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Joseph Shavit
Oct 31, 2021
Researchers discover potential method to convert food waste into batteries
What do apple cores, spent grain, and walnut shells have in common? They could one day be used to power a data center.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 29, 2021
Turning wastewater from coffee production into electricity
Professor Claudio Avignone Rossa identified a way to process the waste differently by feeding it to a community of electrogenic microbes.
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Joseph Shavit
Oct 28, 2021
New lamp generates light for 45 days with half-liter of salt water
The Waterlight lamp was awarded a Silver Cannes in the design category and two bronzes in innovation and social responsibility.
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Joshua Shavit
Oct 25, 2021
New material paves the way for more powerful and safer batteries
Researchers are working to replace the liquids commonly used in today’s lithium ion batteries with solid materials.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 22, 2021
New solar-powered technology uses salt and water to cool off-the-grid communities
A simple cooling system driven by the capture of passive solar energy could provide low-cost food refrigeration and living space cooling.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 22, 2021
Bill Gates raises over $1 billion for clean energy
Bill Gates's nonprofit group Breakthrough Energy announced Monday that it has raised more than $1 billion to fund clean energy development.
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 15, 2021
New green process pulls lithium from contaminated water to meet growing global demand
Although the supply of lithium around the world is plentiful, getting access to it and extracting it remains challenging and inefficient.
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 13, 2021
Quantum chemists conjure recipe to turn gold, silver and copper into vessels of green energy
Quantum chemists believe gold, silver and copper could help the world take a leap towards green energy
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 13, 2021
New superconducting magnet breaks magnetic field records, paving the way for fusion energy
The creation of practical, inexpensive, carbon-free power plants that could limit the effects of global climate change.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 13, 2021
Saildrone’s low-carbon ocean drones can help enable renewable energy
Saildrone has unveiled its Offshore Wind Life Cycle solutions that, it says, will help make new offshore wind farms a reality.
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 12, 2021
Transforming ‘sewer gas’ into clean hydrogen fuel
Scientists have found a new chemical process to turn a stinky, toxic gas into a clean-burning fuel.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 12, 2021
In 1 minute a new technology can brighten lives in the developing world for over 2 hours
Statistics show that 67% of the developing world still goes without household electricity and relying on poluting kerosene lamps for light.
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 10, 2021
New lamp generates light for 45 days with half-liter of salt water
There are approximately 840 million people worldwide who do not have access to electricity. The project emerged to brighten up lives.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 9, 2021
Green solution to combine sunlight and wastewater to make Ammonia 10x more efficiently
Engineers at the University of Illinois have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that not only uses wastewater to make ammonia
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 8, 2021
Crewless boats are mapping the ocean thanks to XOCEAN - an Irish startup
Two uncrewed vessels remotely controlled from shore have travelled up to 40 kilometres offshore into the North Sea to undertake survey work
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 4, 2021
How much energy do we need to achieve a decent life for all?
In the fight to eradicate poverty around the world and achieve decent living standards (DLS), having sufficient energy is a key requirement
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Joshua Shavit
Sep 2, 2021
Bacteria may be the low cost, environmentally friendly energy storage system of the future
Low-cost, environmentally friendly and large-scale system for storing and retrieving energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar.
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Joseph Shavit
Sep 1, 2021
New liquid metal can turn motion into electricity, even underwater
Researchers have created a soft and stretchable device that converts movement into electricity and can work in wet environments.
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Joseph Shavit
Aug 27, 2021
Yara Birkeland, the world’s first net-zero, battery-powered autonomous container ship
The Yara Birkeland, the world’s first net-zero, battery-powered autonomous container ship, was delivered to Yara Norge AS in November 2020.
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Joshua Shavit
Aug 23, 2021
Common solar tech can be used to power smart devices indoors
Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you expend energy. What if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too?
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