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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. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long. This means that storing and distributing energy is as important as its generation.

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Ricardo launching curated services on hydrogen developments

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As industry, governments and regulators strive to decarbonize transportation of all kinds, hydrogen is becoming the focus of significant additional interest both as a fuel and as an energy vector and store. RiCK News Hydrogen includes headlines together with article summaries and links to the original sources.

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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Engineers and technologists can and should play major roles in creating a greener planet, creating tools that address environmental degradation. Trees capture and store atmospheric carbon and help cool the globe’s temperature. The soil also helps to address the climate crisis, as it stores more carbon than the world’s plants combined.

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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. Although we have only produced tiny amounts so far, the fuel we have produced is ready to be used in an engine straight away.

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Yeast engineered to co-consume xylose and acetic acid boosts cellulosic ethanol yield by 10%

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Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Engineering S. Testing of the engineered yeast resulted in a 10% increase in yield, in line with Quarterman’s calculations.

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The Greening of Transportation

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In this month’s special report on the greening of transportation, we examine a moonshot idea for powering electric vehicles, the biggest change in aviation since the jet engine, and cargo ships with a battle-tested mode of generation. The engineers you’ll find in this issue don’t have time for despair.

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Tesla to build new Megafactory in Shanghai to produce Megapack energy storage system

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You will interface with design engineering, manufacturing engineering, compliance, system test, reliability, supply chain and operations to define and drive development of new product programs while also managing change on existing programs," the job description reads. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.