Recycling tires and plastics with an ancient heating method
Thermal decomposition is helping to green two major EU manufacturing industries.
Jan 30, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
News tagged with energy economy
Energy & Green Tech
Magnetism: An unexpected push for the hydrogen economy
Humankind has entered uncharted territory: atmospheric CO2 levels have soared to a record-breaking 415 ppm for the first time in human history. The need to find a sustainable alternative to CO2-producing fuels is urgent. ...
Jun 10, 2019
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Business
Scientists weigh benefits of increased hydrogen production
Hydrogen technology has the potential to transform aspects of the energy landscape, according to a new report from Argonne scientists.
Feb 11, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
New eco-friendly way to make ammonia could be boon for agriculture, hydrogen economy
Ammonia has sustained humanity since the early 20th century, but its production leaves a huge carbon footprint. Now researchers have found a way to make it 100 percent renewable.
Jan 20, 2021
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Robotics
Exoskeleton walks out into the real world
For years, the Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory has captured imaginations with their exoskeleton emulators—lab-based robotic devices that help wearers walk and run faster, with less effort. Now, these researchers will ...
Oct 12, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar-powered system converts plastic and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels
Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products—using just the energy from the sun.
Jan 9, 2023
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Engineering
How energy-generating wastewater treatment can handle China's urban population boom
From 2016 to 2020 around 100 million people have moved from the countryside to China's cities. This massive migration to cities means wastewater treatment plant numbers have multiplied to meet demand. At the beginning of ...
May 20, 2021
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Business
Competition with China a 'driving force' for clean energy funding in the 21st century
The first major study of driving forces behind government funding of energy RD&D—and the public institutions generating it—over the 21st century shows that competition created by China's rise as a technology superpower ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Accelerating the commercialization of solid oxide electrolysis cells that produce green hydrogen
Green hydrogen production technology is absolutely necessary to finally realize the hydrogen economy because unlike gray hydrogen, green hydrogen does not generate large amounts of carbon dioxide in the production process.
Feb 21, 2023
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Engineering
Microsoft tests hydrogen fuel cells for backup power at datacenters
In a worldwide first that could jumpstart a clean energy economy built around the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen fuel cells have powered a row of datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, Microsoft announced ...
Jul 28, 2020
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