Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2021
A study by a team of researchers from Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) and Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has found that direct seawater splitting for hydrogen production has substantial drawbacks compared to conventional water splitting and offers almost no advantage. Additionally, H 2 O is needed for water splitting.
Cars That Think
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Using a new kind of hydrogel material, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have pulled water out of thin air at temperatures low enough to be achieved with sunlight. Atmospheric water harvesting draws water from humidity in the air. The material is a hydrogel, a polymer network that naturally retains a lot of water.
Green Car Congress
MAY 29, 2020
A Northwestern Engineering-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in oil, the sponge could be used to clean up oil spills inexpensively and efficiently without harming marine life. —Vikas Nandwana.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 29, 2023
How Keeping Your Tires Inflated Can Help the Environment Basic Care Can Reduce Contamination Checking tire pressure is a subtle yet impactful way to care for the environment. They jeopardize environments because research has been minimal and relies on inaccurate testing materials and scenarios.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 6, 2017
Most of these diseases and conditions are at least partially caused by the environment, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports. Proportionate to their size, children ingest more food, drink more water and breathe more air than adults. Children are also exposed to harmful chemicals through food, water, air and products around them.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 24, 2022
The filters prevent tire wear particles and other environmentally harmful substances from being washed into sewers and bodies of water along with rainwater. From there, it is blown into the environment by the wind, or is washed by the rain as urban runoff through the sewers into the soil and rivers and ultimately the oceans.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 22, 2022
1 trillion green hydrogen investment can deliver the equivalent of more than one-third of Africa’s current energy consumption, boost GDP, improve clean water supply and empower communities. Government leaders, ministers, international finance, business partners and civil society from across Africa attended the unveiling event.
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