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Sustainable Electric Car That Cleans The Air While Driving — Zem

July 23, 2022 admin cars, clean transport, climate change, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, netherlands, research, SCIENCE, solar cars, solar-powered cars, tu eindhoven

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:26:33 +0000

TU Eindhoven students develop passenger car that captures more CO₂ than it emits while driving TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through a special filter. By storing the captured CO₂ […]

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Bacteria Could Help to Capture Greenhouse Gases

July 23, 2022 admin canadian light source, Carbon Capture, carbon capture (ccs), research, SCIENCE, university of saskatchewan

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 23:30:32 +0000

Carbon dioxide is an important molecule necessary for life on Earth. Trees need CO2 for photosynthesis, crops produce higher yields in its presence, and some bacteria can transform it into food. The molecule is even an important part of human health, driving us to take in big breaths of oxygen. However, too much CO2 can have a […]

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Solar Park Powering Astronomical Observatory In Chile’s Atacama Desert

July 23, 2022 admin chile, clean power, European Space Agency, SCIENCE, Solar energy

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 16:40:42 +0000

A recent story at PV Magazine shares the story of an observatory in Chile powered by solar power. A solar plant with a capacity of 9 megawatts has now been completed at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory. The PV installation is also intended to power the world’s largest telescope, which is currently being built […]

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With Climate Change, Nights Are Warming Faster Than Days. Why?

July 22, 2022 admin climate change, global weirding, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:50:31 +0000

Extreme heat and heatwaves are growing more frequent and more severe because of climate change. That often brings to mind images of people trying to catch some shade under a baking hot sun or city kids cooling off in a fountain while their parents sweat on the sidelines. While climate change is making our days hotter, the […]

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U.S. & Australia To Accelerate Zero-Emission Technology Together

July 22, 2022 admin Australia, chris bowen, clean power, commonwealth scientific and industrial research organization, csiro, Energy Storage, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), nrel, policy & politics, policy research, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2022 06:47:34 +0000

On July 11, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Australia’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen signed the Australia–United States Net-Zero Technology Acceleration Partnership at the Sydney Energy Forum. The partnership will accelerate the development and deployment of zero-emissions technology, including long-duration energy storage, integration of renewable energy into power grids, and […]

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Do Teslas Really Account for 70% of US Crashes Involving ADAS? Of Course Not

July 20, 2022 admin adas, cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, national highway traffic safety administration (nhtsa), nhtsa, research, SCIENCE, tesla, tesla autopilot, tesla crashes, tesla fsd beta

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:23:34 +0000

Quite surprisingly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently started collecting somewhat broad data on automobile accidents involving SAE Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) — driver-assist technology like cruise control, lane keeping, and automatic lane changing. The first report on the collected data was published last month. Immediately, a rather shocking figure […]

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$5.4 Million To Research Turning Buildings Into Carbon Storage Structures

July 19, 2022 admin arpa-e, buildings, carbon capture (ccs), cement, concrete, energy efficiency, insulation, microalgae, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), research, SCIENCE, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:50:19 +0000

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been selected to receive over $5.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for the development of technologies that can transform buildings into carbon storage structures. The funding is part of ARPA-E’s Harnessing Emissions into Structures Taking Inputs from the Atmosphere (HESTIA) program, which […]

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Longer Lasting Sodium-Ion Batteries on the Horizon

July 16, 2022 admin batteries, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, pacific northwest national laboratory, pacific northwest national laboratory (pnnl), research, SCIENCE, sodium-ion batteries

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:48:33 +0000

An advanced sodium-ion battery design overcomes technical hurdles

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Greener Electric Car Batteries? (Ask A Scientist)

July 16, 2022 admin batteries, bipartisan infrastructure law, clean transport, cobalt, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev batteries, ev battery recycling, ev battery recycling/reuse, green economy, Joe Biden, lithium, lithium brine extraction, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, nickel, redwood materials, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 03:10:29 +0000

Lithium-ion batteries are the most popular battery in use today. First commercialized in 1991, their cost has declined by a remarkable 97 percent over the last three decades, enabling the rapid growth of mobile phones, laptops, and, more recently, electric cars. Global demand for the batteries is projected to increase dramatically by the end of this decade, […]

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Human Brains, & Why Some People Refuse to Accept Electric Cars

July 15, 2022 admin cars, clean transport, electric cars, Electric vehicles, ev myths, psychology, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 02:16:33 +0000

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” This pearl of wisdom is usually attributed to Upton Sinclair, but many other thinkers have made similar observations. “Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced,” was H. L. Mencken’s formulation. This […]