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Study finds direct seawater splitting has substantial drawbacks to conventional water splitting, offers almost no advantage

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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. Diess et al.

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Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Russia-based Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel)—the world’s largest nickel producer—is studying the potential for mining tailings to capture and store CO 2. As a waste, tailings are stored in designated storage facilities called tailing dams. In 2021, Nornickel extracted 41.2 mm) that looks like sand.

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Store CO2 Waste Carbon

Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

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JUNE 24, 2019

A recent study has suggested a new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as a stabilizer. Clathrate hydrates are nanoporous inclusion compounds composed of a 3D network of polyhedral cages made of hydrogen-bonded host water molecules and captured guest gas or liquid molecules. 2019.06.007.

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Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

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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. —Catherine Dreanno. —Christophe Maes.

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Pollution Water Iceland Mariner

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Researchers at the University of Cambridge, with colleagues at the University of Tokyo, have developed a standalone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into formic acid, a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. —senior author Professor Erwin Reisner. Qian Wang et al.

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A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

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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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Water Energy Austin Polymer

Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Now, a study by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) has found that energy sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ) behaves more like miscanthus in the way it efficiently captures light and uses water to produce abundant biomass. Energy sorghum falls somewhere in between.

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Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Siemens Energy, Duke Energy and Clemson University have teamed up to study the use of hydrogen for energy storage and as a low- or no-carbon fuel source to produce energy at Duke Energy’s combined heat and power plant located at Clemson University in South Carolina.

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Universal Hydrogen Energy South Carolina

Toyota and DIFFER partner on direct solar production of hydrogen from humid air, rather than water

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research ( DIFFER ) is partnering with Toyota Motor Europe (TME) to develop a device that absorbs water vapor, and splits it into hydrogen and oxygen directly using solar energy. One of these sustainable fuels is hydrogen, which can be used to store renewable energy. —Mihalis Tsampas.

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Water Hydrogen Solar Toyota

Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

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JULY 7, 2015

A study by a team from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) has found that perennial biofuel crops’ evapotranspiration does not differ greatly from corn. Hamilton uses the soil-water sensors to measure the rate of evapotranspiration occurring within each cropping system. —Hamilton et al.

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Researchers split water by altering photosynthetic machinery in plants; semi-artificial photosynthesis

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A new study, led by academics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, has used semi-artificial photosynthesis to explore new ways to produce and store solar energy. They used natural sunlight to convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using a mixture of biological components and manmade technologies. —Katarzyna Sokó?,

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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JANUARY 18, 2023

As we try to objectively study nature, we are often reminded of how natural forces affect us personally. In a region known for long, dark winter nights, Polar Night Energy is building a system in the city of Tampere that can heat buildings with stored solar energy — all day, all night, and all winter long.

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Store Solar Building Oil-Sands

SoCalGas, H2U testing new Gramme 50 electroylzer for green hydrogen production

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APRIL 22, 2021

Green hydrogen offers the ability to store renewable electricity across months and seasons, an advantage over battery storage. These efforts could help drive down hydrogen production costs.

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Hydrogen Green Production Gas-Electric

Novel battery to extract and store energy from the salinity difference between seawater and river water could make significant contribution to renewable energy

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MARCH 20, 2011

Estimated extractable power (GW) from the difference of salinity in different countries, based on flow of river water emptying into the ocean. The large scale chemical energy stored as the salinity difference between seawater and freshwater is another renewable source which can be harvested. Credit: ACS, La Mantia et al.

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Water Store Renewable Energy

UCSC chemists develop gallium-aluminum composite for rapid generation of hydrogen under ambient conditions

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

UC Santa Cruz chemists have developed a simple method to make aluminum nanoparticles that split water and generate hydrogen gas rapidly under ambient conditions. The water-splitting reaction does not require an applied potential and functions at ambient conditions and neutral pH to rapidly generate 130 mL (5.4 Credit: Amberchan et al.,

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Hydrogen Water Production Gas

Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

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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. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute. Baker III and Susan G. —Jim Blackburn.

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DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

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JUNE 5, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two projects that will test emerging enhanced water recovery (EWR) technologies for their potential to produce useable water from CO 2 storage sites. Once treated, the clean water could be re-used for beneficial purposes, including supplemental cooling water at a power station.

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SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Researchers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have determined that biochar, a substance produced from plant matter, is a safe, effective and inexpensive method to treat flowback water following hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. —Maoqi Feng, SwRI. —Zhigang Feng, USTA.

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Water Low Cost Oil-Sands San Antonio

Mitsubishi Power & Texas Brine partner on large-scale salt cavern storage for hydrogen to support decarbonization efforts in the eastern US

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MAY 13, 2021

This collaboration expands Mitsubishi Power’s capability to store hydrogen safely and cost effectively in salt caverns in strategic locations across North America. Hydrogen has been stored in salt caverns for decades in the US Gulf Coast. Brine, a mixture of salt and water, is produced during the solution mining of salt formations.

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Mitsubishi Texas Hydrogen Power

PSI team demonstrates direct hydrocarbon fuel production from water and CO2 by solar-driven thermochemical cycles

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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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Water Solar Fuel Production

Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure; counters conventional wisdom

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The researchers made their discovery by developing a technique to measure the amounts of inactive lithium species on the anode—a first in the field of battery research—and studying their micro- and nanostructures. As the battery cycles, its stores of active lithium and electrolyte are depleted. —Professor Meng.

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New discovery of how carbon is stored in the Southern Ocean

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JULY 30, 2012

A team of British and Australian scientists has discovered an important method of how carbon is drawn down from the surface of the Southern Ocean to the deep waters beneath. Winds, currents and massive whirlpools that carry warm and cold water around the ocean—eddies—create localized pathways or funnels for carbon to be stored.

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Store Carbon Water 2002

Wärtsilä gas engines to burn 100% hydrogen

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MAY 6, 2020

In addition to hydrogen, other potential renewable fuels are being studied for future applications, and Wärtsilä engines are already capable of combusting 100% synthetic carbon-neutral methane and methanol. Hydrogen as part of the renewable electricity system of the future.

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Sandia study finds underground geologic storage of hydrogen could boost transportation, energy security

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

The study, said Sandia’s Anna Snider Lord, the principal investigator, could provide a roadmap for further research and demonstration activities, such as an examination of environmental issues and geologic formations in major metropolitan areas that can hold gas.

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Hydrogen Los Angeles Transportation Energy

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By using a water-lean post-combustion capture solvent, (N-(2-ethoxyethyl)-3-morpholinopropan-1-amine) (2-EEMPA), they achieved a greater than 90% conversion of captured CO 2 to hydrocarbons—mostly methane—in the presence of a heterogenous Ru catalyst under relatively mild reaction conditions (170 °C and 2 pressure). Lopez, J.S.,

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Low Cost Convert CO2 Conversion

Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

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AUGUST 25, 2016

As the V OC of the presented c-Si cells is only ∼600 mV, four cells need to be connected in series to achieve stable water splitting performance. We demonstrate in this study that, thanks to their high V OC , three series-connected SHJ cells can already stably drive the water splitting reaction at unprecedented SHE.

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Solar Water Low Cost Hydrogen

Study suggests energy and GHG impacts of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels from CO2 are greater than impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels

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JUNE 6, 2014

Their quantitative lifecycle assessment of the environmental merits of liquid hydrocarbon fuels produced from CO 2 , water and energy compared to alternative fuel production routes is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. R indicates reference alternatives not explicitly modeled in this study.

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Chinese researchers develop new alloy for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cells

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University have used a gallium, indium, tin and bismuth alloy to generate hydrogen, when placed in contact with an aluminum plate immersed in water. Before use, Al and the LM alloys were stored separately to prevent passivation. In the study, a 3?g Credit: Jing Liu.

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Hydrogen Chinese Production Fuel

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

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MARCH 10, 2013

A new study by Charles J. 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). Credit: Barnhart and Benson, 2013. Click to enlarge. Barnhart and Sally M.

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Energy Storage Grid Cost Of Energy

UC Davis ITS researchers take a detailed look at water consumption and withdrawal requirements for ethanol

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APRIL 28, 2011

Water consumption intensity of ethanol from corn grain and crop residue and the avoided/displaced water use credits assigned to coproducts: DGS and electricity. In their paper, Mishra and Yeh analyze the lifecycle water requirement consumption and withdrawal requirements of ethanol produced from corn and from crop residue.

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Water Davis Oil-Sands Nebraska

New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

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MARCH 24, 2012

While several recent studies have suggested that much of the world is likely to experience freshwater shortages as the population increases and temperatures rise, determining the relative impact of each has been difficult. At that time, it was unusual to integrate population, climate and water data into one model.

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Water Available Climate Change Global

EPA finds moderate or severe corrosion in majority of diesel fuel underground storage tank systems studied

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JULY 26, 2016

Beginning around 2007, UST owners reported to servicing companies new incidents of severe and rapid corrosion of internal metal components of tanks storing diesel fuel. Groundwater is a source of drinking water for almost half of the people in the US.

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EPA Diesel Fuel 2007

Osaka team demonstrates H2 purification using LOHCs

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

They developed a system where hydrogen is separated and stored in liquid organic hydrogen carriers by catalysis of triaryl boranes in one seamless process. Research background and concept of this study. (A) store—hydrogen in the presence of contaminant gases. The concept of this work. —Hashimoto et al.

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Hydrogen Store Concept Gas

Study finds carbon capture & storage could be financial opportunity for conventional ethanol plants

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APRIL 24, 2018

Fermentation also produces a high-concentration (99%) gaseous CO 2 stream consisting only of CO 2 , water and small amounts of organic and sulfur compounds. A US Department of Energy supported project is capturing and storing around 1 Mt per year of CO 2 from an Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) plant in Illinois. Earlier post.).

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Carbon CO2 Tax Credit Store

FortisBC, Suncor, Hazer to pilot methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production with graphite byproduct

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JULY 5, 2022

The project, located at Suncor’s Burrard Terminal site, will produce hydrogen while storing the carbon byproduct as solid synthetic graphite that can be sold on the open market for manufacturing or industrial use. The first phase of the project is now underway including front-end engineering, design studies and permitting applications.

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Hydrogen Production Gas-Electric Australia

MOL joins “Wind Hunter Project” for combination of sails and fuel cells on ships

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

This combination of sail and hydrogen technology will enable vessels to sail on schedule even in the periods of low wind and the project team plans to study about the application of supplying hydrogen generated at sea for onshore use. Using electric power from power generation turbine, the electrolyzer will then produce hydrogen from water.

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Wind Fuel Hydrogen Water

Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Utah Water Quality Board, in a 9-2 vote this week, agreed with the August 2012 recommendations of an administrative law judge (ALJ) upholding a permit-by-rule issued by the Division of Water Quality (DWQ) for the proposed PR Spring an oil sands mine on state land in eastern Utah. Overlay of the proposed plant site on the terrain.

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Oil-Sands Utah Water Oil

Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the preliminary design study for what he call “The Hyperloop”—a new high-speed electric transportation system targeted for the the specific case of high-traffic city pairs (e.g., For the study, the Hyperloop design team used a system servicing San Fransicso and Los Angeles.

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KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The steam carrier presents similar membrane reactor performance to that of noble gases, and the water reservoir used for steam generation acts as an ammonia buffer via scrubbing effects. Hydrogen gas, however, cannot be transported in large amounts due to the limitations in the amount that can be stored per unit volume.

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Duke study: serpentinized rock in oceans may be large, overlooked source of free hydrogen gas

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JULY 21, 2016

Rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may be a large and previously overlooked source of free hydrogen gas, a new Duke University study suggests. You start with water, add energy to split the oxygen and hydrogen molecules apart, and get H 2. —co-author Lincoln F. —Stacey L.

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Hydrogen Gas Austin Water

MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

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MAY 12, 2010

Daniel Nocera and his associates have found another formulation, based on inexpensive and widely available materials, that can efficiently catalyze the splitting of water molecules using electricity. Earlier post.). Materials for the new catalyst are even more abundant and inexpensive than those required for the first.

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Low Cost Water MIT Hydrogen

Chalmers team develops method to reduce levels of mercury in sulfuric acid

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JULY 10, 2023

It is stored in the soil, water and living organisms, impacting the entire food chain. In addition, an estimated 1,800 tonnes of mercury ended up in the soil and water in that same year. The experiments in the study were performed in a lab environment, in a 50-milliliter beaker and subsequently in a 20-liter reactor.

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Mercury Water Environment 2015

U Delaware team demonstrates efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for vehicles

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AUGUST 25, 2019

The researchers started by analyzing the economics of hydrogen-, nitrogen-, and carbon-based fuels made by carbon-neutral pathways in a post-fossil world in which only water, air, and renewable electricity are available for fuel synthesis. They found that ammonia has the lowest source-to-tank energy cost by a significant margin. Zhao et al.

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Delaware Fuel Hydrogen Vehicles

Water Vapor In Mid-Troposphere May Double Warming Effect

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Although scientists have long believed that water vapor. dioxide, producing water vapor which in turn would store more heat. surface, and is an important transport layer for greenhouse gases, including CO 2 , methane, and water vapor. The implication of these studies is that—should greenhouse gas. San Francisco.

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Water San Francisco Climate 2002

Study finds direct seawater splitting has substantial drawbacks to conventional water splitting, offers almost no advantage

Nornickel investigating using mining tailings to capture and store CO2

Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

Study finds twice as many cellulose fibers as microplastics in the Atlantic Ocean

Cambridge researchers develop standalone device that makes formic acid from sunlight, CO2 and water

A New Energy-Efficient Hydrogel Pulls Water From Air

Study: Energy sorghum may combine best of annual, perennial bioenergy crops

Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

Toyota and DIFFER partner on direct solar production of hydrogen from humid air, rather than water

Study finds perennial biofuel crops’ water consumption similar to corn

Researchers split water by altering photosynthetic machinery in plants; semi-artificial photosynthesis

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

SoCalGas, H2U testing new Gramme 50 electroylzer for green hydrogen production

Novel battery to extract and store energy from the salinity difference between seawater and river water could make significant contribution to renewable energy

UCSC chemists develop gallium-aluminum composite for rapid generation of hydrogen under ambient conditions

Baker Institute-led group to develop nationwide protocol for paying ranchers and farmers to store carbon

DOE selects 2 projects to demonstrate feasibility of enhanced water recovery; producing usable water from CO2 storage sites

SwRI, UTSA researchers show biochar is low-cost, effective method to treat fracking water

Mitsubishi Power & Texas Brine partner on large-scale salt cavern storage for hydrogen to support decarbonization efforts in the eastern US

PSI team demonstrates direct hydrocarbon fuel production from water and CO2 by solar-driven thermochemical cycles

Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure; counters conventional wisdom

New discovery of how carbon is stored in the Southern Ocean

Wärtsilä gas engines to burn 100% hydrogen

Sandia study finds underground geologic storage of hydrogen could boost transportation, energy security

PNNL team develops new low-cost method to convert captured CO2 to methane

Swiss team develops effective and low-cost solar water-splitting device; 14.2% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

Study suggests energy and GHG impacts of synthetic hydrocarbon fuels from CO2 are greater than impacts of existing hydrocarbon fuels

Chinese researchers develop new alloy for on-board hydrogen production for fuel cells

Stanford study quantifies energetic costs of grid-scale energy storage over time; current batteries the worst performers; the need to improve cycle life by 3-10x

UC Davis ITS researchers take a detailed look at water consumption and withdrawal requirements for ethanol

New ORNL tool to assess global freshwater stress suggests that population growth could be a bigger factor in water availability than increasing temperatures

EPA finds moderate or severe corrosion in majority of diesel fuel underground storage tank systems studied

Osaka team demonstrates H2 purification using LOHCs

Study finds carbon capture & storage could be financial opportunity for conventional ethanol plants

FortisBC, Suncor, Hazer to pilot methane pyrolysis for hydrogen production with graphite byproduct

MOL joins “Wind Hunter Project” for combination of sails and fuel cells on ships

Utah Water Quality Board upholds issuance of permit for oil sands mine in Utah

Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop preliminary design study

KIST team develops membrane reactor system to produce pure H2 from ammonia with high productivity

Duke study: serpentinized rock in oceans may be large, overlooked source of free hydrogen gas

MIT Researchers Identify New Low-Cost Water-Splitting Catalyst

Chalmers team develops method to reduce levels of mercury in sulfuric acid

U Delaware team demonstrates efficient direct ammonia fuel cell for vehicles

Water Vapor In Mid-Troposphere May Double Warming Effect

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