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IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

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This is an expensive process and requires around 30% of the energy stored within the hydrogen. Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction (SAHL) consists of storing the cooling energy from the regasification of hydrogen, by solidifying air, and transporting the solid air back to where the hydrogen was liquefied. Montanari, P., Schneider, P.,

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Los Alamos-led study finds how to improve natural gas production in shale; hydrocarbon transport within nanopores

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A new hydrocarbon study led by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory contradicts conventional wisdom about how methane is trapped in rock, revealing a new strategy to access the valuable energy resource more easily. Their open-access study is published in Nature’s new Communications Earth & Environment journal.

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Stanford researchers develop copper-based catalyst that produces ethanol from CO at room temperature; potential for closed-loop CO2-to-fuel process

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—Matthew Kanan, an assistant professor of chemistry at Stanford and coauthor of the Nature study. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. We have a solution to this problem that’s made of copper, which is cheap and abundant.

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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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Methane hydrate is studied for its ability to capture and trap gas molecules such as carbon dioxide under high pressure. The discovery introduces a new way of storing and transporting carbon dioxide as a solid. An open-access paper on their work appears in Cell Reports Physical Science. Xiang et al.

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USC team develops novel organic redox flow battery for large-scale energy storage

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Since grid-scale electrical energy storage requires hundreds of gigawatt-hours to be stored, the batteries for this application must be inexpensive, robust, safe and sustainable. Such a system would create a minimal impact on the environment, and would likely be cheap, they figured. —Yang et al.

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

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EVs are Better for the Environment Over the course of their lifetimes , EVs generate less than half of the GHG emissions of comparable gasoline-powered vehicles. A recent study looked at ZIP codes and found that as more EVs were registered in those zip codes, local air pollution levels and emergency room visits dropped.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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