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Nacero selects Topsoe’s TIGAS technology for gas-to-gasoline unit; reducing lifecycle carbon footprint up to 50%

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Nacero’s Pemwell-facility in Houston, Texas. By making our gasoline from natural gas, renewable natural gas, and captured flare gas rather than crude oil, Nacero will offer America’s 225 million drivers an affordable, everyday climate solution. The captured CO 2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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The summit kicked off on 4 May at the Georgia Aquarium with a reception and panel discussion on climate change and sustainability, moderated by Saifur Rahman , IEEE president and CEO. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. cities in creating and executing climate action and resilience plans. UCN assists U.S.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. She also wanted to get students involved in the work. To help her cause, she and colleague Z.

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Learning to Surf, 200 Miles From the Nearest Ocean

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I’d traveled to the two-acre wave pool at Waco Surf , a water sports complex in Waco, Texas, chasing an unfulfilled childhood dream. Three other students — a middle-aged couple from Austin and a young professional from Houston — joined me on the wave pool’s sandy beach. He held the board in the water and asked me to pop up on it.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. for climate control in automobiles. heating and water purification. develop processes that use water and recycled CO2 as the.

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