Three reasons concrete doesn't live up to its environmental claims
Up to 8% of all global anthropogenic human-made emissions are due to just one material, cement. And our use of it is rising.
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Generating green hydrogen from biomass, an abundant renewable energy source
An innovative technology to produce hydrogen from biomass has been developed by a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The team was led by S. Dasappa, Professor at the Center for Sustainable Technologies, ...
Jul 13, 2022
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Green building progress in the '13th Five-Year Plan' for China
Building construction and operation account for 16% and 22%, respectively, of total carbon emissions in China. Those numbers are down, but still need significant work to achieve green building construction and carbon neutrality, ...
Jul 7, 2022
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Getting the carbon out of India's heavy industries
The world's third largest carbon emitter after China and the United States, India ranks seventh in a major climate risk index. Unless India, along with the nearly 200 other signatory nations of the Paris Agreement, takes ...
Jul 6, 2022
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Closed-loop cobalt recycling from spent lithium-ion batteries based on a deep eutectic solvent
Taibai Li, Xiang Ge, and their colleagues from School of Materials and Metallurgy, Guizhou University have reported the efficient closed-loop recycling of the cathode material lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) of lithium-ion batteries ...
Jun 24, 2022
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Nuclear energy is wildly uncompetitive without a high price on carbon dioxide emissions
The idea of nuclear power in Australia has been hotly debated for decades. Most of this discussion has been unproductive, focusing on symbolism and identity politics rather than the realities of energy policy. For that reason ...
Jun 10, 2022
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Carbon, cost and battery conditioning benefits calculated for vehicle-to-grid chargepoints
Vehicle-to-grid chargepoints can improve battery life in electric vehicles and reduce carbon emissions and costs of charging, a government-funded project has found.
Jun 9, 2022
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In 30 years, your summer plane flight may be a little more expensive. It could also be carbon-free
As millions of Americans hop on airplanes heading to favorite vacation spots, the industry is gearing for a bigger journey—one that will tackle removing the carbon emissions from those flights over the next 30 years.
Jun 9, 2022
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A novel process to capture and convert CO2 from air
As CO2 emissions continue to grow, the world is becoming ever more reliant on the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to achieve urgent climate targets. Direct air capture (DAC) is a promising novel technology for ...
Jun 6, 2022
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Increasing methane yield from biogas plants
Biogas plants produce methane along with more than 40% CO2 which has been released into the atmosphere in conventional biogas plants. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM have ...
Jun 1, 2022
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