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JANUARY 28, 2012

Uranium in nuclear fuel rods is in a chemical form that is “pretty insoluble” in water, said Professor Alexandra Navrotsky, UC Davis, corresponding author on the paper, unless the uranium is oxidized to uranium-VI—a process that can be facilitated when radiation converts water into peroxide, a powerful oxidizing agent.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 31, 2011

These teams will investigate the fate of petroleum in the environment; the impacts of the spill; and the development of new tools and technology for responding to future spills and improving mitigation and restoration. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007.

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DECEMBER 4, 2011

Yet governments have pledged to keep warming below two degrees to avoid the most dangerous aspects of climate change such as widespread water stress and sea level rise, and increases in extreme climatic events. Raupach (2011) Rapid growth in CO 2 emissions after the 2008–2009 global financial crisis. Canadell and Michael R.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

In a briefing in Chattanooga in June of this year, Ron Drumeller, Head of Environment and Energy at the plant, outlined the Think Blue environmental KPIs (key performance indicators): Indicator. Opened in 2011, the $1-billion Volkswagen Chattanooga factory manufactures the US Passat sedan, specifically designed for the North American market.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL). While two years of CryoSat-2 data aren’t indicative of a long-term change, the lower ice thickness and volume in February and March 2012, compared with same period in 2011, may have contributed to the record. minimum ice extent during the 2012 autumn. Geophysics.

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JULY 5, 2011

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine have characterized a new cellulase (cellulose-digesting enzyme) that has optimal activity at 109 °C, a half-life of 5 h at 100 °C, and resists denaturation in strong detergents, high-salt concentrations, and ionic liquids.

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The US Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $123 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants to support the construction of new scientific research facilities at 11 universities and one non-profit research organization. million to the University of Maine (Orono, Me.)

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JUNE 15, 2013

MARAD recently completed a study—reported in the February 2013 “ Status of the US-Flag Great Lakes Water Transportation Industry ”—that focused on the feasibility of using natural gas on the Great Lakes as well as converting existing steamships. (In In December 2011, MARAD entered a 5-year cooperate agrement with.

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JULY 22, 2023

VR headsets allow students to immerse themselves in realistic digital environments to learn math and science by solving real-world problems, such as calculating how high a house’s foundation should be raised to offset the risk of flooding. Thanks to Prisms of Reality , VR technology is being used in 140 school districts in 30 states.

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JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. Hot water extraction method is the most widely used process for separating and recovering bitumen from oil sand; however, note Zhang et al. , Oil sands exploration in Xing’an region.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Researchers from the University of Michigan and Zhejiang University (China) are developing a new pathway—catalytic hydrothermal decarboxylation—to produce liquid hydrocarbon (i.e., In contrast, the focus herein is on fatty acid decarboxylation in water. Energy Environ. —Fu et al. —Fu et al.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

“The ultimate transport solution would be solar fuels, made from using sunlight to split water and produce hydrogen, or to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide and combine it with water to produce other clean solar fuels.The opportunities for bio-inspired fuels and for innovative routes to produce them are virtually limitless.

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JUNE 6, 2011

The extraction of bitumen from mined oils sands produces enormous volumes of tailings—a slurry of slightly alkaline water, sand, silt, clay, and residual hydrocarbons—that are stored in settling basins; the current inventory is about 840 million m 3. —Siddique et al. Tariq Siddique, Tara Penner, Kathleen Semple, Julia M.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Using detailed land analysis, University of Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce between 26-55% of the world’s current fuel consumption without affecting the use of land with regular productivity for conventional crops and without affecting the current pasture land. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Excelsior expects that the COGD process could result in significantly improved bitumen economics through both enhanced recovery gains—about 50% more than with SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage)—and substantial reductions in the amount of required water, fuel gas and diluent.

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APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. continues a national rollout of the net-zero energy home options KB Home began in fall 2011. American Honda Motor Co., model home in San Marcos, Calif., ZeroHouse 2.0 ZeroHouse 2.0

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JANUARY 4, 2012

A team from the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, reports on an improved material for capturing carbon dioxide from the air—silica?organic In the presence of water, these values were 230 and 124 mg CO 2 /g PEI, respectively. Credit: ACS, Goeppert et al.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

times as energy intensive to produce as conventional diesel, which restricts the current financial and environmental feasibility of algae production, according to a new life cycle analysis by a team from the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Energy Environ. —Shirvani et al.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The goal of this joint NSF-JST program is to advance novel biological knowledge in metabolomics in the areas of energy and the environment, and to foster greater collaborative interactions between Japanese and US scientists in these priority areas. —Program announcement. GMO products), etc.

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It includes a cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system, an electric water pump, a low-friction distribution chain, an intake manifold made of a composite material and a compact exhaust manifold. Between 2011—the year that the 3 rd generation Yaris was launched—and 2013, Yaris’ B-segment market share rose from 4.2

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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JULY 17, 2011

Researchers from Israel Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem on a Si–air/ionic liquid electrolyte battery whose performance improves with small amounts of water in the electrolyte. 2011), Remarkable Impact of Water on the Discharge Performance of a Silicon–Air Battery.

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As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I thrive in a mentoring environment that provides space for me to grow. Let’s meet the candidates. nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S.

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As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. About Marc: Marc has been a long-time advocate of electric vehicles and drives a 2002 Toyota RAV4 EV, 2011 Th!nk I thrive in a mentoring environment that provides space for me to grow. Let’s meet the candidates. nk City, and 2013 Tesla Model S.

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MARCH 10, 2018

Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Mattershift.

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As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. They didn’t remain mysterious for long. And everything changed.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

The findings have implications for the availability, management and use of water resources in regions around the world, say the researchers. Zhanqing Li (lead author), Feng Niu and Yanni Ding of the University of Maryland; Jiwen Fan of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Yangang Liu of Brookhaven National Laboratory; and Prof.

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APRIL 25, 2011

The two functions are carried out in succession by the same virus, whose activity is “switched” from one function to the next by changing the acidity of its environment. Belcher (2011) Virus-templated self-assembled single-walled carbon nanotubes for highly efficient electron collection in photovoltaic devices. Strano, Paula T.

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MAY 24, 2011

Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced. Ghirardi, Paul W.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

ORNL’s current mission is to conduct basic and applied research and development to create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation’s leadership in key areas of science; increase the availability of clean, abundant energy; restore and protect the environment; and contribute to national security.

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His broad base of experience in technical chemistry, large-scale fuel production, and engineering and retail environments has helped guide the assessment of potential hydrogen storage materials and systems for onboard and off-board vehicle requirements as well as the technical assessment of hydrogen delivery technologies.

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Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis. Table of Contents. Engineering Advantages of PHEV.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Boykoff, Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. Source: Nielsen. Click to enlarge.

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Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of. Electric vehicles will be available for customers in 2011.

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Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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