Energy & Green Tech
For the everyday products we use, a pattern has become numbingly familiar: Something is made, we use it, we throw it away. Yet, for a sustainable future—one where we don't simply extract and toss resources—we need to ...
Nov 22, 2022
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Robotics
Over the last century, we have mined more and more raw materials, and manufactured products from those materials. Increased prices for mined raw materials and improved recycling technology have enabled some industries to ...
Mar 29, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Fluid injection of perovskite semiconductors creates microwires to build different optoelectronic devices on a single silicon chip.
Mar 1, 2021
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Engineering
Using polymers and natural stone slurry waste, UBC Okanagan researchers are manufacturing environmentally friendly stone composites.
Sep 19, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
More than four billion tons of crude oil are produced every year, and electricity from wind, solar and hydropower plants cannot entirely supplant fossil sources of energy. At best, renewables could cover the energy needed ...
Nov 2, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Wastewater treatment is vital to remove pathogens, but is incredibly energy intensive. The ability to treat it more sustainably is a challenge researchers from WMG, University of Warwick have been able to achieve, using recycled ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Up until now it has been a challenge to store the energy we generate when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. But researchers at a laboratory in Trondheim in Norway have succeeded in doing just this—and entirely ...
Oct 6, 2022
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Engineering
West Virginia University researchers are resurrecting discarded electronics, recycling electronic waste and recovering minerals from it to make new products critical for national defense.
Sep 29, 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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Engineering
An industry-first apartment made using waste materials that has the potential to revolutionize home construction has been revealed by the UNSW SMaRT Centre and industry partner Mirvac.
Mar 10, 2021
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