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Water for Power Plants: A Major Concern All of Its Own
As the demand for freshwater grows and supplies dwindle, should water use become a major factor in choosing new sources of electric power?
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Ouch! Study pegs carbon capture’s staggering cost | Carbon
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) are possible, but the cost of doing so — both early on and even as the technology matures — is likely to be staggering, according to a study from Harvard University’s Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs.
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Water equipment supply global market worth $501 billion
It comes from our recently published Water Technology Markets report. The idea was to put the water equipment supply market in context by drilling down from our top-level figure of $501 billion for the broader global water market, through its component parts. The figure we come to is $32 billion for the equipment supply business (excluding pipes, pumps and valves …
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Researchers use ordinary camera flash to create graphene
The production of graphene has just become a whole lot easier. Northwestern University scientists have demonstrated that graphite oxide can be converted instantly to graphene by exposing the material to a pulse of light from an ordinary camera flash.
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Water efficiency key to cutting household emissions, says report | Energy Efficiency News
The UK Government’s efforts to reduce household emissions are overlooking the energy wasted by water heating, says a report from the Energy Saving Trust and the Environment Agency.
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Europe adopts tighter energy efficiency requirements
The European Commission has adopted four Eco-design regulations that will tighten up the energy efficiency requirements for common industrial and household electrical items.
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Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX: NEM) (the “Company” or “Neo”) announced today that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (”MoU”) with Mitsubishi Corporation (”Mitsubishi”). This MoU represents the establishment of a strategic partnership between Neo and Mitsubishi for the identification, development and commercialization of rare earth resource opportunities outside of China.
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Copper effective at inactivating H1N1
Copper has been found to be effective at inactivating Influenza A, including H1N1, according to new research led by Dr. C. William Keevil, professor at the University of Southampton, UK.
The study involved a series of experiments testing the incubation of Influenza A on copper and stainless steel surfaces and showed that after incubation for 24 hours on stainless steel, 500,000 virus particles were still infectious, while after only one hour of incubation on copper, 75% of the virus was eradicated. After six hours, just 500 particles remained active.
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Top ten new water technologies | Global Water Intelligence Archive
GWI’s list of the ten most important new technologies which could change the way the world of water works.
* Aquaporins: membranes which replicate the way nature removes salt from water, for example in the kidneys or in mangroves. They could dramatically reduce the energy needed in desalination. Progress rating: 1/5
* Bio-polymers from wastewater: biopolymers are a great natural alternative to petrochemical-based plastics; what is more, they can be made during the biological digestion of sewage sludge. Progress rating …
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New water technologies are attracting investors as never before. Is this an opportunity or a threat to the existing companies in the market? A new report from GWI takes a closer look.
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Jiangxi’s big package of tiny TOTs
China’s Jiangxi Province is offering a package of concession rights for 78 wastewater treatment plants under a transfer-operate-transfer (TOT) structure. The 78 small plants are distributed across 77 counties, and have a total capacity of approximately 1.9 million m3/d.
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In defence of critical infrastructure
A new report calls for greater resilience within the UK’s critical infrastructure. It avoids the question of who will foot the bill.
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Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go
Now, in the first decade of the 21st century, history is about to go into reverse. The climate crisis is prompting thoughts of an all-electric economy, of which electric cars will be a vital part. The idea has been taking shape in engineering labs and on the roadsMovie Camera for a while (New Scientist, 20 September 2008, p 26), and now fresh impetus is finally coming from on high. “Our dependency on oil is dangerous and short-sighted,” US energy secretary Stephen Chu wrote in Newsweek in April. “We must… move toward running new vehicles on electricity and to generating that electricity from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power.”
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Colombian investors shun water finance bonds
Local investors have stymied plans by a financial firm to raise money to help municipalities fast-track water infrastructure projects.
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Chinese water equipment supplier raises $101m
US investors were falling over themselves to get a piece of the latest Chinese water IPO. Are they suffering from “stimulus fever”?
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Electric cars: Juiced up and ready to go - image 2 - tech - 20 July 2009 - New Scientist
The compact, powerful batteries needed to create viable electric cars are tantalisingly close, but which of the competing options will become the next power player?
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Ford’s 2010 Lineup Focuses on Efficiency | Hybrid Cars
Ford Motor Co. unveiled plans today for higher fuel efficiency across its 2010 lineup. The company said the new vehicle lineup will improve fuel economy by about 20 percent compared to 2005 levels.
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Clean Break » Blog Archive » 30-plus minute interview with Dick Weir of EEStor
Mr. Weir probably had no clue the person interviewing him would post this on the Internet, but it appeared just a few hours ago. Weir talks about the history of EEStor, how he hooked up with Ian Clifford at ZENN Motors, the relationship with Lockheed, and the status of EEStor’s ultracapacitor development.
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Is a Clean-Energy Economy Our ‘Next Internet’? - BusinessWeek
Just as the race from mainframes to smartphones made information free, surging innovation can make energy so abundant that it becomes nearly free
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Cascadia Releases Study on the Value of Green Building
A new study of office buildings in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver, BC by the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, the Vancouver Valuation Accord and Cushman & Wakefield identifies how high-performance green features and systems can increase the value of commercial buildings.
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Printable electronics have taken off in recent years, and there are now industrial-scale printing machines that can efficiently deposit a variety of flexible electronic components onto flexible substrates to create wearable sensors, displays, smart packaging labels, and other printable products. However, developing printable, flexible energy-storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries has lagged behind.
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