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20-Apr-2021 5:40 PM EDT
To Design Truly Compostable Plastic, Scientists Take Cues From Nature
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have designed an enzyme-activated compostable plastic that could diminish microplastics pollution. Household tap water or soil composts break the hybrid plastic material down to reusable small molecules, called monomers, in just a few days or weeks.

Released: 21-Apr-2021 8:35 AM EDT
NUS Engineers Repurpose Excavation Waste to Produce Greener, Stronger Concrete
National University of Singapore (NUS)

NUS researchers have taken a waste product from construction sites in Singapore and upcycled it into a raw material for ultra-high-performance concrete. Their method could help reduce the carbon footprint of concrete and also cut the cost of production. This is the first time low-grade waste clay has been used as fillers in concrete.

Released: 20-Apr-2021 2:45 PM EDT
Green Energy Technology
University of Delaware

As Earth Day approaches, a promising startup that grew out of University of Delaware research is on the cusp of making sustainable green hydrogen a reality. Versogen, a UD spinoff company led by Professor Yushan Yan, is one of three startups selected for the fourth cohort of the Shell GameChanger Accelerator (GCxN) program.

Released: 20-Apr-2021 8:55 AM EDT
The International Halal Science and Technology Conference (IHSATEC) 2020-2021: 14th Halal Science Industry and Business (HASIB)
Chulalongkorn University

The Halal Science Center, Chulalongkorn University, would like to invite all to join the virtual conference, International Halal Science and Technology Conference (IHSATEC) 2020-2021 and 14th Halal Science Industry and Business (HASIB), on June 1-2, 2021. The conference will be carried out via Zoom from 9.00 – 16.00 hrs. (GMT+7 Bangkok time zone). All participants are to submit articles for the oral or poster presentations for the academic session of Thailand’s Halal Assembly 2021 before May 1, 2021.

12-Apr-2021 6:05 PM EDT
Media Advisory – U.S. Secretary of Energy and Other Leading Experts Talk Preparation for the Effects of Climate Change
Argonne National Laboratory

The escalating effects of climate change are evident across our country, from the damaging 2020 western wildfire season to February’s southern deep freeze. The need has never been greater for a national strategy that combines the long-term goal of a 100% clean energy future with immediate, science-driven actions to help all communities overcome the effects of climate change.

Released: 13-Apr-2021 10:05 AM EDT
Sprint – A new NEST unit under construction
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

At NEST, the research and innovation platform of Empa and Eawag, the new Sprint unit is currently under construction – an office unit built largely from recycled materials. Sprint aims to set new standards for circular construction. However, the office unit is also a reaction to the current COVID-19 situation, which made it clear that we need to adapt our buildings more flexibly and quickly to changing needs.

Released: 7-Apr-2021 9:00 AM EDT
COVID-19 pandemic drives down U.S. energy use in 2020
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Americans used approximately 7 percent less energy in 2020, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to energy flow charts released by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

2-Apr-2021 7:05 PM EDT
This hydrogen fuel machine could be the ultimate guide to self improvement
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists at Berkeley have uncovered an extraordinary self-improving property that transforms an ordinary semiconductor into a highly efficient and stable artificial photosynthesis device

30-Mar-2021 8:00 AM EDT
Making cleaner, greener plastics from waste fish parts
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Derived from crude oil, toxic to synthesize, and slow to degrade, polyurethanes are not environmentally friendly. Today, researchers discuss a safer, biodegradable alternative derived from fish waste that would otherwise likely be discarded. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2021.

Released: 24-Mar-2021 12:10 PM EDT
Floating solar farms could help reduce impacts of climate change on lakes and reservoirs
Lancaster University

Floating solar farms could help to protect lakes and reservoirs from some of the harms of climate change, a new study suggests.

5-Mar-2021 1:45 PM EST
In a leap for battery research, machine learning gets scientific smarts
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Researchers combined machine learning with knowledge gained from experiments and equations guided by physics to discover and explain a process that shortens the lifetimes of fast-charging lithium-ion batteries.

Released: 2-Mar-2021 4:55 PM EST
Real-Time Monitoring Tool Speeds Up Advanced Nuclear Reactor Development
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Innovative technology combines continuous, remote, real-time testing and monitoring of byproduct gasses, paving the way for faster advanced reactor development and testing.

Released: 26-Feb-2021 2:05 PM EST
Research promotes ‘doubly green’ renewable energy captured from biowaste
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Cities around the United States could use their own biowaste from food scraps or manure to produce renewable energy for vehicles to the tune of $10 billion a year, according to a researcher at Missouri S&T. The proposed operation creates renewable natural gas (RNG) from biowaste and renewable hydrogen (RH2) from surplus electricity generated by solar or wind energy.

Released: 2-Dec-2020 4:30 PM EST
Some Like It Hot: Boosting Efficiency in Solar Cells
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Novel hot-carrier solar cells convert sunlight to electricity more efficiently than conventional solar cells by harnessing charge carriers before they lose their energy to heat. A key to keeping electric charges hot longer is to slow the phonons that transport heat. Recent research shows that thermal transport—and thus performance—in hot-carrier solar cells can be reduced by replacing hydrogen atoms with heavier deuterium atoms.

Released: 16-Nov-2020 3:15 PM EST
World’s Leading Electrochemists to Convene at 239th ECS Meeting with IMCS
The Electrochemical Society

The joint international 239th ECS Meeting and 18th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (IMCS) is now accepting abstract submissions.

   
Released: 2-Nov-2020 9:00 AM EST
Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry's current carbon emissions
Aalto University

Shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential buildings in Europe were made of wood inside and out, they would store the equivalent of about half of the cement industry’s annual emissions.

Released: 5-Oct-2020 7:10 PM EDT
Eight Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies brought in eight R&D 100 Awards and Special Recognition Awards, including a Gold Award for Corporate Social Responsibility, Gold and Silver Awards for Market Disruptor - Services, and a Bronze Award for Green Technology, presented by R&D World magazine.

Released: 24-Sep-2020 10:35 AM EDT
Climate pledges 'like tackling COVID-19 without social distancing'
University of Exeter

Current global pledges to tackle climate change are the equivalent of declaring a pandemic without a plan for social distancing, researchers say.

18-Sep-2020 10:55 AM EDT
Inducing Plasma in Biomass Could Make Biogas Easier to Produce
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Producing biogas from the bacterial breakdown of biomass presents options for a greener energy future, but the complex composition of biomass comes with challenges. Cellulose and woody lignocellulose are especially hard for bacteria to digest but pretreatment can make it easier. Researchers are testing plasma formation in biomass and finding a promising method: A plasma-liquid interaction forms reactive species that help break down the biomass and decrease the viscosity of the biomass material.

14-Sep-2020 8:55 AM EDT
ARPA-Type Funding Gives Green Technology an ‘Innovation Advantage’, Study Finds
University of Cambridge

• Startups funded by US energy agency ARPA-E file patents at twice the rate of similar cleantech firms, according to latest research. • UK should trial its own climate-focused ARPA as part of Covid-19 recovery package, argues Cambridge researcher. • Learn lessons from US by supporting startups through “valley of death” to boost productivity and innovation in green tech.

Released: 9-Sep-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Vibration Device Makes Homes ‘Smart’ by Tracking Appliances
Cornell University

To boost efficiency in typical households – where people forget to take wet clothes out of washing machines, retrieve hot food from microwaves and turn off dripping faucets – Cornell University researchers have developed a single device that can track 17 types of appliances using vibrations.

Released: 20-Aug-2020 5:05 AM EDT
Live Press Conference: 3D printing ‘greener’ buildings using local soil
American Chemical Society (ACS)

A press conference on this topic will be held Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 10 a.m. Eastern time online at www.acs.org/fall2020pressconferences.

11-Aug-2020 8:00 AM EDT
3D printing ‘greener’ buildings using local soil
American Chemical Society (ACS)

The demand for sustainable infrastructure has builders searching for an alternative to concrete’s large carbon footprint. Now, scientists have created a new building material using local soil, and will present their results today at the American Chemical Society Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo.

Released: 10-Aug-2020 10:00 AM EDT
Danforth Center Scientists Collaborate On $13 Million Bioenergy Project
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a five-year, $13 million grant to a nationwide research project to genetically strengthen Thlaspi arvense, commonly known as pennycress, for use in sustainable energy efforts.

Released: 10-Jul-2020 2:40 PM EDT
USDA grant to support Cornell indoor ag training programs
Cornell University

Thanks to a grant from the USDA, horticulture experts at Cornell University will help design new training programs for workers in controlled environment agriculture.

Released: 1-Jul-2020 5:00 AM EDT
The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. Announce 2020-2021 Fellowship Winners for Projects in Green Energy Technology
The Electrochemical Society

Prof. Dr. Shoji Hall, Prof. Dr. Piran Ravichandran Kidambi, and Dr. Haegyeom Kim have been awarded the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships. Through this, ECS and Toyota aim to promote innovative and unconventional technologies borne from electrochemical research. The fellowship encourages young professors and scholars to pursue innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology.

Released: 23-Jun-2020 2:35 PM EDT
Income, race are associated with disparities in access to green spaces
Ohio State University

Access to green spaces in metro areas—parks, trails, even the tree cover in a neighborhood – is largely associated with income and race, new research indicates.

Released: 8-Jun-2020 11:05 AM EDT
New Smart Parking Software Cuts Congestion, Emissions
Cornell University

New smart parking software developed by Cornell University researchers, which matches drivers with parking garage spots based on travel time and other factors, could reduce congestion and emissions while saving drivers the time of circling to look for available spots.

Released: 1-Jun-2020 2:50 PM EDT
Living Walls: University Researchers Develop Green Tech for Treating Wastewater from Microbreweries
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) researchers received a patent for green wall technology that will provide craft breweries cost-effective and sustainable options for wastewater treatment. The team found a way to make the common Pothos and recycled glass an environmental solution to support the growing microbrewery trend in the region.

Released: 26-Mar-2020 8:55 AM EDT
Weedy rice is unintended legacy of Green Revolution
Washington University in St. Louis

A new global study reveals the extent to which high-yielding rice varieties favored in the decades since the “Green Revolution” have a propensity to go feral, turning a staple food crop into a weedy scourge.Weedy rice is a de-domesticated form of rice that infests paddies worldwide and aggressively outcompetes cultivated varieties.

Released: 19-Mar-2020 11:00 AM EDT
Nature-Inspired Green Energy Technology Clears Important Development Hurdle
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new design has put the long-sought idea of artificial photosynthesis within reach

26-Feb-2020 3:20 PM EST
Households in Switzerland could feasibly be energy self-sufficient by 2050
PLOS

First-of-its-kind study systematically investigates the technical and economic feasibility of photovoltaics-powered energy self-sufficient households in a temperate climate

Released: 3-Feb-2020 8:00 AM EST
Save Your Soybeans and Corn, Iowa’s ‘Goldilocks’ Period Won’t Last
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Over the past few decades, Iowa’s agriculture has experienced a period of consistently high yields. The perfect distribution and timing of humidity, rainfall and heat have led to bumper crops of corn and soybeans. This “Goldilocks” period is partly due to global warming, but experts believe farmers shouldn’t expect it to last. In Physics Today, scientists Eugene Takle and William Gutowski describe the challenges farmers could expect to see to maintaining high yields if global warming continues along predicted trends.

20-Jan-2020 7:30 PM EST
New Investments and Research Indicate Multi-Trillion Dollar Market for Climate Restoration Through Carbon-Capture
Thunderbird School of Global Management

Climate restoration is the global movement to remove the trillion tons of excess CO2 from the atmosphere to restore our air to preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide and to preserve the Arctic ice. Given the climate emergency, climate restoration is a critical third pillar of climate action, complementing ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts. New technologies and natural solutions for reducing CO2 levels in the next 30 years already exist and the costs for global-scale implementation are projected to be less than 1-3% of the global annual GDP.

   
Released: 21-Jan-2020 10:05 AM EST
Transformative 'Green' Accelerator Achieves World's First 8-pass Full Energy Recovery
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have successfully demonstrated the world's first capture and reuse of energy in a multi-turn particle accelerator, where electrons are accelerated and decelerated in multiple stages and transported at different energies through a single beamline.

Released: 14-Jan-2020 6:00 AM EST
How to Make it Easier to Turn Plant Waste into Biofuels
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Researchers have developed a new process that could make it much cheaper to produce biofuels such as ethanol from plant waste and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. Their approach, featuring an ammonia-salt based solvent that rapidly turns plant fibers into sugars needed to make ethanol, works well at close to room temperature, unlike conventional processes, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Green Chemistry.

Released: 13-Jan-2020 8:30 AM EST
McMaster chemists find new way to break down old tires into material for new ones
McMaster University

A team of chemists at McMaster University has discovered an innovative way to break down and dissolve the rubber used in automobile tires, a process which could lead to new recycling methods that have so far proven to be expensive, difficult and largely inefficient.

Released: 12-Dec-2019 9:00 AM EST
Supporting Structures of Wind Turbines Contribute to Wind Farm Blockage Effect
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Much about the aerodynamic effects of larger wind farms remains poorly understood. New work in this week’s Journal of Renewable and Sustainably Energy looks to provide more insight in how the structures necessary for wind farms affect air flow. Using a two-scale coupled momentum balance method, researchers theoretically and computationally reconstructed conditions that large wind farms might face in the future, including the dampening effect that comes with spacing turbines close to one another.

Released: 9-Dec-2019 12:35 PM EST
New Function for Plant Enzyme Could Lead to Green Chemistry
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new function in a plant enzyme that could inspire the design of new chemical catalysts. The enzyme catalyzes, or initiates, one of the cornerstone chemical reactions needed to synthesize a wide array of organic molecules, including those found in lubricants, cosmetics, and those used as raw materials for making plastics.

Released: 3-Dec-2019 12:05 PM EST
Argonne Collaboration Shows Benefits of Better Corn Residue Management Strategies
Argonne National Laboratory

Sustainable corn stover removal can maintain soil carbon stock, according a new Argonne-led study.

Released: 3-Dec-2019 6:00 AM EST
Bending an Organic Semiconductor Can Boost Electrical Flow
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Slightly bending semiconductors made of organic materials can roughly double the speed of electricity flowing through them and could benefit next-generation electronics such as sensors and solar cells, according to Rutgers-led research. The study is published in the journal Advanced Science.

Released: 27-Nov-2019 2:15 PM EST
The Greenest Diet: Bacteria Switch to Eating Carbon Dioxide
Weizmann Institute of Science

Weizmann Institute scientists have converted bacteria to consume CO2 – basically, to live on air – instead of sugar. Such bacteria may contribute to new, carbon-efficient technologies, from food production to green fuels.

Released: 26-Nov-2019 4:25 PM EST
Big trucks, little emissions
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers reveal a new integrated, cost-efficient way of converting ethanol for fuel blends that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Released: 26-Nov-2019 5:00 AM EST
New study analyzes viability of sustainable fuels developed through ORNL process
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and scaled up by Vertimass LLC to convert ethanol into fuels suitable for aviation, shipping and other heavy-duty applications can be price-competitive with conventional fuels while retaining the sustainability benefits of bio-based ethanol, according to a new analysis.

Released: 22-Nov-2019 3:05 PM EST
PPPL is recognized for being green
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its green practices in reducing waste, energy, and water, and transportation, and for green purchasing and electronics recycling.



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