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APRIL 11, 2014

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a nanocrystalline copper material that produces multi-carbon oxygenates (ethanol, acetate and n-propanol) with up to 57% Faraday efficiency at modest potentials (–0.25?volts volts versus the reversible hydrogen electrode) in CO-saturated alkaline water. volts to –0.5?volts

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MARCH 31, 2020

Note: Clean hydrogen refers to both renewable and low-carbon hydrogen (from fossil-fuels with CCS). Renewable hydrogen can be made by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, using electricity generated by cheap wind or solar power. Renewable energy has paved the way to carbon-free electricity. Source: BloombergNEF.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

A low-cost, nanostructured composite material developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz has shown performance comparable to Pt/C as a catalyst for the electrochemical splitting of water to produce hydrogen. Carbon-based materials (such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and amorphous carbon) have also been explored as viable catalysts for HER.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

The European Union (EU) market, which is home to about 30% of algae activity, will be limited initially by the industry’s focus on university research, and later by insufficient access to water, land, and nutrient sources. Ultimately, algae potential is greatest in regions where there is an abundance of land, water, and sunlight.

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MAY 6, 2019

In an opinion piece in the journal Nature , a team from the US and Europe suggests that the transition to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers, and that it is therefore necessary to put geopolitics at the heart of debates about the energy transition. abating carbon will create losers.

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MAY 13, 2019

A cheaper, cleaner and more sustainable way of making hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight is closer with new research from the University of Bath’s Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. The Bath team instead used commercially available graphite, which is very cheap and much more sustainable than indium. —Poli et al.

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JUNE 27, 2014

Scientists at USC have developed a novel water-based Organic Redox Flow Battery (ORBAT) for lower cost, long lasting large-scale energy storage. ORBAT employs two different water-soluble organic redox couples on the positive and negative side of a flow battery. Schematic of ORBAT. Click to enlarge. —Yang et al. Electrochem.

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JUNE 2, 2017

A team of scientists from Penn State and Florida State University have developed a lower cost and industrially scalable catalyst consisting of synthesized stacked graphene and W x Mo 1–x S 2 alloy phases that produces pure hydrogen through a low-energy water-splitting process.

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JUNE 9, 2014

The cost of electrofuels—fuels produced by catalyst-based systems for light capture, water electrolysis, and catalytic conversion of carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels—remains far away from viable, according to a new analysis by Lux Research. Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. Source: Lux Research.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The KPMG study, “Expect the Unexpected: Building Business Value in a Changing World”, explores issues such as climate change, energy and fuel volatility, water availability and cost and resource availability, as well as population growth spawning new urban centers. Population Growth: The world population is expected to grow to 8.4

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Syngip is a third-generation industrial biotech start-up created in 2014 in the Netherlands that has developed a process to convert gaseous carbon sources such as CO 2 , CO, and industrial emissions such as syngas, into various valuable chemical compounds. just using water, H 2 , CO 2 and sunlight. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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MARCH 24, 2020

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland), with colleagues at the University of Vienna (Austria), CNRS (France) and Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry (Russia), have developed a highly graphitized graphene nanoflake (GF)–carbon nanotube (CNT) hybrid catalyst doped simultaneously with single atoms of N, Co, and Mo (N-Co-Mo-GF/CNT).

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MARCH 19, 2019

Existing water-splitting methods rely on highly purified water—a precious resource and costly to produce. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology.

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JULY 21, 2021

To split water into hydrogen on a large scale, we need technologies that are sustainable, efficient, scalable and durable. Using solar energy (or other renewable energy sources ) to split water delivers sustainability , while recent research has made key inroads toward efficiency and scalability. percent.

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APRIL 24, 2013

The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. The students set out to identify plentiful and inexpensive sources of carbon and nitrogen, and test ways to combine them with a molybdenum salt. One key step is splitting water (water electrolysis).

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JUNE 1, 2015

Stanford University scientists have created a new ultrahigh surface area three-dimensional porous graphitic carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. The maximum surface area achieved with conventional activated carbon is about 3,000 m 2 g –1. cm –3 ), and hierarchical pore architecture.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The Dapozol MEA is optimized for operating temperatures of 120-200°C, high carbon monoxide concentrations and no requirements for humidification. Methanol reforming converts a mix of methanol and water into a hydrogen-rich gas.

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JULY 25, 2016

Further, the cathode is automatically protected from O 2 gas release and overcharging through the shuttling of self-generated radical species soluble in the carbonate electrolyte. You need large auxiliary systems to remove the carbon dioxide and water, and it’s very hard to do this.” V in O x− (condensed phase) → O 2 (gas).

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation.

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JUNE 6, 2013

In addition to the high cost, however, Pt and its alloys are also suffered from methanol crossover/carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning effects and poor operation stability. The technology to make the metal-free ORR catalysts builds on a simple and cheap industrial process several of the researchers developed to make graphene sheets from graphite.

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MAY 4, 2016

In recent years, all six Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain—have begun to challenge the notion that citizens are entitled to cheap energy. Across the Gulf, Iran has taken similar steps.

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AUGUST 16, 2009

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. Earlier post.). This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca.

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MARCH 11, 2013

The catalyst can be immobilized on inexpensive carbon electrodes, such as those used in domestic Zn-carbon dry batteries, to generate H 2 from acid aqueous solutions. In addition to that, its reactivity is retained when immobilized on cheap carbon electrodes, which is of significant practical interest. 1 is obtained.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

Also essential to the legitimacy of FCEV as a low-carbon emission solution will be the availability of cheap green hydrogen, produced by the electrolysis of water using renewable electricity, which analysis in the IDTechEx report highlights, will be vital to FCEVs delivering the environmental credentials on which they are being sold.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has provided A$5 million (US$4 million) in funding to Wollongong-based AquaHydrex to develop commercially its new class of electrolyzer to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water. When hydrogen burns, it produces only water vapor and no carbon dioxide.

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AUGUST 25, 2012

However, its use has been challenging as a result of impurities such as water and large amounts of free fatty acids (FFAs), which are common in most waste materials. This work also proved that efficient non-catalytic biodiesel conversion could be achieved by using only activated alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) in the presence of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ).

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JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

A team led by Professor Jae Sung Lee at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), with colleagues at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), have developed a new pathway for the direct conversion of CO 2 to liquid transportation fuels by reaction with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting.

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JANUARY 11, 2014

AQDS undergoes extremely rapid and reversible two-electron two-proton reduction on a glassy carbon electrode in sulfuric acid. First, scalability: AQDS contains only the Earth-abundant atoms carbon, sulphur, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be inexpensively manufactured on large scales. —Michael J. Commercialization.

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MARCH 2, 2018

An international research team has developed a new single-atom electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO 2 to carbon monoxide (CO). The anion membrane electrode assembly prevented the direct contact between the catalyst and liquid water, maximally suppressing the H 2 evolution side reaction and facilitating the CO 2 mass transport.

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MAY 16, 2014

IBM Research’s computational chemistry efforts can take out a lot of this guesswork and accelerate a whole new range of potential applications from developing a disease-specific drugs or cheap, light, tough and completely recyclable panels on a car. New ultra-strong polymer reinforced with carbon nanotubes. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 26, 2013

A good candidate for the next generation of batteries has to be abundant, environmentally friendly, cheap and safe; silicon fulfills these conditions. While LiPF 6 presents a high ionic conductivity and good electrochemical stability when it is solved in carbonate solvents, it also presents many problems, the authors noted.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers from the University of Liverpool (UK), with colleagues from Dalian University of Technology (China) and the University of Hull (UK), have developed a new process for the direct, one-step activation of carbon dioxide and methane (dry reforming of methane) into higher value liquid fuels and chemicals (e.g.,

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OCTOBER 12, 2012

Professor Stuart James in Queen’s School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering patented a novel technique for the synthesis of MOFs without using any solvents, even water, and on greatly reduced timescales, by making use of mechanochemistry. The same gas supplies that power our central heating and gas ovens. —Prof.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The photothermocatalytic process for the synthesis of hydrocarbons—including liquid alkanes, aromatics, and oxygenates, with carbon numbers (C n ) up to C 13 —ran in a flow photoreactor operating at elevated temperatures (180–200 °C) and pressures (1–6 bar) using a 5% cobalt on TiO 2 catalyst and under UV irradiation.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The production of 5 million metric tons of green ammonia produced per year would eliminate 13 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the equivalent of taking 9 million gasoline-fueled cars off the road. At 5GW, this would be the largest electrolyzer reservation of any type. —Joel Moser, CEO of First Ammonia.

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DECEMBER 26, 2024

The companys plan is to electrochemically strip carbon dioxide out of the ocean, store or use the CO 2 , and then return the water to the sea, where it will naturally absorb more CO 2 from the air. Captura is one of a cadre of startups eyeing Earths oceans as a carbon sink ready to be harnessed. Thats a huge amount of water.

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