Engineering
Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from "end-of-life" vehicles into graphene via the university's flash Joule heating process.
May 26, 2022
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Business
A small team of environmental scientists has found via simulations that rerouting commercial airplanes to reduce contrails would be less expensive than previously thought. In their study, published in the journal Environmental ...
Engineering
As the world gets warmer, the use of power-hungry air conditioning systems is projected to increase significantly, putting a strain on existing power grids and bypassing many locations with little or no reliable electric ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Engineering
Scientists have developed a new method that converts seawater into drinking water that could be useful in disaster zones where there is limited electrical power.
Sep 21, 2023
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Engineering
Imagine boiling water burst in the middle of the road while you are walking the street. District heating pipelines supply hot water at temperatures of as high as 120℃ at constant pressure from a District Heating Hot Water ...
Dec 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In an effort to ease Americans' pain at the gas pump, President Joe Biden has announced his administration will ease restrictions on the sale of E15—gasoline that includes 15 percent ethanol—and new investments in biofuels ...
Apr 14, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In the cradle of France's atomic program, researchers are using their nuclear know-how for a key project in the country's energy transition: recycling the raw materials in old electric car batteries, solar panels and wind ...
Sep 27, 2023
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Ford Motor Co. officials on Tuesday pledged to be good neighbors to those in rural west Tennessee who live near the automaker's planned electric truck factory, a project expected to create thousands of jobs and change the ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Engineering
Special permeable concrete pavement can help reduce the "urban heat island effect" that causes cities to sizzle in the summer, according to a Rutgers-led team of engineers.
Aug 1, 2019
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Engineering
In April 2022, a team of engineers hiked into California's Sierra Nevada mountains to hunt for snow. Instead, they found mostly bare, dry dirt and only a few of the snow patches that provide one-third of California's water ...
Jan 18, 2023
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