Bank for projects totaling about $6 million to address carbon management and oilfield-produced waters. It will review well records to determine categories of well integrity based upon well age, construction methods and materials.

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JUNE 23, 2011

Ricardo and the University of Brighton will model and evaluate an advanced split-cycle combustion system aimed at substantially reducing the carbon emissions of heavy-duty vehicles. The charge air was compressed isothermally by spraying a large volume of water into the cylinder during compression to 100 bar. Source: Neville Jackson.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Alternatively, aqueous (water-based) asymmetric ultracapacitors can provide improvements not only in cost, safety and in some cases, environmental impact, but can also provide greater energy and power densities than the non-aqueous approach. Resources. ? 3-D Nanofilm Asymmetric Ultracapacitor (DOE Merit Review presentation , 2012).

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AUGUST 17, 2009

The catalyst does not split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The research team, led by Can Li (the director of the institute’s catalysis laboratory), observed that pure cadmium sulfide evolves hydrogen from water very slowly. Hydrogen from Sulfur and Water ”, Mitch Jacoby, Chemical and Engineering News , 10 August 2009, Vo.

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