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Audi plans to cut water consumption in production in half by 2035

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Audi has included the economical and efficient use of water as a key aspect of its Mission:Zero environmental program. The company plans to keep its own water consumption to a minimum and stop using drinking water in vehicle production in the future. Drinking water is a valuable and scarce resource: 2.2

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thyssenkrupp’s water electrolysis technology qualified as primary control reserve in Germany; hydrogen production for the electricity market

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thyssenkrupp’s proprietary water electrolysis technology for the production of. In the future thyssenkrupp’s electrolysis plants will be able to act as large-scale buffers to stabilize the power grid and compensate fluctuations quickly and flexibly. In 2018 methanol was produced from steel mill gases for the first time.

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Argonne team combines two protein complexes to make hydrogen fuel from water

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Researchers from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to perform a complete conversion of water molecules to hydrogen and oxygen. Poluektov (2018) “Z-scheme solar water splitting via self-assembly of photosystem I-catalyst hybrids in thylakoid membranes” Chem.

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All Audi production sites will manufacture all-electric vehicles by 2029

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Step by step, we are bringing all our sites into the future We don’t want any standalone lighthouse projects on greenfield sites. To ensure that future production will be economical, Audi wants to cut annual factory costs in half by 2033. Audi is building on its existing global production network to achieve this vision. Earlier post.)

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Researchers split water by altering photosynthetic machinery in plants; semi-artificial photosynthesis

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They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. A new paper, published in Nature Energy , outlines how the researchers at the Reisner Laboratory in Cambridge developed their platform to achieve unassisted solar-driven water-splitting. Katarzyna P.

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DOE proposes $99M for Energy Frontier Research Centers in FY 2018

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US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a proposed $99 million in Fiscal Year 2018 funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) to accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences. ( future nuclear energy. DE-FOA-0001810 ).

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EASAC urges moratorium on deep-sea mining

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The report, which assesses evidence on future critical minerals needs, the potential for recycling and technology innovation, and the environmental impact of deep-sea mining finds that there is much uncertainty about the future balance of supply and demand. Schematic not to scale. Miller et al. Resources Miller, K. 2017.00418

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