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Challenge Seeks Circular Economy Start-Ups

By Alan, on June 18th, 2019%

A challenge competition is seeking new businesses that disrupt the plastics recycling and energy storage industries with ideas based on a circular economy. . . . → Read More: Challenge Seeks Circular Economy Start-Ups

Infographic – China’s Rare Earth Monopoly Slipping

By Alan, on June 8th, 2019%

China remains the largest producer of rare earths, but other countries are developing their sources of these materials, this weekend’s infographic. . . . → Read More: Infographic – China’s Rare Earth Monopoly Slipping

Infographic – Where the World Ships its Plastic Waste

By Alan, on June 23rd, 2018%

Our friends at Statista posted a chart underscoring the great urgency for this kind of plastic material, this weekend’s infographic. . . . → Read More: Infographic – Where the World Ships its Plastic Waste

Process Devised for Renewable, Biodegradable Plastic

By Alan, on June 22nd, 2018%

A chemistry lab developed a process for economically producing a polymer material from renewable sources that could replace some plastics now derived from petroleum. . . . → Read More: Process Devised for Renewable, Biodegradable Plastic

How Going Green Could Help Your Business

By Alan, on January 4th, 2018%

Going green in this fashion within your business will not only help the environment but it will stand to help your business. . . . → Read More: How Going Green Could Help Your Business

Tech Industry Groups Blast Paris Accord Exit

By Alan, on June 1st, 2017%

President Trump’s decision, announced today, to withdraw from the international climate change agreement signed in 2015 received stiff rebukes from technology industry organizations. . . . → Read More: Tech Industry Groups Blast Paris Accord Exit

Fuel Cell Vehicles Reach Market, Seek Critical Mass

By Alan, on October 5th, 2016%

As the first hydrogen fuel cell vehicles go on sale, a group of companies and government agencies are seeking ways to encourage sales to help meet national goals for reducing greenhouse gases. . . . → Read More: Fuel Cell Vehicles Reach Market, Seek Critical Mass

Inexpensive Hydrogen Storage Devised for Solar Energy

By Alan, on August 25th, 2016%

An engineering team in Switzerland designed a system for producing hydrogen from solar power with abundant available materials, providing an inexpensive and feasible energy storage method. . . . → Read More: Inexpensive Hydrogen Storage Devised for Solar Energy

U.S. Energy Use Declines in 2015, Renewables Gain

By Alan, on April 20th, 2016%

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20 April 2016. Energy use by Americans in their homes and businesses declined in 2015 from the previous year, due to a sharp drop in coal burned for electric power, among other factors. The findings were published in an annual accounting of national energy supply and demand by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, . . . → Read More: U.S. Energy Use Declines in 2015, Renewables Gain

Process Devised for Plastics from Carbon Dioxide, Plants

By Alan, on March 10th, 2016%

First author Aanindeeta Banerjee, left, and Matthew Kanan (Stanford University)

10 March 2016. Producing common plastics like polyester today often needs large inputs of fossil fuel derivatives. A chemistry lab at Stanford University in California developed a low-carbon alternative to polyester that combines recycled carbon dioxide with inedible plant matter, such as agricultural . . . → Read More: Process Devised for Plastics from Carbon Dioxide, Plants

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