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JANUARY 22, 2021

The method makes green ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity and does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound. And we saw tragically in Beirut recently how potentially dangerous storing ammonium nitrate can be. doi: 10.1039/D0EE03769A.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Neste Oil is expanding its algae research ( earlier post ) with the launch of a joint algae research program with the Marine Research Centre at Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). Algae that produce and store lipids represent a valuable potential source of raw material for NExBTL renewable diesel.

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JULY 2, 2022

The remaining carbon dioxide is stored in the tank and reused in onshore methanol production. According to the European Environment Agency (EEA), maritime transport is responsible for more than 3% of the total carbon emissions in the European Union. © Fraunhofer. In 2019 alone, emissions reached 144 million tonnes of CO 2.

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APRIL 4, 2022

A study by three French institutes—Ifremer, the University of Bordeaux and the IRD (a public research institution)—has found that the surface water of the Atlantic Ocean is twice as polluted by cellulose fibers as it is by microplastics. This unique set of data casts doubt then over the internal dynamics of the gyre.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Maize and other annual crops are easier to manage with traditional farming, but they are tougher on the environment. The researchers conducted ecosystem-scale comparisons of carbon, nitrogen, water, and energy fluxes of Sorghum bicolor with maize and Miscanthus x. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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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.

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JULY 7, 2015

Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the sum total of water lost while the plant is growing, either from evaporation through the plant stem itself (a process called “transpiration”), or from water evaporated off of the plant’s leaves or the ground. —Hamilton et al.

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MAY 26, 2016

Solar-driven thermochemical cycles offer a direct means of storing solar energy in the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules. syngas—from water and CO 2. Schematic illustration of direct hydrocarbon (C x H y O z ) formation from water and carbon dioxide during the reoxidation of reduced ceria doped with a catalyst (Cat.).

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APRIL 25, 2013

These structures would serve both as anchors to moor the floating turbines and as a means of storing the energy they produce. Geologic pumped hydroelectric storage works by pumping water to a reservoir behind a dam when electricity demand is low. When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. ORBAT employs two different water-soluble organic redox couples on the positive and negative side of a flow battery. Schematic of ORBAT. Click to enlarge. —Yang et al.

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JUNE 22, 2012

Researchers at the KAIST Graduate School of EEWS (Earth, Environment, Water and Sustainability) in South Korea have demonstrated the direct recovery of methane from massive methane hydrates (MHs), artificial MH-bearing clays, and natural MH-bearing sediments using either CO 2 or a CO 2 /N 2 gas mixture (20?mol?% of CO 2 and 80?mol?%

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has initiated a working group to develop a United States protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon in their soil. The current system for voluntary carbon transactions is broken and needs to be fixed, group founders said. —Kenneth Medlock. —Jim Blackburn.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2009

While effective at keeping wine inside a bottle, suberin’s most important function in plants is to control water and nutrient transportation and keep pathogens out. Adjusting the permeability of plant tissues by genetically manipulating the expression of this enzyme could lead to easier agricultural production of crops used for biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2013

The session is expected to culminate in the adoption of a new convention by the 147 states attending the session to reduce mercury emissions and releases to the air, water and land. The 2013 assessment is the most comprehensive to date, and includes information on the release and impacts of mercury in aquatic environments for the first time.

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MARCH 12, 2023

Toyota has developed new electrolysis equipment to produce hydrogen from electrolyzing water using the fuel cell (FC) stack and other technology from the Mirai. To this end, Toyota is working with various industry partners in the areas of producing, transporting, storing, and using hydrogen.

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MARCH 8, 2019

If that electric power is used to split the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen, you lose a lot of energy. —Grey hydrogen gas, in other words—not a big win for the climate or the environment. The hydrogen gas produced in the summer will be stored and converted into electricity and heat in the winter.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

An electrochemical water-splitting reaction offers an effective pathway to generate hydrogen fuels and store electricity from various intermittent but renewable energy sources. Our approach can provide a promising tool for developing high-performance electrodes for water electrolyzers and other electrochemical energy devices.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The independent energy supply system combines a 25 kW photovoltaic facility; a storage battery; hydrogen-producing water electrolysis equipment; hydrogen (275 Nm 3 ) and water tanks; and fuel cells. Hydrogen electrical power storage capacity is 350 kWh. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2013

Using a new metric—“Energy Stored on Invested, ESOI”—they concluded that batteries were the worst performers, while compressed air energy storage (CAES) performed the best, followed by pumped hydro storage (PHS). When demand is high, the water is released through turbines that generate electricity. Energy Environ.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. 8 Rivers Capital. Colorado State University.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

In passing the Stage 1 testing, NCF demonstrated technology that successfully dissociates CO 2 into CO and oxygen in a heating environment, simulating the industrial waste heat sources that will be used as one of two energy sources in the commercial product. Jacob Karni’s laboratory at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

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JULY 27, 2017

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. The lower you can get it, the closer you come to making it as efficient as possible for water splitting. —Kenton Whitmire.

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JULY 13, 2017

and Japan Environment Systems Co., announced that all facilities to be used in the FY2015 Regional Cooperation and Low-carbon Hydrogen Technology Demonstration Project commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment have been completed, and full-scale operations have commenced. a hydrogen supply chain feasibility study.

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MARCH 25, 2023

The campus’ new utility system will save 50 million gallons of water each year by reducing evaporation from the site’s cooling towers. Plus, the zero-waste-to-landfill site is designed to use no fresh water for its assembly processes. The 3,600-acre campus also has a fully integrated BlueOval SK battery manufacturing site.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

In the US alone, billions of toxic batteries are thrown away every year, posing a threat to both the environment and human health, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The sugar battery combines maltodextrin, a polysaccharide made from partial hydrolysis of starch with air to generate electricity and water as the main byproducts.

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MAY 23, 2010

But the scientists now know that we’re NOT going to save our children from that hell and high water that’s coming their way. The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2013

IFPEN is a French public-sector research, innovation and training center active in the fields of energy, transport and the environment. In the future, hydrogen produced through water electrolysis is expected to be used to store energy as a way of compensating for solar or wind power’s intermittent output.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The rest of the used oil is either improperly disposed of (damaging the environment) or burned as an industrial fuel. Universal Lubricants collects used oil from the government and private business such as auto parts stores, dealerships, service stations, and oil change centers across the US. The US produces approximately 1.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2017

Carbon debt generated by stand establishment can be minimized by avoiding tillage and by avoiding lands with large C stores either above ground (such as forests) or below ground (such as wetlands).

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APRIL 11, 2014

volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. For the Nature study, Kanan and Li built an electrochemical cell: two electrodes placed in water saturated with carbon monoxide gas. The challenge was to find a cathode that would reduce carbon monoxide to ethanol instead of reducing water to hydrogen.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

Hydrogen production from cellodextrin and water by a synthetic enzymatic pathway. Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas in a spontaneous, “one-pot” process using an enzyme cocktail, cellulosic materials from non-food sources, and water.

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JUNE 16, 2012

L water shows how the catalyst picks up speed as water is added to the ionic liquid (more water equals taller, faster current). 1 for hydrogen production at 25 °C when the mole fraction of water (? Such a protein helps tie two hydrogen atoms together with electrons, storing energy in their chemical bond in the process.

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The data were collected from the royal research ship RRS James Clark Ross, as part of the Natural Environment Research Council’s International Polar Year Initiative. The bubble plumes were detected using sonar and then sampled with a water-bottle sampling system over a range of depths.

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APRIL 25, 2013

As solar and wind’s combined contributions to an electrical grid approach 20%, energy storage systems must be available to smooth out the peaks and valleys of this intermittent power—storing excess energy and discharging when input drops. Energy Environ. years of daily cycles, Cui said. 6, 1552-1558 doi: 10.1039/C3EE00072A.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

During its first phase, the Mississippi Clean Hydrogen Hub is expected to produce an estimated 110 million kilograms (kg) of green hydrogen annually and store more than 70 million kg of green hydrogen in its underground salt caverns. (As As a comparison, Air Products’ newly announced blue hydrogen megaproject in Louisiana will produce some 1.8

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JUNE 6, 2023

This system mitigates the risks associated with future fuels, such as ammonia, which can be hazardous to both health and the environment unless handled and stored with great care. With WARMS, typical emissions comprise nitrogen (N 2 ) and water (H 2 O), with ammonia (NH 3 ) emissions less than 30 ppm.

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JUNE 5, 2013

The analyzed samples consisted of a sand/soil mixture: 41% - 41%; water: 25% - 26%; bitumen: 31% - 32%; cellulose and other impurities: less than 1%. Clean sand/soil and clean water with the solids content of less than 0.36% were obtained as three separate end products of the MCW extraction process.

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