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New Sandia Study on Understanding Old Data to Create Cleaner Engines

A study led by Sandia National Laboratories has revealed new insights regarding how to understand and finally control the chemistry of ignition behavior and pollutant development.

11 Jun 2019

Researchers Use New Mathematical Model to Investigate How Human Behavior Might Influence Climate Change Dynamics

A new climate modeling approach suggests that social processes strongly affect global warming predictions, and mitigation efforts should account for this influence.

10 Jun 2019

Researchers Develop Methods to Quickly and Inexpensively Detect Natural Gas Leaks

Natural gas flowing through pipelines from wells to stovetops is susceptible to leakage, endangering the safety and health of humans as well as the planet’s health.

10 Jun 2019

Green Polymer Cleans Toxic Firefighting Foams

The problem of cleaning up toxic polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) pollution – commonly used in non-stick and protective coatings, lubricants and aviation fire-fighting foams – has been solved through the discovery of a new low-cost, safe and environmentally friendly method that removes PFAS from water.

10 Jun 2019

New Thin Film Nanocomposite Reverse Osmosis Membrane with Improved Water Flux and Salt Rejection Properties

Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination technology is one of the most valuable methods for tackling the global water scarcity by generating fresh water from groundwater, sea water, and other wastewater sources.

7 Jun 2019

Researchers Design a New Method that Permits High Utility of Harvested Energy

Scientists from Italy have designed a method that can help smart homes that are connected to a microgrid—a set of individualized units that are linked to one another and by one common energy source—to use energy more efficiently.

6 Jun 2019

Curtin Research Finds Soil Carbon Key to Combatting Climate Change

Curtin University research has provided new insights to support more effective management of soil carbon in a bid to help combat global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

6 Jun 2019

Plastic Fantastic: New Frontiers for Recyclable Polymers

Many modern plastics, rubbers and ceramics cannot be recycled, but new polymers made from waste sulfur are promising to solve one of the planet’s biggest recycling problems – and even create new industries of the future.

6 Jun 2019

Volterion’s Innovative Redox Flow Systems are Affordable and Last Twice as Long as Lithium-Ion Batteries

The amount of power that can be produced by renewable energy sources is not consistent; hence, batteries are used for the temporary storage of energy. While short service life is the drawback of lithium-ion batteries, redox flow batteries so far have been too expensive.

4 Jun 2019

Researchers Investigate Kunin’s Lenses to Understand the Stability of Water Lenses

In the 1950s, freshwater lenses in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan were discovered and explained by Vladimir Kunin, a Russian academician and one of the founders of the Institute of Deserts in Ashkhabad and Institute of Water Problems in Moscow.

4 Jun 2019

Study Evaluates Potential Impact of Observed Climate Change on Global Food Production

The top 10 crops in the world, namely, barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, and wheat, provide a combined 83% of all calories yielded on cropland.

3 Jun 2019

A New Greener and More Economical Desalination Technology

People are aware that disproportionate consumption, industrial activity, and growth in the worldwide population are some of the issues threatening access to drinking water for an increasing proportion of people worldwide.

3 Jun 2019

NW Natural Completes North Mist Expansion Project for Portland General Electric to Supplement Renewable Energy

NW Natural, a subsidiary of NW Natural Holding Company, has concluded its North Mist Expansion Project and is currently offering no-notice storage to Port Westward plants of Portland General Electric in order to balance renewable power on the grid.

3 Jun 2019

Study Reveals CO2 can be a Better Fracking Fluid than Water

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have reported that CO2 could be a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid compared to water. Their study, reported on May 30th, 2019, in Joule, could lead to a more environment-friendly form of fracking that can facilitate a dual method of capturing and storing atmospheric CO2.

31 May 2019

Novel Method for Inhibiting Generation of Toxic Substances from Waste Incineration

Chinese researchers have created a technique to prevent the production of toxic substances from waste incineration by unraveling the formation mechanism of dioxins.

31 May 2019

Cleantech News

New Sandia Study on Understanding Old Data to Create Cleaner Engines

Researchers Use New Mathematical Model to Investigate How Human Behavior Might Influence Climate Change Dynamics

Researchers Develop Methods to Quickly and Inexpensively Detect Natural Gas Leaks

Green Polymer Cleans Toxic Firefighting Foams

New Thin Film Nanocomposite Reverse Osmosis Membrane with Improved Water Flux and Salt Rejection Properties

Researchers Design a New Method that Permits High Utility of Harvested Energy

Curtin Research Finds Soil Carbon Key to Combatting Climate Change

Plastic Fantastic: New Frontiers for Recyclable Polymers

Volterion’s Innovative Redox Flow Systems are Affordable and Last Twice as Long as Lithium-Ion Batteries

Researchers Investigate Kunin’s Lenses to Understand the Stability of Water Lenses

Study Evaluates Potential Impact of Observed Climate Change on Global Food Production

A New Greener and More Economical Desalination Technology

NW Natural Completes North Mist Expansion Project for Portland General Electric to Supplement Renewable Energy

Study Reveals CO2 can be a Better Fracking Fluid than Water

Novel Method for Inhibiting Generation of Toxic Substances from Waste Incineration

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1 The Future of Onshore Wind Power Comes to Glasgow

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3 New Sandia Study on Understanding Old Data to Create Cleaner Engines

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