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UH team develops fast, cost-efficient method to grow OER catalyst for seawater splitting

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A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam. —Yu et al.

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Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas. By making our gasoline from natural gas, renewable natural gas, and captured flare gas rather than crude oil, Nacero will offer America’s 225 million drivers an affordable, everyday climate solution. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery.

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Learning to Surf, 200 Miles From the Nearest Ocean

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I’d traveled to the two-acre wave pool at Waco Surf , a water sports complex in Waco, Texas, chasing an unfulfilled childhood dream. Three other students — a middle-aged couple from Austin and a young professional from Houston — joined me on the wave pool’s sandy beach. He held the board in the water and asked me to pop up on it.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. To help her cause, she and colleague Z.

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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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ARPA-E’s new program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE) ( earlier post ), aims to accelerate widespread EV adoption by dramatically improving driving range and reliability, and by providing low-cost, low-carbon alternatives to today’s vehicles. University of Houston. Water-Based Flow Battery for EVs.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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Because sea levels and temperatures are rising, more than 80 percent of marine life is migrating toward the Earth’s poles and away from warmer water, he said. I don’t want anyone to be denied access to the Internet, whether it’s because they don’t have physical access or can’t afford the service,” Cerf said. Allen Medal.

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UH researchers develop bi-functional catalyst for hydrogen production from seawater and freshwater

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Researchers at the University of Houston (UH), with colleagues from Central China Normal University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, have developed a two-electrode catalyst that relies on one compound to produce hydrogen and oxygen efficiently from both seawater and freshwater. N (Fe 0.01 -Ni&Ni 0.2 Fe 0.01 &Mo-NiO.

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