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The Fate Of Our Food Systems Is Wrapped Up In Climate Change & Plant Nutrition

January 15, 2025 admin Agriculture, climate change, climate change food, CO2, FOOD, policy & politics, regenerative agriculture, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:30:54 +0000

Global climate change has had a significant impact on the way the world grows its food. Climate change introduces a suite of ominous factors, such as greenhouse gas emissions, elevated temperature, increased carbon dioxide concentrations, nitrous oxide and methane ozone depletion, and deforestation. All of these intensify environmental stresses on … [continued]

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Know Your Insects & Save Them, Too: The North American Giant Stag Beetle

January 15, 2025 admin climate change, disney, insects, INTERVIEWS, National Geographic, nature, pollinators, research, SCIENCE, usa, wildlife

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:12:17 +0000

The new Nat Geo TV series A Real Bug’s Life peels back the cover on the secret life of insects, including a dramatic never-before-seen Stag Beetle smackdown.

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Melting Glaciers In Antarctica May Encourage More Volcanic Activity

January 14, 2025 admin antarctica, climate change, climate science, glacial melting, research, SCIENCE, Volcano

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:12:32 +0000

As the glaciers melt in Antarctica, the reduced weight on the Earth below could lead to an increase in volcanic activity.

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Breaking Fossil Domination in Plastics: CleanTech Talk Interview with Lignin Industries CEO Fredrik Malmfors

January 11, 2025 admin cleantech talk, INTERVIEWS, lignin, Plastic, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Scott Cooney| Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:53:44 +0000

I really enjoyed sitting down with Fredrik Malmfors, CEO of Lignin Industries, to talk about how his company and its patented technology are taking on fossil based plastics, leveraging good old fashioned horse sense, supply chains, waste materials, and … carbon sequestration technologies? As it turns out, Sweden-based Lignin Industries … [continued]

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Next-Gen “Massless” EV Batteries Could Weigh Nothing At All

January 2, 2025 admin batteries, carbon fiber, carbon fiber battery, chalmers university of technology, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, research, SCIENCE, sustainability, sustainable, Sweden

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:38:29 +0000

“Massless” EV batteries are designed to pull double duty as structural elements that add no extra weight to a vehicle, increasing battery range by an estimated 70%.

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Hints Of A Next-Generation EV Battery Emerge From New Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Material

December 30, 2024 admin argonne national labatory, batteries, clean transport, dual chemistry battery, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery degradation, general motors, lithium-ion batteries, our next energy, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:36:15 +0000

The state of EV battery technology has come a long way since 1996, when GM deployed lead-acid chemistry in a short-lived attempt to bring electric cars back from a decades-long hiatus.

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Space Solar Race Heats Up, Now With Flying Data Centers

December 29, 2024 admin AI, clean power, data centers, datacenters, green economy, investment, lumen, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, solar power plants, space

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:17:13 +0000

Space solar technology has created the conditions for launching data centers into orbit, taking advantage of ultra-low energy costs and opportunities for expansion.

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Vanadium Opens The Door To Low-Cost EV Batteries Made From Salt

December 25, 2024 admin argonne national laboratory (anl), batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), research, SCIENCE, sodium, sodium-ion, sodium-ion battery, us department of energy (doe), vanadium

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:58:34 +0000

Researchers are deploying vanadium to develop a new generation of high performing, low cost sodium-ion EV batteries and stationary energy storage systems.

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11 Projects for Advancing Next-Gen Batteries in USA

December 23, 2024 admin argonne national laboratory, arkema, batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, research, SCIENCE, subsidies, university of akron, university of maryland, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:18:29 +0000

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is investing $25 million into 11 projects focused on developing next-gen batteries and associated components. The announcement today from the DOE indicates that the funding goes toward projects focused on “advance materials, processes, machines, and equipment for domestic manufacturing of next–generation batteries.” In other … [continued]

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Salton Sea Lithium Researchers Win Award for Societal Impact

December 22, 2024 admin batteries, battery metals, battery minerals, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery materials, geothermal lithium, geothermal technologies office, lawrence berkeley national laboratory (lbnl), lithium, lithium-ion batteries, policy & politics, research, Salton Sea, SCIENCE, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:55:05 +0000

If electric cars are the cars of the future (and they are), then batteries are sort of the gasoline of the future (well, really, they should be considered the gas tanks of the future … but gas tanks aren’t nearly as valuable, technical, or worth discussing). What’s in those batteries … [continued]

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