Energy & Green Tech
At the foot of an Icelandic volcano, a newly-opened plant is sucking carbon dioxide from the air and turning it to rock, locking away the main culprit behind global warming.
Nov 2, 2021
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Making fresh water out of seawater usually requires huge amounts of energy. The most widespread process for desalination is called reverse osmosis, which works by flowing seawater over a membrane at high pressure to remove ...
May 13, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of researchers from X–Alphabet's "moonshot factory," Google and the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEF, has developed a model that shows that a hypothetical ...
Energy & Green Tech
An almost limitless supply of fresh water exists in the form of water vapor above Earth's oceans, yet remains untapped, researchers said. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the first to suggest ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In the grounds of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant sits a million-tonne headache for the plant's operators and Japan's government: tank after tank of water contaminated with radioactive elements.
Oct 5, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a pollen-based "paper" that, after being printed on, can be "erased" and reused multiple times without any damage to the paper.
Apr 5, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Carbon-based organic micropollutants in water can be removed by treatment with high-intensity pulses of light in a procedure developed and demonstrated by researchers at KAUST.
Jan 10, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Plants can't speak up when they are thirsty. And visual signs, such as shriveling or browning leaves, don't start until most of their water is gone. To detect water loss earlier, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials ...
May 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
There are around 440 nuclear power plants operating in 32 countries around the world, supplying some 10% of the world's electricity. Another 60 reactors are under construction, and 300 more are proposed.
Feb 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Eleven years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was ravaged by a meltdown following a massive earthquake and tsunami, the plant now looks like a sprawling construction site. Most of the radioactive debris blasted ...
Mar 11, 2022
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