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Australian university says it can support 100 pct EVs and cheap charging with more solar

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Australian university says it could support 100 per cent EVs, and deliver charging at a nominal fee, and lower its electricity bill if it doubled the amount of solar on campus. The post Australian university says it can support 100 pct EVs and cheap charging with more solar appeared first on The Driven.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. If we can make them cheap enough, we could get ham radio operators to set them up and increase data points.” “I Piccini, from Monroe Township, N.J.,

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Scientists create cheap and safe electro-catalysts for anion-exchange fuel cells

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Scientists from the University of Surrey and their colleagues have produced non-metal electro-catalysts for fuel cells that could pave the way for production of low-cost, environmentally friendly energy generation.

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Thai University Awarded Patent for Easy, Fast and Cheap Biodiesel Test Process

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Prince of Songkla University (PSU) in Thailand was granted a petty patent for a biodiesel test process using only a microwave oven as the main equipment, making it economical in terms of money and time (only 15 minutes for the result to come out). However, the PSU method is an easy, fast and cheap.

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New photocatalytic system converts carbon dioxide to valuable fuel more efficiently than natural photosynthesis

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A joint research team from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and collaborators have developed a stable artificial photocatalytic system that is more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Photo credit: (left) Professor Ye Ruquan’s research group / City University of Hong Kong and (right) Biophysical Journal, 99:67-75, 2010.

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Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

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Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Tianjin University have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen. University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer.

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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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