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Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs

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Marine shipping fuels will get cleaner in 2020 when a regulation by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) requires a decrease in the allowable amount of sulfur in fuel oil from 3.5% Now, a new open-access study published in Nature Communications quantifies these health benefits and finds cleaner shipping fuels will result in a 3.6%

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Researchers successfully engineer E. coli to produce renewable propane; proof-of-concept

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. coli bacteria. an aldehyde-deformylating oxygenase (ADO) to form the final product, propane. Pauli Kallio, András Pásztor, Kati Thiel, M.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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This sponsored article is brought to you by COMSOL. It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. When you ask people about cleaner energy, they think of electricity,” says Tommi Eronen, CEO of Polar Night Energy.

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Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries & how to measure it 

Electric Vehicles India

It has become a cleaner energy storage solution. We will be looking at some of them in this article. Also, read related article: Battery capacity needs to power EVs in India from 2020 to 2035. Read further to know more about the climate impact of lithium-ion batteries. . Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries.