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Construction begins on DOE-sponsored carbon-capture project at Kentucky Power Plant

Green Car Congress

The program supports national efforts to mitigate climate change by capturing CO 2 at large point sources, such as power plants, and permanently storing the greenhouse gases to prevent its release into the atmosphere. This robust system integration will improve the power plant’s cooling-tower and steam-turbine efficiency.

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Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium gets key North Carolina mining permit – ET Auto

Baua Electric

The approval from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality , which was announced by the company on Monday and is conditional on the posting of a USD 1 million reclamation bond, removes one major hurdle to Piedmont’s plans to tap a large lithium deposit just outside Charlotte. to close at USD 14.68

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Wool and the Gang are causing waves with their Eco-conscious Products

EV Driver

Eco-friendly products are on everybody’s minds lately, especially during the current climate crisis, with the most urgent call for change we have ever seen. This clever thing is a micro fibre filter solution that stops micro waste from being flushed out of your washing machine and into nature’s larger water bodies.

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Recycling Expanded Polystyrene becomes a reality with Styroloop

EV Driver

The idea for Styroloop stemmed from my MA research, trying to find a solution to the unmanaged waste stream of expanded Polystyrene (EPS). They mentioned that they make large sculptures from EPS and have to pay to get the waste material picked up, which they knew went to landfill. EPS waste ready to be recycled. Katie-May Boyd.

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