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Using Dimethyl Ether as Fuel for heat, Transportation and Electricity

Article - 17 Apr 2018

[From the Montreal Gazette] On Wednesday, January 14th, about 28,000 liters of diesel fuel spilled at the city’s water filtration plant. Although most of the fuel went into the St-Lawrence River, due...

Sugar and Carbon Dioxide Combine to Form Biodegradable Plastics

Article - 16 Jun 2017

Polycarbonates are all around us: in your plastic drinks bottle; the lenses of your glasses; and the scratch-resistant coating on your phones CDs and DVDs. But they are made from crude oil, a finite...

Efficient Circular Recycling System Method To Deal with Rare Element Waste

Article - 16 May 2017

Circular economy is an industrial system that aims to avoid waste through the design of optimised cycles of products, components and materials by keeping them at their highest utility and value; it’s...

Graphene-Oxide Sieve Makes Seawater Drinkable

Article - 5 Apr 2017

A graphene-oxide membrane capable of removing common salts from seawater – leaving clean drinkable water – has the potential to be a game-changer when it comes to affordable desalinisation technology,...

Nanotube Film Enhancing the Longevity of Solar Cells

Article - 22 Mar 2017

Researchers claim that thinner and more transparent nanofilms can also be useful, as these transparent structures could allow light to pass through.

Clathrates Capable of Converting Waste Heat to Electricity

Article - 9 Mar 2017

The term clathrate is used to describe a structure that consists of polyhedral cages that contain large pores in the center of the structure.

Clean Technology Needed to Make Your City 100% Renewable

Article - 28 Oct 2016

Renewable energy will be the bedrock of future sustainable cities. This is already happening with things like bike and car shares.

Solar Energy from Rain

Article - 12 Sep 2016

While solar energy provides consumers with a renewable and sustainable source for their electricity needs, adverse weather conditions can limit solar panels from producing as much energy as they could...

Solar (PV) Panel Comparison for Efficiency, Material, Voltage

Article - 13 Jul 2016

Solar panels are a renewable technology that generates heat or electricity using sunlight as a source of energy. They can be utilized as an element of a larger photovoltaic system for electricity...

Next Generation Materials used in Solar Cell Farms

Article - 3 Jun 2016

The spread of solar cell farms - power plants fueled by the sun and typically found where the sun is plentiful and land is cheap - are evidence of the ever-evolving solar technology. Two forms...