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Fraunhofer team develops process to recycle carbon black from car tires

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A new process developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP is able to isolate almost all of this ash—allowing both the carbon black and the minerals from the ash to be reused. tons of fossil resources and vast quantities of water; the process generates up to three tons of carbon dioxide. © Fraunhofer IBP.

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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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As coal plants close, they leave behind empty building shells and scores of lost jobs. Such a conversion has never been done, but the report is another sign that the idea is gaining momentum—if with the slow steps of a baby needing decades to learn to walk. “A coal plants are planned to shutter by 2035. On 13 September, the U.S.

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Biofriendly Transient Devices Emerge

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Ameer said he and his colleagues would not have moved forward with the idea if they did not think it was safe. It is composed of food-grade algae powder added to a graphene suspension composed of graphite, sodium cholate, and deionized water, then dried to form a nanocomposite sheet.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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And I think it wasn’t sort of defined consistently always because there’s this idea that seems to be sort of bubbling to the top, bubbling to the surface, that there are these electrical properties that the body has, and they’re not just epiphenomena, and they’re not just in the nervous system. This is like sieve water.

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