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Two's a Crowd: Nuclear and Renewables Don't Mix

Oct. 5, 2020 — If countries want to lower emissions as substantially, rapidly and cost-effectively as possible, they should prioritize support for renewables, rather than nuclear power, the findings of a major new ...

Generating Renewable Hydrogen Fuel from the Sea

Sep. 29, 2020 — The power of the sun, wind and sea may soon combine to produce clean-burning hydrogen fuel, according to researchers. The team integrated water purification technology into a new proof-of-concept ...

Inexpensive, Non-Toxic Nanofluid Could Be a Game-Changer for Oil Recovery

Sep. 10, 2020 — Researchers have demonstrated that an inexpensive and non-toxic nanofluid can be used to efficiently recover even heavy oil with high viscosity from ...

Splitting Water Molecules for a Renewable Energy Future

Sep. 4, 2020 — Chemists are working on energy storage and conversion research. This work is part of a new study that solves a key, fundamental barrier in the electrochemical water splitting process where the Lin ...

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Spinach: Good for Popeye and the Planet

Oct. 5, 2020 — Spinach, when converted from its leafy, edible form into carbon nanosheets, acts as a catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction in fuel cells and metal-air ...

Researchers Help Develop Sustainable Polymers

Sep. 26, 2020 — Researchers have made new discoveries on the effects of temperature on sustainable polymers. Their findings may help the industry to produce plastics that are better for the ...

Better Catalysts for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

Sep. 21, 2020 — Researchers want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. Today, these compounds are already indispensable additives in the chemical industry and have been used as catalysts in oil refineries since ...

How to Harness the Power of Biosolids to Make Hydrogen

Sep. 14, 2020 — New technology uses biosolids to drive the chemical reactions needed to produce hydrogen from biogas. The circular economy approach means all the materials needed for hydrogen production could be ...

Microbes Working Together Multiply Biomass Conversion Possibilities

Aug. 27, 2020 — Non-edible plants are a promising alternative to crude oil, but their heterogenous composition can be a challenge to producing high yields of useful products. Scientists have developed a platform ...

A New Method for Making a Key Component of Plastics

Aug. 27, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a previously unknown way that some bacteria produce the chemical ethylene - a finding that could lead to new ways to produce plastics without using fossil fuels. The study ...

Civilization May Need to 'Forget the Flame' to Reduce CO2 Emissions

Aug. 27, 2020 — Current world energy consumption is tied to unchangeable past economic production. And the way out of an ever-increasing rate of carbon emissions may not necessarily be ever-increasing energy ...

Bold Proposal to Tackle One of the Biggest Barriers to More Renewable Energy

Aug. 25, 2020 — The phrase 'too much of a good thing' may sound like a contradiction, but it encapsulates one of the key hurdles preventing the expansion of ...

Hydrochloric Acid Boosts Catalyst Activity

Aug. 25, 2020 — A research team has developed a synthesis process which drastically increases the activity of catalysts for the desulfurization of crude oil. The new process could perhaps also be used for catalysts ...