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Researchers create salts for cheap and efficient CO2 capture; mimicking methane hydrate

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—Cafer Yavuz, professor of chemistry, and director of the KAUST Oxide and Organic Nanomaterials for Energy & Environment (ONE) Laboratory Previous carbon capture methods included chemisorption, where chemical bonds form between CO 2 molecules and the surface.

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ICL researchers develop new membrane-based system for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

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Our new technology could help to drive down the cost of biofuels so that they eventually replace fossil fuels in transport and aviation—a much happier situation for the environment and one we are all working towards. —Professor Andrew Livingston of Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering.

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Cheap, Easy, and Underutilized Online Communication for Nonprofits

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A separate air cooling system ensures a constant thermal environment in the battery compartment. The concept car’s 30 battery modules—comprising 180 lithium-ion cells—were installed in spaces adapted to the vehicle architecture: in the floor of the trunk (fully usable cargo capacity: 275 liters, 9.7

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Cheap Sensors for Smarter Farmers

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With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. So far, the team has tested their prototypes in the lab environment. One problem with mass-producing sensors, however, is that it creates a lot of waste.

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BNEF: China dominates the Li-ion battery supply chain, but Europe is on the rise

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The work ranks countries across five key themes related to the supply chain: raw materials, cell & component manufacturing, environment, RII and end demand (across electric vehicles and stationary storage). The five key themes were given equal weightings in the overall ranking.

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Researchers split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen

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University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao, co-corresponding author, said that the researchers used a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer. 2023) “Direct seawater electrolysis by adjusting the local reaction environment of a catalyst.” A cm −2 at 1.87 V V and 60 °C. —Guo et al. Resources Guo, J.,

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New algorithm to allow Wi-Fi connected cars to share Internet connections

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In this setting, we’re assuming that Wi-Fi is cheap, but 3G is expensive. In general, the ability to have cheap computers and cheap sensors means that we can generate a huge amount of data about our environment. Unfortunately, what’s not cheap is communications.” —Alejandro Cornejo, lead author on the paper.

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