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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.
Published in an open-access paper in the journal Fuel , their findings point to a cheaper, more environmentally friendly and renewable catalyst for processing that uses common bacteria and the metal palladium, which can be recovered from waste sources such as discarded electronics, catalytic converters, street sweeper dust and processed sewage.
With the new, cheap sensors, farmers will be able to collect data on their farms without worrying about the variability. One problem with mass-producing sensors, however, is that it creates a lot of waste. So far, the team has tested their prototypes in the lab environment.
Seven of the 28 projects, which will be led by Dr PK Wong, Deputy Director (Research) at A*STAR’s Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES), will develop technologies to capture, store and utilize carbon dioxide effectively to address the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide and reduce its adverse effect on the environment.
Scientists of Ural Federal University and the Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences) have developed and successfully tested the technology of joint non-waste processing of electric furnace and ladle slag to obtain pig iron and Portland cement clinker. —Oleg Sheshukov, lead author. Background.
MOF manufacturing techniques have been limited as they are costly, slow and require large quantities of solvents, which can be toxic and harmful to the environment. —Prof. Granting of the patent enabled the formation of MOF Technologies from Queen’s spin-out arm QUBIS.
Oil spill clean-up is an expensive and complicated process that often harms marine life and further damages the environment. And sorbents are not only expensive, but they generate a huge amount of physical waste—similar to the diaper landfill issue. Skimmers don’t work in rough waters or with thin layers of oil.
Cypris Materials, Inc is developing paintable solar reflective coatings for the built environment to decrease cooling costs, improve energy efficiency, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future.
For that reason, two-phase reaction media seem to be the most suitable environment for these particular enzymes. The results, the authors suggested in their paper, constitute a good starting point for efficient and cheap biodiesel production. The next step would be to adapt the methodology to readily available cheapwaste oils.
KPMG International is hosting the event, in cooperation with the UN Global Compact (UNGC), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Scarcity also creates opportunities to develop substitute materials or to recover materials from waste.
CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. Most research to date however is focusing on the sequestration of CO 2 in underground reservoirs.
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Michelin sees a future in which its tires might be more expensive but last much longer and be much less impactful on the environment. Synthetic rubber, or butadiene rubber, is “very cheap today,” said Roget, because it’s often made as a side product of gasoline production. According to information from the U.S. As the U.K.
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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Jack [Tramiel] made the bet that by the time we were ready to produce a product, 64K Rams would be cheap enough for us to use,” Charpentier said. But this wastes 2 kilobytes of RAM. ?“A We were using people who were there anyway,” said Ziembicki.
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Create cheap clean energy, new badly needed green jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. The high cost of fuel this past year seriously damaged our economy and society.
Bonnie Reiss, who in addition to her other credentials has spent four years as one of Governor Schwarzenegger’s advisers had four key points to make when it was her turn to speak and she wasted no time putting things in perspective, There is no more important issue that we can all be focusing on right now in this country and on this planet.
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