Energy & Green Tech
Though geothermal represents only a tiny fraction of current US energy production, several businesses and President Joe Biden's administration are betting on technological advances to make it a backbone of the green transition.
Mar 25, 2024
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Engineering
A new way to make an important ingredient for plastics, adhesives, carpet fibers, household cleaners and more from natural gas could reduce manufacturing costs in a post-petroleum economy by millions of dollars, thanks to ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Business
An electricity market analysis found adding battery storage to enhance grid reliability caused power generation markets to favor coal over natural gas.
Apr 11, 2024
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Business
On 24 February 2022, the Russian army entered Ukraine, escalating a conflict that had begun almost a decade earlier. On the same day, the European Council held an urgent meeting to respond to the aggression and to study emergency ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Berkeley's agreement to throw out its first-in-the-nation ban on gas hookups in new buildings after losing a court challenge might seem like a big loss for climate action.
Apr 8, 2024
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Engineering
Imagine a vast volume of porous sandstone reservoir, once full of oil and natural gas, now full of a different carbon-free fuel—hydrogen. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are using computer simulations and laboratory ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Panasonic's new US$4 billion battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, is designed to be a model of sustainability—it's an all-electric factory with no need for a smokestack. When finished, it will cover the size of 48 football ...
Apr 3, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
It has been more than 60 years since Ghana's first post-independence leader Kwame Nkrumah first mooted the idea that Ghana should produce aluminum from the country's ample supply of bauxite.
Mar 26, 2024
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Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills. It is an important fuel source, a major feedstock for fertilizers, and a potent greenhouse gas.
Natural gas is often informally referred to as simply gas, especially when compared to other energy sources such as electricity. Before natural gas can be used as a fuel, it must undergo extensive processing to remove almost all materials other than methane. The by-products of that processing include ethane, propane, butanes, pentanes and higher molecular weight hydrocarbons, elemental sulfur, and sometimes helium and nitrogen.
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