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Study provides more insight into air pollution mechanisms that cause cardiovascular diseases

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Scientists around Professor Thomas Münzel, Director of Cardiology I at the Department of Cardiology at the Medical Center Mainz of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), reviewed the mechanisms responsible for vascular damage from air pollution together with scientists from the UK and the US. —Münzel et al.

Pollution

Pollution Insight Ozone Cleveland

New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Source: Cleveland and O’Connor. The authors of the report “An Assessment of the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Oil Shale,” Dr. Cutler Cleveland and Peter O’Connor at Boston University, reviewed the existing literature on the energy return on investment (EROI) for oil shale to reach their conclusions. Click to enlarge.

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Oil Cleveland Carbon Boston

Omar Yaghi to direct Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Yaghi, who will also hold an appointment with the University of California (UC) Berkeley chemistry department, comes to Berkeley from UCLA, where he was the Jean Stone Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, among other positions. from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1990.

Cleveland

Cleveland Jordan Universal Hydrogen

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Enhanced Biomimetic Three-Dimensional Nanoporous Gyroid Membrane for High Efficiency Carbon Dioxide Absorption, $250,000. Additive Manufacturing of Carbon-Carbon Composites with Tailored Thermal Transport Properties, $1,349,659. Johnson-Matthey (Cleveland, United Kingdom).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

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JULY 30, 2014

The team was led by Forman Williams, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, San Diego. atm and ambient environments containing oxygen and nitrogen were diluted with both carbon dioxide and helium. The experiments are run by remote control from NASA’s John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

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Engine San Diego South Carolina Cleveland

Gas2 secures £5.5M in funding to further catalytic ceramic membrane gas-to-liquids technology

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Step 1 produces syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide) in 2 stages from a combination of natural gas and oxygen. acre site at the specialist petrochemical research Wilton Centre in Cleveland in the Northeast of England, and further laboratory work and computerized modeling in Aberdeen.

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Gas Cleveland Conversion Hydrogen

Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

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AUGUST 11, 2016

In addition to ozone and particulate matter, the other pollutants are lead, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Cleveland (Elyria), OH: 196 lives saved, 487 fewer morbidities and 231,859 fewer impacted days. Bakersfield, CA: 241 lives saved, 333 fewer morbidities and 220,722 fewer impacted days.

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Pollution Standards Ozone EPA

Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

Generally speaking, noted AVL researchers in a paper on the problem (Johnson & Hunter 2012), military-grade jet fuels have higher energy content on a mass basis (as a result of the higher hydrogen to carbon ratio), but lower energy density on a volume basis. Currently, notes Kweon, who received his Masters and Ph.D.

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Engine Design Fuel Diesel

NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

440 fission reactors operating worldwide, which together can generate about 400 gigawatts of power with zero carbon emissions. Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. There are currently about. Yet these fission plants, for all their value, have considerable downsides.

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Fusion Power Powered Hydrogen

When They Electrified Christmas

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

President Grover Cleveland was an early adopter of the electrified Christmas tree, as shown in this 1896 photo. The earliest Christmas lights used miniature versions of Edison's pear-shaped carbon-filament bulbs, which had fragile exhaust tips that were prone to breaking. Each 8-bulb set cost only $5, with a wholesale price of $3.50.

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Light Kansas City New York Washington

EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

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JUNE 20, 2011

Also, the biobased BDO pathway consumes carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), resulting in a reduction of 70% in CO 2 emissions. Because the chemical industry uses approximately 8% of the world’s fossil fuels, Genomatica’s technology has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by hundreds of millions of tons percent annually.

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Green 2011 Market 2020

Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. All told, housing accounts for about 20% of US carbon dioxide emissions, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

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Transportation Cleveland CO2 Phoenix

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Study provides more insight into air pollution mechanisms that cause cardiovascular diseases

New Review Concludes Very Low EROI of Oil Shale Combined with High Carbon Intensity Likely Makes it an Unsuitable Alternative to Conventional Crude Oil

Omar Yaghi to direct Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Space station droplet combustion experiments reveal cool-burning flames; potential to lead to better engines

Gas2 secures £5.5M in funding to further catalytic ceramic membrane gas-to-liquids technology

Study: more stringent O3 and PM2.5 air pollution standards could save thousands of lives, greatly improve public health

Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

When They Electrified Christmas

EPA announces 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards; green chemistry market opportunity projected to be $98.5B by 2020, about 2% of total market

Study finds cities can reduce CO2 more easily from residential conservation than transportation

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