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QUILL researchers showcasing ionic liquid-based processes for removing mercury from natural gas, capturing CO2

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Researchers from QUILL —the Queen’s University (Belfast) Ionic Liquid Laboratories—will display a novel process for removing toxic mercury from natural gas using ionic liquids at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. It’s also how we tailor?make make ionic liquids to trap carbon dioxide.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

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It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany, to manufacture such a projector, they initially rebuffed him. The Zeiss Model I displayed 4,500 stars, the band of the Milky Way, the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. My hometown of Richmond, Va.,

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. Brookhaven National Laboratory PROOF OF CONCEPT: A research team led by Brookhaven National Laboratory and ABB built a magnetic energy-storage system using HTS that achieved a 12.5-tesla

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Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

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But we have demonstrated that by directly using power generated by the cold universe, we can chill water to cool buildings by as much as 5 ºC during the day without electricity and light the night without wires or batteries. As our first proof of concept , we made a simple emitter using black paint on an aluminum plate. Sound crazy?

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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DOE to Award $2.4B in Funding for Carbon Capture, Storage and Reuse Projects

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. $800 million will be used to expand DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, which provides government co-financing for new coal technologies that can help utilities cut sulfur, nitrogen and mercury pollutants from power plants. and CO 2 capture from the atmosphere.

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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

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Conversions are mostly for the Prius, with a few for the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner hybrid SUVs. The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid. Hybrid Center at the University of California-Davis : under Prof. Conversions are limited to certain vehicle types.

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