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A Breakthrough Discovery In Carbon Capture Conversion For Ethylene Production

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A group of scientists led by Meenesh Singh at the College of Illinois Chicago has discovered a way to convert 100% carbon dioxide from the industrial exhaust into ethylene, a fundamental building block for plastic products. Their findings are released in Cell Reports Physical Science. While scientists have been exploring the possibility of transforming carbon […]

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Wave Energy Can Provide Utility Scale Power Production And Works Very Well ... Of Ocean And Sea Waves And Use It To Create Energy – Usually Electricity.

‘Wave Energy:’ This Floating Spine-Like Tool Generates Sea Waves Into Electricity

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Nevertheless, a firm from Cyprus has created a unique floating device that resembles a spine and asserts to be capable of capturing wave energy and transforming it into electricity. The search is for new methods to harness renewable resources to supply our rising energy needs. The essential question, nonetheless, is why ocean and sea waves

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Offshore Wind: California Winning the Race

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California has established an ambitious target to develop its offshore wind industry. The Golden State aims to achieve 25,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2045, around as much as entire Europe has today. The target established by the California Energy Commission on Wednesday is the most significant commitment any state has made until now to develop wind farms

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A Simple, Affordable Material For Carbon Capture, Perhaps From Tailpipes

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Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine– the main component of Formica– chemists have created an affordable, accessible, and energy-efficient form to capture CO2 (Carbon dioxide) from smokestacks, a key aim for the USA and other countries as they seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The process for synthesizing the melamine material, posted this week in

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Fighting a Trend of Asset Destruction In Nigeria

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The Ashcraft Centre for Social Science Research has expressed its condemnation of the destruction of national assets, particularly in the telecommunications, oil and gas, transportation, and power sectors. In response to this situation, the group has organized a zonal summit in Port Harcourt to address the legal responsibility of stakeholders to safeguard the country’s crucial

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A Scientist Just Accidentally Developed A Battery That Could Last A Lifetime

Material & Energy, Material Technology /

Poor battery life is the number one issue when it comes to smartphones and laptops. As a wireless society, having to secure ourselves to power up our gadgets seems more and more a nuisance. Furthermore, while scientists are looking into wireless charging, we would have to worry less if batteries were better. Now, a brand-new

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Climate Change: ‘Sand Battery’ Can Fix Environment-Friendly Energy’s Significant Problem

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Finnish scientists have set up the globe’s first completely working “sand battery,” which can save environment-friendly power for months at once. The designers claim this can resolve the trouble of year-round supply, a significant issue for eco-friendly power. Using low-grade sand, the gadget is charged with warmth made from affordable power from solar or wind.

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New Iron Catalyst Can Make Hydrogen Fuel Cells Affordable

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For decades, scientists have been seeking a catalyst that dramatically lowers the price of fabricating hydrogen fuel cells. Such an advance could trigger a green power transformation, with everything from laptops to locomotives running on a fuel whose merely byproduct is water. A new study led by the University at Buffalo indicates that analysts are

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Nano-Sensor Detects Pesticides on Fruit in Minutes

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Researchers in Sweden at Karolinska Institutet have developed a tiny sensor for spotting fruit pesticides in just a few minutes. The method, referred as a proof-of-concept in a paper in the Advanced Science journal, utilizes flame-sprayed nanoparticles made from silver to increase chemical signals. The researchers hope these nano-sensors could assist in uncovering food pesticides

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Paving the Way for Quicker Computers, Longer-Lasting Batteries

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University of Queensland researchers have cracked an issue that’s frustrated chemists and physicists for many years, potentially causing a new age of effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly technologies Utilizing quantum mechanics, Professor Ben Powell from UQ’s School of Mathematics and Physics has discovered a recipe that enables molecular switches to function at room temperature. “Switches

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