New Diesel DeNOx Catalyst to Reduce Emissions by 95%
A new catalyst has been developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. It can reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions diesel engines from 90%-95%. Integrated Fuel Technologies, Inc. (IFT), a Washington State start-up company with offices in Spokane and Kirkland, has been licensed to produce it.
Germany Storing CO2 Underground
Germany has an ongoing plan to store their CO2 emissions underground. They used a special drill during tests earlier this year for the carbon capture project in Ketzin. The GFZ geoscience institute says that Germany will inaugurate Europe’s first underground carbon dioxide storage site.
Aerodynamic Trucks Fight Diesel Rising Prices
While diesel is approaching $5 a gallon, researchers become more interested in finding a way to reduce fuel consumption on the heavy trucks at highway speeds. Now they have come up with an interesting idea: while there’s little point in firstly modifying the engines to consume less, and spending a lot of money on upgrading them, the focus went on making the existing heavy weight trucks more aerodynamic.
Mazda Makes Eco-Friendly Plastics from Biomass
Mazda Motor Corporation and Hiroshima University are researching together to develop a brand new “green” plastic material from cellulosic biomass. They want to use it in vehicles by 2013.
Low Energy Water Desalination Through Nanotechnology
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has found out a greener way to desalinize sea water. It uses carbon nanotubes which have pores that are 100,000 times smaller than a human hair, and were able to determine the rejection mechanism within the pores.
Delaying Internet’s Data Could Reduce Its Carbon Emissions
The servers, routers, switches and other components of a network are designed to work with much larger quantities of data than they do daily, but they use just about the same amount of electricity whether they’re idle or busy.
Sergiu Nedevschi of the University of California in Berkeley, US, and his colleagues from Intel Research labs [...]
The Nuclear Era Will End Before 2030
A parliamentary group, called “The Greens” has released a report on Wednesday in which they underline the lack of nuclear development during the latest years, although some over-exaggerate its growing line.
Many aging reactors are to be closed before 2030, they having to be replaced with another 338 new ones. The development rhythm is far too [...]
Nobel Winner Says Biodiesel Production Pollutes More Than Fossil Fuel
Nobel-prize winning chemist Paul Crutzel, along with a team of scientists have demonstrated that biofuels, once thought to be the saving of traditional fuel industry, pollutes 70% more than the fossil fuels.
They calculated the emissions released by growing the crops such as maize, rapeseed and cane sugar to produce biofuels. The team of American, British [...]
