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XPrize in Carbon Removal Goes to Enhanced Rock Weathering

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It does this by reacting with dissolved CO 2 in the soils water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere (see the side bar for more detail). Mati Carbons Data-Driven Carbon Removal Mati monitors each farms soil both before and after the basalt treatment to verify how much carbon is being stored.

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These Graphene Tattoos Are Actually Biosensors

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In search of thinner wearable sensors, Deji Akinwande and Nanshu Lu , professors at the University of Texas at Austin, created graphene electronic tattoos (GETs) in 2017. Dmitry Kireev/The University of Texas at Austin Some people mistakenly think that graphene isnt biocompatible and cant be used in bioelectronic applications.

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Nonalcoholic Drinks Go Their Own Way

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The most rooted of materials is a contrast to the precarity of his upbringing he came to Texas at 12 with his parents, and remains here under DACA. The artist, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and has an M.F.A. where he had a fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center; and Mexico.

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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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Mitsubishi Power Americas and Texas Brine Company are collaborating to develop large-scale long-duration hydrogen storage solutions to support decarbonization efforts across the eastern United States. Hydrogen has been stored in salt caverns for decades in the US Gulf Coast. Texas Brine gas storage cavern wellhead.

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

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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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Univ. of Texas researchers propose lithium- or sodium-water batteries as next generation of high-capacity battery technology; applicable for EVs and grid storage

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Example of a lithium-water rechargeable battery. Researchers at the University of Texas, including Dr. John Goodenough, are proposing a strategy for high-capacity next-generation alkali (lithium or sodium)-ion batteries using water-soluble redox couples as the cathode. In theory, the decomposition potential of water is 4.27

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Water Vapor In Mid-Troposphere May Double Warming Effect

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The findings were presented by climatologist Andrew Dessler of Texas A. 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.

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