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Four Ways Engineers Are Trying to Break Physics

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Along the border of France and Switzerland, around a hundred meters underneath the countryside, protons speed through a 27-kilometer ringabout seven times the length of the Indy 500 circuituntil they crash into protons going in the opposite direction. In particle physics, the smallest problems often require the biggest solutions.

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Study finds limited evidence that carbon tax rebates have increased public support for carbon pricing

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In a study published in Nature Climate Change , an international research team reports finding limited evidence that individual or household rebates have increased public support for carbon taxes in Canada and Switzerland.

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New diamine-appended MOFs can capture CO2 for half or less of the energy cost of current materials

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Because MOFs are solid, the process also saves the energy costs of heating the water in which amines are dissolved. Last summer, Long co-founded a startup, Mosaic Materials, to use the new technology to reduce the cost of chemical separations, with plans in the works for a pilot study of CO 2 separation from power plant emissions.

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VTT Launches European NEMO Project for Cellulosic Ethanol

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Total cost of the project will be €8.2 The NEMO project, which has received funding of €5.9 million (US$8.4 million) from the EU’s FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme), is aimed at developing technologies to produce cellulosic ethanol from agricultural and forestry waste, such as straws and wood chips, via a fermentation pathway. million (US$11.7

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CMU/DAI study finds shutting down US nuclear plants would have significant negative economic and environmental consequences

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Shutting down reactors in high risk earthquake or tornado zones, or in areas with populations of more than 10 million would result in 24,728 MW lost capacity, an added annual cost of $ 4.7B, 166.73 Germany has decided to shutdown all nine of its nuclear power plants by 2022, and Switzerland will shutdown all five of its plants by 2032.

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Cray unveils 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer

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Several leading HPC centers have signed contracts to purchase Cray XC30 supercomputers, including: The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. The Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan. The Finnish IT Center for Science Ltd.

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EPFL team develops low-cost water splitting cell with solar-to-hydrogen efficiency of 12.3%

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A team led by Dr. Michael Grätzel at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland has developed a highly efficient and low-cost water-splitting cell combining an advanced perovskite tandem solar cell and a bi-functional Earth-abundant catalyst. Currently, perovskite instability limits the cell lifetime.)

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